Avid Unity, Isis updates

AirSpeed will work with other companies' product lines in the near future. Price: TBA

At NAB Show 2009, you had to see it coming. Avid, now back on the show floor after a year's absence, acknowledged production realities by announcing its enterprise Unity MediaNetwork and Isis storage systems will now play well with arch rival Apple's Final Cut Pro (FCP) editing system. Before this, FCP editors, even at the largest facilities, had to use local storage arrays.

Avid also demoed its AirSpeed Multi Stream production server. Since it provides native support for Sony's XDCAM, users can edit directly onto the disk without first moving the footage to Avid's NewsCutter system.

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