At the heart of the creative process, the Script function has been completely rewritten for greater speed, flexibility and performance. The text editor now handles complex scripts used in many languages across Asia and the Middle East, along with improved handling of rich text and emojis, reflecting the changing demands of multilingual and multiplatform newsrooms.

For quality and creativity, the platform also fully supports Ultra HD and HDR, both in proxies and playout, using HEVC encoding to optimise compression efficiency and visual quality.

As part of the latest updates, complex HTML graphics templates built in Rive can be imported directly into nxtedition and populated within the platform. This streamlines the creation and deployment of professional visuals. The Melodie library music platform is also integrated, allowing creators to find, download and link the right music to underscore the story.

nxt|edit, the inbuilt editing platform, supports non-standard aspect ratios such as 1:1 and 9:16. This major update makes it easier to work with user-generated content and social formats. Additional features include voiceover tools, transcript-based text editing, a refreshed UI shaped by user feedback, and a new Event Editor for creating and managing events directly within the platform.

nxt|drive now provides a new ground breaking way of sending high-resolution media directly to Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, securely over the public internet. This gives remote editors instant access to high-res files on demand from a nxtedition system, with no need for any third-party tools or additional licence costs.

The nxtedition platform has always supported comments as stories are finessed, approved and prepared for delivery. The latest version introduces tagged and tied comments, with the option to flag colleagues for immediate notification, speeding approval and ensuring the story is published fast. Content, including sections of assets, can now be marked as restricted, preventing it from being broadcast to protect the legal, ethical and commercial standing of the broadcaster.

Visitors will also see how nxtedition’s integrated software environment supports AI Agents and AI Commands to enhance newsroom operations. These agents operate in the background to automate key editorial tasks, suggesting content titles, generating social media descriptions, adapting scripts for different audiences, and even fact-checking material upon ingest. The AI tools run entirely within the nxtedition platform using open-source models such as OpenAI Whisper and Meta’s Llama 3, with no cloud or third-party processing costs.