Popular manufacturers of high quality interfaces include Apogee Electronics, Avid Audio ( formerly Digidesign ), Echo Digital Audio, Focusrite, MOTU, RME Audio, M-Audio and PreSonus.

Avid Audio ( formerly Digidesign ) is an American digital audio technology company.

It is a subsidiary of Avid Technology, and during 2010 the Digidesign brand was phased out.

Digidesign now operates as a business unit of Avid.

* 2010-the Digidesign brand name is phased out, with Digidesign products now falling under the Avid product banner.

* 2011 – Digidesign becomes Avid Audio

* Avid Audio Forums ( aka Digidesign User Conference )

In some cases, budget labels such as Video Treasures ( both LP and EP ), Starmaker ( EP ), Burbank Video ( LP ), Avid Home Entertainment ( EP ), GoodTimes Entertainment ( LP ), and even Disney ( LP ) and Paramount ( EP ) commonly used a slower speed to reduce the amount of tape required as a cost-saving method.

The video quality of the Avid / 1 ( and later Media Composer systems from the late 1980s ) was somewhat low ( about VHS quality ), due to the use of a very early version of a Motion JPEG ( M-JPEG ) codec.

Common plug-in technologies include VST, Audio Units ( AU ), Avid Audio eXtension ( AAX ), Real Time AudioSuite ( RTAS ), DirectX instrument ( DXi ) and MOTU Audio System ( MAS ).

In 1996 Walter Murch accepted the Academy Award for editing The English Patient ( which also won best picture ), which he cut on the Avid.

Content is ingested and recorded natively with the appropriate codec which will be used by video editing software such as Sony Vegas, CyberLink PowerDirector, Avid Technology's Media Composer and Xpress Pro, Apple's Final Cut Pro ( FCP ), Adobe Systems's Premiere, and EditShare's Lightworks to manipulate the captured footage.

A published survey in 2008 by the American Cinema Editors Guild placed their users at 21 % FCP ( and growing from previous surveys of this group ), while all others were still on an Avid system of some kind.

After Infocom's end in 1989, Lebling worked on a GUI spreadsheet program, joined Avid ( a company doing special effects for broadcast and film ), and designed server applications at Ucentric.

Murch's editing Oscar was the first to be awarded for an electronically edited film ( using the Avid system ), and he is the only person ever to win Oscars for both sound mixing and film editing.

ENPS was originally developed by the Associated Press for use at the BBC in the United Kingdom as a replacement for the text mode system BASYS ( which developed into Avid iNEWS ), and the Corporation has the largest installation of the system with over 12, 000 users in 300 different locations.

She also appeared on the television shows Days of our Lives ( Billie Reed, 1996 – 2000 ), Married with Children " Calendar Girl " ( 1996 ) and Baywatch Hawaii ( Jenna Avid, 2000 – 2001 ).

DNxHD was first supported in Avid DS Nitris ( Sept 2004 ), then Avid Media Composer Adrenaline with the DNxcel option ( Dec 2004 ) and finally by Avid Symphony Nitris ( Dec 2005 ).

Avid Nitris DX: a replacement of the Adrenaline hardware, a successor to the original Avid Nitris ( used with Avid DS and Avid Symphony ), with architecture offering faster processing and full 1920x1080 HD resolution ( without extra cards ) in addition to standard definition video.

Sony's XDCAM MXF is supported by Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro via XDCAM Transfer and MXF4Mac, Autodesk Smoke, Avid, Dalet, Front Porch Digital, Harris, mxfSPEEDRAIL, Omneon, Quantel, Rhozet, Sony Vegas Pro, Sorenson Squeeze Telestream FlipFactory, Thomson Grass Valley GrassValley EDIUS and K2.

* MXF :: SDK was the first multiplatform commercial SDK in C ++ released in January 2003 and is being used by products like Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, Front Porch Digital DIVA, IRT MXF Analyser, Omneon ProXchange, Seachange SMG.

CamCutter is a digital video camera technology developed by Ikegami and Avid Technology for recording broadcast quality video to hard disk, dubbed a Digital Disk Recorder.

Avid DNxHD, which stands for " Digital Nonlinear Extensible High Definition ", is a lossy high-definition video post-production codec engineered for multi-generation compositing with reduced storage and bandwidth requirements.

In 2003, Avid Mojo and Avid Adrenaline formed the new DNA ( Digital Non-linear Accelerator ) hardware line.

The filmmaking equipment available for student training includes: Red Epic, Red Scarlet, Red Primes, Audio Technica Shotgun Microphones, Lectro Sonic Wireless Microphones, Matthews Round D Round Dolly, JL Fisher 11 Dolly, Chapman Leonard Super Pee Wee, Chimera Soft Boxes, Arri Light, DeSisti Lights, Kino Flo, Steadi Cam, Jimmy Jib Extreme Crane, GearNex Gear Heads, System 5 Avid audio mixing console, Avid Artist, Color and Mix Series, HP Z800 Workstation, Intel Mac Pro, and Black Magic-Design.

Avid Audio products will continue to be produced and will now carry the Avid brand name.

* Avid Audio page on Avid. com

Formerly an advocate of Altaic ( 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001 ), now a critic of it.

* Duff, Michael J. M-Theory ( the Theory Formerly Known as Strings ), International Journal of Modern Physics A, 11 ( 1996 ) 5623 – 5642, online at Cornell University's arXiv ePrint server.

Formerly, the peerage bestowed was usually an earldom ( which was always hereditary ), with Churchill offered a dukedom.

Formerly little more than a gap in the customs wall, it was replaced by a much grander affair consisting of two matching Doric-style stone gate-houses, like little temples ( a nod to Friedrich Gilly perhaps ), facing each other across Leipziger Straße.

The Time Warner merger was almost derailed when Paramount Communications ( Formerly Gulf + Western, later sold to Viacom ), launched a $ 12. 2 billion dollar hostile takeover bid for Time Inc., forcing Time to acquire Warner for $ 14. 9 billion dollar cash / stock offer.

Weeklies in the city include the Midlands Business Journal ( weekly business publication ), American Classifieds ( Formerly Thrifty Nickel ), a weekly classified newspaper, The Reader ( newspaper ), and Omaha Magazine, as well as The Omaha Star.

Formerly a taxonomic group of basidiomycetes, now understood as polyphyletic assemblage of basidiomycetes, the term refers to fungi with fruit bodies whose hymenophore develops either not enclosed or only so with a veil ( velum ), which is called a gymnocarpic or hemiangiocarpic ontogeny, respectively.

Formerly self-styled as the " World's Greatest Newspaper " ( for which WGN radio and television are named ), it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is currently the eighth largest newspaper in the United States by circulation ( and became the second largest under Tribune's ownership after the Chicago Tribune's parent company purchased the Los Angeles Times ).

Formerly there were more chapels of various Methodist sects ( Wesleyans, Bible Christians ), for example at Trenale and Trewarmett: the Methodist Cemetery is at Trewarmett.

Formerly there were sixteen: 1 ( Marshall ), 2 ( Shelton Laurel ), 3 ( Bull Creek ), 4 ( Middle Fork of Ivy ), 5 ( West Fork of Ivy ), 6 ( Sandy Mush ), 7 ( Little Pine Creek ), 8 ( Spring Creek ), 9 ( Hot Springs ), 10 ( Big Laurel ), 11 ( Upper Laurel ), 12 ( Big Pine Creek ), 13 ( Meadow Fork of Spring Creek ), 14 ( Grapevine ), 15 ( Mars Hill ), and 16 ( Foster Creek ).

Formerly Digital Equipment Corporation.

MIDI Time Code ( MTC ), developed by Digidesign, implements SysEx messages that have been developed specifically for timing purposes, and is able to translate to and from the SMPTE time code standard.

* Samplecell by Digidesign, a hybrid system that relied on a dedicated card ( originally NuBus, then PCI ), along with software.

Macintosh, this version relied on the TDM system from Digidesign for the audio portion.

Pro Tools | HD required a Digidesign TDM system and interface, and was intended for professional recording studios.