Interview with Patrick MClean and Christel Jaekel

At IBC MacVideo made an interview with Patrick Mclean and Christel Jaekel about Media Composer and what seperates Avid from the other companies.
See the interview here:
Avid Interview

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RED and Avid

Avid has made a new area on their page for RED camera and Avid, so if you are one of the lucky ones to have access to this nice piece of toy then you should surf by that page.
RED and AVID

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Videos from IBC

Avid have made 5 videos from IBC, one from each of the 5 days.
You can see them here: http://community.avid.com/blogs/events/archive/tags/IBC/default.aspx


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Edit Panasonics AVC-Intra with Avid

Panasonic has announced that Avid now can import and edit native in AVC-Intra, For those who don't know what AVC-Intra is, it is an advanced compression technology that provides high quality 10-bit intra frame encoding utilizing the HI-10 and Hi-422 intra profiles of H-264 in 2 modes: AVC-Intra 100 and AVC-Intra-50, and it is used by the Panasonic AJ-HPX3000 and AJ-HPX2000 and other cameras.

It is possible with the following versions of Avid:

Media Composer Software v.3.0
Media Composer Mojo DX - v.3.0
Media Composer Nitris DX v.3.0
Symphony Nitris DX - v.3.0
News Cutter Software - v.7.0
News Cutter Mojo DX - v.7.0
News Cutter Nitris DX - v.7.0

More informations on Avid's page

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More than 2 GB ram in Avid

If you install Avid on a machine with more than 2 gb of ram, you need to run a small application that makes it possible to use up to 3 gb of ram.
When you have installed you software, you locate the small program in the utillities foldes, under the foleder where you installed Avid.In my windows machine it is
Program Files/Avid/Utilities/3GB
When you run the it starts by asking you to set the amount of Memory you need
For Adrenaline with Mojo it is 2700
Mojo DX, Nitris it is 2500
Symphony it is 2500.

You simply type the amount you need, and press Enter and thats it.

Avid DS 10

Ok, Avid is on tour to show te new proucts, and the next coming is the DS version 10, that is impressive faster and has a new way of working with the GPU on the video card (Nvidia FX3700)It is possible to do 2K material with secondary color corection in real time, and it works fast.
When/if you but the packages you get a 8 core HP8600 with 8GB DDR SDRAM And a AJA 2Ke Dual link I/O Card with K3 break out boxExtrenal storage of 8 or 16 Tb raid30" LCD monitor1 Avid DX RP (Remote Processing) licens1 Avid DS software only1 Avid Media Composer software only (Windows)
I'm looking forward to see it in action next month at the IBC in Amsterdam (I hope they bring one)
You can read more at Avid's homepage http://www.avid.com/products/DS/index.asp
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Avid storage calculator

If you want to know how mucg space you need for your next projetct, Avid has a cool tool on there homepage, wich can do the calculation for you.
It is easy to use.
http://www.avid.com/dnxhd/widget/storage_calc_widget.html

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