As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 9, 2005

Registration No. 333-124475

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C.  20549

 

 

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

FORM S-4

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

AVID TECHNOLOGY, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)

 

3861
(Primary Standard Industrial 
Classification Code Number)

 

04-2977748
(I.R.S. Employer 
Identification No.)

 

Avid Technology Park

One Park West

Tewksbury, Massachusetts  01876

(978) 640-6789

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number,

including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

 

David A. Krall

President and Chief Executive Officer

Avid Technology, Inc.

Avid Technology Park

One Park West

Tewksbury, Massachusetts  01876

(978) 640-6789
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

 

Copies to:

Ethan E. Jacks, Esq.
Avid Technology, Inc. 
Avid Technology Park 
One Park West 
Tewksbury, Massachusetts 01876 
Telephone: (978) 640-6789 
Telecopy: (978) 851-7216

 

Mark G. Borden, Esq. 
David A. Westenberg, Esq. 
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
60 State Street 
Boston, Massachusetts 02109 
Telephone: (617) 526-6000 
Telecopy: (617) 526-5000

 

 

 


REMOVAL OF SECURITIES FROM REGISTRATION

 

        Pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-124475) (the “Registration Statement”), Avid Technology, Inc. (“Avid”) registered 6,750,000 shares of its common stock, $.01 par value per share (“Avid Common Stock”), under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for issuance to holders of common stock of Pinnacle Systems, Inc. (“Pinnacle”) and options to purchase common stock of Pinnacle in connection with the merger of Highest Mountain Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Avid, with and into Pinnacle (the “Merger”).  All shares of Avid Common Stock registered pursuant to the Registration Statement but not issued in connection with the Merger are hereby removed from registration pursuant to Item 512(a)(3) of Regulation S-K.

 

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SIGNATURES

        Pursuant to Rule 478 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the town of Tewksbury, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the 9th day of September 2005.

 

 

AVID TECHNOLOGY, INC.

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ David A. Krall

 

 

David A. Krall

 

 

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

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