Avid Technology Inc is to develop a high-end authoring system for Silicon Graphics Inc workstations to provide the capabilities required by those authoring interactive titles for the game, educational software and interactive television markets. Silicon Graphics has agreed to work closely with Avid in providing support to ensure optimal use of its workstation technology. The authoring system will be able to create compositions from high-quality video, audio, music and interactive two- and three-dimensional graphics. It will also include a generalised scripting system so compositions can be played on various operating environments. Avid and Silicon Graphics are already working jointly to bring Avid’s Media Suite Pro desktop video editing technology to the Indy and Indigo2 workstations by the summer.
