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Three Reasons Why I Attend Avid Connect Every Year

By Jim Bask 0 Comment November 2, 2016

I have attended Avid Connect, the world’s greatest gathering of professionals in the media industry, since its inception in 2014. Similarly to previous years, I was quick to save my spot for 2017. As the head of audio post at SpotBot, Inc., and a passionate music composer and engineer, I find this conference valuable for many reasons, but most of all for inspiration, knowledge, and networking.

Avid Acquires Exclusive Licensing Rights to Nexidia’s Award-winning Technology for the Media and Entertainment Market

By Jim Bask 0 Comment October 31, 2016

The addition of dialog and audio analysis products and technologies to the MediaCentral Platform gives media and entertainment professionals new levels of creativity and efficiency for content creation and distribution workflows<

Review – Genarts Sapphire 10 for Media Composer

By Jim Bask 0 Comment October 26, 2016

Well Ladies and Gentlemen, we are definitely in an interesting time! I’ve written this review on the heels of probably the second biggest announcement in our industry in recent memory, and the funny thing is that the same company was behind both big news announcements. Boris FX’s purchase of Imagineer Systems was a groundbreaking purchase as, at the time, it gave editors the hope of having Mocha tracking capabilities in their NLE timelines and, needless to say, Boris FX and Imagineer Systems delivered. Big time.

Video: Avid Technology CEO: Powering Media | Mad Money | CNBC

By Jim Bask 0 Comment October 25, 2016

Watch Mad Money CNBC Video Featuring Avid CEO

It is the software that helps bring films such as Captain Phillips, American Hustle and Gravity to the big screen. Could it also help bring big profits to your portfolio? Jim Cramer spoke with the CEO to learn more.

Avid NEXIS PRO user story: Swiss Tvision

By Jim Bask 0 Comment October 21, 2016

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Tvision AG from Basel, a production studio with seven full-time employees and additional freelancers, realizes about 500 projects each year, ranging from short news clips up to complete documentaries. The industry demands in terms of efficiency and production time are high and continuously rising.

IBC 2016: Avid Nexis Pro

By Jim Bask 0 Comment October 20, 2016

Avid’s Nexis Pro is a scalable storage system for mid-size facilities, but its bigger brother, Avid Nexis Enterprise can handle more than 1.4 Petabytes of storage

IBC 2016: Avid Presents Nexis Pro Shared Storage Solution

By Jim Bask 0 Comment October 18, 2016

An interview from the 2016 International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam with Matt Feury of Avid Technology. Avid Technology delivers the industry’s most open, innovative and comprehensive media platform, connecting content creation with collaboration, asset protection, distribution and consumption.

Demand for Avid NEXIS Intelligent Shared Storage Growing Stronger

By Jim Bask 0 Comment October 10, 2016

BURLINGTON, MA — Just six months after its introduction, Avid’s (www.avid.com) NEXIS software-defined storage platform is seeing strong demand. 

Emmy-award Editor Exposes His Secret with Avid Media Composer and Titler Pro 2.0

By Jim Bask 0 Comment October 10, 2016

By Wim Van den Broek from Avid

As an editor, creating striking titles that work well with a scene can be a burden. With all the time video editing already demands, editors can feel overwhelmed perfecting an extra detail.


PostPerspective Review of Avid Media Composer 8.5 and 8.6

By Jim Bask 0 Comment October 4, 2016

It seems that nonlinear editing systems, like Adobe Premiere, Apple FCP X, Lightworks, Vegas and Blackmagic Resolve are being updated almost weekly. At first, I was overjoyed with the frequent updates. It got to the point where I would see a new codec released on a Monday and by Friday you could edit with it (maybe a slight exaggeration, but pretty close to the truth). Unfortunately, this didn’t always mean the updates would work.