Avid Technology, Inc. has unveiled Avid Deko 5.0, PostDeko 8.0.1 and DekoCast 4.1.2, an upgraded suite of real-time on-air graphics systems designed to increase productivity and enhance creative output throughout broadcast graphics operations. Unlike competitive graphics products, Avid's suite of on-air graphics solutions reduces the need for additional staff training and costly specialised expertise by providing easy-to-use design tools and templates that enable customers to get productions to air, quickly.

"Deko 5.0 is saving us a lot of time in the graphics creation process and helping us get programmes to air more quickly because it does not require an additional team of trained experts to operate," said Ian Kennedy, CTO at Fontastics, an LA-based production house that specialises in broadcast graphics and opens for high-profile live events. "As a result, the viewer experience is more rewarding. We've always liked the ease with which we can create and edit motion effects in Deko, and the new animation UI continues to give us everything we need for our live, high-profile broadcast environments. We also bring in a lot of elements into the Deko system as QuickTime Movies, which eliminates the requirement for external DDRs for complex multi-layered animations."

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