There's a reason nearly all of today's feature films and prime-time television shows are created using Avid® systems: end-to-end, concept-to-conform creative flexibility you won't find anywhere else. The same tools are built into Avid Xpress Pro, a full-featured editing environment for HD, SD, DV, and film that's also ideal as a portable companion to every Avid system.

Edit faster
Do more, and do it faster, with the most flexible, customizable editing toolset and the best effects available. Fast, fingertip trim tools. Trim across multiple tracks, with both sides of the trim monitor updating at once. Avid's Open Timeline for mixing multiple HD resolutions, HD and SD in the same sequence – even the same clip group for mixed resolution multicam editing.

Equally powerful on Mac and PC
Use the most powerful machine you can find, on the platform of your choice. With both platforms included in every box, you can work on one platform at work, another on the road any way you need it, no problem. Change your platform later? Just take the software with you!

Portable and powerful digital and analog I/O
Avid Mojo hardware expands the power and capability of Avid Xpress Pro with expanded I/O, hardware acceleration, and preview to a client monitor.

Avid manages media
Powered by a patented dynamic media database, Avid's no-excuses media management proves itself daily on the world's most complex productions. Share bins between projects, work with multiple versions and resolutions of a project, move projects between computers with only the media you need perfectly, painlessly, every time. Your media deserves this kind of care, and so do you.

The Filmmaker's Companion
Powered by the Academy Award-winning Avid Film Composer, you can easily track advanced film metadata, including KeyKode™ and multiple timecodes, directly inside the editing interface no separate database application required. That's just the beginning of the most complete film editing toolset in the business.

Unmatched graphics and effects
Exceptionally powerful color correction with tools you won't find elsewhere, including Curves and One-touch automatic correction means your images will look better, faster. Avid Marquee for the industry's most complete integrated 2D and 3D title animation toolset.

If you're working in HD, you need the industry's first HD format designed for postproduction, Avid DNxHD: the beauty of uncompressed HD in the bandwidth of SD.

System Requirements:

Macintosh

• 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 Xpress Pro version 5.5.2 or later software.)
  
• PowerMac G5 and PowerBook models only. Universal Binaries for Mac Intel will be supported in a future release
  
• System memory (same requirements for software-only, with Mojo or with Mojo SDI)
  
• 1 GB system minimum
  
• 2 GB recommended for HD or high-stream count SD projects
  
• A graphics adapter supported by Apple – 128MB memory on graphics card
  
• Apple native FireWire, included with all qualified systems
  
• 40 GB or larger internal SATA boot drive
  
• CD or DVD-ROM drive or DVD+RW drive
  
• QuickTime 7.1 or later

Windows

• Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2
  
• QuickTime 7.1 or later; Windows Media Player 10 (with version 9.5 codecs)
  
• 1 GB system memory minimum, 2 GB recommended for HD or high-stream count SD projects
  
• One of the following processors:
  2.4 GHz Xeon processor
  Pentium D processor
  Pentium 4 1.8 GHz processor
  Pentium M 1.8 GHz processor (mobile configurations)
  Intel Core Duo processor (mobile configurations)
  
• Qualified graphics card (per model, as supported by system vendors)1
  
• Qualified IEEE-1394 FireWire port (integrated or add-in card2 ; Mojo is not supported on notebook systems with PCMCIA cards of any kind)
  
• 40 GB or larger internal drive3
  
• DVD-ROM or DVD+RW drive

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