Avid Podcasts

Media Composer Cutting Edge - Read Audio Timecode

Gain more flexibility during production with Read Audio Timecode, a feature in Avid Media Composer that allows you to capture audio and video separately and then automatically synchronize the sources together as you begin editing. During production, you... (read more)

Published Tue, Oct 20 2009 11:35 AM by Avid Community Team

Media Composer Cutting Edge - Speed Up Your Editing with Mix and Match

When you need to cut together multiple video clips from a variety of sources in mixed resolutions, nothing gives you the speed or superb image quality of the new Mix and Match features in Avid Media Composer 4. Forget hardware transcoding; with Media... (read more)

Published Fri, Oct 02 2009 12:30 PM by Avid Community Team

Media Composer Cutting Edge - Avid Media Access: AMA and Media Management

While you can greatly speed up your tapeless workflows with AMA (Avid Media Access), there are times when you’ll want to move that source material to Avid storage. For high production projects, you can easily consolidate and transcode file-based... (read more)

Published Thu, Oct 01 2009 12:30 PM by Avid Community Team

Media Composer Cutting Edge - Avid Media Access: Working with AMA Virtual Volumes and Metadata

The key to a successful project is organization. With Media Composer, you get unmatched media and metadata management to keep your projects on track. The same holds true for native XDCAM, P2, and/or GFCAM source material housed on an external hard drive... (read more)

Published Wed, Sep 30 2009 12:30 PM by Avid Community Team

Media Composer Cutting Edge - Avid Media Access: An Introduction to AMA

When you're working with tapeless, file-based digital video codec formats such as Sony XDCAM, Panasonic P2, or Ikegami GFCAM, nothing gives you the fastest route from shoot to edit to output than AMA (Avid Media Access). With AMA, an innovative plug-in... (read more)

Published Tue, Sep 29 2009 12:30 PM by Avid Community Team

16th Annual Bronx Community College Film & Video Festival a Huge Hit!

Bronx, NY – Students in the BCC Media Technology and Film Society Clubs along with The Media Technology Program of the Communications Arts and Science Department were working late hours to complete their films for the Sixteenth Annual BCC Film and... (read more)

Published Tue, Jun 30 2009 4:29 PM by gklippel

Filed under: Educational Events

The Rough Cut - "Sex and the City" editor Michael Berenbaum and assistant editor Carrie Puchkoff

In this episode, Matt sits down with Sex and the City editor and three time Emmy-winner Michael Berenbaum (A.C.E.) and assistant editor Carrie Puchkoff to take questions from the audience at Broadcaster Education Association during during NAB 2009. Michael... (read more)

Published Tue, Jun 30 2009 9:00 AM by Avid Community Team

Filed under: The Rough Cut

The Rough Cut - "Chuck" assistant editor Scott Pellet

In each episode we interview directors, editors, producers, Ben Affleck (don't know how that happened) and talk about their day-to-day lives in production. We've done 24-25 of these so far, and they’ve been fun and informative, but we've yet to... (read more)

Published Fri, Jun 12 2009 9:00 PM by Avid Community Team

Filed under: The Rough Cut

Events Rewind - NAB 2009 - Avid Qualifies Final Cut Pro to Run on Avid Unity MediaNetwork and ISIS Shared Storage Systems

Avid has tools to help you get your best work done in a fast-paced environment, even integrating competitive products into open and flexible workflows. We recently announced that Avid has qualified Apple Final Cut Pro editing solutions to run on Avid... (read more)

Published Tue, May 05 2009 3:32 PM by Avid Community Team

Filed under: NAB, Avid Podcast

Events Rewind - NAB 2009 - Chris Dickens and A.R. Rahman the Film Editor and Music Composer behind Slumdog Millionaire

Joining us on the main stage late Monday were Chris Dickens and A.R. Rahman – Oscar®-winning Film Editor and Oscar-winning Music Composer behind the film Slumdog Millionaire. Together they presented an engaging look at their collaborative efforts... (read more)

Published Thu, Apr 23 2009 10:04 AM by Avid Community Team

Filed under: NAB, Avid Podcast

Events Rewind - NAB 2009 - How Avid is supporting the latest innovations in post production workflows

Running throughout the three exhibit days of NAB 2009 was our main stage presentation "Creative Tools". With help from Big Picture Post we demonstrated RED, XDCAM HD and P2 workflows, 3D stereoscopy and ICON surround sound mixing in post production workflows... (read more)

Published Tue, Apr 21 2009 11:30 PM by Avid Community Team

Filed under: NAB, Avid Podcast

Events Rewind - NAB 2009 - A.R. Rahman performs Jai Ho at Avid Customer Event

The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel held our 2009 Customer Event on Monday night and it was PACKED to the rafters. Oscar®-winning Music Composer - behind the film Slumdog Millionaire - A.R. Rahman performed his original piece Jai Ho. Download the Podcast... (read more)

Published Tue, Apr 21 2009 5:04 PM by Avid Community Team

Filed under: NAB, Avid Podcast

Featured Photos: Avid Booth at NAB 2009

A quick tour around Avid's packed booth (South Hall SU902) at NAB 2009. (read more)

Published Tue, Apr 21 2009 3:04 PM by Avid Community Team

Filed under: NAB

Episode 027 - Ben Affleck on The Rough Cut with Matt Feury

In today's show Oscar-winning screenwriter, big-time Hollywood actor, and critically-acclaimed director Ben Affleck. Ben called into our studio recently to talk about his new documentary, 'Gimmie Shelter'. A film that focuses on the humanitarian crisis... (read more)

Published Fri, Mar 27 2009 2:07 PM by Avid Community Team

Filed under: Avid Podcast

Episode 026 - Battlestar Galactica editor and producer Andrew Seklir on The Rough Cut with Matt Feury

Andrew Seklir, Assoc. Producer and supervising Editor for Battlestar Galactica discusses the production workflow for the Sci-Fi hit, as well as the story telling techniques he’s learned to apply in the editing room. Download: iPod (13MB) | MP3 ... (read more)

Published Fri, Mar 20 2009 8:23 AM by Avid Community Team

Filed under: Avid Podcast

Blog & Podcast Directories

The Rough Cut Podcast

Media Composer Cutting Edge Podcast

Media Composer Cutting Edge - Read Audio Timecode

Media Composer Cutting Edge - Speed Up Your Editing with Mix and Match

Media Composer Cutting Edge - Avid Media Access: AMA and Media Management

Media Composer Cutting Edge - Avid Media Access: Working with AMA Virtual Volumes and Metadata

Media Composer Cutting Edge - Avid Media Access: An Introduction to AMA

16th Annual Bronx Community College Film & Video Festival a Huge Hit!

The Rough Cut - "Sex and the City" editor Michael Berenbaum and assistant editor Carrie Puchkoff

The Rough Cut - "Chuck" assistant editor Scott Pellet

Events Rewind - NAB 2009 - Avid Qualifies Final Cut Pro to Run on Avid Unity MediaNetwork and ISIS Shared Storage Systems

Events Rewind - NAB 2009 - Chris Dickens and A.R. Rahman the Film Editor and Music Composer behind Slumdog Millionaire

Events Rewind - NAB 2009 - How Avid is supporting the latest innovations in post production workflows

Events Rewind - NAB 2009 - A.R. Rahman performs Jai Ho at Avid Customer Event

Featured Photos: Avid Booth at NAB 2009

Episode 027 - Ben Affleck on The Rough Cut with Matt Feury

Episode 026 - Battlestar Galactica editor and producer Andrew Seklir on The Rough Cut with Matt Feury