Case Study: Doc Shop Productions achieves faster, collaborative documentary post-production with Avid Technology

Avid NEXIS Helps American Race Speed Through a Tight Post-production Schedule

Doc Shop Productions, led by post-production supervisor Tim Cunningham, faced the challenge of building a fast, collaborative workflow for the documentary series *American Race* under an ultra-tight broadcast deadline. The team needed to manage massive amounts of footage, support multiple editors working at once, and keep the post process reliable from ingest through final delivery.

Avid Technology supplied the solution with Avid Media Composer and Avid NEXIS storage. Avid NEXIS enabled scalable, real-time shared storage for editorial and nearline work, while Media Composer supported efficient editing, dialogue search, and seamless collaboration. The result was faster ingest times—cut to one quarter of previous workflows—higher-resolution proxy work, smoother teamwork, and dependable performance throughout production.

Doc Shop Productions

Tim Cunningham

Post-Production Supervisor