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Design Gallery : Avid Elastic Reality

Elastic Reality® is a cross-platform software package available for IRIX® (Silicon Graphics®), Windows®, and Mac® OS operating systems. The software has been so widely used in the film and video industries that its core technology was recognized with a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1996. The software is still being sold today.

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My role on this project:

  • Worked as a member of a two-person team adapting Avid's Elastic Reality product as a Macintosh AVX plugin to Avid Media Composer.
  • Responsible for adapting Avid's Elastic Reality product as a Windows AVX plugin to Avid Media Composer.
  • Wrote functional specification for the plugin product.
  • Wrote engineering specification for adapting Elastic Reality as a Windows AVX plugin.
  • Implemented the plugin using Microsoft's Visual C++ and Developer Studio in the Windows NT environment.