New AMA plugin for Avid, for Ikegami GFCAM 50Mb format

AAvid has released an AMA plug-in that provides support for the Ikegami GFCAM 50Mb format.

The GFCAM HDS-V10 is a tapeless camera/recorder that uses flash memory instead of video tapes as a recording medium. GFCAM devices record MPEG-2 Long GOP/I-Frame media onto a GFPAK™, a removable high-speed storage medium. You can edit directly from GFPAKs, without having to capture. You can link to a GFPAK attached to your system or copy media from a GFPAK to an AMA Virtual Volume.
GFCAM is only available through the new Avid Media Access (AMA) architecture introduced in Avid Media Composer®/Avid Symphony™ 3.5 and Avid NewsCutter® 7.5.

This release is free of charge to all customers who are using Avid Media Composer/Avid Symphony 3.5.4 and Avid NewsCutter 7.5.4.


You can get it for free at the download center: Avid Download center

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ACE - American Cinema Editors Honors Avid Media Composer

American Cinema Editors Board have for the first time rcognized Avid mediacomposer with the "ACE Technical Excellence Award"

You can read the press letter from Avid here.
Avid ACE Honor

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Interview with Tom Ohanian one of the Avid founders

I found an interview with Tom Ohanian, one of the founders of Avid back in 1987.
See it here

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Avid at IBC 2009

Avid will be at this years IBC in Amsterdam, held from te 11 to the 15 of september, You can find them the usual place in Hall 7, at stand J20.
They have made an IBC page so you can get informed of what tehy tend to do, you find the page here: http://www.avid.com/us/events/ibc-2009.aspx

See you at IBC

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