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Avid says the purchase of the Israel-based 3D graphics and video server company will help Avid’s growth by adding key content creation and media management solutions.

Avid | Booth SU902 | Website: www.avid.com Avid introduced the Avid ISIS | 1000  shared storage system, providing independent video and audio professionals and facilities the same level of real-time […]

IP transport will touch so many aspects of television that it is positioned over time to supplant most everything people know and understand about TV workflows — from origination and contribution to distribution and consumption. The latest developments will be on display at next month’s NAB Show. This is the latest installment of a special series on emerging tech trends, NAB Hot Topics, that will appear each week leading up to the NAB Show that runs April 11-16 in Las Vegas. The schedule: March 26: Audio; April 2: Automation. Read the earlier installments here.

TV stations are forced to deal with the arrival of new file formats at a dizzying pace. Fortunately for TV broadcasters, a number of vendors of broadcast editing systems have been at work on this problem, and some new approaches to grappling with it will be on display at the 2015 NAB Show. This is the latest installment of a special series on emerging tech trends, NAB Hot Topics, that will appear each week leading up to the NAB Show that runs April 11-16 in Las Vegas. The schedule: March 19: The IP Transition; and March 26: Audio. Read the earlier installments here.

DHX Media Ltd., a creator, producer and broadcaster of family entertainment, headquartered in Canada, has adopted Avid Everywhere and will implement a fully integrated media asset management system powered by […]

MelroseMAC, a technology reseller and systems integration company, recently completed work for PositiveImage Video (PIV), which produces Ultimate Fighting Championship’s UFC Ultimate Insider and UFC Road to the Octagon. Through […]

Gary Greenfield, the company’s chairman, CEO and president, has been replaced by Louis Hernandez.Hernandez, who has been a director of Avid since 2008, was most recently chairman-CEO of Open Solutions Inc., a technology provider to financial institutions worldwide.

Putting together Dish Nation, Twentieth Television’s new syndicated show that features morning DJs in five cities, is an unusual process. Each day, a team of 72 records 71.5 hours of high-def footage from 13 Sony EX3 cameras set up in the radio studios that gets edited and enhanced into a seamless 21-minute episode. Says the show’s EP, Stu Weiss: “Our workflow is one of a kind. We have implemented existing technology in unique ways that may not have been done before. Using the Avid AirSpeed 5000 … we’re able to bypass other ingesting processes and equipment that are normally used.”

It’s selling its struggling consumer business in a series of separate transactions that it says will let it focus on its media enterprise and post production. It also said it will keep its Pro Tools audio processing product line.

Its new Interplay Sphere gives users access to Avid’s Media Composer and NewsCutter video editing software, and through the Internet, can edit footage shot on location along with any media in the newsroom and then upload finished stories back to the newsroom to go to air. For all that’s going on at NAB 2012, click here.