Massachusetts, USA - Avid Technology, Inc. has been selected to implement an end-to-end editing workflow for NBC during the network’s coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics from Beijing, China 8 - 24 August 2008. This marks NBC and Avid’s fifth consecutive Olympic Games working together.

NBC opted for 224TB of Avid Unity ISIS shared storage to be dispersed across four systems, including an Avid Interplay system, which will enable scalability, vast client connectivity, resiliency, and a facility-wide workflow.

NBC will also deploy approximately 34 Avid systems for editing, ingest, capture, and playout, and will use Avid DNxHD codec to significantly reduce storage and bandwidth requirements, while providing mastering-quality HD media.

“With these games, we have installed the largest and most integrated Avid environment to date for NBC Olympics - particularly with the addition of the Avid Unity ISIS and Interplay systems. Being able to integrate all of the Avid solutions, on a combination of shared-storage networks over Gigabit Ethernet, plays an integral role in helping NBC succeed in delivering the most hours of Olympic programming ever,” said Dave Mazza, senior vice president, NBC Olympics Engineering.

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