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Avid and Digidesign products help students push creative boundaries to garner top honors in various categories, including Drama, Newscast, and Children's Programming
Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced that Avid education customers
- including Lyndon State College; the USC School of Cinema-Television; and the
UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television - have received College Television
Awards from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Students from these
schools used Avid(R) and Digidesign(R) products to create winning entries in
the Drama, Comedy, Newscast, CGI, Magazine Show, or Children's Programming categories,
demonstrating the widespread use of Avid's industry-standard video and audio
solutions among students at top educational institutions.
Lyndon State College of Lyndonville, Vt., which won first place for its newscast
"News 7," relies heavily on an end-to-end Avid broadcast production
workflow. The school uses Avid NewsCutter(R) XP editing systems, an Avid iNEWS(R)
newsroom computer system, an Avid Unity(TM) LANshare shared-storage network
with MediaManager, and Avid AirSpeed(TM) systems.
"Without a doubt, our Avid environment played a key role in helping Lyndon
State receive this prestigious award," said David Ballou, associate professor
and co-chair, Department of Television Studies, Lyndon State College. "We
were able to achieve an efficient and cohesive production workflow that cleared
the way for us to concentrate on the quality and creativity of our newscast
instead of the process. Our students can simply do more with Avid solutions."
Steve Chazin, director of product marketing for Avid, said, "The fact
that so many of this year's College Television Award winners used Avid products
is testament to the fundamental role that our education solutions play in preparing
future generations of postproduction and broadcast professionals. Schools across
the country recognize the importance of training their students on products
that will make them productive in the classroom today while enabling them to
succeed in the real world after they graduate. They turn to Avid year after
year because our products offer the most robust features and are used in more
professional facilities than any other offerings."
Each year, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presents the College
Television Awards to recognize film and video production excellence among college
students. The highlight of the competition is the gala Awards Ceremony, which
took place this month in Los Angeles. More than 400 industry representatives,
including Academy members and governors, students, academics and the press,
attended the ceremony.
About Avid Technology, Inc.
Avid Technology, Inc. is the world leader in digital nonlinear media creation,
management, and distribution solutions, enabling film, video, audio, animation,
games, and broadcast professionals to work more efficiently, productively, and
creatively. For more information about the company's Oscar, Grammy(R), and Emmy(R)
award-winning products and services, please visit: http://www.avid.com.
(C) 2005 Avid Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. Product features, specifications,
system requirements, and availability are subject to change without notice.
Avid, NewsCutter, Avid Unity, AirSpeed, Digidesign, Film Composer, Pro Tools,
and Softimage are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Avid Technology,
Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Avid received an Oscar statuette
representing the 1998 Scientific and Technical Award for the concept, design,
and engineering of the Avid Film Composer(R) system for motion picture editing.
Digidesign, Avid's audio division, received an Oscar statuette representing
the 2003 Scientific and Technical Award for the design, development, and implementation
of its Pro Tools(R) digital audio workstation. Oscar and Academy Awards are
trademarks and service marks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Emmy is a registered trademark of ATAS/NATAS. Grammy is a trademark of the National
Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Inc. iNEWS is a trademark of iNews,
LLC. All other trademarks and/or service marks contained herein are the property
of their respective owners.
