Case Study: Foo Fighters achieves a fast, collaborative post-production workflow with Avid Technology

Foo Fighters Write a Love Letter to American Music

Foo Fighters created the HBO documentary series and companion album *Sonic Highways* to celebrate their 20th anniversary, but the production had a major challenge: managing roughly 400 hours of footage per episode across multiple cities, studios, editors, and tight deadlines. They worked with Avid Technology, using the Avid MediaCentral platform along with Media Composer | Ultimate and Pro Tools to support the fast-moving postproduction workflow.

Avid Technology helped the Foo Fighters team build a highly collaborative editing and audio environment, with shared sequences, efficient media management, multi-camera editing, dupe detection, and portable Pro Tools mixing on the road. The result was a smooth, reliable production with no major media or software problems, enabling the team to stay organized and deliver the series on schedule despite handling 70TB of media and thousands of hours of source material.

Foo Fighters

Jeff Fuller

Sound Mixer