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Digital Video NLE System
Additionally, an optional new remote processing capability is now available for use with Avid|DS Version 4.0 systems. Remote processing systems enable users to continue working while computationally intensive tasks are being processed in the background, avoiding interruptions to the creative process. The feature also allows companies to generate additional revenue from their Avid|DS systems by enabling them to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
Version 4.0 offers expanded interoperability with other Avid and third party systems thereby increasing the range and throughput of projects finished on Avid|DS systems. It provides the ability to read uncompressed media from Meridien hardware-based Avid Xpress, Media Composer and Symphony systems and the ability for faster, more effective conforming with OMFi compositions and support for OMF audio for tighter integration with the Digidesign Pro Tools system.
Additional capabilities of version 4.0 include extended workgroup support, providing the ability to automatically outsource effects to third party applications, share media across projects and import sequences and clips from remote machines. This latest release also offers support for SOFTIMAGE XSI software on the same system.
Complete turnkey multi-stream systems, consisting of Avid|DS Version 4.0 software and SGI Zx10 workstations with dual-Pentium III 1000 MHz processors, plus two hours or more of uncompressed video storage from Avid, are now available through authorized Avid|DS resellers. The remote processing capability is sold separately. Through a current promotion, existing Avid|DS customers can purchase, at a reduced price, the upgrade to Version 4.0 bundled with two remote processing licenses.
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