Back in the middle of January, Faultline was invited to a sneak preview of Avid’s latest product that hopes to tap into the pandemic-led boom in remote and cloud-based production. Nexis Edge moves Avid’s stealthy storage capabilities to remote workers by creating playback and edit proxies of raw files which can be streamed remotely. Although often primarily thought of as a software house, Avid is also a huge storage company. Its flagship product in this segment, Nexis, has already been on the market for almost six years, providing storage to connect post-production workflows on-prem across all industry standard software, including Avid’s Media Composer and competing platforms like Adobe Premiere. Nexis Edge allows Avid to bulk up its value proposition to…