Ok, this is a small update but it’s something. This should not come as a shock since that is why Signant purchased the company. There is only so much time in the day and their talents have been directed toward Signiant products. That doesn’t leave the Lesspain folks much time to develop Kyno as we know it. The Lesspain Software team has spent their time since the acquisition working on integrating their technology into Signiant products and, perhaps, developing new ones. That kind of technology can often be the secret sauce that a large company might be looking for when acquiring a smaller developer. Kyno wasn’t isn’t just the software interface we all know and love and work with but there is also an underlying media engine that powers Kyno as well. They probably also had other plans in the works and saw this tool that Lesspain Software had built as an asset to where they wanted to go. Signiant also has an advanced SaaS platform (among other things) that, from what I understand, could use help as far as interface and interaction from customers. Lesspain Software was a very small team with a very advanced product in Kyno to keep alive and updated. I’m happy to report I finally got an answer though probably not what Kyno fans like myself wanted to hear. Īnd I’m not the only did you guys kill Kyno? I sure hope Signiant doesn’t screw up one of the single best video and post-production tools out there. Just tweeting this again… what’s going on here … I had someone who today wanted to buy a copy of Kyno but can’t since the acquisition. I even tried pestering folks from Signiant. I had reached out to some of my contacts about the status of Kyno without any answer. The Kyno support forums are still active but customers there are wondering the same thing. But over the last year or so there seems to have been radio silence on what the future of Kyno really holds. You can still buy a new license of Kyno today. New licenses resumed not long after that as the legal aspects of the acquisition were worked out. Once the acquisition happened fears were elevated as it seemed sales of Kyno were halted. That’s two asset management systems acquired by – in just this year. I wonder what has become of the other one? Kyno wasn’t the only company that Signiant has acquired recently. Media Shuttle is the product that most people have probably heard of but when you go to the Media Shuttle pricing page you’re greeted with a Request Pricing contact form so that certainly doesn’t make one think the products are for the same userbase that Kyno was targeting. Lesspain’s Kyno was is a small software product that was equally at home with a single editor all the way to a multi-editing-seat post-production company. Signiant is a large B2B company focused mainly on broadcast and large media and entertainment companies. For end-users, these kinds of acquisitions often don’t go well. That’s why I was disheartened to hear about the purchase of Lesspain Software by Signiant. These top 5 features are still top in my book. I stand by that quote today as here we are some 6 + years after I first discovered Kyno and there still isn’t anything like it. An update in 2019 put Kyno into another Useful Tools for Editors article and made me type this statement: I don’t think there are any other Useful Tools quite as useful as Kyno outside of the NLE itself. I first used (and covered Kyno) back in a 2016 Useful Tools for Editors and liked it so much I prompted PVC to do a Q and A with the developers. It doesn’t matter which NLE you use, Kyno can make the whole post-production process easier as it’s a workflow tool that can do too many things to list here. For years now I have professed my love for Kyno as an integral part of a post-production workflow.
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