Real world, real-time HD, SD, DV and film editing for Mac and PC systems
£1,059 ex VAT *
NEW: Avid Xpress Pro HD™ 5.7. This latest release includes the following new features:
- Universal Mac support - it fully supports both Intel and PowerPC-based systems.
- Sony XDCAM workflow enhancements. Added support for bit rates of 18 and 35 Mb/s offers more flexibility to balance picture quality and recording length when capturing XDCAM HD. Version 5.7 now offers the option to write back to XDCAM media via FireWire.
- Panasonic P2 workflow enhancements. Version 5.7 now offers the option to write back to P2 media via FireWire. (P2 write back on PC systems and PowerPC-based Macs only. Intel-based Mac systems to be supported in a future release.) You can now copy your P2 card to a FireWire drive or network drive, import clips and media directory from the P2 card, or write your sequence back to the P2 card.
- 720/50p support. The popular 720p50 format displays twice as many frames as are minimally necessary to achieve the illusion of motion. The faster frame rate is ideal to capture action sequences and fast-moving sports without blurring.
- AudioSuite plug-ins. Avid Xpress Pro now includes the Time Shift Audio Plug-In.
- Scrolling Timeline. You can have
the Timeline scroll over the position indicator
while you
play a sequence.
Optional Avid Mojo SDI. Highest-quality uncompressed SD I/O with 8 channels of embedded audio, AES/EBU, and more, fully integrated with guaranteed performance. For details, click here.
Avid Xpress Pro Resolutions
- Avid DNxHD encoding and editing
- Native HDV: 1080i/59.94, 1080i/50, 720p/29.97
- Native DVCPRO HD: 1080i/59.94, 1080i/50, 720p/60, 720p/24
- Panasonic P2 support
- 720p/23.976 and 1080p/24 HD project types. (Footage of these formats may be captured in other Avid systems such as Avid Media Composer Adrenaline HD and edited in Avid Xpress Pro HD™.)
- DV50 capture and output over IEEE-1394
- Sony XDCAM support for DV25
- 10-bit SD video support
- The industry’s only live capture of normal pulldown over IEEE-1394
- Play back 23.976/24 sequences with pulldown out to NTSC
- Choose pulldown cadence type when outputting back to NTSC - ADVANCED or NORMAL
Avid Xpress Pro HD™ Main Features
Platform: Mac and PC Format: CD
- Do more™ with Avid Xpress Pro. Real-world, real-time, HD, HDV and film editing for Mac and PC systems. One box has it all. As a desktop or portable editor, Avid Xpress Pro software combines professional video, audio, film, effects, DVD authoring and encoding tools—plus custom music creation tools—for both Mac and PC. Use the same industry-standard Avid tools that are used to create nearly all of today's feature films and prime time television shows.
- Open Timeline - With Avid’s unique Open Timeline technology, you can use more of the industry’s most popular formats more ways,—and do more with them. Only Avid Xpress Pro software lets you combine multiple formats in their native form, HD*, HDV* and film—on one timeline, in real time. When you’re finished, encode them anyway you want: WMV HD, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), MPEG-2, Flash, and more.
- Real-time Multicam - One-click editing of multiple sources or multiple takes, even among multiple formats
- Dual Rolling Trim – Both sides of edits update onscreen, and either side of the audio edit may also be monitored as easily as moving your mouse over the side of the edit you’d like to hear
- Media. Immediately - Avid media management tools are used to manage the world’s largest, most demanding projects. Find exactly what you’re looking for every time, and never slow down for even the largest and most intricate projects.
- Colour Correction - Get professional results with just a few simple clicks and get it all in real time.
- Customisable Toolsets - Optimise the interface to suit your needs, save your settings and use them on any Avid system.
- Powerful 24p and Film Features - With award winning Avid Film Composer® tools built in, Avid Xpress Pro software has what you need for every kind of 24-frame editing, including film and both SD and HD 24p video
- DVI monitoring. Take advantage of low cost LCD and plasma displays for SD and HD monitoring using one of the DVI outputs of your built-in graphics card.
- Toggle full screen display. Only one monitor? No problem –one keystroke fills the monitor with your HD or SD footage.
- Optimised HDV output. New smart-splicing technology means no re-encoding of sections which don’t require it and much faster HDV output.
- Capture from Varicam. Exactly what it says!
- Safe Colour Limiter. Ensures that the output always conforms to broadcast safe colour standards.
Click here for system requirements and see the complete list of features here.
Encoding Support
- AVC/H.264
- WMV HD**
- Windows Media 7, 8, 9**
- Windows Media ACELP**
- Windows Media Audio 8**
- Windows Media Screen 7**
- Embedded or linked Flash (FLV and SWF)
- RealVideo 8, 9, and 10
- RealVideo G2 (with SVT)
- ATRAC3 RealAudio
- ACELP RealAudio
- Cook Real Audio
- Sorenson AVC Pro (for MPEG-4 encoding)
- Sorenson MPEG-4 Pro (for Visual Simple Profiles and Visual Profile encoding)
- Sorenson Spark Pro (for Flash MX and Flash MX Professional encoding)
- MS ISO MPEG-4 video version 1.0
- MS MPEG-4 3
- Uncompressed Audio
- AAC (MPEG-4 AAC audio encoding technology licensed by Fraunhofer IIS)
- aacPlus
- ADPCM
- QUALCOMM PureVoice
- Apple IMA 4:1
- Qdesign Music Codec 2
- MPEG-2
- SVCD
- WAV
- QuickTime
- Source pixel aspect ratio detection
- One and two-pass VBR encoding
- Send to DVD templates included
Avid Editors - The most important reason why you should choose Avid. Professional Avid editors comprise the industry’s deepest pool of talent, proven on the most demanding creative projects. You cna literally find an Avid editor to suit your budget within a matter of minutes. They’ll make your projects better, too. Clients around the world have come to rely on the proven expertise of Avid editors. Avid Xpress Pro can be your first step toward a better-paying, more creative future.
* Prices do not include delivery, configuration and installation.
** Not included in Academic versions. Additional software included subject to change. Check with your reseller before purchase.
