Autodesk acquires Moxion, cloud platform for dailies

Moxion, developer of the popular cloud platform for digital dailies of the same name, has been acquired by Autodesk.

Founded in 2015, Moxion has quickly become a key player in the M&E industry, winning awards including an Engineering Excellence Award from the Hollywood Professional Association (HPA), a Workflow Systems Medal from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), and a Lumiere Award from the Advanced Imaging Society. The platform has been used in productions such as The Midnight Sky, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel et The Matrix Resurrections, among others. The acquisition of Moxion aims, among other objectives, to expand the Autodesk customer base upstream from post-production to on-set production, a critical point in the film and television production process.

How does Moxion work? The platform allows professionals to collaborate and review camera footage on set and remotely with the “efficiency and immediacy” needed to make creative decisions in 4K HDR quality. Data protection is paramount at Moxion, ensuring security with features such as MPAA compliance, multi-factor authentication, visible and invisible forensic watermarking et full digital rights management.

Diana Colella, SVP media & entertainment at Autodesk, values the acquisition of Moxion: “As the content demand continues to boom with pressure on creators to do more for less, this acquisition helps us facilitate broader collaboration and communication, and drive greater efficiencies in the production process, saving time and money. Moxion accelerates our vision for production in the cloud, building on our recent acquisition of Tangent Labs.”

Hugh Calveley, PDG de Moxion, also welcomes the deal: “We look forward to combining the efforts of our talented team with the deep resources and wealth of engineering talent at Autodesk to give customers new Moxion features and integrations. Bringing together industry leading on-set and post-production workflows will help unite data and increase collaboration across the production process to improve project efficiency.”