Avid Customers Drive Creative Achievement at 80th Academy Awards
TEWKSBURY, Mass., February 29, 2008 – Avid Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: AVID) announced today that all of the nominated and award-winning films in the Best Motion Picture, Directing, Film Editing, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Visual Effects, Documentary Feature and Original Score categories at the 80th Annual Academy Awards® were created using at least one Avid®, Digidesign®, Sibelius® or Softimage® system. Nearly two-thirds of these nominees employed workflows consisting of multiple systems from the various Avid brands, and for the eighth-consecutive year, every nominee for a Sound Editing Oscar® used Digidesign Pro Tools® systems. In addition, the award-winning Animated Feature used both Avid and Digidesign systems, the Visual Effects winner used SOFTIMAGE|XSI® for pre- and post-visualization as well as Avid systems, and the majority of the nominees for Original Song were scored using Sibelius 5. more
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