Avid Congratulates Its Primetime Emmy Award Winning and Nominated Customers

Burlington, MA, 2014/08/21

Avid Everywhere enables the creation of the highest-quality, creatively inspiring programs recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

Avid® (OTC: AVID) congratulates its customers on their awards and nominations at the prestigious Primetime Creative Arts Emmy® Awards, presented by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) as part of the 66th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards on August 16 in Los Angeles. The awards are dedicated to honoring the behind-the-scenes crafts essential to television production.

Among the productions securing nominations and wins at the Primetime Emmy Awards wereBreaking Bad, Downton Abbey, Sherlock: His Last Vow, Modern Family, The 56th Grammy Awards,and The Oscars. These programs were created by Avid customers who are benefiting from the Avid Everywhere™ vision and rely on Avid Artist Suite audio and video applications powered by the Avid MediaCentral Platform to bring their creative visions to life.

Avid is proud to support its customers’ creative contributions to programs including:

• Sherlock: His Last Vow

  • Doug Sinclair, Paul McFadden, and Howard Bargoff, won the award for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special and were nominated for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie.

  • David Arnold and Michael Price won the award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score).

• Downton Abbey

  • Nigel Heath and Alex Fieldingwere nominated for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One Hour)

• Breaking Bad

  • The Breaking Bad editing team, which this season consisted of four editors– Kelley Dixon, Skip MacDonald, Chris McCaleb, and Sharidan Williams-Sotelo– received three nominations for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series.

The sound team for Sherlock, His Last Vow relied on Pro Tools® | HDX to edit and mix the series."Every Emmy-nominated drama is complex and demanding, requiring collaboration, international teamwork and flexible workflows in audio post,” said McFadden. “Sherlock is no different. Realistically, I can't imagine us being able to deliver the show to this high standard, on time and on budget, any other way than by using Pro Tools | HDX."

The music for Sherlock, His Last Vow was created using Avid Sibelius® music notation software and Pro Tools | Software.“Sibelius is essential; without it we just couldn’t create orchestral scores for film and television,” added Arnold. “There are always so many last-minute changes and Sibelius just handles everything.”

Downton Abbeywas mixed at BAFTA Award-winning audio post facility Hackenbacker, now part of the HALO Group. Since merging, HALO has upgraded all its Avid Pro Tools | Software rigs across both companies to Pro Tools | HDX.“The new Pro Tools | HDX systems are particularly important for our new mixing suites,” said John Rogerson, chief executive of the HALO Group. “The processing power makes it so quick, freeing up more time to try out creative ideas.”

The Breaking Bad editing team relied on the industry’s foremost editing solution, Avid Media Composer® | Software, to edit the hit series. “Editing Breaking Bad – where the story took quick turns through searing drama, black comedy, and thrilling action, sometimes all in the same scene – required the ability to try new things constantly to see what worked best,” said Dixon on behalf of the Breaking Bad editing team. “Avid Media Composer is so robust, dynamic and flexible, it put that freedom to experiment right at our fingertips – at practically the speed of thought! It’s an absolutely invaluable tool for us.”

In addition to their three editing nominations at this year’s Emmy Awards, Breaking Bad editors have already won an Emmy and three ACE Awards, and received five previous Emmy nominations and 11 ACE nominations.

“As a company that’s passionate about world-class content creation, we’re honored that so many of the television industry’s most talented artists rely on AvidEverywhere to bring their creative visions to life, and we congratulate them on these accolades,” said Jennifer Smith, senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Avid. “Their work inspires our never-ending commitment to helping creative professionals push the limits of their vision and work in ever more powerful, efficient, and collaborative ways.”

Emmy Award winners and nominees used Avid Artist Suite audio and video solutions for productions including:

OUTSTANDING SINGLE-CAMERA PICTURE EDITING FOR A DRAMA SERIES

• Breaking Bad • Tohajillee (AMC • Sony Pictures Television)
  Kelley Dixon, A.C.E, Edited by

• Breaking Bad • Felina(AMC • Sony Pictures Television)
  Skip MacDonald, A.C.E., Edited by

• Breaking Bad • Granite State (AMC • Sony Pictures Television)
  Kelley Dixon, A.C.E., Edited by
  Chris McCaleb, Edited by

OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A MINISERIES, MOVIE OR A SPECIAL (ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE)

• Sherlock: His Last Vow (Masterpiece) (PBS • Hartswood West for BBC/Cymru Wales in co-production with Masterpiece) - WINNER

  David Arnold, Music by
  Michael Price, Music by

OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A SERIES (ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE)

• COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey • Standing Up In The Milky Way (FOX/NatGeo • Fuzzy Door Productions and Cosmos Studios, Inc. in association with FOX Broadcasting Company and National Geographic Channel) - WINNER
  Alan Silvestri, Music by

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MAIN TITLE THEME MUSIC

• COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey (FOX/NatGeo • Fuzzy Door Productions and Cosmos Studios, Inc. in association with FOX Broadcasting Company and National Geographic Channel) - WINNER
  Alan Silvestri, Theme by

OUTSTANDING SOUND EDITING FOR A SERIES

• Black Sails • I. (Starz • Platinum Dunes and Quaker Moving Pictures in association with Starz Originals) - WINNER

  Benjamin Cook, Supervising Sound Editor
  Iain Eyre, Sound Editor
  Sue Cahill, Sound Editor
  Jeffrey A. Pitts, Sound Editor
  Tim Tuchrello, Sound Editor
  Brett Voss, Sound Editor
  Michael Baber, Music Editor
  Jeffrey Wilhoit, Foley Artist
  James "Jimmy" Moriana, Foley Artist

OUTSTANDING SOUND EDITING FOR A MINISERIES, MOVIE OR A SPECIAL

• Sherlock: His Last Vow (Masterpiece) (PBS • Hartswood West for BBC/Cymru Wales in co-production with Masterpiece) - WINNER

  Doug Sinclair, Supervising Sound Editor
  Stuart McCowan, Sound Editor
  Jon Joyce, Sound Editor
  Paul McFadden, Sound Editor
  Sue Harding, Foley Artist

OUTSTANDING SOUND EDITING FOR NONFICTION PROGRAMMING (SINGLE OR MULTI-CAMERA)

• COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey • Standing Up In The Milky Way (FOX/NatGeo • Fuzzy Door Productions and Cosmos Studios, Inc. in association with FOX Broadcasting Company and National Geographic Channel) - WINNER

  Christopher Harvengt, Supervising Sound Editor
  Richard S. Steele, Sound Designer
  Kevin Meltcher, Sound Editor
  Jeff Carson, Music Editor
  Bob Costanza, Sound Effects Editor
  Lisa Varetakis, Dialogue / ADR Editor
  Bill Bell, Foley Supervisor / Sound Editor
  Tim Chilton, Foley Artist
  Jill Sanders, Foley Artist

OUTSTANDING SOUND MIXING FOR A COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES (ONE HOUR)

• Downton Abbey • Episode 8 (PBS • A Carnival Films/Masterpiece Co-Production in association with NBC Universal)

  Alistair Crocker, Sound Mixer
  Nigel Heath, Re-Recording Mixer
  Alex Fielding, Re-Recording Mixer

OUTSTANDING SOUND MIXING FOR A MINISERIES OR A MOVIE

• Sherlock: His Last Vow (Masterpiece) (PBS • Hartswood West for BBC/Cymru Wales in co-production with Masterpiece)

  John Mooney, Sound Mixer
  Howard Bargroff, Re-Recording Mixer
  Doug Sinclair, ADR Mixer
  Peter Gleaves, ADR Mixer

OUTSTANDING SOUND MIXING FOR A COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES (HALF-HOUR) AND ANIMATION

• Modern Family • The Wedding, Part 1 (ABC • Picador Productions and Steven Levitan Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television)

  Stephen A. Tibbo, Production Mixer
  Dean Okrand, Re-Recording Mixer
  Brian R. Harman, Re-Recording Mixer

OUTSTANDING SOUND MIXING FOR A VARIETY SERIES OR SPECIAL

• The Beatles: The Night That Changed America (CBS • AEG Ehrlich Ventures, LLC)

  Larry Reed, Production Mixer
  Tom Holmes, Production Mixer
  Al Schmitt, Music Mixer
  Giles Martin, Music Mixer
  Josh Morton, Re-Recording Mixer

• The 56th Grammy Awards (CBS • AEG Ehrlich Ventures, LLC) - WINNER

  Tom Holmes, Broadcast Production Mixer
  Eric Johnston, Playback Mixer
  John Harris, Broadcast Music Mixer
  Eric Schilling, Broadcast Music Mixer
  Mikael Stewart, House Production Mixer
  Ron Reaves, House Music Mixer
  Tom Pesa, Stage Mixer
  Michael Parker, Stage Mixer
  Pablo Munguia, Playback Mixer
  Paul Sandweiss, Package Mixer
  Bob LaMasney, Sweetening Mixer

• The Oscars (ABC • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)

  Paul Sandweiss, Production Mixer
  Tommy Vicari, Orchestra Mixer
  Biff Dawes, Music Mixer
  Pablo Munguia, Protools Mixer
  Kristian Pedregon, Post Production Mixer
  Patrick Baltzell, FOH Mixer
  Michael Parker, Monitor Mixer
  Bob LaMasney, Sweetening Mixer

OUTSTANDING SOUND MIXING FOR NONFICTION PROGRAMMING

• COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey • Standing Up In The Milky Way (FOX/NatGeo • Fuzzy Door Productions and Cosmos Studios, Inc. in association with FOX Broadcasting Company and National Geographic Channel)

  Mark Hensley, Re-Recording Mixer
  Joel Catalan, Re-Recording Mixer
  Paul Arnoff, ADR Mixer
  David Torres, Foley Mixer

• Deadliest Catch • Careful What You Wish For(Discovery Channel • Original Productions, LLC, a FremantleMedia Company for the Discovery Channel)

  Bob Bronow, C.A.S., Re-Recording Mixer