Leading AV/IT engineer recognized for his numerous contributions to the advancement of file-based video storage, playback and interchange for use in television production
Avid® today announced that Al Kovalick, enterprise product strategist at Avid, is a recipient of the SMPTE 2009 David Sarnoff Medal –honoring his contributions to the advancement of file-based video storage, playback and interchange for use in television production. The award will be presented during a special ceremony at the SMPTE Technical Conference on Thursday, October 29 in Hollywood, Calif.
Student teams from leading journalism schools across United States get hands-on experience; create and report news in real-world newsroom environment
Avid® (NASDAQ: AVID) has joined forces with ABC News to participate in ABC News On Campus – an innovative program designed to give tomorrow’s most promising news professionals an opportunity to practice real-world news gathering, production and broadcasting. ABC News On Campus students capture, produce, edit and distribute news stories in their local area, which are often featured across ABC News programs. This year, students from six universities, including Arizona State University, Syracuse University, University of Florida, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of North Carolina (at Chapel Hill), and University of more
Innovative Editing Solution for Journalists Delivers New Audio Features and Expanded Proxy Support for Creation of High-Impact News Packages
TEWKSBURY, MA, October 15, 2009 – Avid® today announced a new version of Avid iNEWS® Instinct ®, an intuitive audio/video/script desktop editing solution that enables journalists to accelerate news production by increasing speed, control and creativity of the creation of voice overs and voice over sound on tape (VOSOTs). iNEWS Instinct 2.5 also enables streamlined editing workflows and improved time to air of news stories with MPEG4 proxy support.
Today Avid announced that its new editing products – Media Composer (4.0), Symphony (4.0) and NewsCutter (8.0) – are now shipping, as announced at IBC 2009. These new offerings enable broadcast and post production professionals to lower production costs and enhance their productivity.<777>
30 Rock, Breaking Bad, South Park, Project Runway and Weeds among Avid customers that received prestigious award this year
TEWKSBURY, Mass., September 22, 2009 – Avid (Nasdaq: AVID), today announced that the vast majority of Emmy® Award winners in 33 Outstanding Picture Editing, Outstanding Sound Editing/Mixing, and Outstanding Program categories at the 61st Annual Emmy® Awards once again chose to use one or more Avid® audio or video solutions to create this year’s top television programming. In total, more than 125 nominees in 33 categories used Avid systems including more
Avid released DS 10.2 at IBC 2009 – a new version of its integrated suite of editorial, graphics and image processing tools for studios, facilities, broadcasters and post houses. The new version brings enhanced functionality for increased performance and creative capabilities as a result of extended AVX2 plug-in support, 2K playback capabilities and the recent qualification of the new HP Z800 platform. Additionally, this version’s increased interoperability with Avid shared storage and workgroup solutions as well as the improved conform with other Avid editing solutions (Media Composer, Symphony) delivers overall competitive advantages for high-end broadcast and post production teams looking for advanced effects, high resolution and high bit-depth support.
New versions of Media Composer, Symphony, NewsCutter and Interplay enable customers to lower production costs, increase productivity and shatter collaboration barriers
IBC (Stand #7.J20), AMSTERDAM, September 10, 2009 - Avid® (NASDAQ: AVID) today introduced new versions of its Media Composer® (4.0), Symphony™ (4.0), NewsCutter® (8.0) professional editing software and Interplay® (2.0) production asset management system. Reinforcing Avid’s commitment to providing open and flexible solutions, these new offerings enable broadcast and post production professionals to lower production costs and enhance their productivity by:
TEWKSBURY, Mass., August 18, 2009 - Avid® (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced a number of new deployments of its industry-leading audio and video solutions. Customers that have invested in Avid solutions to enhance productivity and streamline workflows include: Cologne Broadcasting Center (CBC), Carlson Audio Systems, Ecuavisa, Fox Television, Iraqi Media Network, Métropole Télévision (M6), the SAE Institute, Swedish Television (SVT), Telepictures Productions and Wexler Video and PostWorks/Orbit Digital.
“Our teams are working to ensure that we collaborate closely with our customers from initial engagement through implementation and ongoing support,” said Kirk Arnold, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice more
Avid has released an enhanced version of its AirSpeed Multi Stream video server to offer customers additional format support and playout workflow benefits. Building on Version 1.0, which offers a fast and fluid solution for XDCAM HD newsroom workflows, this free software upgrade offers the following:
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