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Avid Unveils Dynamic New Graphics Platform — Avid Motion Graphics
"In today's highly competitive, image-dominated media industry, producers need to create stunning visual imagery that cuts through the clutter, get content quickly to air, and build strong brand recognition," said
Avid Integrated Workflows
Avid Motion Graphics integration will enhance and streamline performance with Avid end-to-end workflow solutions, other high-demand Avid and third party tools, industry standards, and plug-ins. The platform was designed to help graphics artists and journalists work more collaboratively and easily in a wide array of market segments, including:
- News
- Sports
- Live events
- Post production
- Channel branding
Key Features
From character generation to full 3D animations, customers can create stunning imagery with a complete next-generation creative toolset, featuring an advanced real-time 2D/3D rendering engine using technology from Brainstorm Multimedia and accelerated by the latest GPU and I/O technology.
Additional features include:
- Live-to-air playout: Includes a dedicated controller and user-programmable keyboard for playout of sequenced graphics.
- Templated workflows: Lets journalists, editors, operators, and other staff members easily access and populate templates built by graphics designers for multiple purposes. Building on the proven speed and economy of previous versions, templated workflows speed content delivery, heighten graphic impact, and improve brand consistency across a broadcast facility.
- Automated playout: Integrates with automated graphics playout control systems to streamline playout process.
- Data-driven graphics: Dynamically updates graphics such as financial charts, sports scores, and election results via integration with third-party data sources and applications.
- Post production extension: Extends graphics creation capabilities into the post-production environment where graphics can be keyed in and laid to tape, or created in an editor.
- Multi-channel distribution: Provides the ability to distribute graphics through multiple channels, significantly raising the ROI of assets across the enterprise.
- Interfaces with graphics tools and formats: Allows customers to work with most industry-standard products such as Photoshop, After Effects, Maya, 3D Studio Max, XSI and more.
- Distributed architecture: Graphics created in a single location can be transferred to a device for playout from either a manual interface or remote automation.
Flexible Configurations
Leveraging the latest GPU and I/O technology, Avid Motion Graphics meets a wide range of workflow needs by delivering extraordinarily high processing power with flexible configuration options. Key components include:
- Single and dual channel turnkey configurations, providing maximum flexibility.
- Avid Motion Graphics, providing access to a full set of character generation and 3D tools.
- Avid Motion Graphics Production, offering streamlined feature set for graphics creation and basic effects.
- Avid Motion Graphics Journalist, offering an NRCS plug-in to integrate graphics capabilities into the newsroom.
- Avid Motion Graphics News Control, offering full control of any graphics parameter up to air-time.
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Avid Motion Graphics News , offers two newsroom integration tools in one package.
"We have relied on on-air graphics solutions like Deko for years to effectively tell a story using spectacular graphics," said
Availability and Pricing
The Avid Motion Graphics platform is expected to be available in Q2 2012. For current Deko users the new hardware platform and rendering engine is expected to be available in Q4 2011, using existing Deko software. Avid Motion Graphics will start at
About Avid
Avid creates the digital audio and video technology used to make the most listened to, most watched and most loved media in the world — from the most prestigious and award-winning feature films, music recordings, television shows, live concert tours and news broadcasts, to music and movies made at home. Some of Avid's most influential and pioneering solutions include Media Composer, Pro Tools®, Interplay, ISIS, VENUE, Oxygen 8, Sibelius®, System 5, and Pinnacle Studio™. For more information about Avid solutions and services, visit www.avid.com, del.icio.us, Flickr, Twitter and
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