Avid® (Nasdaq: AVID) today congratulates its customers on their awards and
nominations at the prestigious Primetime Creative Arts Emmy® Awards, presented
by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). As part of the 67th
Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, the creative arts awards honour the behind-the-
scenes crafts essential to television production.
Avid customers embraced Avid EverywhereTM to create Primetime Emmy Award-
winning and nominated productions including Game of Thrones, Better Call Saul,
The Big Bang Theory and Sonic Highways, relying on Avid Artist Suite audio and
video applications, powered by the Avid MediaCentral™ Platform, to bring their
creative visions to the TV screen.
The picture editing, sound editing, and sound mixing teams behind Game of Thrones
relied on Avid Artist Suite audio and video solutions to create the hit series. Editors
Tim Porter and Katie Weiland, who won the award for Outstanding Single-Camera
Picture Editing for a Drama Series, relied on the industry’s foremost editing solution
Avid Media Composer® to cut the series.
Sound post-production company, Formosa Group, who scored two awards for their
work on the series, relied on the industry-standard digital audio workstation Avid
Pro Tools® for both sound editing and mixing. Supervising sound editor Tim Kimmel
took home the award for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series,
while re-recording mixers Onnalee Blank and Mathew Waters won the award for
Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series.
The picture editing and sound mixing teams behind Better Call Saul alsorelied on
Artist Suite audio and video solutions to create the hit series, scoring nominations
for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series and Outstanding
Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama.
Sound mixers Phillip W. Palmer, Larry Benjamin and Kevin Valentine used Avid Pro
Tools | HDX for sound editing and mixing on the show.
Taking home the award for Outstanding Multi-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy
Series for The Big Bang Theory, editor Peter Chakos, relied on Media Composer.
“Avid Everywhere enables the television industry’s most talented creative
professionals to connect with their audiences by enabling them to focus on their
creativity,’ said Kyle Kim-Hays, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at
Avid. “We’re honoured that they choose to use Avid’s industry-standard solutions to
create some of the most watched and loved shows on television, and we
congratulate them on their achievements.’
