One Avid Open House

Key members of the broadcast and post production industry graced Avid Technology (S.E. Asia) Pte Ltd’s Open House event on 16-18 June 2009 to experience the strengths and benefits the company has to offer as an amalgamation of five industry leading brands – namely Avid, Digidesign, M-Audio, Pinnacle and Sibelius.

As One Avid, the company now has the cross functional

capacity to tap on each individual brand’s strengths to bring new solutions into all its business segments. During the Open House, guests were treated to complete broadcast, post and news workflow solutions between Avid and Digidesign products. Guests also had the hands-on opportunity to work on stereoscopic productions and visualise the new technology.

Digital Vision Asian Tour

Digital Vision and Avid went on the road in Asia with workflow events to present the most complete and sophisticated post production solutions for RED camera projects. Attendees discovered Digital Vision’s slate of tools for grading, digital re-mastering and file based workflows.

Cities visited:

Mumbai. 18-22 May Chennai. 25-28 May

Singapore. 16-19 June Sydney. 20-25 July

Next to come:

Shanghai. 3-7 August

Beijing. 17-21 August

Experience the Power Autodesk Lustre Super Users Tour Autodesk recently held a highly successful Experience the Power Lustre Super Users Tour, which ran from 20 May to 11 June. The tour was done in six cities in the Asia-Pacific; Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, Mumbai, Kuala Lumpur and Sydney with more than 1000 people attending in total. Two super users, Olivier Fontenay, senior colorist from EFILM Australia, and Sebastian Göhs, Lustre colorist from CinePostproduction were invited to present and share their experiences of using Autodesk Lustre. Olivier is the man behind the awe-inspiring beauty of blockbuster Oscar-nominated Australia. He is also one of the earliest users of Lustre. Göhs, is the colorist behind Waltz with Bashir, the first animated film to be nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.