Who invented avid

All 30 were the first in their families to attend college. AVID has also expanded to include the fourth through twelfth grades. Swanson retired as the executive director of AVID in with several honors to her credit. Swanson was one of three recipients of the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education, and she is the only public school teacher ever to have won the Pioneering Achievement in Education Award from the Charles A.

Dana Foundation. Swanson continues to bring her energy and vision—backed by strong data—to challenge the education system. Successfully guiding students to college from high school, AVID is reaching to a new level: post-secondary programs and community colleges. Swanson says although the challenges in education are huge, she still loves to find ways to influence and change.

When Avid introduced Media Composer in , it revolutionized film and video post-production. Competing solutions for editing required burning laser discs, but the Avid solution digitized media and allowed for nonlinear editing of those compressed JPEG video files.

This prevented Media Composer from being used on feature film editing until when this storage barrier was overcome. Lost in Yonkers , released in , became the first theatrical feature film edited with Avid Media Composer. While only a handful of films were edited on Avid in , by this number was in the hundreds. Despite the fears of many devoted Apple users, Avid did not abandon the Mac, but continued to provide dual platform products until the release of Media Composer 2.

With this release, customers were free to supply their own Mac or PC and eventually even select for hardware breakout boxes from third-party vendors. Users were heated in their loyalties, which were often based simply on which system they learned to edit or in which industry they focused. Jonathan compares Lightworks and Avid, which came out at roughly the same time.

Renee demonstrates placing a clip within a sequence: the basic building block of digital non-linear editing. Renee carries out some more complex editing tasks, demonstrating how shots and soundtracks can be lengthened or shortened within the Avid interface. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Induction Event Collegiate Inventors Event.

Back to Inductee Search William J. Warner Digital Nonlinear Editing System. US Patent No.