Avid's Editing Tools Preferred By More Than Half of Sundance '99 Filmmakers.PARK CITY, Utah--(ENTERTAIMENT WIRE)--Jan. 20, 1999-- -- Over Half of Festival Films Edited on Avid's Editing Systems; Softimage Effects Products Make Their First Sundance Appearance -- Avid Technology "Avid" redirects here. For the "Advancement Via Individual Determination" educational program, see AVID. Avid Technology, Inc NASDAQ: AVID is an American company specializing in video and audio production technology; specifically, digital non-linear media editing (NLE) , Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :AVID) today announced that 70 out of the 114 films participating in the 1999 Sundance Film Festival were edited using Avid's digital solutions (either Film Composer(R) or Media Composer(R) systems). Avid will be demonstrating its award-winning technologies during the Sundance Film Festival from January 21 -- 31, 1999 at the New Media Center, located at the Inn at Prospector Square. Softimage(R) Products on Display at Sundance '99 Intergraph Computer Systems, an Avid business partner, will also be providing demonstrations of Softimage tools in the New Media Center. Visitors will see SOFTIMAGE|3D -- an industry-leading 3-D animation system, and SOFTIMAGE|DS -- Avid's nonlinear production (NLP (Natural Language Processing) The capability of understanding human language. If the language is spoken, voice recognition plays an important role in converting the sounds to individual words. Then, natural language processing figures out what the words mean. (TM)) system for creating and finishing graphics and effects-centric video projects such as music videos, commercials and television programming. The tools will be showcased as part of an integrated production A farming system that produces high quality food and other products by using natural resources and regulating mechanisms to replace polluting inputs and to secure sustainable farming. environment for the previsualization of effects, and to integrate 2-D and 3-D processes such as editing and compositing in a single environment -- thereby streamlining the creative workflow. Avid as a Sundance Technology Partner "Avid has been an important technology partner of the Sundance Institute for the past five years," said Ian Calderon, a founder and Senior Consultant to the Sundance Institute. "Avid has also been involved in the June Filmmakers Lab, as well as the Producers Conference -- both of which support emerging filmmakers who are developing new work. Thanks to Avid's generous equipment loans, our filmmakers have been able to work with state-of-the-art editing technology to assist them in telling their stories. Avid has empowered the next generation of filmmakers by creating cost-effective and flexible tools to assist in their creative process." Digital Nonlinear Editing See nonlinear video editing. Technology Encourages Experimentation "This was my first time using a digital editing system, and I was impressed with the freedom that nonlinear technology affords," said Andrew Shea, the director and editor of "The Corndog Man," a film in this year's festival. "The system was intuitive and easy for me to learn and use. I was glad to be editing on an Avid system because it allowed me to experiment quickly with elements such as the story's timeline, as well as dialog and music elements. The amount of experimentation I did with the film would have been impossible to do on a flatbed or using other traditional video offline methods." About Avid's Digital Editing Solutions With more than 700 feature films edited to date on its systems, Avid's nonlinear editing See nonlinear video editing. technology is quickly becoming the tool of choice among independent filmmakers because of its cost-effectiveness and streamlined editing process. Computers and digital editing software have revolutionized the film editing process the same way word-processing software revolutionized writing documents. Avid's film editing solutions offer the ability to cut and paste To move an object from one location to another. When the operation is complete, there is nothing left in the original location. It may refer to relocating files from one folder to another or to relocating selected text or images from one document to another. film edits in the same way a writer can cut and paste text in a memo. Sundance '99 Premiere Films The following premiere films were edited on Avid's digital nonlinear systems: --"A Walk On the Moon", directed by Tony Goldwyn Anthony Howard "Tony" Goldwyn (born May 20, 1960) is an American actor and director. He portrayed the villain Carl Bruner in Ghost (who had his friend and co-worker Sam Wheat killed), Kendall Dobbs in Designing Women --"The 24 Hour Woman", directed by Nancy Savoca --"Cookie's Fortune", directed by Robert Altman --"Hideous Kinky kink·y adj. kink·i·er, kink·i·est 1. Tightly twisted or curled: kinky hair. 2. ", directed by Gillis MacKinnon --"Los Enchiladas!", directed by Mitch Hedberg Mitchell Lee Hedberg (February 24, 1968 – March 29, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian known for his surreal humor and unconventional comedic delivery. His routines featured elocutive but often short, sometimes one-line, observational jokes on everyday life, mixed with --"Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Frederick A. (Fred) Leuchter, Jr. (born 1943) is an American execution technician who rose to controversy for his testimony in defense of Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel. He claims to have improved the electric chair to make it more humane, to have designed a lethal injection , Jr.", directed by Errol Morris --"The Passion of Ayn Rand Noun 1. Ayn Rand - United States writer (born in Russia) noted for her polemical novels and political conservativism (1905-1982) Rand ", directed by Chris Menaul --"Splendor", directed by Gregg Araki --"Sugar Town", directed by Anders and Kurt Voss --"Thick As Thieves", directed by Scott Sanders --"Two Hands", directed by Gregor Jordan Other Films At the Festival Using Avid Editing Systems in Postproduction(1) Additional films at Sundance 1999 that used Avid's editing solutions include (by category): World Cinema --"Bajo California: El Limite Del Tiempo" --"Beefcake beef·cake n. Informal 1. Images, especially photographs, of minimally attired men with muscular physiques. 2. Attractive men with muscular physiques, such as those in these images. " --"Friendly Fire" --"Heart of Light" --"Louise" --"P. Tinto's Miracle" --"Southpaw" --"Train of Life (Train de Vie)" --"When Love Comes" --"The Wounds" Documentary --"American Hollow" --"American Movie" --"American Pimp In feudal England, a type of tenure by which a tenant was permitted to use real property that belonged to a lord in exchange for the performance of some service, such as providing young women for the use and pleasure of the lord. " --"The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords" --"Death: A Love Story" --"Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood" --"The Legacy: Murder & Media, Politics & Prisons" --"On the Ropes" --"Rabbit in the Moon Rabbit in the Moon is an American electronic music group. Their style draws from psychedelic trance, house music and breakbeat, along with other diverse influences. History " --"Sex: The Annabel Chong Story" --"Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle" --"The Source" --"Speaking in Strings" Dramatic --"The Adventures of Sebastian Cole" --"The Autumn Heart" --"Happy Texas" --"The Hi-Line" --"The Item" --"Joe the King" --"The Minus Man" --"Roberta" --"A Slipping Down Life" --"Three Seasons" --"Treasure Island" American Spectrum --"Afraid of Everything" --"Chillicothe" --"The Corndog Man" --"Edge of Seventeen" --"Fools Gold" --"Genghis Blues" --"The Invisibles" --"The Ciudad (The City)" --"Life Tastes Good" --"The Outfitters" --"Side Streets" --"Twin Falls Idaho" Frontier --"Brakhage" --"Trans" Midnight --"Get Bruce" --"Kill the Man" Special Screening --"An American Love Story" --"The Kindness of Strangers" Native American --"Big Bear" --"Hidden Medicine" --"Silence" --"Storyteller" --"Things We Do" --"Today is A Good Day: Remembering Chief Dan George" --"Ways of the Glades Glades may refer to:
About Avid Technology Avid Technology, Inc., which acquired Softimage Inc. in 1998, is an international, industry-leading provider of digital audio and video tools for information and entertainment applications. The company's products are used by a variety of customers worldwide including film, television and interactive content producers, TV news broadcasters, corporate communicators and consumers. For more information, visit Avid's Web site at www.avid.com or the Softimage Web site at www.softimage.com. c. 1999 Avid Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. Avid, Film Composer, Media Composer and Softimage are registered trademarks and NLP is a trademark of Avid Technology, Inc. or its subsidiaries and divisions. All other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners. (1) Attempts were made to contact all filmmakers participating in Sundance '99. Those not responding were not included. |
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