Avid 'Captures' Winter Games

The real winners at the Winter Games in Vancover were the broadcasters.
Top broadcasters and production teams from ARD, Eurosport, NBC, Pow! Pix and ZDF, among others, relied on industry-leading audio and video solutions from Avid (NASDAQ:AVID) to create and deliver the features, promotions and HD broadcasts watched by millions of viewers during the Vancouver Winter Games.
Broadcasters and post production teams used a variety of Avid HD news solutions to get HD content to air quickly and meet the challenges of live sports workflows at the Vancouver Winter Games, including:

• Eurosport – Europe's leading sports entertainment group used a time-tested tapeless Avid SD and HD workflow to deliver Vancouver Winter Games coverage, allowing them to focus on delivering creative content rather than the mechanics of data management. The team relied on an Avid Interplay media asset management system for every step of the workflow, enabling work across geographic boundaries and getting packages to air more quickly. Multiple contributors were able to access and work on media via Interplay’s connection to Avid Unity ISIS shared storage and the Avid iNEWS newsroom computer system.
  The workflow also offered the ability to easily create, store and access graphics with Avid Deko graphics systems
• ARD/ZDF – As German public broadcasters officially start offering regular HD content to viewers in Vancouver, the country’s largest stations, ARD and ZDF are using Avid solutions to deliver high-quality HD broadcast content and special programming for major sporting events. During the Vancouver Winter Games, ARD and ZDF edited and broadcast HD content using Avid’s DNxHD 145 codec. They also used 14 Avid AirSpeed servers for ingest/playout; 16 Avid Interplay Assist systems for viewing and logging incoming media; 20 Media Composer systems for editing, titling and colour correction and 192 TB of Unity ISIS and Avid Video Raid for shared and localised storage
• Pow! Pix, a New York-based post production facility, created various features, promos and teaser segments from the figure skating and short-track speed skating venue at the Vancouver Winter Games. Amassing footage daily from more than six source video formats, Pow! Pix transformed its workflow on location by leveraging AMA (Avid Media Access).
  This enabled the team to capture more source footage, and ingest and edit camera files immediately while only consuming a third of the storage per minute than the previous XDCAM workflow.
  Pow! Pix provided 24TB of scalable Unity shared storage to enable collaboration across 11 different video editing seats, including Media Composer Nitris DX and Symphony Nitris DX editing seats, as well as dedicated workstations loaded with Media Composer software for the producers to view and approve content.
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