When it comes to editing, Avid is the name you’ll see at most TV Stations, Post Houses and major corporations here in the Northwest. But Avid doesn’t have to mean expensive. From low cost DV solutions to the next generation Avid Media Composer Adrenaline HD, Mac or PC, PVT’s Avid Xperts can put you into a solution that’s right for you and your budget.

Since 1989, Avid has been setting the standard and changing the rules for editing workflow. Editing software and hardware is all they do. Competitors have come and gone, but more editors choose Avid. Don’t just take our word for it. Here’s a recent review of Avid Xpress Pro HD:

“Avid’s source/record model of nonlinear editing is the standard of the industry and has withstood the test of time. Better yet, over many years and a multitude of revisions, the software has gone far beyond that early simple nonlinear editing paradigm that has become commonplace. Seasoned professional editors are accustomed to Avid’s source/record, mark in/mark out routine, facilitated by its splice-in and overwrite buttons. Since the advent of the lower-cost Xpress line, Avid has added numerous drag-and-drop features, and they’ve also combined those features with some of its earlier editing styles.”

What Avid solution is right for you? PVT can provide the software, hardware and professional advice from experienced editors to find the perfect fit.

Avid Xpress Pro HD

Want to tell a better story? Start with better tools. Avid Xpress Pro HD software gives you everything you need to do more: the Academy Award® winning Avid editing environment, an unmatched array of video and film editing features, and powerful native HD support-in one affordable package.

Avid Xpress Studio HD

Not just editing. Everything. We’ve integrated Academy Award® winning, professional video and audio editing tools from Avid and Digidesign with industry-leading 3D animation software from Softimage. We’ve added powerful visual effects and DVD authoring tools developed by industry leaders Boris FX and Sonic Solutions for a feature set never before offered in a single suite - plus your choice of integrated hardware.

Avid Media Composer Adrenaline HD

Professional-grade HD, SD, and DV editing and finishing. High definition without the high overhead. The world’s most capable and refined editing experience. You get it all with Avid Media Composer Adrenaline HD, plus powerful new features that include 10-bit video capture and playback, real-time HD and SD multicamera editing, support for the most popular HD frame rates, and much more. Legendary collaborative tools make it the ideal system for both film- and HD-originated television and film productions as well as seamless DI (Digital Intermediate) file-based workflows with Avid DS Nitris systems. Upgrade in an instant. Plug in the Avid DNxcel board and handle anything that walks in the door.

Avid Unity LANshare EX

Mid-range shared storage solution for small workgroups. LANshare EX includes both Fibre Channel and Ethernet connections in its all-in-one server and storage chassis to provide the perfect mix of simple, low cost connections for systems using offline resolutions and powerful, high bandwidth connections for systems using finishing resolutions. This combination translates into a highly effective, low cost workgroup that dramatically streamlines the workflow of virtually any facility.

Add powerful features to your Avid

Boris

Boris Red is the only integrated 3D compositing, titling and effects application to deliver unparalleled performance at an affordable price to over twenty nonlinear editing applications. Designed specifically for editors, Boris Red offers an unprecedented range of features and adds the Red Engine for standalone rendering. Red integrates advanced 2D and 3D compositing, titling, paint, rotoscoping, a full suite of tools to create and extrude vector objects, robust 3D creation and animation, and the industry–leading software DVE technology in a single application.

Boris Blue — the best of Red in real time — coming soon!

Boris Continuum unlocks the power of your NLE or compositor with an expansive plug–in filter set that lets you create effects from the practical to the inspired directly in your native host interface for unprecedented workflow. Over 150 filters include advanced keying, matting, compositing, image processing, distortion, temporal effects and motion tracking. These filters provide the creative freedom to animate your graphical elements or video at any speed, acceleration, or position you want. Watch for the version 4

GenArts

GenArts, Inc. is a premier provider of visual special effects software for the film and video industry. The Sapphire Plug–ins extend the capabilities of editing and effects workstations by providing digital artists with a collection of over 175 state–of–the–art image processing and synthesis effects.

Automatic Duck

Automatic Duck is the leader in timeline translation between the world’s most powerful NLE, audio and compositing systems. Move your projects seamlessly from Avid, to your favorite compositing program,(like After Effects or Combustion), finish a Final Cut project in Avid and more. As one customer said: “I don’t know how I could live without these plugins after using them. Great work.”

Smart Sound

SmartSound is the revolutionary new family of audio software products that allows video editors, multimedia authors, web site creators and business presenters to create soul–stirring soundtracks in minutes instead of hours. It is the first and only software to approach audio creation from a visual creator’s perspective — not a musician’s. And, because of its patented, award winning technology, visually creative people can open the program and begin creating emotion packed, precisely timed soundtracks with amazingly professional results — in minutes.

Power Production

Create professional–quality digital storyboards with StoryBoard Artist 4. Designed for media savvy creatives: filmmakers, television producers, advertising creatives, game developers, DVD and interactive TV designers and educators alike. New features bring even more control and flexibility to smooth the creative process through production and post.

EditShare

EditShare is an award–winning system for storing audio and video media files in a central networked location. Based on patent–pending technology, EditShare allows all connected workstations to create and access a common pool of media files, while guaranteeing that individual workstations never interfere with — or accidentally erase the files of — other workstations on the network. EditShare is the first affordable solution for collaborative editing — designed for the industry’s leading editing software products like Avid Xpress DV and Xpress Pro, Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and Canopus Edius.

All of these great solutions are available directly from Professional Video & Tape. Please contact our Avid Specialist Dave Spraker for more information and pricing.