| | | | Boris FX XML Transfer brings Final Cut projects into Adobe After Effects
Seamlessly Transfer Apple Final Cut Pro Program Sequences to Adobe After Effects
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today announced Boris XML Transfer, a new Adobe After Effects plug-in designed for seamless transfer of Apple Final Cut Pro program sequences to Adobe After Effects. Boris XML Transfer preserves all aspects of a Final Cut Pro project including effects, audio, media clips, transitions, and geometric transformations.
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| | | | Sorenson Squeeze 5 Bundled with Avid Editing Software Gives Users Seamless End-to-End Process for Publishing High-quality Video
Avid's Media Composer, Symphony and NewsCutter Utilize Powerful Encoding and Compression Capabilities of Sorenson Squeeze to Prepare Video for Publishing
Sorenson Media today announced that Sorenson Squeeze 5 is being shipped with the latest versions of Avid Technology Inc.'s suite of video editing applications, including Avid® Media Composer® (v 3.5), Symphony™ (v 3.5) and NewsCutter® (v 7.5) software. Sorenson Squeeze 5 enables independent editors, producers and filmmakers who use Avid video editing software to easily deliver video in all of the most popular video formats, with advanced encoding options and superior results.
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| | | | GenArts Releases Sapphire Plug-ins Version 3 for Avid Editing Products
Available immediately, new version features 36 new effects and many enhancements
GenArts, Inc., a leading provider of visual effects software for the film, broadcast and video industries, today announced the release of version 3 of its Sapphire Plug-ins for the Avid® AVXTM architecture. The new version includes several new features to help editors working on Avid Media Composer®, Symphony™ or NewsCutter® systems to enhance their content with powerful visual effects tools.
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| | | | EditShare Partners With Dixon For Major League Baseball
Collaborative shared storage and advanced logging systems deliver winning combination for Cincinnati Reds' HD workflow at the Great American Ball Park
EditShare®, the technology leader in cross platform collaborative editing and shared media storage, and Dixon Sports Computing, the sports video management experts since 1992, have deployed a new HD production workflow at the Cincinnati Reds' Great American Ball Park.
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| | | | Ikegami GFCam Now Native to Avid Edit Systems
AMA Plug-In Architecture Provides Immediate Access to Ikegami GFCam Video Files and Metadata, Eliminating Need to Transcode or Import Media
(Maywood, New Jersey--September 10, 2009) Users of the new versions of Avid® NewsCutter®, Media Composer®, and Symphony™ editing systems now have direct access to – and compatibility with – HD video footage and metadata created using Ikegami’s GFCam HDS-V10 tapeless Flash memory camcorder.
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| | | | Antena 3 Creates Dynamic News and Program Workflow with Dalet
Spain's largest broadcaster implements progressive MAM solution to facilitate total content exchange among main and regional locations
Dalet Digital Media Systems announced at the IBC 2009 Exhibition (stand 8.B77) the deployment of Dalet Enterprise Edition at the Antena 3 Television main operation in Madrid and two regional locations on the Islas Canarias (Canary Islands); Las Palmas and Tenerife.
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| | | | IRIDAS at IBC 2009
IRIDAS will show the latest SpeedGrade, FrameCycler and MetaRender products at IBC 2009 in Amsterdam, September 11-15, at the RAI Convention Center (Hall 7, Booth H11). IRIDAS will demonstrate advanced tools for previs, review, dailies and finishing, and a refined workflow for stereoscopic moviemaking.
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| | | | Boris Continuum Complete 6 AVX Now Available
15 New Filters, New 3D Objects, Exchange Keyframe Animation with Adobe After Effects
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, announced that Boris Continuum Complete 6 AVX (BCC 6 AVX) for Avid editing and finishing systems is now available. BCC 6 AVX is based on Avid’s AVX 2 plug-in architecture with support for Avid Media Composer, Avid NewsCutter and Avid Symphony. A special AVX 1 version of BCC 6 AVX for Avid DS will be released in the near future.
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| | | | Boris FX Announces Boris Continuum Complete 6 AVX Public Beta
Exchange Keyframe Animation with Adobe After Effects, New 3D Objects, Painting, and Image Restoration Filters
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, announced that a public beta of Boris Continuum Complete 6 AVX (BCC 6 AVX) for Avid editing and finishing systems is now available.
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| | | | Avid Announces Surge of Third-Party Integrations at NAB ’09
Continues to deliver open solutions with integration of third-party camera, server and automation technology
Avid® (NASDAQ: AVID) today unveiled a number of new integrations with third parties, designed to give customers more infrastructure and format flexibility within their broadcast and post production workflows. Omneon, Panasonic, Sony and RED are among the companies that will demonstrate new workflow integrations with Avid at the National Association of Broadcasters Show this week.
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| | | | PortalVideo Showcases Its Rough-Cut Editing Service for Video Producers at NAB ‘09
New Features for HD, Final Cut Pro Users with Tapeless Video Editing Workflows Allow Dramatic Post-Production Cost, Time-Savings for A Wider Range of Productions
PortalVideo, provider of Internet-based video editing solutions for producers, is showcasing its pioneering PortalVideo™ rough-cut editing service at today’s 2009 NAB Show™ at the National Association of Broadcasters annual conference in Las Vegas.
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| | | | EditShare Adds Assimilate to the List of DI Workflow Partners
New integration brings real-time DPX workflow with support for multiple 2K and HD streams from a single server
EditShare®, a technology leader in cross platform collaborative editing and shared media storage systems, today announced a technology partnership with ASSIMILATE™, a leading developer of high-resolution and stereoscopic applications for the DI market. The new development combines the award winning EditShare shared storage solutions - XStream Series - with ASSIMILATE's SCRATCH® Digital Process Solution, enabling real-time DPX and RED 4K workflows across DI and non DI post-production equipment. Benefits of this new integration offer the highly popular EditShare project sharing with unmatchable real-time performance for SCRATCH artists.
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| | | | EditShare Joins Forces with Digital Vision
XStream Series provides realtime shared storage and media sharing across DI and non-DI workflows; integration with Film Master and Turbine
EditShare®, the technology leader in cross platform collaborative editing and shared media storage systems, today announced that the EditShare XStream DI Series has been optimized for the full range of Digital Vision non-linear products.
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| | | | Harmonic's Rhozet Business Unit Dramatically Improves H.264 Transcoding Quality and Performance
New Carbon Coder Software Release Boosts Transcoding Speed, Provides Impressive Quality and Workflow Advances
Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) today unveiled the latest enhancements to its Rhozet™ Carbon Coder™ universal media transcoding solution. New capabilities include a dramatic performance increase in H.264 transcoding, improved output quality, improved support for Avid®-based workflows and support for Microsoft® Smooth Streaming. At the 2009 NAB Show, booth #SL9728, Rhozet will demonstrate these enhancements and also preview an automated quality control solution which fits into the Carbon Server workflow and minimizes the manual review of input and output files.
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| | | | ION Media Networks Adds EditShare XStream Technology
XStream's high performance handles ION's HD production workflow
EditShare™, the technology leader in cross-platform collaborative editing and shared media storage, today announced that ION Media Networks has expanded its EditShare shared media storage with the deployment of two new EditShare XStream high performance systems. The XStream units with a total of 64TB of storage support the HD production by the ION Creative Services team. Utilizing content creation tools from Avid, Apple and Maya, the Creative Services professionals produce on-air promotions, graphics and branding for all of ION's company-owned stations and networks from their West Palm Beach, Florida facility.
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| | | | EditShare Partners With On-Air Systems
New integration adds more playout server options for EditShare customers
EditShare®, the technology leader in cross platform collaborative editing and shared media storage systems, announced that they have qualified the ON-AIR Systems for playout integration with the EditShare Storage and XStream Series.
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| | | | EditShare Announces Technology Partnership with Vector 3
Integrated shared production storage and video servers provide automated, realtime, playout for fast-paced news and sports workflows
EditShare®, the technology leader in cross platform collaborative editing and shared media storage systems, announced that they have teamed with Vector 3 to integrate their award-winning EditShare Storage and XStream Series solutions with VECTORBOX playout servers. The integrated solution will be demonstrated at NAB 2009, (April 20 to 23 in Las Vegas, NV) on the EditShare stand (SL6420).
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| | | | Integration of Omneon and Marquis Supports Apple/Avid Edit Workflows
Integrated Solution Enables Seamless Timeline Transitions From Final Cut Pro® to Avid® and Supports Time-Saving Edit-in-Place Capability for Both Editors
Omneon Inc. today announced that the enhanced integration of its MediaGrid™ active storage system with Marquis Broadcast's Medway media highway software now enables seamless migration of edit timelines between Apple® Final Cut Pro® and Avid® editors. With the ability to migrate and recompose a Final Cut Pro timeline as an Avid sequence, production facilities can leverage these leading editing solutions more purposefully across their operations, reducing costs and eliminating workflow bottlenecks.
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| | | | Boris FX to Demonstrate New Boris Continuum Complete 6 Product Line at NAB 2009
Award-winning Plug-ins for Adobe, Apple, and Avid at NAB Booth SL5320
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, announced that they will demonstrate their new Boris Continuum Complete (BCC) Version 6 visual effects suite of plug-ins at the NAB 2009 exhibition held in Las Vegas, Nevada from April 20-23, 2009 at Booth SL5320.
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| | | | Hula Post Production Makes Its Third Trip to the Oscars
Although it won't be doing any red carpet interviews, Hula Post Production will once again play an important role to the annual Academy Awards telecast. The bi-coastal supplier of post production gear is providing editorial systems and network storage technology to DMS Production Services, which produces awards reels and other video features for the show. It's the third straight year that Hula has performed this service.
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| | | | Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE Now Available
OpenGL-accelerated Extruded Text, 13 New Filters, Support for AE’s Camera & Lighting System
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, announced that Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE (BCC 6 AE) is now available. BCC 6 AE brings nearly 200 filters to Macintosh and Windows versions of Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro. The new release features 13 new filters including Extruded Text, Extruded Spline, Type-On Text, Layer Deformer, Smooth Tone, DV Fixer, and Pixel Fixer. In addition, BCC 6 AE delivers unique workflow enhancements such as support for After Effects’ Camera and Lighting System, the ability to import After Effects mask paths into BCC 6 AE filters, saving and loading of XML-based animated presets, a single-click custom preset navigation tool, and motion tracking data import and export in an industry-standard format.
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| | | | BOND Scores For The New York Jets
Full Service Post Boutique Tackles Another RED Camera Project For New York Jets Ad Starring Donald Trump
BOND, the full-service post boutique featuring creative editorial/post, visual effects, design and audio, lent its creative arsenal to ''Namath,'' a funny new ad for the New York Jets and its Coaches Club seating auction, featuring Donald Trump.
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| | | | Hessischer Rundfunk Switches to Panasonic P2 for Tapeless Production
Panasonic PBITS Professional & Broadcast Systems has announced that German state broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) has switched to Panasonic's P2 cameras and production technology for productions from its Frankfurt, Kassel, and Madrid studios as part of a rolling programme to convert to completely tapeless operation by 2011.
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| | | | Aspera Announces Availability of Transfer Plug-in for Avid Interplay
High-performance File Transfer Plug-in Qualified for Avid Interplay Environments
Aspera Inc., creator of next-generation file transport technologies, today announced that its plug-in for Avid® Interplay® Transfer, a solution developed for high-speed workgroup-to-workgroup transfer of rich media - via the Avid Transfer Engine, is now qualified for the Avid Interplay product line.
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| | | | Dalet Unveils Next Generation SD/HD Enterprise MAM
Mission critical broadcast and IT monitoring dashboard, and advanced workflow features such as; CGs in the timeline, lossless metadata schema as well as SeaChange integration
Dalet Digital Media Systems unveils at the IBC 2008 exhibition, held in Amsterdam from September 12 – 16, its next generation enterprise asset management workflow capabilities.
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| | | | Abaltat Ships Express 2.0
Abaltat ™, a developer of innovative audio workflow solutions for postproduction and broadcast markets, announced today the release of Abaltat Express 2.0.
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| | | | Abaltat Ships Muse 2.0
Enhanced Composition Engine; Seamless Integration with Apple Final Cut and Avid Editing Applications
Abaltat ™, a developer of innovative audio workflow solutions for postproduction and broadcast markets, announced the release of Abaltat Muse 2.0. Abaltat Muse 2.0 enables anyone, regardless of musical ability; to compose royalty-free, multi-part soundtracks that are perfectly timed and aligned to the users’ edited video.
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| | | | Boris FX Announces Boris Continuum Units
BCC 5’s UpRez, Pan and Zoom, and Chroma Key Modules Now Available Separately
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today announced the availability of its new Boris Continuum Units family of visual effects plug-ins.
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| | | | Boris FX Announces Boris Blue 2.5 for Windows Vista
New Release Supports Windows Vista 32 & 64, New Pricing Announced
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today announced that Boris Blue 2.5.1 is now available with support for Windows Vista and new NVIDIA & ATI drivers that are qualified by Avid & Adobe.
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| | | | Avid Introduces Next-Generation RAID Solutions
New VideoRAID ST and SR solutions enable customers to achieve full performance with no data loss during drive rebuild process
Avid Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: AVID) today announced the next-generation of its high-performance storage disk arrays - Avid VideoRAID ST and Avid VideoRAID SR solutions - which combine real-time performance, cost-effective SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) drive technology, and the security of fail-safe data protection in the event of a disk drive failure.
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| | | | Boris FX Ships Final Effects Complete 5.0 for Avid AVX
New version of Final Effects Complete now available for Avid editing and finishing systems supporting the AVX plug-in format
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, announced that Final Effects Complete 5.0 for AVX (FEC 5 AVX) is now shipping.
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| | | | JVC Announces Avid support for ProHD
JVC announced today that Avid Technology, Inc. will support the company’s ProHD format in its new line of Media Composer® NewsCutter® and Symphony® editing systems. Avid® customers will now be able to natively ingest high definition material acquired from JVC ProHD camcorders, VTR and hard disk recorders.
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| | | | Marquis and Rimage Announce Technology Integration Agreement
PostBox+ Media Transfer Tools Extend Rimage Disc Publishing Functions into Apple and Avid Editing Environments
Marquis Broadcast, specialist in broadcast workflow studies and software solutions, and Rimage, developer of digital publishing technology, have announced a technology integration agreement allowing Rimage to bundle Marquis’ PostBox+ media transfer tools with its on-demand disc publishing systems.
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| | | | Telestream Streamlines News Workflow for Azteca America
Telestream, the leading provider of transcoding workflow automation solutions, today announced that its FlipFactory® and Launch™ products were selected by Azteca America to provide fast, efficient delivery of news content between the network's California-based operations center and affiliate stations in the United States. Azteca America is the fastest growing Hispanic network in the United States, providing programming to 60 affiliates in major Hispanic markets across the country.
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| | | | News: Holland's Avi-Drome Purchases Film Master
Company Invests in Technology Due to Avid Integration
Digital Vision, the premier supplier of picture enhancement equipment for film and television post-production, announced today that Netherlands post facility, Avi-Drome BV, has purchased a Digital Vision Film Master.
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| | | | News: EditShare Introduces Apple Final Cut Pro Project Sharing
First to deliver Project Sharing workflows for both Apple and Avid editing systems
EditShare™, the technology leader in cross platform collaborative editing and shared media storage systems, has announced the addition of Apple Final Cut Pro (FCP) Project Sharing capabilities to the EditShare product family.
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| | | | News: Digital Heaven releases Final Print 1.5
new version prints bins and markers from Final Cut Pro
Digital Heaven, one of the leading creators of software for Apple's pro apps, today announced the release of Final Print 1.5, a companion application to Final Cut Pro.
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| | | | News: Avid Announces Widespread Adoption of Avid Unity in Education Market
High schools, colleges, universities and film schools embracing the concept of 'shared media labs'
Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced that educational institutions are widely adopting Avid Unity™ Media Network systems to save time and money when building shared-media labs that enable students to work collaboratively on film, broadcast and media projects.
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| | | | News: GenArts Releases Sapphire Plug-ins Version 2.05 for Avid
Available immediately with Universal support for Mac Intel
GenArts, Inc., a leading provider of visual effects plug-ins for the film, broadcast and video industries, today announced the immediate availability of Sapphire Plug-ins version 2.05 for Avid® AVX™ products. The new version is compatible with Avid systems running on the Intel-based Mac platform and includes various improvements for both Mac and Windows platforms.
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| | | | News: ATTO FastStream SC 5300TM RAID Storage Appliance Approved by Avid Technology, Inc.
ATTO delivers RAID Data Protection for the Avid® MediaDockTM Ultra320 storage
ATTO Technology, Inc., a global leader of storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments, announced today that the ATTO FastStream SC 5300 RAID Storage Appliance has been qualified and approved by Avid Technology, Inc. for use with Avid MediaDock Ultra320 local storage.
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| | | | News: Digital Heaven releases MovieLogger v1.5 and BigTime v1.5
New Universal Binary versions of popular software
Digital Heaven, one of the leading creators of software for Apple's Pro Apps, today announced the release of MovieLogger v1.5, the QuickTime logging software for Mac. The new version is a Universal Binary for optimum performance on both Intel and PowerPC Macs and adds support for HDV and DVCPROHD movies.
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| | | | News: Digital Heaven releases VideoSpace v1.5 - free updated widget for Mac OS X
Digital Heaven (www.digital-heaven.co.uk) one of the leading creators of software for Apple Pro Apps today announced the immediate availability of VideoSpace v1.5, a new version of the popular free widget for Mac OS X Tiger which calculates the disk space required for video files. The ideal companion for Apple's Final Cut Pro and Express software, VideoSpace provides a wide choice of codecs from DV right up to 10 bit Uncompressed HD with comprehensive options for frame rate and audio settings.
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| | | | News: New Wave Entertainment Transitions to Avid Unity ISIS
Leading creative services and content production company first in LA to install Avid’s revolutionary storage system
Avid Technology, Inc. today announced that New Wave Entertainment (NWE), a leading creative services and content production company, is the first Los Angeles-based company to install the Avid Unity ISIS™ system for all collaborative content creation and storage of shared media assets.
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| | | | News: RFO Creates Global Digital Workflow with Avid Solutions
Installation includes shared-storage, playout, and editing systems; highlights integration between Avid and former Pinnacle offerings
Avid Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced that Réseau France Outre-mer (RFO), a Paris-based broadcaster owned by the France Télévisions group, has purchased a range of Avid® systems to create a digital production workflow for nine stations in French-speaking territories around the globe. The deal enables RFO to centralize its operations in a single location while improving production and workflow efficiencies for all of its stations, regardless of their local geographies. To support the full roster of programming across its network – where each station produces a mix of local news, magazine shows and commercials – and broadcasts national content created by France Télévisions and TF1, RFO will deploy multiple Avid and former Pinnacle systems for acquisition, postproduction, media management and playout. The installation is currently underway and expected to be complete by Autumn 2006.
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| | | | News: Digital Heaven releases BigTime
Resizable floating timecode display for Final Cut Pro
Digital Heaven, one of the leading creators of software for Apple's pro apps, today announced the release of BigTIme, a standalone application which offers a resizable floating display of Final Cut Pro's current timecode.
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| | | | News: Wexler Video Invests $2.5M in Avid Postproduction Solutions
Investment significantly expands Wexler’s fleet of Avid editing and shared-storage systems
Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced that Wexler Video – a leading equipment and services provider to the Hollywood production and postproduction community – has purchased $2.5 million in Avid nonlinear editing and shared-storage solutions.
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| | | | News: Avid Delivers Broad System Integration and Workflow Enhancements for Broadcast Production
Multiple product releases further strengthen company’s industry-leading workflows for all-digital newsrooms
Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID) announced at NAB major enhancements to a wide range of systems within its Broadcast News, Production, On-Air Graphics, and Play-to-Air product groups. With robust updates to a range of systems – including version 3.3 of the Avid® MediaStream™ playout server; version 2.6 of the Avid iNEWS® system; version 4.0 of DekoCast™ software; version 7.0 of the Avid Thunder® system; version 3.3 of the Avid MediaStream playout server; version 1.5 of the iNEWS Instinct™ system; and version 6.5 of the NewsCutter® product family – Avid is further integrating its broadcast-focused products and the operating efficiency of its industry-leading all-digital broadcast workflow.
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| | | | News: Avid Launches
Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID) introduced at NAB the Total Services program, a customizable suite of offerings that delivers advanced consulting, design, health monitoring, and support expertise to its customers.
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| | | | News: Twixtor and ReelSmart Motion Blur released for Intel-native FCP 5.1
RE:Vision Effects is now shipping universal binary plug-ins of Twixtor and ReelSmart Motion Blur (RSMB) for Apple Final Cut Pro that support both PPC- and Intel-based Macintoshes. Twixtor is the sophisticated slow-mo and speed-up solution, and ReelSmart Motion Blur adds and removes motion blur based on per-pixel calculated motion.
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| | | | News: Avid Deko 4.0 Delivers New Creative Tools and Increases Workflow Efficiency
Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced the immediate availability of Avid® Deko® 4.0 software, a significant upgrade for the entire Deko family of real-time on-air graphics systems. Ideal for standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) broadcast operations, Avid Deko 4.0 software offers unique real-time animation features for creating sophisticated effects as well as tight interoperability between production systems. With the ability to import QuickTime movies, export Deko motions directly to Avid and other nonlinear editing systems, and simultaneously create SD and HD graphics packages in multiple languages, Avid Deko 4.0 software is setting new standards in efficiency for broadcasters producing high-quality on-air graphics for multi-channel playout.
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| | | | News: Digital Heaven releases AutoMotion
new software automates production and management of graphics with Apple's Motion
Digital Heaven (www.digital-heaven.co.uk) one of the leading creators of software for Apple's pro apps, today announced the highly anticipated release of AutoMotion, a powerful companion to Apple's Motion.
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| | | | News: AVID buys Medéa
New product line expands company's leadership in real-time storage systems for professional content creators
--Feb. 28, 2006) Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID) today unveiled the Avid® VideoRAID™ family of storage systems that deliver up to 5 terabytes (TB) of high-efficiency storage with guaranteed real-time access for multi-stream, high-bandwidth standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) workflows. Unlike other competitive RAID products that suspend performance in the event of a drive failure, the new Avid VideoRAID line delivers uninterrupted real-time performance, even during a drive rebuild. The new systems - the Avid VideoRAID RTR320 and RTR320X - are the first in a series of low-cost parity RAID storage products that Avid plans to introduce as a result of acquiring Medea Corporation in January of 2006. While terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, the deal further expands Avid's position as a leading provider of high-performance storage solutions for content creators in film, video, audio, broadcast, and animation.
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| | | | News: Digital Heaven announces AutoMotion
new software automates production and management of graphics with Apple's Motion
Digital Heaven (www.digital-heaven.co.uk) today announced AutoMotion, a powerful companion to Apple's Motion.
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| | | | News: RE:Vision Effects, Inc. releases Twixtor for Softimage|XSI
RE:Vision Effects releases Twixtor, their popular retiming solution, for SOFTIMAGE®|XSI® animation software.
Twixtor 4.5 raises the bar in motion estimation. Nick Brooks, Academy Award and Emmy Award winner for visual effects says, "Twixtor 4.5 represents a new touchstone in retiming. The difference in accuracy means that retiming artifacts are either drastically reduced or disappear on the hardest to retime footage. "
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| | | | News: New Tools from Automatic Duck at DV Expo West
Automatic Duck Pro Import FCP 2.0 Enables Editors to Import OMF Files from DAWs like Pro Tools into Final Cut Pro; Adds Import from Adobe Premiere Pro with Host of New Features to Enhance the Final Cut Pro Workflow
Automatic Duck (www.automaticduck.com), the creators of Timeline Integration Engine software for digital media artists, will debut new enhancements to Pro Import FCP, its flagship import tool for Final Cut Pro users, during DV Expo West 2005 in Los Angeles this week.
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| | | | News: Digital Heaven releases MovieLogger
new QuickTime logging application for Mac OS X
Digital Heaven (www.digital-heaven.co.uk) today announced the release of MovieLogger v1.0, an easy-to-use streamlined application for text-based logging of QuickTime movies.
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| | | | News: Cutters Expands Avid Postproduction Workflow to Meet Demands of Dell Advertising Campaign
Leading Chicago commercial production facility deploys latest Avid editing, finishing, and shared-storage systems to maximize work efficiency and project quality
Avid Technology, Inc. today announced that one of Chicago's top postproduction facilities, Cutters Inc., has implemented a new Avid® workflow for creative editorial, finishing, and compositing work on a national TV advertising campaign for Dell Computer.
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| | | | News: Noise Industries releases: Factory Tools visual effects suite for Avid
Noise Industries, developer of integrated effects technology for video and film production, has released version 1.0 of Factory Tools, the first software suite for creating, applying and sharing effects on the Avid® AVX™ architecture which dynamically extends the effects supported by Avid editing systems. Factory Tools is a Macintosh™ only product and supports numerous features available only in Mac OS X Tiger.
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| | | | News: Boris Continuum Complete AVX Version 4.0 Now Available
Integrated visual effects use the new AVX 2.0 Architecture
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film production, today announced that version 4.0 of Continuum Complete AVX (BCC AVX) is now available. Version 4.0 runs on the new AVX 2.0 architecture. Avid® Visual Extensions (AVX™) is a plug-in architecture that dynamically extends the effects supported by Avid systems.
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| | | | News: Avid Inks Multi-million Dollar Deal with Fox to Convert Six Stations to Digital Newsrooms
Top US broadcaster to transition news creation, storage, and play-to-air processes with all-digital Avid production environments
TEWKSBURY, Mass.--July 25, 2005--Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced that Fox Television Stations, Inc. has chosen to convert six of its 27 news-generating stations from analog-based systems to Avid® end-to-end digital production environments for ingest, editing, storage, and playout.
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