Avid @ PVT
Here are some highlights from our Dave Spraker's Post Production-related Blog:
- The Facilis Shared File System improves with each release, and it is now deployed in several hundred facilities worldwide, including many of Portland's finest post and corporate users. More...
- EditShare has announced the availability of the highly-anticipated Version 6 shared storage release that encompasses the EditShare XStream Series, Storage Series, Metro, and Field shared storage solutions. More...
Get more at spraker.tv/blog/
What a great NAB for Avid - with a great new software release, great upgrade promos (including for you Symphony Nitris owners) and some great press. If you're ready to upgrade, just drop us a line at avid@provideoandtape.com and we'll take care of you.
New in Media Composer 5
- Directly access and edit RED files through AMA, without transcoding (images are scaled to HD frame size)
This is very cool - you have many choices of how to playback or render the file (LUTs, etc...)
- Work natively with QuickTime video formats, including Apple ProRes and H.264
Very nice!
- Edit video and audio by dragging and dropping elements in the timeline
- Keep high-end finishing projects in-house and gain great color precision with HD-RGB support (including dual-link I/O support with Nitris DX systems)
- Monitor video externally with support for the Matrox MXO2 Mini
- Mix and match frame sizes and aspect ratios — in addition to formats, frame rates, and resolutions — in the same timeline
- Take a break during long renders and have your system email you when the job’s done
- Import AVCHD files directly from cameras and other devices
- Capture to and edit XDCAM HD and DVC PRO HD formats from baseband without additional hardware
- Access low-res XDCAM proxies for offline work, with full-quality audio
- Import text-based ancillary data and embed it in the video signal with the new “Data Track” and SMPTE 436M support using Nitris DX- and Mojo DX-based systems
- View stereo audio tracks as single channels in the timeline for easier handling
- Create high-quality sounds and mixes with support for RTAS audio processing plug-ins
- Natively access and edit 4:2:2 MPEG-2 media from the new Canon cameras using AMA
An that's just the beginning. Look for Media Composer 5 mid-June.
Even before NAB, the news was pretty good...
- Post Magazine Special Report: Avid Lives!
With Version 4’s Mix and Match capability, Avid more than stepped up to the plate against FCP, surpassing Apple’s mixed-format, mixed frame rate implementation — even in software-only systems. New tools were added for stereoscopic editing and production suite tools were updated. Avid even opened up Unity, allowing FCP usage alongside MC — something inconceivable a few years ago.
Even dyed-in-the-wool FCP users took notice: Shane Ross, an LA-based editor/blogger says, ”While MC 3.0.5 turned my attention back to Avid, I still liked FCP more. But now with MC 4, my interest in going back to Avid is piqued.” More...
- Walter Murch - "What it's like going from Avid to FCP and back to Avid"
The much celebrated director has made waves in Hollywood for his early adoption of Avid and subsequent switch to Apple's Final Cut Pro. Now Murch is making a very public return to the Avid - speaking about it at the LA Final Cut Pro Users Group. (watch from links to his presentation coming soon.)
Avid Nitris DX is the complete HD hardware solution for Avid Media Composer and Symphony.
Avid Symphony Nitris DX
Real-time Editing, Finishing, and Mastering you can count on
When you run an online session, time isn't just money, it's big money. In a client supervised session, it's the time to focus on quality, efficiency, and productivity. The Symphony Nitris DX system integrates the Symphony finishing toolset with Avid Nitris DX hardware for the real-time horsepower you need for high-throughput, high quality HD and SD finishing. All with a remarkable palette of creative tools and now running on the latest Mac and Windows platforms.
The new Avid Nitris DX architecture tightly connects the host graphics chip, multiple CPU cores, and PCI Express I/O hardware into a single high-bandwidth, high-performance effects engine. The architecture is optimized for highly responsive real-time editing using the latest generation of HD codecs, including HDV, XDCAM-HD, AVC-I, and Avid DNxHD, in a multi-threaded effects pipeline engineered to take maximum advantage of the host CPU and GPU resources.
The Symphony Nitris DX system features the refined editing, finishing and color-correction tools, integrated media management, and seamless conform that the world's top online editors count on, day after day.
Avid Media Composer Nitris DX
Professional film and video editing with comprehensive SD & HD I/O and DNxHD acceleration
When you edit high-profile films, television programs, or commercials for a living, your editing system becomes an extension of yourself. Media Composer Nitris DX integrates the Media Composer toolset with the new Avid Nitris DX hardware for a remarkably responsive, high performance, multi-codec SD and HD editing solution. The result is the most powerful Media Composer system ever built, supported by a company and community you can count on.
Avid Media Composer Mojo DX
Integrated hardware and software for multi-format film and video editing
You're always balancing quality, cost, and the next deadline. The new Media Composer Mojo DX combines the complete Media Composer film and video editing toolset with new Avid Mojo DX hardware to give you a head start on all three. Save time and boost quality with native XDCAM-HD and P2 editing and the real-time effects architecture combined with the new Media Composer Mojo DX. Create DVD, Blu-ray, and Web media. And always count on the support and expertise of the worldwide Avid community.
Avid Mojo SDI is still available as a standard definition I/O device.
Avid Media Composer Software
Best choice for offline, file-based, and mobile editing
If you're a creative editor, you want an editing tool that not only makes storytelling simple, but helps you track your project, organize your media, and pull you through the trouble spots. That's why so many professionals trust their best ideas to Avid Media Composer. Unsurpassed creative tools, rock-solid media management, and the highest quality effects and output make Media Composer the most powerful editing solution available.
Add powerful features to your Avid
EditShare
 From field to finish – offline to uncompressed HD – EditShare™ products are designed to maximize media sharing and storage for multi-user editing environments. Leveraging the power and cost effectiveness of Gigabit Ethernet, EditShare™ is simple to install, easy to use and offers an immediate return on investment for any media-driven organization.
EditShare is the only shared-storage solution to offer
true Apple and Avid Project Sharing.
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- Facilis
- The Facilis TerraBlock's versatility offers both Fibre channel and Ethernet Connectivity. The TerraBlock's Ethernet option is the optimal solution for low bandwidth or high client count environments. Facilities that require high bandwidth can make use of the standard 8Gb Fibre connectivity available on the TerraBlock. Clients may direct connect to the TerraBlock without the use of a Fibre channel switch. Both the Ethernet and Fibre clients can access the same Multi Write volume at the same time
 Every post production, content creation and animation facility can benefit from one of of the TerraBlock product offerings. From small corporate video departments to the giant Hollywood studios, when you're a Facilis customer, you're in great company.
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- Cache-A
- Cache-A’s LTO-4 and LTO-5 archive appliance data-tape drives provide networked storage systems to professional video customers that are simple to deploy and allow users a way to easily transfer their content to secure, portable, exchangeable LTO tape cartridges.
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- Matrox
 Matrox MXO2 Mini gives you all the features of a high-quality capture card and a breakout box in one very affordable little device. It’s also available with the Matrox MAX option for lightning fast H.264 file encoding to turbo charge your deliveries to Blu-ray, the web, and mobile devices.
Matrox MXO2 Mini provides a cost-effective HD monitoring solution for Avid editing systems.
All of these great solutions and more are available directly from Professional
Video & Tape. Please contact our Avid Specialist Dave Spraker for
more information and pricing.
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