Discovery Taps Avid/DS HD For Programming

Discovery Production Group, which recently opened its new headquarters in Silver Spring, Md., is outfitting its new facility with Avid/DS HD 6.0 systems to finish and master programs for Discovery HD Theater, a 24-hour HD channel launched in 2002. Discovery's new facility will also include 27 Avid Symphony systems, 11

Author:: TVTechnology
Publish date:: Apr 2, 2003

Discovery Production Group, which recently opened its new headquarters in Silver Spring, Md., is outfitting its new facility with Avid/DS HD 6.0 systems to finish and master programs for Discovery HD Theater, a 24-hour HD channel launched in 2002.

Discovery's new facility will also include 27 Avid Symphony systems, 11 Media Composer systems and three Digidesign Pro Tools suites.

Discovery has used Avid gear on the 115 programs it produced last season and for series including "Trading Spaces," "The Secrets of National Glacier Park" and "The Crocodile Hunter" in 2003.

Discovery Program Group handles TV production and post production for media brands under Discovery Communications.

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

Discovery promo image

This year, Discovery Communications added an HD control room to its production center in Silver Spring, MD, to serve the expanding HD and SD production

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.

Avid announces Avid DS v10 promo image

This year is the 10th anniversary of the introduction of the DS system.

Avid released DS 10.2 at IBC 2009 – a new version of its integrated suite of editorial, graphics and image processing tools for studios, facilities, broadcasters and post houses. The new version brings enhanced functionality for increased performance and ...

Avid DS Nitris is the post-production tool of choice for 28 primetime shows this season. "Third Watch, "Malcolm in the Middle" episodes of "American Dreams," and "Eight Simple Rules" and others are being finished by in Los Angeles-based post-production facilities such as Technicolor Creative Services and Modern VideoF

The company has installed 28 Media Composer Adrenaline systems from Avid Technology for its new facility in Silver Spring, Md.

NBC and Discovery Television are among the latest customers to purchase news and editing gear from Avid Technology. NBC plans to replace several of its tape-based news production systems with Avid digital newsroom gear in a $6.7 million purchase. The gear will include Unity for News, NewsCutter, iNews, Media Browse, A