Just a quick note to let you know that our colleague Sam Bogash, Director of Infrastructure Solutions spoke to the Buzz about Avid's collaborative editing solutions. Take a listen here .

Because he's too humble to blog about his latest endeavor, I'll take it upon myself to make mention of my colleague, Greg Staten's new book: The Avid Handbook . Billed as an intermediate level text, the Handbook is accessible to beginners while containing enough information that even most experienced power users will find useful tidbits. For veteran

My favorite new feature in Media Composer 3.0 isn't terribly sexy. It's the real-time timecode effect plug-in . Burn-in timecode isn't anyone's idea of a good time, but the ability to spit it out in real-time out of the NLE while striking approval dubs allows me to start the weekend just a little bit earlier. Many edit suites have DVD recorders available

A somewhat overlooked piece of the Media Composer 3.0 story is that the current bundle gives customers a complete suite of tools - something many have been clamoring for. Avid FX for compositing and motion graphics, Squeeze for compression and transcoding, Sonicfire Pro for music scoring, and Avid DVD by Sonic rounds out a complete package that includes

It's hard to believe I've been at Avid a month already. When I was a kid my dream job was to be a major league center fielder. Like the rookie being called up from the minors, coming on board here at Avid has triggered a range of emotions. First there's the adrenaline rush of the initial call up, quickly followed by the realization that this is the

Oliver Peters has just written an article for Videography on ScriptSync. I'm glad the word is getting out. ScriptSync is one of those features that really separates Avid from every other NLE. Typical of Peters, he did his homework and spoke with two editors using ScriptSync for network television. This pretty much sums up the goal of ScriptSync: A process

Welcome to Source/Record, a blog by the Product Management team of Avid’s editors. Our goal is to make the process of getting Avid’s creative tools to market more transparent. We’ll share some examples of what we’re working on, some of the thinking that guides our decision making, and what we’ve learned along the way. The