BURLINGTON, Mass., Feb. 25, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avid® (OTC:AVID) today congratulated its customers on their numerous awards and nominations for outstanding achievements in sound mixing at the 50th Annual CAS Awards. Presented by the Cinema Audio Society on February 22 in Los Angeles, the awards recognized the accomplishments of many of the motion picture and television industries' most talented sound mixers who trust Avid audio solutions.
Skip Lievsay, who won the live action motion picture category for Gravity, which was edited and mixed using Pro Tools®, said: "We knew from the beginning we wanted the mix (for Gravity) to be virtual – in Pro Tools. The director always wants to address the broadest range of possibilities. He wants to try everything – so we needed it to be fast and virtual. We needed to do very sophisticated work, very quickly and record that as automation in Pro Tools. We have great automation and power in Pro Tools and that's my home platform. I couldn't be happier with it."
Avid customers also won CAS Awards for their work on Frozen, winner of the animated motion picture category, which was scored and recorded with Pro Tools at Disney Digital Studios. Pro Tools was used to edit and mix Behind The Candelabra, winner of the television movie or mini-series category, as well as to score and record its music. Game of Thrones: The Rains of Castamere, which was mixed at Todd-AO with Pro Tools, won the One-Hour Television Series category.
"As a company that's passionate about world-class content creation, we're very proud that the industry's star sound mixers choose to rely on our proven and trusted audio solutions," said Avid president and CEO Louis Hernandez, Jr. "We congratulate our customers on their outstanding achievements. We are committed to continuing our heritage of industry leadership and technical innovation, and our role as a trusted partner to our preeminent customer community."
Avid customers were nominated for CAS Awards for productions including:
Motion picture – live action
Motion picture - animated
Television movie or mini series
Television series – 1 Hour
Television non-fiction, variety or music series or specials
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