Talk:Avid Technology
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can anyone expand this article with regard to Avid's competitors in the field, including Apple?--Alhutch 06:57, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
I made a few corrections to the article. Later, I'd like to add some more extensive material on company history. I'm new to Wikipedia, but I thought I'd start with this article, as I am the marketing manager (and founder) mentioned in the article (thanks to whoever added that tidbit rather recently). Billwarner 04:58, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Early history?
Avid VideoShop came bundled with the video digitiser card option on the Macintosh Performa 6400, which is my first encounter with Avid, back in 1996. I can also recall having seen screenshots from a DiVA VideoShop Hypercard stack, being somewhat similar to the above (DiVA is AViD spelled backwards). Is there anyone more familiar with Avid's early history that may be able to fill in? GSchjetne 17:41, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pronunciation?
How do you prounce Avid? Like the word "avid" (eg: "I'm an avid fan") or, to rhyme with David?
- It's pronounced as in "I'm an avid fan". I have a family member who works there. --Alhutch 23:14, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Early history is that Avid was partialy built on the Editdroid made by George Lucas.. back in 85. Het sold editdroid to Avid because hardware wasn't his thing...
more on the subject http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_george_lucas/index.html
[edit] Elastic Reality-Is it still owned by Avid?
Elastic Reality,the software for producing the effects of morphing of one scene into another,character into an all new entity,the most famous being the fade-out and transition of scenes as seen in movies.(e.g. a bleak dark and alien landscape shot showing it at night is slowly lights up with sun rise at dawn,revealing the landscape to be a terrain which looks beautiful as the sun light brightens the day, or famous StarWars 2 suns scene). I had this software wayback in 1998-99 and the product creator and EULA said that Elastic Reality v.3 created by Avid Technology Inc.Sadly, some jerk stole my CD and I have been searching for it since 2001 onwards.Did Avid discontinued it or has it been acquired by other software developers? The original software developers who created Elastic Reality have a company call Profound Effects and sell many plugins. They may still have copies of Elastic Reality. BTW, Softimage Co.,the subsdiary of Avid has acquired "CAT",the 3D Studio Max Plug-in created by "Character Animation Technologies" ,a few weeks back.--asydwaters 14:51, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Origin of Name
The name comes from the acronym A Victor In Disguise.
I am suspect of this, because its the first time I've heard this, the name is spelled with regular casing, a Google search turns up nothing... Please cite before putting it back in the article. --Mfv2 17:35, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Update of Executive Team Required
The executive team has recently undergone a restructure and this section will need to be updated.
64.211.150.166 12:39, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Avid editing products- have a single wikipedia page for this?
Perhaps all the avid editing products should be organized into one page... i.e. Avid (editing systems) This way you can make sense of the Avid family, from Xpress to Nitris DS and so forth. Glennchan 08:09, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
