Avid's 'Do More Tour' to Tackle HD Transition

Avid is hosting two industry events to explore HD postproduction trends and to demo its latest gear. In Los Angeles on May 18 and in New York City on June 9, Avid will show--and attendees can test drive--its range of HD products, including: Avid DNxHD encoding system Avid Symphony Nitris system Avid DS Nit

Author:: TVTechnology
Publish date:: May 12, 2005

Avid is hosting two industry events to explore HD postproduction trends and to demo its latest gear.

In Los Angeles on May 18 and in New York City on June 9, Avid will show--and attendees can test drive--its range of HD products, including:

Avid DNxHD encoding system
Avid Symphony Nitris system
Avid DS Nitris system
The Media Composer Adrenaline HD system with the Avid Dnxcel board
The Avid Xpress Studio HD and Avid Xpress Pro HD systems

Registered attendees can enter to win a free Avid Xpress Studio HD Complete system. Visit Avid's Web site for contest rules and to register.

The Los Angles event will take place from 6:30-9:30 p.m. at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, Calif. and the New York event gets started at 6:30 p.m. at Strata.

On May 13, Avid Technology will launch its "Experience Avid/DNA" tour, a two-month trek that spans nine cities in the U.S. and Canada, to give customers a look at its NAB product line, including the DNA family, DS Nitris, Media Composer, Adrenaline and Xpress Pro with Mojo, among others. "Experience Avid/DNA" features

HD Studios has upgraded its AVID DS HD system to an Avid Nitris system.

NBC has purchased 11 Avid DS Nitris systems to replace linear and nonlinear post-production suites at both its internal graphics department.

(October 20, 2003) Tewksbury, MA--Avid Technology has announced that several Hollywood post-production facilities are using Avid|DS HD systems to finish more than 20 fall-season TV programs in high definition, indicating a larger industry embrace of the HD format.

Avid delivers Avid DS Nitris 8.0 promo image

The new version ships with dual-boot capability, allowing editors to use either the DS or Symphony toolset with the Avid Nitris hardware.

Omneon (Booth SU-2959) will demo an extension of its multiformat HD capabilities at NAB2006 by adding support for Avid's DNxHD format. The system upgrade will permit any Omneon Spectrum system to record and playback DNxHD files using Avid's DNxchange codec device. The firm said recorded DNxHD clips are immediately a

Avid releases Avid Xpress Pro HD promo image

The new HD portable editing solution supports Panasonic DVCPRO HD and Avid DNxHD formats.

Three major New York City-based post production facilities are among the first customers purchasing Avid's new DS Nitris system, which began shipping this month. FrameRunner, PostWorks and the Image Group are adding an Avid DS Nitris to its existing base of Avid products and will use it to finish increasing amounts of