·      Join and participate in Avid’s online global user communities:

o   Avid Pro Audio Community - duc.avid.com/

o   Avid Pro Video Community - community.avid.com/

o   Avid Sibelius Forum - www.sibelius.com/cgi-bin/helpcenter/chat/chat.pl?com=show&groupid=3

·      Engage through the Avid Link desktop app: 

o   Avid Link is automatically installed with Pro Tools^®, Sibelius^® and Media Composer^®, and the free Avid Link mobile app can be downloaded from the Apple App Store or Google Play. 

o   Once signed in with an Avid Master Account, a user can click on Avid Link's Lounges tab for answers to questions from Avid moderators and the Communities Team.

·      Search the exhaustive Avid Knowledge Base:

o   Visit www.avid.com/learn-and-support/advision#Avid-Knowledge-Base.

·      Follow Avid’s topically focused social media accounts for replies and updates from the customer support team including:

o   Facebook – Pro Tools, Media Composer, Sibelius, MediaCentral

o   LinkedIn – Avid Pro Tools, Avid Media Composer, Avid Sibelius, Avid MediaCentral

o   Instagram – avid.protools, avid.mediacomposer, avid.sibelius, avid.mediacentral

o   TikTok – avid.protools, avid.mediacomposer, avid.sibelius, avid.mediacentral

Until Twitter can effectively limit the presence of illegitimate accounts across its platform, Avid recommends that all customers should refrain from relying upon Twitter to connect with Avid for any support needs.

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This election elevates Mr. Wallace from his current Director seat, to which he was appointed in 2017. He is a media and entertainment industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience, having served as President and CEO of Deluxe Entertainment Services Group and, previously, with NBCUniversal as President of Operations and Technical Services and also as President of the network’s Owned Television Stations Division. Since retiring in 2019, Mr. Wallace has remained active in the industry and today serves on the board of Linius Technologies, an early-stage technology company focused on video virtualization. 

“I’m confident that John Wallace will provide strong board leadership. His innate understanding of the media and entertainment industry landscape will ensure we can continue to help guide Avid forward to achieve its vision and strategic objectives,” said Peter Westley. “I’m proud that Avid’s board has been deeply engaged in supporting the company’s transformation and growth throughout my tenure as chairman and I look forward to helping the momentum to continue as a board director.”

“Avid and our shareholders have benefitted from the extremely effective collaboration between the board, under Peter Westley, and our company’s management team,” said Jeff Rosica, CEO & President, Avid. “Avid is thankful to Peter for his board leadership since 2018, a period of tremendous positive improvement in the company’s financial performance trajectory. We now enthusiastically welcome John Wallace in his new role as the board chair with high confidence as we continue carrying out the company’s strategic vision and execute on our profitable growth strategy.”

“I’m extremely grateful to Peter Westley for his numerous contributions to Avid’s board and the progress the company has made during his leadership. I’m pleased that we will move forward with his expertise and influence remaining on the board,” said John Wallace, Board Chair, Avid. “I’m excited to step into leading Avid’s board and continue our collaboration with the management team to keep growing one of media and entertainment’s premier technology companies.”

Editor’s note: Visit https://www.avid.com/press-center/media-library/ for high-resolution headshot photography of Avid’s Board of Directors and executive leadership.

Avid Powers Greater Creators 

People who create media for a living become greater creators with Avid’s award-winning technology solutions to make, manage and monetize today’s most celebrated video and audio content—from iconic movies and binge-worthy TV series, to network news and sports, to recorded music and the live stage. What began more than 30 years ago with our invention of nonlinear digital video editing has led to individual artists, creative teams and organizations everywhere subscribing to our powerful tools and collaborating securely in the cloud. We continue to re-imagine the many ways editors, musicians, producers, journalists and other content creators will bring their stories to life. Discover the possibilities at avid.com and join the conversation on social media with the multitude of brilliant creative people who choose Avid for a lifetime of success. 

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Workflows extended to Teams users

The most recent release of Media Composer video editing software delivers native “over-the-shoulder” (OTS) remote collaboration. At the NAB Show, Avid and Microsoft will demonstrate how using the SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) output of Media Composer can enable editors to stream their high-resolution content to Teams users, providing easier collaboration across a production team. With secure streaming to any device (desktop, decoders, mobile devices, video players, and set top boxes including Apple TV), Media Composer will be able to incorporate a “third monitor” collaborative experience for Teams that accelerates tasks such as content review by producers, directors, and other members of the production staff, including clients, facilitating real-time feedback and helping to bring projects to conclusion faster. 

Ray Thompson, Avid’s Senior Director, Industry Partnerships said, “Simply being able to view high resolution Media Composer streams securely on Microsoft Teams in real time—directly out of Media Composer or as one of many receive points possible when Haivision Hub or Gateway are included, means media creation can move at unprecedented speed. Avid’s innovation with Microsoft continues to help media creators of all sizes to collaborate easily among a distributed workforce now within Teams view Media Composer output. We’re very excited to bring these latest breakthroughs together with Microsoft at the NAB Show.”

“Microsoft Teams at its core is about enabling greater collaboration among a distributed workforce,” shared Aaron Linne, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Teams for Broadcasters at Microsoft. “It’s exciting to see this expand to enable creative teams to review the output of Media Composer to enable feedback to happen within Teams and help cut down the time it takes to deliver content to market.”

Enhancements to Remote Editing 

Avid’s offerings for remote collaboration and media production in the cloud benefit from its longstanding Strategic Cloud Alliance with Microsoft and integration with the Azure cloud platform. These include editorial On Demand Services such as the widely deployed Avid | Edit On Demand subscription service, which will be featured in Microsoft’s booth. Avid Edit On Demand delivers added capacity and scalability in a secure, easily accessible service featuring the Media Composer and Avid NEXIS storage file system that users already know and rely upon. 

Augmenting the service in a technology preview at NAB Show, Avid will feature MediaCentral | Stream demonstrating IP contribution into and out of Avid | Edit On Demand. Supporting IP contribution from anywhere and from any device – including cameras, encoders and mobile devices – this integration enables the ingest of streams for television news and sports production scenarios, broadening the workflows possible in the cloud with Avid | Edit On Demand.

Market availability of these technology previews will be announced at a future date.

Visit Microsoft’s NAB Show booth W3017 (April 24-27) in the Las Vegas Convention Center’s West Hall.Learn more about Avid solutions at www.avid.com/solutions/cloud. 

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