– Avid Media Composer – What’s New – Latest Features

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
See what teams can do. Even out distracting dialogue and vocal levels with a single knob plugin that detects and corrects audio level inconsistencies. Knowing the Avid environment and understanding the way it works will only aid in advancing your skills as a filmmaker.
 
 

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Watch the video. Take the complexity out of color keying with a plugin that makes it easy to key out green or blue screens quickly. Save time with presets, or use the sliders to fine-tune, with full control over the color range, sensitivity, spill, edge smoothness, and more. You can even create glows, shadows, and outlines around your subject.

Add Foley effects in a scene to make movement sound natural and realistic. Get 50 high-quality, royalty-free production music tracks that can be used in any project. Because the music comes with a worldwide license, you never have to worry about where your production may be watched or used.

For new offers, please allow up to 7 business days for product to appear in your account. Experience the collaborative, efficient workflows top video professionals rely on. Share projects, edit remotely, and have more control over your production. The flexibility you need to accelerate and manage your workflow starts here. Add Avid NEXIS shared storage to your workflow and multiple video editors and assistants can work on the same projects at once. No more accidentally overwriting work or needing to duplicate and micromanage media.

Extend production beyond the walls of your facility. Or deploy a full virtual production suite in the cloud with Edit On Demand. As projects move from offline to online—and from in-house to external teams and back again—the standardized ACES color space ensures that all high-res and HDR projects will maintain full image quality and color accuracy from end to end, across all color and VFX work.

With the Distributed Processing option, included with Media Composer Enterprise , you can offload time-consuming rendering, transcoding, and exporting tasks to unused or idle networked computers, freeing up Media Composer workstations, and taking wasteful downtime out of the process.

Media Composer is the only video editing solution that lets you tailor the interface for any role in your organization—from video editors, to assistants, loggers, or journalists. Provide only the tools needed to do the job, enabling better focus and faster completion. Media Composer is the only video editing software that enables you to limit user access to workspaces and tools and restrict content export, so you can safeguard your media and mitigate costly mistakes and leaks.

For editors working in news, sports, and studio production environments, Media Composer integrates with MediaCentral , enabling teams to connect and access content locally and remotely across the entire platform ecosystem. Boost your Media Composer capabilities with advanced tools for color and news workflows.

Gain advanced capabilities and save hours of time with these Media Composer options included with Media Composer Ultimate. With PhraseFind , you can quickly find clips in a project that contain specific dialogue.

Simply type keywords to locate all clips that contain the speech in multiple languages—ideal for unscripted shows. Compare performances and find the best takes fast. ScriptSync automatically syncs clips to their associated script lines, so you can quickly find takes by scene, script page, or dialogue.

With Symphony , you can stylize shots and correct color with ultra-precision, then deliver content easily with IMF packaging. Plus, universal mastering makes it easy to take your offline online.

Get the speed you need to stay ahead of the story. Enable editors to work from anywhere without changing their workflow and extend collaboration to assistants, showrunners, producers, and other creative contributors. This will make it easier to delete the rendered effects media. You can also choose to display the rendered effect precompute clips separately in the bin by choosing that option in the Set Bin Display.

If you need to straighten or rotate your source image, you can now rotate the framing box in the FrameFlex source settings using the Z Rotation slider. Once on the Timeline, these adjustments can also be animated with the Effect Editor.

All settings are saved with the clip metadata which can be exported to other applications. All played frames—and all effects applied to those clips—are now cached in RAM. Here you can allocate video memory for the editing application. You can also turn on interactive video frame cache. This saves the need to regenerate each frame every time it is needed during subsequent playback of the sequence.

Enabling this cache will result in faster response times while editing. The Audio Mixer now includes triangular openers that allow you to control what parameters are displayed in the Audio Mixer Tool. Click the first column heading to sort the tracks according to which are enabled. Click the column to sort by track numbers. Click the Track column to sort by track label if applicable.

Bear in mind that you are limited to 64 voices. So some of the possible combinations are:. Type the first letter of the setting you want to open, scroll to the setting and press Enter to open the applicable Settings dialog. It really depends on the work you’re doing. Avid is the standard in most professional post houses where the work never leaves the confines of the office.

Trying to do freelance work with Avid can be such a huge pain though. Especially if you’re not the one doing the online work and your client is in another city. In my opinion those would work best for your situation. It might fix some of your issues.

I’ve been religious about updating Premiere, with high hopes that it will fix my issues, but it seems as they fix one issue, something else pops up. And I’ve been editing in Premiere since So I’m mostly just bummed and holding on because I’m comfortable with the software. But I’ve constantly had so many problems with it. Great advice though. Thank you :. Adobe’ll figure it out at some point.

It’s not a great business model but for the kind of work I do shooting, editing, color, and delivery on a tight turnaround their system works perfectly. Couldn’t agree more! I loved Premiere, I work so fast with it, but ever since Might look into what DaVinci had to offer. The Find Bin command can now be accessed directly in the Timeline when pointing to a segment. No selection is required; simply right-click over the desired segment and select Find Bin to highlight the clip in a bin.

The bin will open if closed, come forward, and the respective clip will be selected. Goodbye extra mouse clicks! The improvements continue with more intelligent timeline editing. Find solutions for sound mixing, sound editing, sound design, ADR, and Foley. Contact Sales Shop. Media Composer 8. Adapter Display in Timeline Clips that have source-side color, spatial and motion adapters now have these effects indicated by different icons. More New Features in Media Composer. Link former AMA Improvements.

Supported formats for Capture. Change Terminology of Color Levels. List Tool Improvements. Remove Color Adapters from Sequence. Refresh Sequence All.