Avid Arrives

March 20, 2015, 04:52 AM

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An excerpt from John Buck’s editing history book series ‘Timeline’. Available at iBooks and AmazonAvid introduced the Avid/1 Media Composer on April 29 1989 at NAB and the editing world changed forever. The official press read:As a marketing manager in the engineering workstation industry, I had been using the power of video to introduce new products into the marketplace,” said William J. Warner, President of Avid. “But I found the editing technology to be slow and frustrating. In...