Avid Everywhere Enables Faster, More Efficient Workflows With Key Enhancements to the Industry’s Preeminent Editing Solution

Part of the Avid Artist Suite, the latest release of Media Composer | Software introduces time-saving capabilities to help editors complete projects more quickly and efficiently

WHAT:           Avid® today announced that the latest version of the industry’s preeminent editing solution Media Composer® | Software, is now available. This release features faster and more efficient workflows, continuing to deliver on the Avid EverywhereTM vision of connecting content creators with their audiences in more powerful, efficient and profitable ways. As part of the Avid Artist Suite of creative tools, Media Composer | Software is powered by the Avid MediaCentral Platform, giving editors access to an even wider range of tools and expertise for collaboration, production, and monetization of content.

In direct response to the editing community’s need to deliver high-quality, inspiring content while pressured by compressed project schedules, Avid has introduced time-saving capabilities to Media Composer | Software. These features are available to all new and existing Media Composer | Software customers regardless of whether they are on perpetual licenses or using the recently introduced floating or subscription licenses.

WHO:              Media Composer | Software gives editors the tools, workflows, and options needed for professional film, television, video, and news creation. The latest enhancements to Media Composer | Software are available to new and existing users who have purchased a subscription, new perpetual license, or standard support plan (upgrade), or renewed a support plan.

WHEN:            The new Media Composer | Software features are available now (as of July 30, 2014).

WHERE:         Media Composer | Software is available to purchase online and through authorized Avid resellers.

Before the end of 2014, existing owners can upgrade many older versions of Media Composer for only $299 and receive all updates and support for a year.

Existing subscription customers can easily update their Media Composer | Software at any time using the new Application Manager tool.

Notes to editors

Key new time-saving tools and capabilities for Media Composer | Software enable editors to:

• Speed up editing with new timeline enhancements

-         quickly add and remove trim rollers by shift-clicking anywhere in an adjoining segment

-         easily see which tracks have reached their beginning or end points when trimming with new ‘end of trim’ indicators

-         choose whether to select or not select filler with segment tools by option-clicking the tool buttons at any time to choose the opposite of their default setting

-         copy any segment by dragging and dropping it to a desired location while holding down the shift and option keys

-         create and save titles directly to a track in the timeline, as well as a bin

• Toggle clips and tracks on and off in the timeline

-         compare variations of a sequence by right clicking on any individual video or audio clip to mute or unmute it from playback

-         try out different variations by creating alternative versions of title sequences, visual effects, and other treatments in multiple tracks and then choosing tracks to make active or inactive upon playback

• Create higher quality sound effects and mixes with AAX plug-ins - full access to the latest generation of Avid and third-party audio plug-ins with support for 64-bit AAX plug-ins makes it easy to share plug-ins between Pro Tools® and Media Composer systems for seamless interoperability

• Integrate DPX files directly into workflows - with the new Avid Image Sequencer plug-in, editors can now read and write DPX files directly in Media Composer without the need for transcoding

• Carry out multicam editing in 3D – editors working in stereoscopic 3D can now create groups from stereoscopic clips for multicam editing. Simply add S3D clips to a group and Media Composer displays the metadata for the clip designated as the leading eye in the bin

• Generate multiple audio mixdowns automatically - create different versions of a final project’s audio mix all in one step. With the Multiple Mix window, editors can set up Media Composer to output any combination of stereo, 5.1, 7.1, mono, music and effects, and other mix variations at the click of a button. They can also save settings as a reusable template for quick and easy mix delivery in the future

• Create comprehensive reference files easily with Simplified AAF - mix down all video and effects to a single track—with all ancillary data intact—with Avid’s new Simplified AAF file format, making it easy to create a ‘lightweight’ reference file of a final sequence. This new Export menu option is a better alternative to QuickTime Reference movies, as the format minimizes the number of video and audio tracks, while maintaining ancillary data like captions, for easy multiplatform distribution

• Export MXF OP1a DNxHD and IMX through AMA - get more flexibility and streamline broadcast workflows between Avid and third-party products with the ability to export DNxHD (HD) or IMX (SD) files wrapped as MXF OP1a interleaved files

• Work with the new ARRI AMIRA cameras - view and edit ARRI AMIRA footage directly in Media Composer without transcoding, with any color transformations embedded as a Color Decision List (CDL) and/or 3D Look-up Table (LUT) applied automatically

For a full list of new features for Media Composer | Software, please visit: http://www.avid.com/US/products/Media-Composer#features

 Josh Paterson, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, joshp@rlyl.com, 44 (0) 207 403 8878

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