Inspire creativity
The Avid DS toolset is deep and sophisticated. From broadcast promos & television projects to theatrical commercials, music videos, and feature films, the DS interface empowers your best performance in any genre. So push the limits with a system that inspires creativity and keeps pace with your unique workflows.
Hi-res made easy
Avid DS offers high bit depth and high-resolution support, dual link I/O for HD-RGB, and DI 2k & 4k finishing. Now post houses can compete in new markets with a facility-friendly system that's easy to install, integrate and operate.
Stop conforming. Start performing.
Open integration with Avid Interplay, Avid Unity and Avid Media Composer makes Avid DS a key part of your total post production solution. From offline to online, spend less time conforming and more time focusing on quality from start to finish. Plus DS accepts industry standard project formats such as AAF, EDL, and OMF, so you can use the powerful DS toolset on projects offlined on other products. In any environment, with any project, DS makes every session easier.
A worldwide, world-class community
The Avid ecosystem is bigger than just point products. Avid is an integral part of a worldwide community inspired by our passionate users. Online forums connect you with the best editors in the business. Experienced and dedicated support and training programs are customized to meet your budgets and keep you on top of your game. And new online real-world user communities provide feedback, news, and ongoing support.
Note: Some features require DS version 10. Avid DS v10 is planned to ship in September 2008. |
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| Posted: 8/1/08 |
SAVE is a national non-profit organization based in Minneapolis. Their focus is public awareness and education regarding the symptoms of depression and warning signs of suicide because education is the key to prevention. At the same time, when a loss has occurred, they also want to provide resources and support to the family, friends and community. |
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| Matching the Sony EX-1 with more costly Broadcast Cameras |
| Posted: 7/2/08 |
Check out this article (written by our very own amazing George Walkey) on matching the Sony EX-1 with more costly Broadcast Camera's. George is the best in town at matching these cameras. Give him a call to get your cameras perfectly calibrated. You'll love the results. |
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| Avid Ships New Products |
| Posted: 6/12/08 |
Avid Technology, Inc. announced the worldwide availability of its new HD editing systems and VideoRAID® solutions.
The new lineup, which delivers on a commitment to customers of improved quality, value and performance, includes next-generation versions of Avid Media Composer® (v3.0), NewsCutter® (v7.0), and Symphony™ (v3.0) software, as well as new hardware configurations, Avid Mojo® DX and Nitris® DX.
New editing and storage configurations available today include:
- Media Composer software - priced at $2,495 USMSRP. Media Composer Mojo DX - priced at $9,995 USMSRP.
- Media Composer Nitris DX - priced at $14,995 USMSRP (also available with an 8-core MacPro or HP xw8600 workstation starting at $21,995 USMSRP).
- Symphony Nitris DX - priced at $35,995 USMSRP including an 8-core MacPro or HP XW8600 workstation.
- NewsCutter software - priced at $4,995 USMSRP.
- NewsCutter Mojo DX - priced at $19,995 USMSRP including an 8-core HP xw8600 workstation.
- NewsCutter Nitris DX - priced at $24,995 USMSRP including an 8-core HP xw8600 workstation.
- VideoRAID ST and VideoRAID SR - pricing begins at $4,795 USMSRP for 2.5TB configurations.
New Support Pricing
Avid is now offering aggressive new support pricing on all of its next-generation HD editing systems as well as its DS Nitris system. The new support packages are designed to deliver greater value to customers with the addition of new features such as technical alerts, monthly quicktips and advanced parts replacement on hardware. Further, customers who purchase a support contract when they purchase any new Media Composer, NewsCutter, Symphony or DS Nitris product will receive a 15% savings on the price of the contract. To be eligible, contracts must range from one to three years and be purchased between June 1 and December 31, 2008. Avid has also designed a number of specially-priced support packages for educational institutions, which begin as low as $99 USMSRP, per year. For more information on support packages and pricing, contact Avid sales or a local reseller.
Avid Unity and Interplay Upgrades
In addition to the new editing lineup and VideoRAID offerings, Avid has also announced as upgrades to the following systems:
- Avid Unity MediaNetwork v5.1 which now delivers greater capacity to customers with 1TB drive support and additional add-on chassis support (from 5 to 8), increasing the overall capacity to 128TB. Now shipping on Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows XP and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard;
- Avid Unity ISIS v1.5 which now offers higher client bandwidths up to DNxHD 220 and is now shipping on Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows XP and Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard"; and
Avid Interplay 1.4 which now offers a full-screen media player window and increased metadata capabilities such as customized drop down menus as well as a new 64 bit Media Indexer for higher performance indexing. |
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| Avid Liquid to Avid Media Composer Upgrade Promotion |
| Posted: 5/29/08 |
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Avid is offering all existing registered users of Avid Liquid 7 an opportunity to trade up their Liquid software to the latest Avid Media Composer 3.0 software. As a reward for their loyalty, Liquid Pro customers are being offered the chance to roll the entire cost of their original Liquid 7 purchase forward towards the purchase of Media Composer software. This means that their original USD$1000 investment is entirely protected. They can continue to use and make money with their copy of Avid Liquid but now they can use that same USD$1000 as a discount on Media Composer 3.0.
Promotion runs through September 30, 2008
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| Upcoming Events |
| Posted: 5/15/08 |
Have an idea for a show you would like to see? Shoot us an email and let us know. |
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Service and Rental Departments Take Delivery of a new HD Waveform Monitor / Vectorscope.
Posted: 5/13/08 |
| After years of research and a thorough scouring of the floor at NAB this year, we’ve decided to add Astro Systems (link) to our product mix. George thought that the WM-3208 was hands down the best portable HD Waveform Monitoring solution out there. His reasons were: (see George). This product line is available for sale, rental, and our own service techs will be using it to tweak your HD gear to make it look its finest! |
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Editshare
Posted: 4/1/08 |
One of our self-imposed tasks at NAB was to investigate some of the 3rd party shared storage solutions that are on the market. Don’t get us wrong – in an all Apple or all Avid environment, their respective solutions probably still reign supreme, but a lot of our customers don’t have the luxury of such a homogenous situation. There is a need in the market to support multiple OS platforms and software apps in a robust and ‘yeah, we can do that’ sort of situation.
Additionally, shared storage has to be cost effective in order to bring value to the organization that invests in it.
At NAB, we looked at a lot of different products, and thought that Editshare has really come a long way from its inception however many years ago. Here is a quick blurb on them – please feel free to call and discuss with your account manger.
EditShare is more than shared storage – it is workflow and collaboration tools for creative teams.
Since its launch in 2004, EditShare has been pioneering advanced file-based workflows and delivering best in class shared storage products for media driven companies the world over.
- EditShare is the first and only non-Avid solution to offer Avid Project sharing
- EditShare is the first storage solution to support 10 Gigabit Ethernet
- EditShare is the first to offer true Project Sharing for Apple Final Cut Pro
- EditShare is the first to deliver a Portable Shared Storage Solution
And this is just the beginning.
http://www.editshare.com/ |
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Final Cut Server Is Now Shipping!
Posted: 4/14/08 |
Media asset management and workflow automation software designed for the unique needs of film and video professionals.
Whether you work in a production boutique or a global news network, you can use Final Cut Server to free up more time for creative work. Final Cut Server can automatically manage thousands of assets, execute dozens of routine production tasks, and keep every member of your team in sync. Now shipping! Call your sales manager at 952.974.3140 or email us to order. |
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Avid NAB 2008 Recap 
Posted:4/14/08 |
Avid introduced a whole new line of editors at NAB. Three new products you should know about:
- Mojo DX
- Media Composer Nitris DX
- Symphony Nitris DX
Click here to read John and Steve's take on what Avid had to offer us at NAB. |
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Lower Price for Avid Media Composer Soft; XpressPro to be Discontinued
Posted:3/29/08 |
Avid has made several important announcements regarding their software-based editing platforms.
- Avid will merge Xpress Pro software into the Media Composer product line, with new lower pricing. Media Composer Soft cost has been cut in half to $2,995 USMSRP.
- Existing Avid Xpress Pro customers may upgrade to Media Composer software for only $495;
- Avid will continue to offer support Xpress Pro through March 17, 2013. However, Avid will no longer sell support contracts or offer any further software upgrades for Avid Xpress Pro.
- New student pricing for Media Composer software enables any student at an accredited college or university with a valid student I.D. to purchase Media Composer software for $295 USMSRP.
This is an excellent time to get into Media Composer, whether you are upgrading from Xpress Pro or purchasing new. Call your Z Systems’ account manager for help with your purchase of Media Composer Soft or the Xpress Pro to Media Composer Soft upgrade. |
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Sony Announces High End XDCAM HD Camera and Deck |
 Sony will round out the XDCAM family with high-end additions that include two premium products: The PDW-700 camcorder and the PDW-HD1500 deck. They will offer striking quality HD recording at a data rate of up to 50 Mb/s using the MPEG HD422 compression technology. The PDW-700 is equipped with three 2/3-inch type CCDs - a newly developed “Power HAD™ FX” progressive CCD with 1920 x 1080 effective pixels, which can handle 1080i as well as 720p recording. Stunning-quality HD images can be captured by this high-resolution CCD and advanced digital signal processing. The PDW-HD1500 is a half-rack-wide recording deck equipped with a range of interfaces including HD-SDI, SD-SDI, i.LINK, and Ethernet. This will be ideal for both video-based installations and file-based nonlinear operations. |
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Apple Introduces Xsan 2 |
| Check out this news release about XSAN 2 by clicking here. |
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Free Software download from Panasonic
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Click here for an interesting free download on some software from Panasonic that sounds kind of cool…
Key features of this download:
- This is an application program that ingests P2 contents by using PC and manages them in PC.
- P2 viewer is built in and able to view P2 contents easily like the P2 Viewer.
- Contents can be speedily retrieved by automatically constructing the data base by using the metadata of P2 contents at the time of ingestion.
- Able to add, change and delete metadata registered in P2 contents and the data base by the simple method.
- Able to handout and keep them as back ups by copying P2 contents onto HDD and Optical media.
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New Release of Avid Editor Software
Posted: 2/18/08 |
| These new software releases are being made available early next week to customers with a valid Avid Support contract. Click here for more details. |
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| Introducing Sony's PMW-EX1 Full HD Handheld Camcorder |
Product Overview:
Sony's PMW-EX1 is the latest addition to the XDCAM family. This compact recorder uses newly developed flash memory cards, the SxS Pro™for image recording. The imaging devices used in the PMW-EX1 camcorder are three newly designed 1/2-inch
type Exmor™ CMOS Sensors, each with an effective pixel count of 1920 x 1080, which
produce images in 1080P, 720P and 1080i HD resolutions. This latest design from Sony features a long recording time - up to 70 minutes on a 16-GB
SxS PRO memory card and MPEG-2 Long GOP Compression for exceptional balance between quality and bit rate. Click here for more details about this exciting new product.
Get a FREE second 8GB SxS™ ExpressCard™, at no additional charge with your purchase of the PMW-EX1 from Z Systems.
Click here: www.sony.com/xdcamex/customer to request your free card.
This innovative camera is now shipping. Suggested retail price is $7,790. Give us a call today for our current pricing.
To reserve yours now call us at 952-974-3140 or email sales@zsyst.com.
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Now Available-Panasonic's New Addition to the P2 Family,the AG-HPG10. |
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This new compact unit is loaded with great 'in the field' functions including:
- Playback your P2 recordings on either its self contained monitor or the on-set monitor using its HD-SDI output.
- Host either a USB Drive or an IEEE1394 drive for transferring footage and see thumbnails of all the clips you've transferred.
- Allows for renaming of partitions so when you hook up your USB drive to your Mac, these names will be displayed rather than the NoName that is normally displayed.
- HD-SDI output, down-converted SD video out and switchable component analog output.
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Give us a call to order your new AG-HPG10 or email us at sales@zsyst.com
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