Avid Media Composer 8 Software

What is Media Composer
Media Composer is the most proven video editing software in the industry, trusted by professional editors in every segment of movie making, television, broadcast and streaming media. Designed to handle high volumes of disparate file-based media, Media Composer delivers accelerated high-res and HD workflows, real-time collaboration and powerful media management, eliminating time-consuming tasks so you can focus on telling a great story.

• Work with AAX factory presets from Pro Tools
• View closed captions on an external monitor, as well as on the interface
• Get alpha channel support for QuickTime-wrapped DNxHR media
• Export DNxHR as Quicktime-wrapped or MXF OP1a
• Create XAVC-I masters at UHD and 4K resolution
• Get GPU effects acceleration on Mac and Windows with AMD and NVIDIA cards
• Export high-res files in DPX format
• Easily switch project resolutions and have all precompute clips (renders) automatically relink
• Search for bins within the Project window using the Quick Filter tool
• Toggle clips and tracks on and off in the timeline to explore and compare sequence variations
• Speed up editing with new timeline enhancements
• Read DPX files without transcoding using the Avid Image Sequencer plug-in
• Create groups from stereoscopic clips for easy multicam editing
• Automate non-creative tasks such as transcoding, copying and consolidating in the background with Dynamic Media Folders
• Keep your Avid software, plug-ins and related third-party software up to date with the application manager
• Gain total control over your soundtrack with support for 64-bit AAX audio plug-ins, Clip Gain control and new Master Audio Fader
• Expand your editorial abilities with options, including advanced and secondary color tools, iNEWS/ENPS integration and hardware acceleration
• Locate files faster with new search capabilities that quickly filter results as you type and extend coverage to comments and markers
• Experience better performance with image thumbnail caching, GPU processing support for AVX2 plug-ins and more
• Create comprehensive reference files easily with the new Simplified AAF format

Edit 4K and Other High-Res Media Natively
With native support for 2K, 4K, Ultra HD and higher resolution media, you can acquire, manage, edit and deliver content with speed and ease.

Work with Avid Resolution Independence
With Avid Resolution Independence, you can work with practically any media in every resolution-SD, HD, 4K and beyond-using your existing infrastructure. Automate the process of duplicating and parking high-res media into near line storage using Dynamic Media Folders. Automatically transcode media to working editorial formats-from lightweight proxies to HD or even mastering-quality high-res formats at a fraction of their original sizes, using the new DNxHR codec

Link to, consolidate and transcode media to any raster size or frame rate
Easily relink clips to mastering-quality DNxHR or high-res sources for final mastering. Deliver a high-res master of your finished project right from Media Composer, eliminating the need to export to other tools for finishing

Get Greater Beauty without the Bandwidth
With Avid DNxHR, you can work with a wider range of resolutions to fit your task at hand from lightweight proxies that are a fraction of the raw file sizes for high-performance editorial, to even more mastering resolutions, including 2K and 4K for delivery.

Play Back High-Res Camera Media Natively
Gain the flexibility to mix and match Avid DNxHR, Apple ProRes, Canon XF-AVC, Panasonic AVC-I and Sony XAVC-I high-res media in the timeline and edit footage natively, with smooth real-time playback

Deliver More Detailed Action
Media Composer now supports higher frame rates, including 48p and 60p with HD, 2K, 4K and Ultra HD media, enabling you to preserve more image information and natural motion with stunning clarity-even in the most chaotic action scenes.

Produce More Vivid, Truer Imagery
With Media Composer, you can now work in BT.2020 and DCI-P3, in addition to Rec. 709.Once installed, LUTs can be made universally available across all projects or privately available to a current project and can then be applied as clip and track based effects.

Eliminate the Wait with Background Rendering and Transcoding
Gain more time to focus on your story instead of waiting for effects to render and transcodes to complete. With these tasks handled completely in the background, you can greatly speed up the editorial process-especially when working with 4K media, which can take around 4x longer to render than 1080p HD media

Overcome Today's (and Tomorrow's)Technology Challenges
Media Composer already supports the industry's most extensive range of file-based media, codecs and third-party products, plus real-time remote collaboration.

Editing
Open to Anything
Work with high-res, HD and SD file-based media, tape and film. Capture and monitor with your choice of powerful and reliable Avid or third-party interfaces. Accelerate editing with Artist Series control surfaces. Integrate into any professional production pipeline. And collaborate seamlessly with Pro Tools editors.

Experience the Wait less Workflow
Instantly access and edit file-based media including ARRI ALEXA MXF, RED, AVCHD, ProRes, QuickTime, XDCAM, P2, Canon XF and other formats without transcoding or copying files. Preview footage without the wait.

Work with Any Media
File-based media, 2K/4K/5K footage, analog and digital tape, stereoscopic 3D material, film-bring it on. Media Composer offers ACE certified editing tools and a wide range of features, workflows and options that enable you to work with everything, from old school media to the latest camera technologies

Experience Cutting Edge Storytelling
It doesn't matter how you learned to edit-Media Composer goes where others leave off, enabling you to work the way you want. Trim and manipulate on the fly using the Smart Tool or perform ultra-precise edits using traditional tools.

Edit 3D
Edit stereoscopic 3D material as quickly and easily as you do with standard 2D footage, with a full set of features and workflows. Capture, edit and manage the complete 3D end to end workflow.

Workflow
For the fastest capture/edit/monitor/output workflows, pair Media Composer with an Artist, DNxIO video interface and experience hardware-accelerated power and Avid-exclusive features that are second to none.

Work with the Hardware You Have
Media Composer is fully open thanks to Avid Open I/O,so you can work with your choice of powerful and reliable Avid audio and video interfaces or third-party video I/O cards, including those from AJA, Blackmagic Design, Bluefish444, Matrox and MOTU.

Get Stock Footage and More in the Avid Marketplace
Conveniently browse for stock footage, plug-ins, hardware and more, right from within Media Composer no shoes, shirt or pants required. Search for preview and purchase stock footage from T3 Media in context with your project.

Collaborate with Everyone, Everywhere
With Avid ISIS, you can collaborate across mixed editing platforms, including Final Cut Pro, through native support for ProRes encoding (Mac only) and decoding. Share audio mixes with Pro Tools editors and vice-versa using AAF.

Everything You Need
Design and Dazzle with Visual Effects
Give your projects that professional polish. Create eye-catching 2D and 3D composites, titles, animation and effects with Boris Continuum Complete Lite. Add visual drama and depth with the built-in 2D and 3D effects, title tools, transitions, keying and motion effects.

Create Studio-Quality Soundtracks
Make your projects sound as good as they look using the built-in audio recording, editing and mixing tools. Record and monitor voiceovers, overdubs and more using select. Edit and mix in up to 7.1 surround sound. Polish sounds with the included AAX effects-the same plug-ins that come with Pro Tools.

Color Correct and Grade with Precision
Save time and maintain the highest quality production with the fully integrated 10-bit color correction toolset. Quickly and accurately match colors from shot to shot using NaturalMatch. Gain better color precision with support for full-quality 4:4:4 HD-RGB color space processing.

Design and deliver
With Sorenson Squeeze Lite included in Media Composer subscriptions, you can optimize media for the highest-quality playback-online or on disc.Prepare and optimize content in a variety of formats.

Say Goodbye to Tape with AS-02/AS-11 File-Based Output
Seamlessly move content between Avid and other systems that support the formats. Use JPEG 2000, DNxHD, IMX, AVC-Intra and uncompressed media in your versioning/archive workflow. And because the formats are open industry standards, you'll eliminate time wasted on repackaging content

Join the Community for Support and More
Need advice or answers from your peers and experts? Join the Avid community, made up of hundreds of professional editors and Avid representatives around the world. Search for answers, ask questions or help others in their forums.

Support and Upgrades Included
All Media Composer subscriptions and perpetual license purchases include Avid Standard Support, providing you with world-class industry expertise and when you need it, plus software updates and upgrades as soon as the