HD solutions

Post production houses and production companies of all sizes are facing the challenges of more complex projects, larger file sizes, and a growing variety of formats and resolutions. Larger facilities are weighing the impact of HD on their existing infrastructure and studying ways to implement a more creative, productive, and profitable HD workflow. Even smaller post houses are considering the benefits of moving from standalone workstations to an integrated collaborative HD production environment. Avid provides complete, cost-effective HD workflow solutions with innovative technology and products that are designed to deliver the best possible quality and allow you, and everyone on your team to work more efficiently.

  • Challenge
  • Solution
  • Avoid expensive rebuilding of work in HD Online
  • HD Total Conform

High Definition Total Conform means one thing: every edit, dissolve, effect, and composite created in your offline is perfectly re-created in the online. This lets you focus on finishing your project with industry-leading Avid tools such as secondary color correction and universal mastering to NTSC, PAL, and other standard formats. Avid's high-performance Avid DS Nitris and Symphony Nitris DX finishing systems offer true real-time HD performance all the way up to uncompressed 10-bit HD.

Related Products:

Avid DS Nitris: High-resolution SD and HD finishing,  mastering and effects

Avid Symphony Nitris DX: Real-time editing, finishing and mastering you can count on with comprehensive SD & HD I/O and Avid DNxHD acceleration

Avid Unity MediaNetwork: Industry-leading high-bandwidth collaborative storage network.

Avid Unity ISIS: Advanced media network delivers enterprise-class reliability, availability, and scalability.

Related Resources:

Avid HD Workflows whitepaper:  HD is used in a variety of ways, from acquisition to post production to delivery. Avid supports numerous complete HD workflow solutions, as detailed in this whitepaper.

Avid DNxHD Technology whitepaper:  Explore revolutionary Avid DNxHD 10- and 8-bit HD encoding. Avid DNxHD technology significantly reduces storage and bandwidth requirements while providing gorgeous mastering-quality HD media.

Using HD-RGB with Film in HD-based DI Workflows whitepaper:  This whitepaper discusses the use of film sources and Avid's role in a cost efficient, high-quality HD-RGB DI workflow.

Understanding HD Guide:  This multi-chapter basic reference guide encompasses HD-related topics from A to Z.

Advanced Solutions for Postproduction:  See how Avid combines the world's best nonlinear editing and finishing systems with the world's most advanced collaborative production technology for film and video postproduction.

Avid Unity solutions brief: Meet the Avid Unity family of real-time shared media networks.

Avid Unity ISIS product brief:  Dive into details about Avid Unity ISIS, the enterprise-class shared storage solution in the Avid Unity family.

  • Handle any format that walks in the door
  • Comprehensive I/O, open timeline, and Avid DNxHD encoding
  • Manage film-originated and HD-originated projects
  • Comprehensive 24p support
  • Balance quality and productivity
  • Avid DNxHD encoding
  • Organize, store, and share large volumes of offline and online media
  • Integrated media management