Avid Releases New Version of Media Composer Bringing Resolution Independence to Film and Television Production
The Avid Artist Suite’s Media Composer | Software enables video professionals to quickly and efficiently acquire, manage, edit, and deliver native 4K media
WHAT:
Avid® today announced that the latest version of Avid Media Composer® | Software, which allows video professionals to acquire, manage, edit, and deliver native 4K and other high-res media faster and more efficiently than ever, is now available.
Leveraging the new Avid Resolution Independence architecture and Avid DNxHR™ encoding, Media Composer offers the most complete and flexible end-to-end workflow for file-based editing of any resolution. This new release helps content creators deliver higher quality content in more collaborative, powerful, and efficient ways – a key part of Avid Everywhere™. Leveraging the Avid MediaCentral Platform, Media Composer is part of the Avid Artist Suite of industry-standard creative tools.
Avid Resolution Independence provides a holistic, platform-centric approach that puts no limits to the resolutions customers can capture, edit, and output. Media professionals can work with the broadest variety of media in every resolution – SD, HD, 4K and beyond – using their existing infrastructure. Media Composer is the first Avid product to support Resolution Independence, with support for more products and solutions across the MediaCentral Platform coming soon.
At the center of the Avid Resolution Independence architecture is Avid DNxHR, a new extensible media codec that makes it possible to edit and deliver high-res content within HD-capable infrastructures. Offering greater beauty without the bandwidth, DNxHR scales from lightweight proxies to mastering-quality high-resolution media.
Other new capabilities in the latest version of Media Composer include enhanced color management, high frame rate support, high-efficiency proxy workflows, and timesaving background rendering of high-resolution media.
WHO:
Media Composer | Software gives editors at post production facilities, broadcasters, production companies and more, the tools, workflows, and options needed for professional film, television, video, and news creation.
WHEN:
The new version of Media Composer | Software is available now (as of Dec. 22, 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 customers can easily update their Media Composer | Software at any time using the Application Manager tool.
Notes to editors
New capabilities in the latest version of Media Composer | Software include:
- High-resolution editing – including 4K as well as 2K and Ultra HD
- Avid Resolution Independence
- DNxHR encoding
- Enhanced color management – support for new advanced color spaces that provide richer color depth than HD
- High frame rate – support for up to 60p
- Proxy workflows – work with high-res media quickly and efficiently with proxy media and proxy timeline features
- Background rendering for high-res media
For a full list of new features for Media Composer | Software, please visit: http://www.avid.com/US/products/Media-Composer#features
About Avid
Through Avid Everywhere™, Avid delivers the industry's most open, innovative and comprehensive media platform connecting content creation with collaboration, asset protection, distribution and consumption for the most listened to, most watched and most loved media in the world—from the most prestigious and award-winning feature films, music recordings, and television shows, to live concerts and news broadcasts. Industry leading solutions include Pro Tools®, Media Composer®, ISIS®, Interplay®, and Sibelius®. For more information about Avid solutions and services, visit www.avid.com, connect with Avid on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn; or subscribe to Avid Blogs.
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PRESS CONTACT:
Kim Willsher, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, avid@rlyl.com, 310 569-2603
Sara Griggs, Avid, sara.griggs@avid.com, 310 821-0801
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