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Back to school

By On August 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The katydids are out. As a kid the sound was the harbinger of the end of summer. To teachers their song is “write your syllabus.” This year is very different. Working at Avid will surely have a profound effect on how I teach FT504-Video Post Production I. Previously I’d always taught the class, quoting [...]

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Avid makes pop culture list

By On July 11, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Entertainment Weekly has listed its picks for the 25 innovations with the greatest effect on pop culture since 1983. Avid came in at number 12. (It doesn’t call out a specific Avid technology. Assume it’s the NLE.)

The whole list is here. Avid came in behind YouTube and the iPod, but [...]

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Corporate reading lists and the 4th of July

By On July 4, 2008 · 3 Comments

You can tell learn a lot about a company by perusing the books recommended and circulated by its executives. Jim Collins’ Good to Great is making the rounds at Avid these days. A pretty good read, its down to earth advice isn’t typical of the business bestsellers lists with their fad of the month [...]

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Avid names new product designer

By On April 14, 2008 · 6 Comments

That would be me. It’s official. I’ll be joining Avid May 1 as a (not the) Product Designer for Editors. We made it public at the Avid customer event last night in Las Vegas. How’s that for new thinking?

It’s a great time to be joining Avid. The recent product announcements are exciting and point [...]

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New Avid DNxHD codecs

By On January 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Avid has just made its latest version of the DNxHD codecs available on its Knowledge Base site. Scroll all the way to the bottom to get the codecs.

Import a QuickTime movie that has been compressed with this codec into an Avid editing application as DNxHD. You can “fast import” the movie if you [...]

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