Continuum Complete AVX User Story

Brent Homer - Charter Media

When Brent Homer talks about high volume productions, he means it. Charter Media's three Avid Media Composers share a terabyte and a half of video storage over their Avid Unity system, and the six editors there finish over 160 spots every week. And every client demands individual attention to every shot on every job. Workflow is critical, because the work has to keep flowing.

"We have to really kick this stuff through," Brent says, "but clients still have high expectations for how their spot turns out."

With speed at such a premium, it's not surprising that Charter had used ICE for their effects creation at one time. "That broke a while back, and since then we'd been turning to Adobe After Effects to add some of the polish we needed.

"Now we're finding that we can do more of what we need in less time with Boris CONTINUUM COMPLETE AVX, without even leaving our Avids. Not only has BCC AVX already saved us thousands of trips out of the Avid, it's become a huge asset for keeping clients."

Less time to set up effects. Less time tweaking. Less time rendering. Better results. These are among the advantages that Brent sees in BCC AVX.

"On one recent project, the producer had dozens of shots all lit the same, and of course had one shot with no lighting at all. None. We'd started trying to use Composer's color correctors, and weren't getting what we needed, but the filters in BCC AVX had exactly what we were looking for. We got the results we needed in a few clicks, and all the colors, especially the flesh tones were so much warmer than anything else we saw."