Avid Everywhere Delivers Breakthrough Innovations Across the Avid MediaCentral Platform
NAB (Booth #SU902), LAS VEGAS, NV, 2015-04-11 Avid (Nasdaq: AVID) today announced a series of breakthrough innovations across the Avid MediaCentral Platform and its associated modular application suites. This innovation lets everyone, from individual artists and students, to creative teams in studios and post-production companies, to the largest media enterprises more efficiently create and distribute high-quality professional media content.
Across the industry, Avid Everywhere is helping content creators and distributors of all kinds connect with their audiences more efficiently, powerfully, and collaboratively than ever before, stated Avid Chairman, President and CEO Louis Hernandez, Jr. From announcing our vision in 2013 we went on to launch the most significant product innovations since our company inception and are seeing huge market adoption. In January we unveiled our first free tools that open the ecosystem to all, furthering our fight to help everyone in the industry thrive. At Avid Connect and NAB 2015, we are continuing to deliver what we promised by announcing landmark solutions and services that will continue to lead the industry forward.
MediaCentral Platform innovations
Since Avid launched the Avid MediaCentral Platform at NAB 2014, the company has continued innovating, with the rollout of new tools and partner integrations that extend capabilities across live sound, music composition, video production, media asset management, and shared storage.
Today's platform innovation announcements include:
Artist Suite Innovations
New benchmark for live sound production: Avid introduces the flagship Avid VENUE | S6L live sound mixing system, featuring a modern, intuitive touch-based interface that enablesaudio professionals to easily handle the largest, most complex tours and events.
Affordable licensing and subscription options: Avid introduces the next release of Sibelius , the latest version of the world's most popular music composition software, giving composers more choice over how they acquire and use their tools, create music scores, and collaborate with others. The release also offers new workflow and mobile features, including multi-touch gestures and Microsoft Surface Pro 3 support, and moves Sibelius on to the Avid MediaCentral Platform.
Powerful, integrated high-resolution video production: Avid introduces Avid Artist | DNxIO, helping video professionals meet the growing demands of high-res video production with best-in-class hardware and the industry's preeminent Media Composer video editing software
Free versions of industry-standard media creation solutions: Avid announced plans to open video editing to everyone with the upcoming Media Composer | First, a free version of the video editing software used by top Hollywood Oscar and Emmy winners. The company also announced that Pro Tools | First, the free version of its renowned music creation software, is starting to roll out to the more than 70,000 people who pre-registered for the product.
Media Suite Innovations
Open, end-to-end, integrated media asset management: Avid introduces Interplay | MAM 5, enabling organizations both large and small to manage the entire content lifecycle and reduce media operation costs. This release completes the integration of all Media Suite modules into the MediaCentral Platform.
Storage Suite Innovations
Proven real-time shared storage for smaller teams: Avid introduces ISIS | 1000 shared storage, bringing small production teams the same collaborative power proven on blockbuster films, prime-time television, and mission-critical news broadcasts customized for their needs, at a price they can afford.
The Avid Advantage: New Service Offerings and Initiatives
Avid announced another important milestone and continued momentum of The Avid Advantage, the company's vision to transform expectations for service delivery in the media industry. With the introduction of innovative new professional service offerings, education delivery options, certification programs, and customer care enhancements, Avid is helping customers maximize efficiency, accelerate their return on media production technology investments, and deepen their joint collaboration with Avid.
Avid Everywhere for Education
Avid Everywhere is driving the development of new solutions, training, and certification options that provide educators with more choice and flexibility and enable them to reach larger numbers of students. Students can now experience industry-leading Avid creative tools for free, and then step up to the full products with affordable subscriptions. Educators and students can collaborate and connect more effectively using cutting-edge cloud-based solutions. Additionally, it is easier than ever for students to get the industry recognized Avid certifications they need to succeed after graduation.
About Avid
Through Avid Everywhere , Avid delivers the industrys most open, innovative and comprehensive media platform connecting content creation with collaboration, asset protection, distribution and consumption for the most listened to, most watched and most loved media in the world from the most prestigious and award-winning feature films, music recordings, and television shows, to live concerts and news broadcasts. Industry leading solutions include Pro Tools , Media Composer , ISIS , Interplay , and Sibelius . For more information about Avid solutions and services, visit www.avid.com, connect with Avid on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, or subscribe to Avid Blogs.
2015 Avid Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. Product features, specifications, system requirements and availability are subject to change without notice. Avid, the Avid logo, Avid Everywhere, iNEWS,
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Avid Everywhere Delivers Breakthrough Innovations Across the Avid MediaCentral Platform 
