These editions were discontinued in 2008 as the flagship Media Composer has been lowered in price.
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In the past, Avid released Avid Free DV, a free edition of Media Composer with limited functionality Xpress DV, a consumer edition of Media Composer and Xpress Pro, a prosumer edition of Media Composer. Avid used to be considered just a " video editing" company, but now has consolidated a well-rounded multimedia generation technology company. In 2006 Avid launched new products such as Avid Interplay and Unity Isis.
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In recent years the company has extended its business expertise through several acquisitions and internal investments towards the full palette of multimedia generation products including those to store and manage media files. In 1994 Avid introduced Open Media Framework (OMF) as an open standard file format for sharing media and related metadata. This was the first Editing Oscar awarded to a digitally edited film (although the final print was still created with traditional negative cutting). In 1996 Walter Murch accepted the Academy Award for editing The English Patient (which also won best picture), which he cut on the Avid. By 1995 dozens had switched to Avid, and it signaled the beginning of the end of cutting celluloid. By 1994 only three feature films used the new digital editing system. The first studio film to be edited at 24fps was Lost in Yonkers, directed by Martha Coolidge. The first feature film edited natively at 24fps with what was to become the Avid Film Composer was Emerson Park. The film was edited at 30fps NTSC rate, then used Avid MediaMatch to generate a negative cutlist from the EDL. The first feature film edited using the Avid was Let's Kill All the Lawyers in 1992, directed by Ron Senkowski. By the early 1990s, Avid products began to replace such tools as the Moviola, Steenbeck, and KEM flatbed editors, allowing editors to handle their film creations with greater ease. The Avid/1 was "the biggest shake-up in editing since Melies played with time and sequences in the early 1900s".
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The Avid/1 was based on an Apple Macintosh II computer, with special hardware and software of Avid's own design installed. A prototype of their first non-linear editing system, the Avid/1 Media Composer, was shown at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in April 1988. Paramount and Lucas said the claim has no merit, and they intend to fight it.Avid was founded by Bill Warner, a marketing manager from Apollo Computer. Morphing itself was pioneered in the early 1980s at the New York Institute of Technology, and was first used in films such as George Lucas’s Willow, in the late 1980s. The tool takes a shape to shape approach to lip-synching, tracing the shape of the mouth and then using drawing tools to outline how the shape of the mouth should change. Elastic Reality was also used on the film In The Line Of Fire, though not on the lip-synching portion. If someone buys a hammer and throws it through a window, that is not our responsibility. Elastic Reality president Perry Kivolowitz told our sister paper Unigram.X that the company’s software was simply a general purpose tool. The filmakers used a morphing tool from Madison, Wisconsin-based Elastic Reality running on Silicon Graphics Inc workstations, which are commonplace in the film special effects industry. Bloomstein apparently owns a patent on a method of dubbing foreign language films. According to various reports in the Chicago Tribune, freelance computer consultant Richard Bloomstein is suing Paramount Pictures and Lucas Films, with an eye on a share of some of the $300m box office takings of the blockbuster film. As the Oscar awards dinner was taking place last month, a legal row was brewing over the lip-synch technology used to make American Presidents featured in the film Forrest Gump to speak lines they never delivered in real life.