The Media Composer Editing Software from Avid is Avid's premiere editing system. The software is fully compatible with their hardware DNA products such as the Mojo SDI and Adrenaline with DNxcel. The software allows editors to work with standard and high definition video formats as well as film in 24p format. Media Composer also features unparalleled asset management and multicamera editing support, making it an excellent option for the most demanding professional editors.

Avid Media Composer Features

Open Timeline
Media Composer systems offer all the support you need to mix multiple formats and resolutions in the same timeline—in real time—so you can keep the creativity flowing. Combine HD, SD, DV, and film formats and resolutions, as well as Avid AVR and Meridien JFIF media without rendering, transcoding, or re-digitizing. Edit native DVCPRO HD and HDV media. And take advantage of real-time, mixed-format multicam editing.

Native Sony XDCAM and Panasonic P2 support
Save time with direct capture of media and “tapeless” workflows: no need to shuttle through tapes looking for a shot. Native MXF support provides direct integration of Sony XDCAM and Panasonic P2 formats into an Avid workflow. Edit straight from Panasonic P2 cards or high-speed file transfers. Sony XDCAM support offers native editing of Long-GOP proxies, DV, and high-resolution IMX media.

Avid DNxHD encoding
Maintain mastering-quality images regardless of source: shoot in high-efficiency DVCPRO HD and HDV and apply effects, dissolves, titles, and composites using 10- or 8-bit Avid DNxHD encoding. Edit and preview HD in real time and take advantage of your existing storage and networking infrastructure to implement a profitable HD workflow.

10-bit real-time color correction
Save time and money with fast, accurate color correction tools based on award-winning Avid Symphony finishing technology. One click automatically analyzes and color corrects an entire sequence, allowing editors to create matching sequences quickly and easily.

Panasonic Varicam off-speed support
Capture and playback off-speed frame rates from tapes and files created by popular Panasonic Varicam cameras. Camera operators can now choose off-speed frame rates with the comfort of knowing that they will be seamlessly reproduced in the editing process.

Motion Tracking and Stabilization featuring SteadyGlide
Re-shoots and tedious compositing work are expensive. Even worse is having to throw away valuable footage that may have helped tell the story. Now you can steady footage that may have been unusable due to shaky camera work, resulting in big savings in both time and money.

FluidMotion
Create incredibly smooth slow-motion effects and “fit-to-fill” video using patented pixel morphing technology. Control speed and position using intuitive curve-based keyframing. Apply the look of 24 fps progressive frame rates to 30 fps interlaced sources with the exclusive FluidFilm feature.

SpectraMatte Keyer
Pulling a key with 8-bit formats such as DVCPRO HD can be tricky. Create higher-quality keys and play them back in real time with 16-bit SpectraGraph technology. An interactive environment eliminates guesswork and helps editors to achieve a perfect key.

Long GOP Splicing
The Media Composer system now has the ability to work at MPEG GOP (Group of Picture) structures smaller than the standard 15 frames. This allows customers to export HDV material without first having to render the entire sequence, saving valuable time in the editing room.

4 Channel Audio Punch-In
Record up to 4 channels of audio direct to the timeline without having to capture and then edit the material. During complex dialogue replacement or narration, multiple voices can now be recorded into the timeline, resulting in a huge time savings.

Full Screen Play Over DVI Output
Content creators can now utilize lighter, less expensive LCD monitors for viewing full screen playback of SD and HD output connected via standard DVI connectors. No need for those expensive bulky CRT-based HD monitors.

Professional film tools
Academy Award® winning Avid Film Composer unequaled film metadata management features are built in to every Media Composer system. Save time and eliminate costly errors with real-time capture of normal pulldown and automatic audio and video source synchronization. Stay focused with Script-based Editing and Web-based film cutlists. Accelerate your film workflow with seamless Timecode, KeyKode, DPX, VXF, and UNC metadata tracking.

Streamlined workflows
The unified Avid editing environment and seamless conform closes the gap between editing and finishing and eliminates the need to re-build creative editorial work in the online suite. Remote Play and Capture allows editing systems to act as networked source/record devices. Support for Avid Unity productivity tools adds background media management, transfers, and encoding for facility-wide collaboration over Avid Unity shared media networks.

Superior media management
Organize, label, and locate all your media sources and assets quickly and easily. Move and rename clips without losing links—all occurrences are automatically updated. Intuitive, customizable media management features are built into the Avid editing environment and are designed especially for long, complex projects.

Optional Avid Mojo-SDI DNA Hardware Features

• SDI serial digital I/O on 2 DVI breakout cables
• Composite, Component and S-Video
• 1394 camera port

• 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

• 48 kHz, 44.1 kHz, and 32 kHz
• 16 analog / digital or 24-bit digital audio
• 4 channel analog
• 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, customized music soundtrack creation
• Embedded audio over SDI

• 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 optimized

• Mixable resolutions in timeline
• Real-time Multicam (9 screens SD, 3 screens HD)
• Motion Tracking and Stabilization 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

• Native 10-bit Boris Continuum Complete effects and filters
• Real-time customizable 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
• Customizable 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™

• Real-time professional-level color correction tools
• Patent-pending One Step AutoCorrect
• Patented NaturalMatch™ for easy tone matching
• Real-time keyframeable color effects
• Three-monitor color correction windows
• ChromaCurve™ and ChromaGraph display
• Advanced Waveform and Vectorscope monitors
• Split-screen client monitoring

• Real-time uncompressed graphics and titles
• 2D and 3D titling including Marquee
• Rolling and crawling titles
• User-savable title style sheets

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• Microsoft® Windows® XP 32-bit Edition (SP2)
• Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E6400 2.13 GHz 2 MB L2, 1066 MHz FSB (or greater)
  
• 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM (3 GB recommended for HD and high-stream count SD projects or workgroup connected systems)
  
• 160 GB (7200 rpm) SATA
  
• NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500 (256 MB) Hardware OpenGL acceleration
  

• Microsoft® Windows® XP 32-bit Edition (SP2)
• Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E6400 2.13 GHz 2 MB L2, 1066 MHz FSB (or greater)
• 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM (3 GB recommended for HD and high-stream count SD projects or workgroup connected systems)
• 160 GB (7200 rpm) SATA
• NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 (256 MB) Hardware OpenGL acceleration

• Dual 3.4 or 3.6 GHz Intel Xeon processor with NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450, 3400, 1400 or 1300.
• For additional details on configuration of this system, see HP xw8200 Configuration Guidelines.
  
• Windows XP Professional SP2.
• System Memory: 2GB minimum, 3GB recommended for HD and high stream count SD projects or workgroup connected systems.

• Dual 3.2 or 3.06 GHz Intel Xeon processor with NVIDIA Quadro FX 1100.
• Windows XP Professional SP2.
• System Memory: 2GB minimum, 3GB recommended for HD and high stream count SD projects or workgroup connected systems.

• HP nw8440 Mobile Workstation
• HP nw9440 Mobile Workstation
• Dell Precision M65 (Avid Mojo not supported)
• Dell Precision M90 (Avid Mojo not supported)
• HP nw8240 Mobile Workstation (DVCPRO HD not supported)
• HP Compaq Mobile Workstation nw8000 (DVCPRO HD not supported)

• ADS PYRO PCI 64, part #API-311 [Required in Intel Xeon systems with expanded storage]
• SIIG 1394 3-Port PCI i/e, part #NN-440012
• SUNIX FWA2414

Qualified Macintosh Workstations and NotebooksAvid Media Composer v2.5 requires Mac OS X 10.4.6 or later. Earlier versions of Mac OS X are not supported. (NOTE: Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later requires Avid Media Composer version 2.5.2 or later software.)

Apple Power Mac G5

• Quad 2.5 GHz G5 processor with nVIDIA GeForce 6600
• Dual 2.3 GHz G5 processor with nVIDIA GeForce 6600
• Dual 2.0 GHz G5 processor with nVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE

• Dual 2.7 GHz G5 processor with ATI Radeon 9650
• Dual 2.5 GHz G5 processor with ATI Radeon 9600 XT
• Dual 2.3 GHz G5 processor with ATI Radeon 9600
• Dual 2.0 GHz G5 processor with ATI Radeon 9600
• Mac OS X v10.4.6
• System Memory: 2GB minimum, 3GB recommended for HD and high stream count SD projects
• Full screen play requires use of a graphics card with at least 128MB of memory

• 1.67 GHz 17" model
• 1.67 GHz 15" model