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Avid Support’s Knowledgebase Search Improved

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Neal

If, like me, you have found the Avid Support Site’s Knowledgebase to be rather poor at finding appropriate or relavant documents and articles, Charlie Raynsford and Kevin Lynch at Avid have told me that help is at hand. Avid recently implemented a Google Search Engine to assist with finding material and new links are now available to search the Knowledgebase which will return accurate and relevant results quickly – just what the doctor ordered!

Try the following links to:

- Perform a general search of the whole Avid site use this link: http://www.avid.com/search

- Perform a general search of the Avid Support Knowledgebase use this link: http://www.avid.com/US/support

- Perform a search on a specific product range: http://www.avid.com/us/support/find-support

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Understanding the NAB 2012 Avid Announcements

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Graham

Avid have made a slew of announcements this year at NAB12 and we are going to take a brief first look at them. It is always tricky to asses the implications of product announcements if you have had no hands on time with the device or software, and have been unable to speak to the team about any in depth features or workflows. That dear reader is going to have to wait until we can get some time with them on the show floor; We will update this accordingly

So consider then that Chris Gahagan (SVP Product Development at Avid) and his team have delivered new products across the ISIS, Interplay, Airspeed, News and Graphics platforms, as well as a Media Composer 6.1 update with ASO2 and JPEG2000 support. They also announced the new “Multi Platform Distribution” environment- something we intend to dig deeply into over the next few days. That is a heck of a lot of new stuff, each worthy of their own article alone, so forgive the brief overview.

The standouts of this bunch of new products have to be Interplay Sphere, and ISIS2000 and we will look at those first.

Continue reading →

Posted in News, Opinion, Products | Tagged 2012, avid, Interplay, NAB, NAB2012 | Leave a comment

root6 named DVS EMEA Reseller of the year 2011

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Mark

For the second year running, root6 has been named DVS’ number 1 reseller in Europe

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AJA continue to innovate

Posted on April 16, 2012 by DavidS

AJA have yet again amazed me, not sure if it was more because I had no idea it was coming, normally you hear something ahead of the big day. Either way, they announced some great products at this years NAB. Continue reading →

Posted in Products | Tagged 2012, 4K, AJA, canon. c500, Capture, file-based, kipro, NAB, NAB2012, quad, rack, thunderbolt | Leave a comment

The all new Autodesk Smoke

Posted on April 16, 2012 by DavidS

There had been a lot of rumors ahead of this years NAB about what Autodesk were going to announce in regard to Smoke, they didn’t disappoint..

Smoke is a mature product, starting out from Discreet which was founded in 1991, it transformed in 2005 when Autodesk dropped the Discreet brand after acquiring Discreet back in 1998.
Smoke’s been very much the high end compositing software only available to those who are happy to operate on Linux (along with having ample funds). Continue reading →

Posted in Products | Tagged 2013, autodesk, mac, NAB, NAB2012, smoke | Leave a comment

Don’t miss ContentAgent at NAB

Posted on April 14, 2012 by DavidS

ROOT6 Technology are ready for this years NAB show in Las Vegas.

Check out their pre-show blog post to see what to expect from them:

ROOT6 Technology at NAB

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Final Cut Pro to Avid Symphony 6 Crossgrade Promotion

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Joel

For a limited time only. Avid are offering a crossgrade promotion from Final Cut Pro to Symphony v6 (Software Only) for $999! No UK pricing as yet but as soon as it is announced we will update this post. This offer is also available to upgrade from Media Composer or XpressPro to Symphony v6 and included the sorely missed Boris from the Media Composer software packs. A bargain if ever there was one.

Press release here.

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Avid release ISIS v4.0

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Joel

Avid Technology have recently released the latest version of ISIS v4 for both ISIS 5000 and ISIS 7000. This is the first ISIS version to have uniform version numbers and also a matching UI across both the 5000 and 7000 product range.

Some of the new features are detailed below

ISIS 5000 direct connect 10GigE connected clients on both Windows and Macintosh. Support for a single 10GigE connection per chassis.
ISIS now licensed through the Avid License Control tool. No more dongles.
ISIS 5000 now support 9 direct connect 1GigE with an additional 4 port PCIe add-in card.
Support for up to 24 (!) ISIS 7000 chassis. This is achieved through a new Management Domain Stack and is required when more than 12 ISIS 7000 chassis are used.
More flexibility in choosing the RAID protection mode in ISIS 7000.

For the full run down, snag the release notes here.

Posted in Products | Tagged 5000, 7000, avid, ISIS, v4 | Leave a comment

Podcast – MXF Programme Delivery and Quality Assurance

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Mark

Ian Baker, from Metaglue, provides a recap of MXF standards and discusses some of the problems with MXF.

Filmed as part of root6′s March 2012 Tech Breakfast

Posted in Events, News, Podcasts | Tagged AS-11, delivery, DPP, Ian Baker, metadata, Metaglue, mxf | Leave a comment

What’s all this talk about mezzanine?

Posted on April 4, 2012 by DavidS

Over the last few months or so I’ve been hearing the word mezzanine used more and more in this world of media.
By definition it means an intermediate floor between main floors of a building, I think we all knew that… I didn’t know mezzanine comes from Italian mezzano “middle”!