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By Jennifer P
Attention Avid Editors! Special Savings Available Now
Attention Avid Editors! Special Savings Available Now
Cloud-Based services have made their way into the post production world, especially now, in a world with teams working from home, completely separate. But, there is also a definite stigma around cloud-based workflows, that isn’t necessarily based in fact.
Avid® (Nasdaq: AVID) today announced a major new release of its flagship Avid Media Composer® 2020 video editing software. Designed to give storytellers at all levels the most powerful solution for more creative freedom and workflow flexibility, Media Composer 2020 includes a redesigned customizable user interface, a new Universal Media Engine, finishing and delivery tools, and support for Apple ProRes for Windows and Catalina, among many other enhancements.
Let’s Edit MC’s most recent tutorial, Avid Media Composer- interface overview & basic settings helps beginners and professionals get rolling in their video editing process. In Kevin P McAuliffe lesson he goes over the new Bin Container window, a Media Composer interface overview, and the basic settings you need to start your editing!
The Avid S1 is an eight input fader with mixing control and a touch screen interface. The unit looks simple and straight forward, but it is also incredibly capable and powerful.
Avid recently created a fantastic webinar with Michael Krulik, going through one of the most recent updates to Avid Media Composer. The webinar goes over the new interface, Media Composer Engine and more.
The launch of mobile-first streaming app Quibi, with nearly $2 billion in investment according to The New York Times, shows the mobile viewing trend is only picking up steam.
Technology is a massive cost center—absolutely necessary, but a cost center nevertheless. It’s also one of the hardest budget items to argue for in tough economic times: if the tech still works, can’t an upgrade wait? The SaaS model lets you mitigate some of those costs by incentivizing multiyear subscriptions, but even yearlong or month-to-month subscriptions can save money.
Cloud computing has dominated the IT conversation for many years now, but the media and entertainment industry has lagged behind. While the past few years have seen a handful of innovators migrating certain workflows to the cloud, it took a disaster on the scale of the global coronavirus pandemic for the broader industry to seriously consider what cloud solutions could do for media production.
The folks at Avid put a great landing page together for creators working with remote production workflows. Loaded with links to guide you along the way to remote post production. We really like the success stories from real users, using Avid to edit and create during this time of COVID-19 and social distancing.