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Avid (company)

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Avid Technology (often known and styled as Avid) is an American technology and multimedia company founded in August 1987 by Bill Warner, based in Burlington, Massachusetts. [1]

46 relations: Academy Awards, Apollo Computer, Autodesk Softimage, Avid Audio, Avid Elastic Reality, Avid Free DV, Avid Matador, Avid Media Illusion, Bomb Factory, Burlington, Massachusetts, Core product, Digital asset management, Digital audio, Emerson Park, Euphonix, Film, Film editing, Georges Méliès, Grass Valley (company), Hard disk recorder, Lightworks, List of music software, Lost in Yonkers, M-Audio, Macintosh II, Media Composer, Microsoft, Moviola, Multimedia, National Association of Broadcasters, Negative cutting, Non-linear editing system, Open Media Framework Interchange, Pinnacle Systems, Pro Tools, Sibelius (scorewriter), Technology, Television advertisement, Television show, The English Patient (film), United States, United States dollar, Venue (sound system), Video, Walter Murch, Xpress Pro.

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Apollo Computer

Apollo Computer Inc., founded 1980 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts by William Poduska (a founder of Prime Computer) and others, developed and produced Apollo/Domain workstations in the 1980s.

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Autodesk Softimage

Autodesk Softimage, or simply Softimage is a discontinued 3D computer graphics application, for producing 3D computer graphics, 3D modeling, and computer animation.

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Avid Audio

Avid Audio (formerly Digidesign) is a North American digital audio technology company.

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Avid Elastic Reality

Elastic Reality was a warping and morphing software application available on Windows, Macintosh and Silicon Graphics workstations, discontinued in 1999.

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Avid Free DV

Avid Free DV is a non-linear editing video editing software application which was made by Avid Technology.

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Avid Matador

Matador was a paint application targeted at the television and film production markets.

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Avid Media Illusion

Avid Media Illusion was a digital nonlinear compositing software by Avid Technology targeted at the film and television markets.

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Bomb Factory

Bomb Factory is a recording studio and manufacturer of music plugins based in Los Angeles, California.

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Burlington, Massachusetts

Burlington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Core product

A core product is a company product or service that is most directly related to its core competencies.

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Digital asset management

The management of digital assets requires the unbroken maintenance of the ownership of a digitized object while permitting access to those who have obtained rights to that access.

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Digital audio

Digital audio is audio, or simply sound, signal that has been recorded as or converted into digital form, where the sound wave of the audio signal is encoded as numerical samples in continuous sequence, typically at CD audio quality which is 16 bit sample depth over 44.1 thousand samples per second.

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Emerson Park

Emerson Park is a suburban neighbourhood near Hornchurch in the London Borough of Havering, east London.

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Euphonix

Euphonix was a professional audio company located in Mountain View, California, United States.

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Film

A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.

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Film editing

Film editing is a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking.

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Georges Méliès

Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, known as Georges Méliès (8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938), was a French illusionist and film director who led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema.

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Grass Valley (company)

Grass Valley (formerly known as Thomson Grass Valley and Grass Valley Group) is a Canadian manufacturer of television production and broadcasting equipment, including playout, video cameras, editing and media storage, and character generators.

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Hard disk recorder

A hard disk recorder (HDR) is a system that uses a high-capacity hard disk to record digital audio or digital video.

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Lightworks

Lightworks is a professional non-linear editing system (NLE) for editing and mastering digital video in various formats, including 2K and 4K resolutions, and television in PAL, NTSC, and high-definition formats.

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List of music software

This is a list of notable software for creating, performing, learning, analyzing, researching, broadcasting and editing music.

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Lost in Yonkers

Lost in Yonkers is a play by Neil Simon.

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M-Audio

M-Audio (formerly Midiman) is a business unit of inMusic Brands that designs and markets digital audio and MIDI interfaces, keyboards and MIDI controllers, synthesizers, loudspeakers, studio monitors, digital DJ systems, microphones, and music software.

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Macintosh II

The Macintosh II is a personal computer designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from March 1987 to January 1990.

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Media Composer

Avid Media Composer is a film and video non-linear editing system (NLE) and is the flagship product of Avid Technology.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

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Moviola

A Moviola is a device that allows a film editor to view a film while editing.

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Multimedia

Multimedia is content that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, video and interactive content.

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National Association of Broadcasters

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) is a trade association and lobby group representing the interests of commercial and non-commercial over-the-air radio and television broadcasters in the United States.

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Negative cutting

Negative cutting (also known as negative matching and negative conforming) is the process of cutting motion picture negative to match precisely the final edit as specified by the film editor.

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Non-linear editing system

Non-destructive editing is a form of audio, video or image editing where the original content is not modified in the course of editing, instead the edits are specified and modified by specialized software.

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Open Media Framework Interchange

Open Media Framework (OMF) or Open Media Framework Interchange (OMFI) is a platform-independent file format intended for transfer of digital media between different software applications.

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Pinnacle Systems

Pinnacle Systems, Inc. is a California-based American manufacturer of digital video hardware and software for the consumer and broadcast markets.

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Pro Tools

Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation developed and released by Avid Technology for Microsoft Windows and macOS which can be used for a wide range of sound recording and sound production purposes.

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Sibelius (scorewriter)

Sibelius is a scorewriter program developed and released by Sibelius Software Ltd (now part of the American conglomerate, Avid Technology).

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Technology

Technology ("science of craft", from Greek τέχνη, techne, "art, skill, cunning of hand"; and -λογία, -logia) is first robustly defined by Jacob Bigelow in 1829 as: "...principles, processes, and nomenclatures of the more conspicuous arts, particularly those which involve applications of science, and which may be considered useful, by promoting the benefit of society, together with the emolument of those who pursue them".

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Television advertisement

A television advertisement (also called a television commercial, commercial or ad in American English, and known in British English as a TV advert or simply an advert) is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization.

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Television show

A television show (often simply TV show) is any content produced for broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, cable, or internet and typically viewed on a television set, excluding breaking news, advertisements, or trailers that are typically placed between shows.

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The English Patient (film)

The English Patient is a 1996 American romantic war drama film directed by Anthony Minghella from his own script based on the novel of the same name by Michael Ondaatje and produced by Saul Zaentz.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

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Venue (sound system)

VENUE is a brand of live sound digital mixing consoles introduced by Digidesign in February 2005.

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Video

Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media.

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Walter Murch

Walter Scott Murch (born July 12, 1943) is an American film editor and sound designer.

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Xpress Pro

Avid Xpress Pro was a non-linear video editing software aimed at professionals in the TV and movie industry.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avid_(company)

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