Media Composer v.3.1 is ready to download

On the downlod page you can get the updated version of Avid, they have just released the following:
Media Composer v.3.1
Symphony V. 3.1
NewsCutter v. 7.1

You can go directly to the download page here: Download

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How to make Documentary

ForuDocs have made some great video tutorials on how to make a documentary, they go through the whole process, you can see the tutorials here

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Early Avid videos

Bill Warner which founded Avid, has published some videos from the early days.
You can see them here:

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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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