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. Find out why industry-standard Avid tools are used to create nearly all of today's feature films and prime time television shows:

Edit faster.
Do more, and do it faster, with the most flexible, customizable editing toolset and the best effects available. Fast, fingertip trim tools. Real-time Avid multicam editing. One-Touch and NaturalMatch automatic color correction. Crisp image stabilization with auto-zoom. Pan and zoom of oversized stills. Real-time animated alpha channels. Only Avid Xpress Pro video editing gives you all this—and much more.

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.

Powerful 24p and film features.
With Academy Award winning Avid Film Composer tools built right 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.

Connect anything. Edit anything.
Use more of the industry's most popular formats more ways, including P2, XDCAM and other tapeless media—and do more with them. Only Avid Xpress Pro software lets you combine multiple formats in their native form – DV, SD, HD* and film -- on one timeline, in real time. When you're done, encode them anyway you want: WMV HD, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), MPEG 2, Flash, and more.

Collaborate locally. Collaborate globally.
Start with Avid Xpress Pro software, and there's no limit to where you can go. Add seamlessly integrated 3D animation, Pro Tools audio, audio and video hardware, and more. Connect with the smartest shared storage and collaborative tools in the business. And Avid Total Conform makes it easy, fast, and affordable to give your project the same professional finish of today's big-budget productions.

• 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.

• Optimized HDV output. New smart-splicing technology means no re-encoding of sections that don’t require it and much faster HDV output.
• Capture from Varicam. Want to create an under-crank/over-crank look using Panasonic’s Varicam camera? Now you can, with realtime restoration of the intended frame rate during capture.
• Safe color limiter. Ensures that the output always conforms to broadcast safe color standards.
• 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.
• Optional Avid VideoRAID local storage. Maximum performance, maximum protection, for all the formats you need. For details, click here.

• Microsoft Windows XP
• Mac OS X for PowerPC

• Open Timeline: mixed resolutions in the same timeline in real time
• Real-time multicam for 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
• Easily edit multiple tracks at once and trim multiple edits at the same time
• JKL trim, transport control and machine control
• Scrub clips with JKL control in any bin window – even in the Clipboard window, which shows any footage that’s been cut or copied , allowing clips to be edited before pasting.
• Customizable menu, toolbars and keyboard commands to enhance your workflow can be saved and transferred to other Avid editing systems
• Modal editing maximizes efficiency for every editing task, while protecting sequence from unintended changes.
• 4-up view when moving clips or groups of clips in the timeline – your source/record monitors automatically switch to show first and last frames of clips being moved, as well as the frames on either side of the new edit
• Separate workspaces for editing, color correction, effects, audio editing, and capture put critical tools at your fingertips when you need them. Each can have its own window layout, keyboard shortcuts and other custom features for the easiest organization of everything you do
• Fast real-time professional color correction tools based on Avid Symphony, including One-step Auto Correct and Natural Match
• Unlimited video tracks via nesting for dynamic multilayered compositions
• Replace or update all graphics within layered compositions in one click
• Easy manipulation of imported graphics, including support for Adobe Photoshop layers
• Real-time compositing of animated alpha channels over multiple tracks of video
• Reformat filters to easily manage 14:9, 16:9 and 4:3 media in the same timeline, regardless of output aspect ratio
• AutoSave with Attic folder to revert to previous version, along with menu listing 32 levels of undo go back to the exact point in time you need to
• SuperBins provide access to all media, effects, project settings, device settings, and more in a single interface
• One Step Dynamic Storyboards drag and drop clips in order inside bin, then straight to timeline
• Quick Transitions quickly apply favorites
• SuperBin to easily arrange multiple bins, application settings, format settings, and filters in a single tabbed window
• ExpertRender selectively processes to ensure flawless playback to tape
• Powerful audio tools including real-time audio mix, punch-in, EQ, automation gain, stereo VU meters, and Digidesign AudioSuite technology
• Real-time audio dissolves and punch-in
• DV scene extraction instantly builds individual clips from a single DV capture
• Over 115 customizable real-time software effects and multiple simultaneous real-time streams to create and view richly layered effects without rendering
• 2D and 3D OpenGL based effects
• Real-time performance on a wide range of desktops and notebooks
• Full version of Sorenson Squeeze Compression Suite for Flash output, DVD compression, and more
• Award-winning Avid Tour quickly brings new users up to speed.
• Online tutorial and documentation, with even more available at www.avid.com

• 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 and edited in Avid Xpress Pro.)
• 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
• Effects are in real time when going out over IEEE-1394
• Additional 16-bit effects
• Remote capture and play
• Color correction Dual Split display appears on client monitor
• AVX2 advanced plug-in architecture, with support for advanced keyframing and deep colorspace for both native Avid and third-party plug-in effects
• Improved 3 perf film tracking
• Improved feet + frame tracking above record side monitor
• MXF media support

• Entire film editing toolset found in the Academy Award-winning Avid Film Composer
• Widest range of film formats, including many such as VistaFilm and 65mm 15-perf (IMAX) not found in other software
• Mixed film gauges in the same timeline for maximum format flexibility
• FluidFilm, to create the look of progressive media, including pulldown, from interlaced media
• A variety of tools for second-source audio workflows, including native support for BWAV files with audio timecode, Auto-Sync, and quarter-frame slip to provide rock-solid sync aligned with perf boundaries
• Script-based editing - visually link multiple shots to corresponding sections of the script, and edit directly from the script.
• Integrated film metadata – no need for a separate application to track feet and frames (Xpress Pro tracks up to 7 different time codes at once), key codes, Ink and Aux Ink numbers, and other critical information
• Widest range of pulldown support, including the industry’s only live capture of NORMAL pulldown over 1394, and pulldown in all relationships (rather than just the “A” relationship that others are limited to)
• Dupe Detection, to prevent accidentally re-using shots
• Film-style effects to mimic such optically-generated film effects as dissolves
• Avid FilmScribe with Matchback for comprehensive cutlist generation for editing film-originated projects and creating frame-accurate cutlists, optical pull lists and other formats for final film assembly

• Robust media database to manage multiple projects at once, from directly inside Xpress Pro
• Track multiple timecodes at once, including NTSC drop and non-drop, PAL, 24 and 25P, and film – managing input and output formats at a glance has never been easier
• Open Timeline for multiple resolutions in one sequence – including the ability to display the resolution within the clip on the timeline. You’ll never have to wonder which clips are which resolution
• “Relink by Resolution” provides one-click management of multiple versions of media
• “Show comments” directly in timeline makes it easy to share information in a way that won’t be missed
• Clip and sequence-based locators with comments can be managed on the timeline, or in an easy-to-read window that can be printed for fast client approvals
• One-step Consolidate moves the media you need, and ONLY the media you need for easy transfer of projects from one computer to another – such as from desktop to laptop, even across platforms. You can choose to transcode in the same easy step. Automatic relinking on the other end of the transfer means never any manual relinking!
• Customizable tools to search across multiple projects, including offline media
• Create custom metadata, and have it travel with your project
• Avid Media Tool to search, and custom bin display to quickly track and identify assets including master sources, subclips, renders, sequences, and more
• Share bins between multiple projects
• Avid MetaSync support for advanced metadata management directly in the editing timeline
• Multiple editors can use the same projects, bins and media at the same time when collaborating over Avid Unity MediaNetworks, including Avid Unity LANshare and Avid Unity ISIS

• Sophisticated color correction technology originally found in Avid Symphony – nobody else comes close to this level of professional color correction.
• One-touch Auto Correct to separately analyze each selected clip in a sequence (including all of the clips in a sequence!), and automatically apply a unique color correction to each, all with one click, all in real time
• Patented NaturalMatch color matching to match skin tones across scenes, set white balance and perform other complex calibration tasks with one click
• Curves color correction for maximum control
• Three-window view to more easily compare color from frame to frame
• Customizable, advanced vectorscope, waveform, histogram and parade monitors include RGH and YCbCr histogram and parade, Y & YC waveform, and quad displays
• Split-screen “before and after” display to both computer monitor and to broadcast monitor through Avid Mojo and Avid Mojo SDI
• Integrated Image Stabilization with Auto-Zoom
• Real-time compositing of animated alpha channels over multiple tracks of video
• Pan and Zoom tool with high-quality real-time preview
• Real-time Timewarp effects
• Reformat filters to easily manage 14:9, 16:9 and 4:3 media in the same timeline, regardless of output aspect ratio
• Over 115 customizable real-time software effects and multiple simultaneous real-time streams to create and view richly layered effects without rendering
• 2D and 3D OpenGL based effects
• Avid Illusion FX Pack for more effects power: more than two-dozen advanced filters including FluidMorph, Melt and Particle Blast
• FluidFilm effects to simulate film and progressive media for interlaced video
• AVX2 advanced plug-in architecture, with support for advanced keyframing and deep colorspace for both native Avid and third-party plug-in effects
• Save customized filters as media assets directly to bin, ready to apply again any time
• Apply filters to “fill,” an empty area in the timeline, to affect all underlying clips
• Noise Industries Factory Tools, bundled with all new purchases, provides Mac users with the most advanced integration with real-time Mac OS effects technologies including Core Image, Core Video, and Quartz Compositions – over 100 filters, with easy tools for customizing existing filters and creating your own

• Avid Total Conform and Advanced Conform - bins, sequences and projects compatible with other Avid editing products for seamless workflow with Avid Media Composer and Avid Media Composer Adrenaline, Avid Symphony Nitris and Avid DS Nitris systems, as well as Avid Meridien systems including Avid Film Composer
• Integration with Avid Xpress Studio software and hardware for PC
• AAF and OMF media support
• Avid Unity media networks support for real-time performance in a collaborative environment
• Seamless audio exchange with Digidesign Pro Tools systems
• Support for popular IEEE-1394 cards, cameras and decks
• Multiprocessor optimized

• Everything you need from one place. Tested together. Guaranteed performance. Professional support for all of it
• Avid Mojo SDI for highest-quality digital uncompressed SD I/O with 8 channels of embedded audio, as well as IEEE-1394, composite, S-video and component analog, plus AES/EBU audio
• Avid Mojo for IEEE-1394composite, S-video, and optional component analog I/O
• Supports a wide range of Avid's Local Storage products
  • Avid VideoRAID
  • Avid MediaDock Ultra320 and Ultra160 LVD removable storage
  • Avid MediaDrive rS Ultra320 and Ultra160 LVD fixed storage
  • Avid MediaDrive rS FireWire fixed storage
  • Avid MEDIArray (1 Gb) and MEDIArray II (2 Gb) 10K Fibre Channel storage
• Supported as an Ethernet or Fiber attached client on Avid Unity media networks, including Avid Unity LANshare and Avid Unity ISIS
• Avid Assurance for help with installation, troubleshooting, and workflow

• 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 Xpress Pro added-value software

Every copy of Avid Xpress Pro* includes the following additional software for both PC and Mac valued at $1845:

• SmartSound SonicFire Pro for custom high-quality music creation ( demo )
• Sorenson Squeeze 4 Compression Suite for high-quality encoding to Quicktime, Flash, MPEG-1,2,4, RealMedia, and Windows media formats
• Boris FX LTD advanced 2D/3D effects and compositing tools
• Boris Graffiti LTD advanced 2D titling tools
• Avid DVD Limited by Sonic for professional quality DVD production (PC only)
• Full Avid DVD by Sonic included as a promotion in certain offers
• Noise Industries Factory Tools for advanced Mac OS X Tiger Core Image and Quartz Composition effects (Mac only)