Avid Ships Realtime HD and SD Finishing Systems

Avid Technology, Inc. announced the worldwide availability of Avid DS Nitris and Avid DS Nitris Editor -- a finishing system that delivers realtime effects and color correction with two streams of uncompressed 10-bit HD media and eight streams of 10-bit uncompressed SD media. Starting at $78,995 MSRP, the Avid DS Nitris family supports a wide range of formats, from compressed SD to 2K, and delivers a deep set of video and audio editing capabilities, including Symphony-style color correction.



The Avid DS Nitris and Avid DS Nitris Editor systems are the most powerful members of the Avid DNA family, a hybrid architecture designed to leverage the capabilities of both host-based software processing and hardware-based acceleration. The Nitris hardware is software programmable for future codecs, realtime effects, and other functions -- via the Web or CD.



The Avid DS Nitris family supports a broad set of input/output (I/O) capabilities, including SDI and HD-SDI digital video and eight channels of digital audio at 24-bit 96 kHz. The systems work with both AAF and OMF media, which enable them to seamlessly conform any project from a Symphony, Media Composer Adrenaline, Media Composer, or Avid Xpress system. Avid DS Nitris and Avid DS Nitris Editor systems can also share media with other Avid, Softimage, and Digidesign systems in a collaborative workflow with the Avid Unity MediaNetwork system.



Avid DS Nitris and Avid DS Nitris Editor are now available through Avid’s worldwide reseller channel. Pricing is $78,995 MSRP for the Avid DS Nitris Editor system and $145,000 MSRP for the Avid DS Nitris system. For existing Avid|DS HD customers, hardware upgrades to the Avid DS Nitris system are $35,000 MSRP.