Avid Media Composer

Media Composer Software Subscription Elite Support Edit faster with the sleeker interface—just added
Working with Media Composer just got a whole lot easier with the newly streamlined yet still robust user interface. Access key tools and features faster thanks to several updates that make your software interaction more intuitive, productive, and fun. This gives you even greater efficiency, so you can focus more time on your creative storytelling.

Work with up to 64 audio tracks—just added
Create bigger, richer soundtracks with 250% more audio tracks than previously available. Work on sequences with higher audio track counts. Get more room to add and work with audio clips. And gain better control over every facet of sound by keeping dialog, production sound, music, ADR, Foley, and sound effects in separate tracks.

Take on dynamic HDR projects—just added
Media Composer now supports high dynamic range (HDR) workflows, enabling you to edit and grade projects using new color specs that display a greater dynamic range than standard video. Enhance color and contrast to achieve more realistic, dramatic imagery, with exceptional detail in the shadows and highlights. And get support for Dolby Vision, Sony S-Log3, BBC/NHK, and ACES profiles. It’s a fast-growing technology—and an important way to future-proof your valuable content.

Get better visual feedback when editing—just added
Edit with greater precision—and confidence—with new high-visibility feedback displayed as you edit in the timeline. View clips in real time as you drag them around. See the impact your edits have on all affected clips and tracks with the new live trim update. Plus, you can now drag a clip directly onto the timeline to add a new track.

Experience better performance—just added
All played frames—and all effects applied to those clips—are now cached in RAM. This allows for a smoother, stutter-free performance when scrubbing or playing back a complex sequence multiple times. And with high core count systems, you’ll see a performance boost when playing back and rendering effects too.

Straighten images quickly with FrameFlex rotation—just added
Forget having to use 3D Warp; you can now quickly rotate images a little or a lot by rotating the framing box in FrameFlex. Horizontally straighten multiple sources at once. Reset the view for footage shot while the camera was upside down or on its side. You can even animate the rotation parameters in the effects editor.

Work faster and more easily with many enhancements and improvements—just added
- Experience better performance in full screen playback mode
- Easily sync Broadcast Wave audio files with video clips with subframe accuracy
- Add one or more custom columns to a bin easily through a contextual menu
- Copy and paste frame numbers in bin columns
- Find and filter effects faster and easier with the updated Effects palette
- Rename, edit, and delete custom project presets with the Preset Manager
- Use Media Composer on OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) and Windows 10 computers
- Group master clips using audio waveform analysis
- Start a frame count at “1” instead of “0” (zero) for timecode burn-in segments
- Resize and configure the Audio Mixer for your project at hand
- Preserve field recorder metadata across multiple audio tracks when importing/linking

Edit 4K and other high-res media natively
Satisfy your audience’s insatiable appetite for higher quality, more inspiring content—delivered when they want, where they want, and on any device they want. With native support for 2K, 4K, Ultra HD, and higher resolution media, you can acquire, manage, edit, and deliver content with speed and ease. Plus, you can view 2K/4K media in its native resolution on a client monitor—in real time—using Avid Artist | DNxIO or your choice of third-party Open I/O-compatible hardware.

Work with Avid Resolution Independence
Take on any job—in any media resolution—without limits. With Avid Resolution Independence, you can work with practically any media in every resolution—SD, HD, 4K, and beyond—using your existing infrastructure. Plus, Custom Raster Support lets you work with any raster, from 8K to special rasters you can define. Create dynamic 2D & 3D titles at any resolution using upgraded NewBlue Titler Pro plug-ins (included).
- Automate the process of duplicating and parking high-res media into nearline 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
When we introduced Avid DNxHD, we gave you “beauty without the bandwidth,” enabling you to work with and master HD media easily, without blowing your storage budget. And now we’re expanding these same benefits to high-res. 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 (making remote collaboration easier), to even more mastering resolutions, including 2K and 4K for delivery. Plus, it’s completely backwards compatible with DNxHD, as it’s built on the same extensible, standards-based media codec.

Use the tools the pros use starting at just $49.99/month
When reputations are on the line, professional editors in film and television have long turned to Media Composer to help them expertly manage mountains of media, simplify workflows, and accelerate the editorial process to tell the best story possible. And now the software is an easy fit for any budget, with a range of low-cost options to add the media industry standard to your workflow. Choose a monthly or annual subscription, buy and own the software outright, or deploy flexibly across your facility with floating licensing. The choice is yours.

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. Plus, you’ll enjoy more flexibility when creating motion effects.

Produce more vivid, truer imagery
Get access to the full range of new color standards that high-res projects demand, enabling you to deliver content with the richest, most realistic color detail for the medium at hand. With Media Composer, you can now work in BT.2020 (for Ultra HD broadcast) and DCI-P3 (for 2K and 4K Digital Cinema projectors), in addition to Rec. 709 (for HDTV broadcast). Once installed, LUTs (Look Up Tables) 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 in both Media Composer and Media Composer | Cloud, 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
Gain the commanding edge and stay at the forefront of the media industry with a steady stream of new updates and features that enable you to work with the latest media formats and technologies. Media Composer already supports the industry’s most extensive range of file-based media, codecs, and third-party products, plus real-time remote collaboration. And with new Avid Resolution Independence and accelerated high-res and HD workflows, it's the only tool that advances your editorial integrity and versatility—now and in the future.