Avid introduces Media Composer software: affordable, hardware-independent film and video editing for Mac and Windows systems. This is the same Media Composer toolset used to create more of the world’s films, television shows, and commercials than any other editing system, and it’s more powerful than ever. New features include Motion Tracking and Stabilization, full-screen video output over DVI, and HD editing for Mac OS X (Tiger) systems—plus all the creative tools, integrated asset management, and multi-format editing support that have made Media Composer the best editor on the planet.
The World’s Most Powerful and Refined Film and Video Editing Software
£3,200 ex VAT *
Avid Media Composer 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 Media Composer Main Features
Video I/O - Standard Definition
- SDI serial digital I/O on 2 DVI breakout cables
- Composite, Component and S-Video
- 1394 camera port
HD Support
- Avid DNxHD encoding (10-bit and 8-bit 4:2:2) maintains full resolution (no sub-sampling), raster mode, frame rate, and aspect ratio
- Support for 1080i at 59.94, 50 fps; 1080p at 25, 24, 23.976 fps; 720p at 59.94, 23.976 fps
- Planned for future release: 720p at 50
- Native DVCPRO HD
- Native HDV support
Audio
- 48 kHz, 44.1 kHz, and 32 kHz
- 16 analogue / digital or 24-bit digital audio
- 4 channel analogue
- 4 channel single ended AES/EBU
- 2 channel optical S/PDIF
- 8 channels of SDI embedded
- Audio sync output
- Real-time audio mix to picture
- Support for Digidesign AudioSuite plug-ins
- Real-time multiband EQ
- SmartSound Sonicfire Pro for easy, customised music soundtrack creation
- Embedded audio over SDI
Avid Media Composer Software Features
- 10-bit edit, effects for both SD and HD
- Flexible codec library to support DV, IMX, SD, and HD in a single timeline.
- Native DVCPRO HD and DVCPRO 50 support (IEEE 1394 capture / output)
- Native HDV support
- Powerful real-time architecture allows up to 11 streams of uncompressed SD video (more streams possible at lower res)
- DI offline capabilities for file-based workflows
- SpectraMatte™ chroma keyer featuring SpectraGraph™
- AVX 2 support for more robust plug-ins
- Full/Draft Quality mode for maximum performance
- Multiprocessor optimised
Editing Features
- Mixable resolutions in timeline
- Real-time Multicam (9 screens SD, 3 screens HD)
- Motion Tracking and Stabilisation featuring SteadyGlide™
- Compatible with ABVB AVRs and Meridien JFIF
- Media consolidate and transcode between resolutions
- 24 video and audio tracks (unlimited video layers via nesting)
- 24 MetaSync™ tracks
- Full Film Composer® toolset
- Uncompressed effects independent of clip resolution
- Real-time equal power audio dissolves
- 4:3 and 16:9 support
- DV Scene extraction
- Long GOP Splicing
- Support for 24P normal and advanced pulldown capture
- PAL 24P and 25P
- Video Archive
- Edit while capture (Avid Unity MediaManager required)
- 23.976, 24, and film editing with 24 to 23.976 sequence conversion
- Normal pulldown capture over IEEE-1394 for 24fps projects
Digital Video Effects + Compositing
- Native 10-bit Boris Continuum Complete effects and filters
- Real-time customisable 3D effects, including Warp, Picture-in-Picture, Corner Pinning, Shapes, Video Titles
- Real-time Dissolves, Superimposition, Resize, Flips, Flops, Wipes, Conceals, Squeezes, Masks, and Picture-in-Picture
- Panasonic Varicam off-speed support
- Real-time Moving Mattes
- Real-time Chroma and Luma keys
- Real-time full-motion alpha keying
- Nondestructive compositing on unlimited layers
- Customisable rampable motion effects UI including FluidMotion™
- FluidFilm for film look in 50i and 60i material
- Supports all AVX™ 1.5 & AVX 2.0 plug-ins including 3rd party real-time plug-ins
- ExpertRender™ renders just the effects needed
- Intraframe™ Paint, AniMatte™, Scratch Removal
- Pan & Zoom creates video from high-res stills
- Deep Defocus, blur, mosaic
- Reformat tools for aspect ratio management
- SpectraMatte™ high quality keyer featuring SpectraGraph™
10 bit Colour Correction
- Real-time professional-level colour correction tools
- Patent-pending One Step AutoCorrect
- Patented NaturalMatch™ for easy tone matching
- Real-time keyframeable colour effects
- Three-monitor colour correction windows
- ChromaCurve™ and ChromaGraph display
- Advanced Waveform and Vectorscope monitors
- Split-screen client monitoring
Integrated Titling and Graphics
- Real-time uncompressed graphics and titles
- 2D and 3D titling including Marquee
- Rolling and crawling titles
- User-savable title style sheets
Streamlined Interoperability and Workflow
- Support for Avid Studio Toolkit (Avid FX, Avid DVD, and Avid 3D)
- Fully supported by the Avid Unity family, including collaborative environments with Avid Unity MediaManager, and Avid Unity TransferManager
- Edit while capturing media from AirSpeed
- Total Conform of bins, sequences, edits, composites, audio settings, effects, and Avid media with Avid Xpress®, Media Composer, Film Composer®, and Symphony™ systems
- Advanced conform with Avid DS Nitris™ systems with AFE
- Sony XDCAM support including MPEG proxies and IMX
- Panasonic P2 support
- AAF import/export
- MXF or OMF native media
- Windows Media HD and SD encoding
- Longitudinal Time Code (LTC) output
- Photoshop layers and After Effects support
- 24-bit audio file compatible with Digidesign Pro Tools® system
- Remote control play and capture
Project Management/Asset Management
- Multilevel find, sift, and sort functions
- Frame, script, and text views
- Script-based editing interface
- Unlimited number of bins
- Media Consolidate feature
- Folder hierarchy (nestable folders) within Project Window
- Advanced project accounting tools
- User, project, and site settings
- Ability to lock media
- Supports Avid Unity MediaManager for facility-wide search and display and local or remote asset management
Encoding for Web + Interactive Delivery
- Encoding of WMV HD and Windows Media 9, H.264 MPEG4, MPEG 1&2, QuickTime, Flash, and RealMedia
- WMV HD for high definition content on today's DVD-ROMs
- Push-button export of Windows Media (ASF), QuickTime 7.0 , and MPEG-2
- QuickTime Reference Movie output
- Sonic DVDit
- Sorenson Squeeze
- SmartSound SonicFire Pro
- Boris Continuum Complete
- Noise Industries Factory Tools
Networking + Storage
- Full Avid Unity MediaNetwork and Avid Unity ISIS support for real-time performance in a connectivity, shared storage, media protection, and network security collaborative environment
- Supports Avid Unity TransferManager (either standalone or in conjunction with Avid Unity MediaNetwork and Avid Unity MediaManager) to move media transparently between Media Composer systems and any CPU, anywhere
- Supports the full range of Avid's Local Storage products for fully tested solutions with guaranteed performance
* Prices do not include delivery, configuration and installation.
