Avid Announces Worldwide Launch of Avid Unity for News, the Edgestreme Cluster, Avid Symphony 3.0, Media Composer 10.0 and SOFTIMAGE/DS 4.0 at IBC 2000.Business/Technology Editors IBC IBC International Building Code IBC Iraq Body Count IBC Institutional Biosafety Committee IBC Inflammatory Breast Cancer IBC International Business Company IBC Independence Blue Cross IBC Insurance Bureau of Canada IBC International Broadcasting Convention 2000 Pre-Show News, Avid Stand 230, Hall 5 TEWKSBURY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 14, 2000 Plus First European Showing of NewsCutter XP, Avid Xpress 4.0, Avid Xpress DV Avid Xpress DV is a popular non-linear video editing application available to professionals on Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh computers. See also
At the International Broadcast Convention (IBC) 2000, 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), will present the worldwide launch of several new solutions including: Avid Unity(TM) for News, a new workgroup solution for news production based on the highly popular Avid Unity shared storage product; the Edgestreme(TM) Cluster, a high performance streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. server developed by Edgestreme Systems, Avid's newly formed Internet infrastructure division; Avid(R) Symphony(TM) 3.0 and Media Composer(R) 10.0 high-end finishing and editing systems; and SOFTIMAGE(R)|DS 4.0 which includes SOFTIMAGE|DS HD, an uncompressed nonlinear HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates system. In addition, IBC 2000 will be the venue for the first European showing of the NewsCutter(R) XP system for editing fast turn-around news stories, Avid Xpress(R) 4.0 and Avid Xpress DV 1.5 editing systems, and SOFTIMAGE|XSI(TM) 1.5 software for nonlinear 3D animation. Avid will also be promoting its `create once, publish everywhere' theme and highlighting the benefits of workflow-enabling features that are inherent throughout the entire Avid product range to help all types of content creators and distributors operate in an efficient and collaborative environment. Avid Unity for News - Launch at IBC 2000 Avid Unity for News is Avid's most significant product launch in the broadcast market for a number of years. Avid Unity for News is a new networked workgroup solution featuring the NewsCutter 2.0 system and elements from the Avid Unity family of shared storage products, namely Avid Unity MediaNet 1.2, MediaManager 2.0 and Transfer Manager 1.0. It is intended to bring major operational benefits to news production workflow in any broadcasting environment. Edgestreme Systems Launches First Product Edgestreme Systems, Avid's newly formed Internet infrastructure, will be launching its first product at IBC 2000. The Edgestreme Cluster is the industry's first turnkey streaming media server designed to provide scalable, high performance in an easy-to-integrate and easy-to-manage system. It allows Internet Service Providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. , content delivery services See CDN. and content hosts to reliably deliver sustained high bandwidth content - such as streaming audio A one-way audio transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play audio clips and Internet radio. Computers in home networks stream audio (mostly music) to digital media hubs connected to home theaters. and video - over the Internet. The Edgestreme Cluster supports up to 5,000 Mbps of sustained bandwidth and five terabytes of online storage, which equals the delivery of more than 10,000 unique broadband streams live or on demand, and the storage of tens of thousands of hours of broadband video content. Avid Launches Avid Symphony 3.0 and Media Composer 10.0 Avid Symphony 3.0 and Media Composer 10.0 systems will enable users to expand their businesses with enhanced online/finishing capabilities; multi-format mastering and delivery of 601, Web/CD/DVD and DTV (Digital TeleVision) Transmitting TV using digital signals. The major DTV standards are ATSC (North America), DVB (Europe) and ISDB (Japan). All three use MPEG-2 video compression and Dolby Digital audio compression. DVB and ISDB also include MPEG audio compression. formats; and an efficient collaborative workflow. New features for the Avid Symphony 3.0 system include real-time Ultimatte Keying, real-time secondary color secondary color n. A color produced by mixing two primary colors in equal proportions. See Table at color. secondary color A color produced by mixing two additive primary colors in equal proportions. correction, motion tracking and image stabilization Image stabilization (IS) is a family of techniques to increase the stability of an image. It is used in image-stabilized binoculars, photography, videography, and astronomical telescopes. . The Media Composer 10.0 system will include parity to users on both Macintosh and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. platforms. New features will include real-time moving mattes, real-time hardware multicamera play, video archive, multi-format mastering and a number of workflow efficiency features. SOFTIMAGE|DS 4.0 Worldwide Launch Avid's subsidiary, Softimage Co., will be launching the SOFTIMAGE|DS 4.0 system which includes a host of new features for effects-intensive editing projects. SOFTIMAGE|DS 4.0 will also be available in an uncompressed HD version, designed to provide creative finishing in a wide variety of video formats, including PAL, NTSC (National TV Standards Committee) The committee that developed the television standards for the U.S, which are also used in Canada, Japan, South Korea and several Central and South American countries. Both the committee and the standard are called "NTSC. , 1080I, 1080P and 720P. The system is a cost-effective investment for the future offering full 601 and HD capabilities. SOFTIMAGE|DS HD gives users the power to digitize, edit (video and audio), composite, paint, title and add sophisticated visual effects to HD projects before laying them off to tape in a single seamless production workflow. First European Showing of Avid NewsCutter XP, Avid Xpress 4.0, Avid Xpress DV 1.5 and SOFTIMAGE|XSI 1.5 Avid will also be showing, for the first time in Europe: NewsCutter XP, a lower-cost version of Avid's NewsCutter system for editing broadcast news, designed to deliver content to air and to the Web using industry standard DV25 compression; Avid Xpress 4.0, the newest version of Avid's affordable, broadcast-quality video editing system designed for video and multimedia professionals; Avid Xpress DV 1.5 which includes new workflow features to facilitate the world of video editing, animation, web design, and other graphics and media applications; and SOFTIMAGE|XSI 1.5, the latest version of the new 3-D animation technology that allows animators in broadcast, feature films and games industries to work in a truly nonlinear animation environment. Avid and Softimage solutions will also be demonstrated on various other manufacturers' and service providers' stands across the Convention. Further details of these will be provided at a later date. About Avid Technology, Inc. Avid Technology, Inc. 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 www.avid.com, www.edgestreme.com and www.softimage.com. (c) 2000 Avid Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. Product specifications subject to change without notice. Avid, Avid Xpress, Media Composer, NewsCutter and Softimage are registered trademarks and Avid Unity, Edgestreme, Symphony and XSI are trademarks of Avid Technology, Inc. All other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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