Avid teams with ABC to give journalism students the opportunity to practice production, editing and distribution aspects of broadcast journalism in their ABC News to Campus program. Read on for more details.

Student teams from leading journalism schools across United States get hands-on experience; create and report news in real-world newsroom environment

Avid® has joined forces with ABC News to participate in ABC News On Campus – an innovative program designed to give tomorrow’s most promising news professionals an opportunity to practice real-world news gathering, production and broadcasting.  ABC News On Campus students capture, produce, edit and distribute news stories in their local area, which are often featured across ABC News programs. This year, students from six universities, including Arizona State University, Syracuse University, University of Florida, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of North Carolina (at Chapel Hill), and University of Texas (at Austin) will learn the inner workings of a newsroom, while using industry-leading solutions like Media Composer® video editing software to create news stories.  The program is in its second year.
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Reprinted from an Avid press release:

Avid® today announced a major update to its family of Pinnacle Studio™ video editing solutions.  Widely regarded as the industry’s leading application for home video editing*, Pinnacle Studio software now offers an even broader array of HD capabilities with a new simplified user interface that makes it easier to manage content and an unified capture/import utility for the latest formats and camcorders. Other new features include:
• A stop-motion capture for animated and fast-motion effects.
• New content and enhancements for Pinnacle Montage.
• Dynamic Motion Titler tool that includes a number of new templates.
• A new stabilizer effect – leveraging the same technology used in Avid’s professional editing products to fix shaky camera shots. Read the rest of this entry »

Reprinted from an Avid press release:

Avid® today announced a trio of new Pro Tools® Essential bundles, hardware/software solutions that enable enthusiasts to easily create music with the same tools used by today’s most popular musicians. The three affordable bundles, Pro Tools Vocal Studio, Pro Tools Recording Studio and Pro Tools KeyStudio™, aim at creative hobbyists with an interest in musical composition, editing, and production as well as consumers who are looking to create and share music, podcasts, narrations and other forms of audio with their peers. Read the rest of this entry »

Our August workshop is off and out the door and what a workshop it was! 31 attendees spread out over 4 classes.

For those of you who have never attended a Videomaker Workshop the idea is to hunker down and drill as much knowledge into the brains of our readers that we can! Read the rest of this entry »

Reprinted from an Avid press release

Avid® announced today that its wide array of audio and video solutions meet the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funding guidelines for education and training. Configured to address the respective skill and grade level of students ranging from elementary school through college, Avid is offering three new highly-customizable solutions: Avid Audio Recording Studio, Avid Film Production Lab and Avid Television and Video Production Studio. The solutions are available to educators at up to 85 percent off USMSRP and provide students with access to the media creation tools they will encounter in advanced education programs as well as in film, television, broadcast, music and audio production careers. Now, any school or institution that qualifies for ARRA funding can apply stimulus resources to invest in the same tools used by professionals creating today’s most listened to, most watched and most loved media in the world. Read the rest of this entry »

You may have heard that Avid snubbed NAB and wasn’t on the docket, but the company did have representatives there, just not on the convention center floor.

Choosing to forgo the millions-plus costs (that’s millions with an ’s’) that included setup, rent, delivery, manpower, etc ; Avid instead met one-on-one with press, vendors, and buyers in a quiet off-site location nearby. As one of the thousands walking all over the show floor, this was a much needed respite from the madding crowd.

The Avid Next Generation is specifically designed to make the HD editing process faster and easier, without the usual time-suck wait for rendered video and effects to cook. Reps demonstrated some pretty powerful effects layered upon each other and there was no lag time that HD footage and heavy effects can cause.

Avid also added even more to their already robust meta data features, including time code notes that can be color-coded, resized and placed on the screen where ever the editor wants.

Read more about Avid’s latest releases at: www.avid.com/newthinking