Avid Technology, Inc.

SIGGRAPH 2006

Avid Technology, Inc.’s Softimage delivers innovative character creation and effects tools to animators and digital artists in the film, broadcast, post-production, and games industries. The product line includes SOFTIMAGE|XSI and SOFTIMAGE|FACE ROBOT.

SIGGRAPH 2004

Avid Technology, Inc. is a world leader in digital nonlinear media creation, management and distribution solutions, enabling film, video, audio, animation, games, and broadcast news professionals to work more efficiently, productively, and creatively.

SIGGRAPH 1999

Avid Technology, which acquired Softimage in 1998, is an international, industry-leading provider of digital audio and video tools for information and entertainment applications. Avid’s products are used by customers worldwide including film, television and interactive content producers, TV news broadcasters, corporate communicators, and consumers.

SIGGRAPH 1998

Avid shows its latest editing and effects tools: Avid Symphony, a high-end, uncompressed television finishing system; Avid Marquee, its new 3D titling tool; Avid Masquerade, its new NT-based paint package; and Media Illusion, its digital compositing system.

SIGGRAPH 1997

Avid showcases a range of powerful, integrated digital effects and editing tools, including: Media Illusion integrated environment for paint, compositing, image manipulation, and effects; Matador paint and 2D animation software; Elastic Reality effects software for Macintosh, Windows, and Silicon Graphics workstations; Jester digital ink and paint software; Media Composer, MCXpress, and Film Composer, digital nonlinear online/offline and film editing systems.

SIGGRAPH 1996

Avid is showcasing its family of special effects products for film, video, and multimedia, including Media Spectrum, a comprehensive online environment for high-end, effects-intensive applications; Medialllusion, a new paint, effects, and compositing environment; Matador paint & 2D animation software; Elastic Reality morphing and warping software; and Jester digital ink and paint software for cartoons.

SIGGRAPH 1995

Feature film post production using Matador paint and 2D animation software; Advance compositing and effects system; Jester digital cartoon ink and paint software; Elastic Reality shape-to-shape morphing software; editing using Film Composer and OMF Interchange; high-end video post production with the Avid Media Spectrum suite of editing, painting, effects, and compositing tools with uncompressed CCIR-601 images; games and interactive production using Matador Sprite and Digidesign Pro Tools III.

SIGGRAPH 1994

Avid’s VideoXPress is a nonlinear video editing system used to create finished videotapes on your desktop Indigo system. The simple user interface makes it easy to assemble programs combining digitized video and computer-generated images. A variety of transition and special effects can be easily applied to the program. VideoXPress also allows you to create a matching soundtrack. With instant access to your footage, editing with VideoXPress is fast and easy.

SIGGRAPH 1992

Stop by for a demonstration of the Avid Media Composer, the world’s best-selling digital nonlinear editing system featuring advanced JPEG compression for full-resolution images direct from disk. Avid also showcases its multi-vendor open platform program, integrating the desktop and professional media environments. Get the industry’s first look at the all-new Avid Media Suite, a digital video production system offering television-quality on the desktop for corporate, industrial, education, and government communicators.