Avid Media Composer
Nitris DX
Professional film and video editing with comprehensive SD & HD I/O and DNxHD acceleration
Added Value. No Extra Cost.
Integrated effects, animation, and DVD authoring tools for Avid editors
Avid Media Composer, NewsCutter and Symphony software include a suite of industry-leading applications for independent editors, producers, and filmmakers. Users can add professional effects and titles, create 3D animations, and author standard-definition DVDs or high-definition Blu-ray Discs right from their Avid editing system. No other suite combines this level of features, integration, and ease-of-use. And no other solution makes an end-to-end HD workflow this affordable.
Boris Continuum Complete — Create Stunning visual effects.
- Inspired Effects. Use over 180 filter effects natively.
- High Performance. With 35 real-time processing filters and 16 real-time static texture generators your creative capabilities aren't limited by performance. New Open GL support includes hardware-accelerated filters such as Glint, Lens, Flare, LED, Prism, and Damaged TV.
- Take it easy. Accessing Boris Continuum Complete directly from the Avid editing system interface means you won't have much of a learning curve.
Sorenson Squeeze — Publish to the web.
- Encode video for Web, CD and DVD. Output content to QuickTime, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 formats. Process multiple files simultaneously using multi-core systems.
- High-Quality Video. Squeeze 5 offers improved video codecs in support of high-quality HD content creation including H.264 and new support for VC-1 for Blu-ray creation. Improved de-interlacing, video fade and inverse telecine filters have been augmented with new watermark, hue-and-saturation and sharpen pre-processing filters.
- Audio makes a statement. AC-3 compatibility, 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound support for high quality DVD audio encoding. Audio volume and duration filters.
- Control and Ease of Use. The Audience Presets feature lets you bundle preprocessing filters, filter order, encoding settings, and output destinations such as FTP servers into a single custom preset. Sort presets by format or output target.
- Intuitive interface. Perform simple or complicated encoding tasks. Includes easy 1,2,3 step encoding, batch processing and the option to save project settings for repetitive encoding tasks.
Avid DVD by Sonic — Break out with Blu-ray Disc authoring.
- Output to SD or HD formats. Full authoring and integrated burning tools for creating standard-definition DVDs and high-definition Blu-ray Discs
- Complete control over authoring.
- Multi-track authoring: produce multi-language DVD titles with up to 8 audio tracks and 32 subtitle tracks
- Professional subtitle editing: create subtitle tracks from scratch or import subtitle scripts, then apply design changes to one or all subtitles
- Superior slideshows: create interactive sequences with up to 999 still images
- Easy editing and revision: create DVDs and edit them later with OpenDVD technology, without going back to the hard disk
- Advanced controls: create motion menus, track offset controls, and more
- Easy to use. Intuitive interface and accessible features simplify DVD creation for video editors
- Tight integration with Avid editors. Create chapter points and thumbnails in the Avid editing system and export with exclusive MetaSync technology; burn discs right from the editor with One-Step "Send To" command for SD projects
Avid FX — Add dazzling titles and effects.
- Quick-start templates. Choose from 1,500 customizable title, effects, and transition templates
- Advanced titling and graphics. Apply powerful styles to your text, or build your own with native vector text; one-click animation; text on a path; lower thirds; raster-to-vector conversion; 2D/3D charts; vector and raster paint; EPS import, animation, and extrusion; and more
- Unmatched compositing. Animate and combine over 27 compositing apply modes, including motion tracking, corner pinning, rotoscoping, motion key, and 3D compositing
- Sophisticated visual effects. Select from over 110 advanced filters, including Wire Removal, Optical Stabilizer, De-interface, Grain Match, Light Zoom, Glow Edges, Z Blur, Motion Blur, Cartooner, and a wide range of keying, color, time, and lighting filters
- Complete integration. AVX2 technology supports direct integration with the Avid editor and rich 16-bit color processing
SmartSound Sonicfire Pro — Professional Audio Soundtracks.
- A library of music choices. Choose from a library of loops and pre-recorded soundtracks and customize to fit your production. Core Sessions provides contemporary music focusing on rock, Jazz, R&B and Latin sounds. Core Foundations is a compilation mix from New Age and Jazz to small and large orchestra sessions.
- Elegant and Flexible. Sonicfire Pro 4 maps your production to any score you can imagine. Sonicfire's Mood Mapping feature provides extensive creative control to mix instruments and to set the mood of any production. Mix music compositions though an innovative and intuitive user interface.
- Multiple tracks, easy editing. Create multiple track music compositions in a familiar timeline environment. Simple "Blocks" music loop architecture allows you to perfectly match sound to your video production. Customizable search helps you locate music or tracks to speed up your audio production.
Avid Media Composer, NewsCutter and Symphony ship with a suite of best-in-class third party tools from Sorenson Media, Sonic Solutions, Boris FX, and SmartSound. These applications are approved for use with 32 bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista unless otherwise noted. Note: Product specifications are subject to change without notice. Avid Media Composer Academic includes Avid DVD by Sonic only; no other third party software is included.






