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Avid Unity MediaNet is a set of open networking and central storage technologies based on an advanced media file
system that enables realtime, simultaneous sharing of high-bandwidth media. Avid Unity MediaNet connects editors,
artists, sound designers, and effects specialists throughout a digital facility to the same network, significantly improving
workflow, raising productivity, and enhancing creativity by eliminating many of the routine, mechanical tasks associated
with managing todays part-linear, part-nonlinear post-production process. Included in Avid Unity MediaNet are advanced
media transfer utilities and server-assisted shared storage and networking technologies, providing support for a wide range
of applications and platforms.
Trilligent Cluster
The Trilligent Cluster is a turnkey streaming media system optimized to reliably deliver high-bandwidth content
over the Internet. Its high performance, linear scalability, and ease-of-use capabilities allow streaming service providers,
content delivery networks, and content hosts to rapidly distribute high quality, dynamic content over the Internet. The
Trilligent Cluster is a streaming Internet platform that supports up to 5,000 megabits per second sustained streaming
bandwidth and provides seven terabytes of on-line storage at its full configuration. This power is equivalent to the live or
on-demand delivery of more than 10,000 unique 500k broadband streams and the on-line storage of tens of thousands of
hours of broadband content. At the core of the Trilligent Cluster is distributed file server software running in conjunction
with a storage area network. This combination produces extremely high performance and enables real-time, shared media
access by eliminating the need to replicate disks and manage content between media servers.
Professional Audio Products
Pro Tools
Developed by our Digidesign division, the Pro Tools product is a multi-track, nonlinear digital audio workstation
that runs on Mac OS- and Windows-based personal computers. Pro Tools provides solutions for the entire audio production
process, including sound synthesis, recording, editing, signal processing, integrated surround mixing, and mastering. Pro
Tools users are in the consumer, prosumer and professional music, film, television, radio, multimedia, DVD, and Internet
production markets. Digidesign offers Pro Tools in a variety of configurations, ranging from Digi ToolBox and Digi 001
systems for home music studios, to high-end Pro Tools|24 MIX and MIXplus systems for professional music and post
production. Pro Tools also supports a rich development architecture, with more than 100 development partners providing
additional software and hardware solutions for the Digidesign platform.
ProControl
ProControl is Digidesigns high-quality, expandable hardware control surface for hands-on access to the recording,
editing, processing, and surround mixing capabilities of Pro Tools software. ProControl connects to Pro Tools via high-
speed Ethernet, and allows full control of Pro Tools functions with its patented faders and dedicated switches, character
displays and knobs. With its modular design, ProControl can be customized to fit any studio, providing from 8 channels to
48 channels of simultaneous control. The upcoming Edit Pack option will integrate control of advanced editing and
surround mixing features, and make ProControl a comprehensive front end for professional Pro Tools systems. In early
2001, Digidesign released Control|24, a control surface that combines hands-on access to Pro Tools software features and
high-quality microphone preamplifiers from Focusrite Audio Engineering, Ltd., a leading manufacturer of analog processing
equipment. Control|24 communicates with Pro Tools via ethernet, and provides control of virtually every Pro Tools
function. Control|24 is a 24-channel, fixed-size control surface, designed for music production and broadcast applications.
AVoption and AVoption|XL
The AVoption and AVoption|XL products are hardware options for Pro Tools systems that allow the user to
record, edit and process sound synchronized with Avid-format, nonlinear digital video. Designed for post production
professionals working in film, TV, and video, these options enable capture, playback, and basic editing of broadcast-quality
picture from projects originating on Avid Media Composer, Film Composer and Symphony systems. AVoption and
AVoption|XL also include DigiTranslator, a software utility that provides users with a high level of media and metadata
interchange with any Avid-compatible system.
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