Media Composer Ultimate

Import + Manage

• Import and edit footage from any camera, no matter the format, codec, or resolution. From HD and UHD, to HDR, 8K, and beyond, experience smooth, frame-accurate playback—even when mixing different types of video, audio, images, and frame rates.

• With the new Avid Media Engine, you can work with high-res, HDR, and proxy media more easily. Avid DNxHR and OpenEXR support eliminate bottlenecks, so you can work with a massive amount of media and quickly relink proxies to the original files with ease.

• Media Composer keeps track of all projects, source material, rendered files, metadata, and other media, so you’ll never lose sight of your assets. Your project media will always be linked—even as projects move and evolve over the years.

• With new bin containers and mapping, you can organize and group content any way you want. Find footage in seconds, searching for clips and takes based on the dialogue they contain with the PhraseFind and ScriptSync options.

Edit + VFX

• The majority of all films and TV shows are edited on Media Composer. That’s because it makes the creative process fast, easy, and gratifying. From fluid timeline editing, to the precision toolset, you can navigate and cut sequences more intuitively and tell better stories.

• Work the way you want to work, with a modern interface that makes editing easier and more fluid. Task-oriented workspaces—Edit, Color, Audio, and Effects—provide just the tools you need. You can even resize, rearrange, and hide panels.

• Show every angle of your story with ease with the Emmy Award-winning multicamera editing toolset. Sync up to 64 different angles automatically—even with different formats and frames—so you can immediately edit and align shots as needed.

Color + Deliver

• Whether you do all color correction, grading, and audio mixing in Media Composer, or roundtrip out to other applications, you can be confident that your work will accurately hit every delivery specification.

• Media Composer future-proofs your content with its 32-bit floating point color pipeline and ACES color support, ensuring consistent color accuracy from end to end. The Symphony Option offers advanced color grading tools and IMF packaging, so you can easily deliver to Netflix and other OTT specifications with confidence.

• Tell stories that showcase true-to-life image quality with effortless HDR workflows. Import, edit, color grade, and deliver incredibly realistic imagery with exceptional detail in the shadows and highlights.

• Make your story sound as good as it looks with a suite of audio tools and plugins. Create up to 64 tracks of dialogue, music, and sound effects in 7.1 surround. Or send all tracks and effects to Pro Tools for audio post—without having to transcode sequences first.

Do more, stress less

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Accelerate your edit

• Best-in-class Trim tools, Smart Tools, Create sequence based on selection, Script-based editing, Auto-Sequence
• Group Clips, MultiGroup, 4-Way Split Display, 9-Way Split Display, MultiCam Editing mode, MultiCam Accelerator keys, Swap Banks, Previous/Next in Group, Group by Audio Waveforms, Edit Groups, Mixed Rate Groups
• Video effects: Full core set, Source Side Motion Effects, TimeWarp, TimeWarp Fluid Motion, Stabilize
• FrameFlex
• Timecode tool
• Sequence Map
• Bulk Edit
• List tool
• Film workflows
• Stereoscopic 3D
• Color Correction: CC Effect, Predefined CC Effects, HSL Controls, Hue Offsets, Luma Range, Curves, Color Info, Channels, (Secondary and Relationships available through the Symphony Option)
• Audio editing and mixing: Audio Tool, Audio Ducking, Audio Punch-in, Audio Subframe Slip, Audio Grouping, Read Audio Timecode, Audio MultiMix, Change Sample Rate, Audio Mixer
• Full core set Audio effects
• Workspaces: Edit, Color, Effects, Audio
• Titles: Titler+ Marquee tool
• Background render, transcode, and consolidate
• Full User settings, Multiple Users settings, Site settings, Project settings
• Full Keyboard Mapping
• Source/Record color differentiation: Off by default
• Snap to Edit: Off by default
• Auto-launch Effects Editor: Off by default
• Video and audio plugin support: All AVX and AAX plugins
• Avid Marketplace

• OS X: 12-core 2013 Mac Pro (Ivy Bridge 6,1 Cylinder) and dual 6-core Mac Pro (Westmere 5,1 tower) model CPU's on Mac OSX 10.10.x (Yosemite) have known performance issues with playback, render, and transcode of RED material. If possible, customers with these CPU
• Memory: 16 GB

• Windows: Windows 7, 8.1, 10 Professional and Enterprise
• Memory: 16 GB