/ 09.11.2009 12:00AM
EditShare Acquires Geevs and Lightworks
BOSTON:
EditShare today announced at IBC 2009 that it has acquired Geevs and Lightworks
of Hants, England. Geevs makes broadcast video servers; Lightworks, nonlinear
editing platforms. Terms were undisclosed.
EditShare said the combination would create a “complementary offering” to its
own product line. The company said Geevs had record sales for Q1 and Q2 of
2009. Lightworks was said to be “one of the original nonlinear digital systems
and is widely used today by feature film editors including the multi-Oscar
winner Thelma Schoonmaker.”