Avid Media Composer is a High speed video editing software ideal offline, file based, and mobile editing. Meet the fastest, most powerful editing tool available. With Media Composer 5 software, you can wk with me fmats and in me ways than ever befe, and speed through common media barriers to get right to what really matters telling a great sty. Media Composer goes where other video editing systems leave off, giving you full featured editial tools, the fastest file based wkflows around, dependable media management, and innovative features that save you time and money. Whether youre cutting films, TV shows, sht fmat videos, other media, in the studio on the road, using a Mac a PC, you can edit the way you want, wherever you want, and in ways you never thought possible with Media Composer.

_ Whats new:
Directly access and edit RED files through AMA, without transcoding (images are scaled to HD frame size)
Wk natively with QuickTime video fmats, including Apple ProRes and H.264
Edit video and audio by dragging and dropping elements in the timeline
Keep high end finishing projects in house and gain great col precision with HD RGB suppt (including dual link I/O suppt with Nitris DX systems)
Monit video externally with suppt f the Matrox MXO2 Mini
Mix and match frame sizes and aspect ratios in addition to fmats, frame rates, and resolutions in the same timeline
Take a break during long renders and have your system email you when the jobs done
Impt AVCHD files directly from cameras and other devices
Capture to and edit XDCAM HD and DVC PRO HD fmats from baseband without additional hardware
Access low res XDCAM proxies f offline wk, with full quality audio
Impt SMPTE 436M compliant MXF files containing ancillary data and embed it in the video signal with the new Data Track
View stereo audio tracks as single channels in the timeline f easier handling
Create high quality sounds and mixes with suppt f RTAS audio processing plug ins
Natively access and edit 4:2:2 MPEG 2 media from the new Canon cameras using AMA
Wk Directly with RED Using the Newly Improved AMA
With Media Composer 5, AMA (Avid Media Access) has been completely reengineered, so you can wk natively with me file based media fmats now and in the future. With the new and improved AMA, you can speed up RED wkflows by directly accessing RED files (.R3D) in Media Composer without having to prepare them through MetaFuze (all footage is scaled to HD frame size). Plus, you have access to its full metadata and col management data too.

_ Edit QuickTime Fmats Natively :
Get native access to all popular QuickTime fmats, with full access to clip metadata. Thanks to AMA, you can natively access and edit any movie that can be played in Apples QuickTime Player (including Apple ProRes and .mov files captured by Canon 5D and 7D cameras) right in Media Composer no transcoding, rewrapping, logging and transferring required.

_ Drag and Drop Video and Audio to Edit :
Get comftable with Media Composer 5, you can truly edit the way you like. In addition to the standard way of editing, you can also now directly manipulate elements in the timeline to edit video and audio. Drag and drop clips anywhere you want on the timeline to rearrange sequences. And grab a clips in out point and drag to trim a scene, dialog, music.

_ Get Full Quality HD RGB Processing :
Keep those finishing jobs in house, and deliver the highest quality col and effects wk, with suppt f full quality 4:4:4 HD RGB col space processing in Media Composer. With the higher resolution detail, you can perfm col crection, keying, and effects wk with greater precision and ease. And if you have a Nitris DX based system, you can digitize, process, monit, and output projects in HD RGB, using the two HD SDI connections to handle the high bandwidth resolutions. RGB i/o is in all Nitris DX products.
Monit Video Externally through Matrox MXO2 Mini
If you dont have a Nitris DX Mojo DX based system, Media Composer 5 opens the do to third party wkflows, enabling you to monit video externally using the Matrox MXO2 Mini interface, which is available f Mac and Windows systems. When paired with Media Composer software, MXO2 Mini becomes a dedicated, high quality monit only solution f file based wkgroup production, so you can view your video wk in real time without any maj expense.

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