Stimulus Funding and Aggressive Educational Pricing Enables Educators to Provide Students With Real-World Audio and Video Production Experience

TEWKSBURY, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 06/24/09 -- Avid® (NASDAQ: AVID) announced today that its wide array of audio and video solutions meet the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funding guidelines for education and training. Configured to address the respective skill and grade level of students ranging from elementary school through college, Avid is offering three new highly-customizable solutions: Avid Audio Recording Studio, Avid Film Production Lab and Avid Television and Video Production Studio. The solutions are available to educators at up to 85 percent off USMSRP and provide students with access to the media creation tools they will encounter in advanced education programs as well as in film, television, broadcast, music and audio production careers. Now, any school or institution that qualifies for ARRA funding can apply stimulus resources to invest in the same tools used by professionals creating today's most listened to, most watched and most loved media in the world.

New Avid Education Solutions

Avid has integrated a selection of its best-in-class tools such as Media Composer® editing software, Pro Tools® recording and mixing systems, Axiom® MIDI keyboard controllers, and Sibelius® music notation software, into three solutions for technology-based curriculum. The solutions consist of the same tools used by creative teams behind "Star Trek," "LOST" and Linkin Park, and are designed to help inspire creative expression and prepare students for advanced educational opportunities and/or digital media careers.