Avid has announced the release of the latest version of Media Composer with several new features designed to significantly speed up the post production process between editorial and audio post teams as well as boost efficiency by bringing video and audio post teams and workflows closer together.
Media Composer is designed to streamline the process of exporting complex sequences with video, audio and metadata down to a single step, combining everything in one export .PTX file that can be opened directly in Pro Tools. This new capability is intended to enables teams to complete projects faster and eliminate mistakes while accelerating content creation and delivery for post production workflows. It’s the first step toward collaborative workflows between Media Composer and Pro Tools, which was identified as a need during customer workshops and will allow Avid to introduce a differentiated set of capabilities not available in the market today.
“Media Composer interoperability with Pro Tools was accelerated by collaborating with the Avid Community Association to deliver the workflow enabler our industry has been asking for to accelerate production of high-quality content,” says David Colantuoni, vice president, Product Management Video and Media Solutions, Avid. “The ability to easily export files into Pro Tools, combined with the expanded ‘remote editorial’ experience in Media Composer, enables production teams to more easily complete projects on time and on budget.”
“Avid continues to listen to and collaborate with its customers to address the biggest challenges in today’s modern post production community,” adds Jonathan Wales, re-recording mixer at Warner Bros. Studios. “Media Composer interoperability with Pro Tools bridges video and audio post production teams, creating new efficiency by streamlining picture and sound workflows that accelerate content creation.”
Offering full support for Avid’s reimagined MBOX Studio audio interface, Media Composer provides editors with a method for recording, punch-ins and multichannel monitoring of sequences in up to 7.1 surround sound. Access to the preamps and audio converters in MBOX Studio also enables users to capture more sonic nuance with low-latency monitoring.
In addition, Avid continues to address the Media Composer video editing platform by improving its media management capabilities by simplifying the media relink workflow and improving performance around the ability to find paths to previously linked files. Users can locate all content within the relink window to re-establish broken paths and avoid losing time searching for a file’s previous locations.
Media Composer also now includes a new project creation setting that creates the project format from the editor’s media with one click. The enhanced UI also generates default bins and offers suggestions to guide new users through project set-up.
Further, Avid has enhanced the remote editing experience and integration of the Media Composer | Enterprise editing tool and NEXIS | EDGE, designed to enable editing teams to better collaborate on projects while working remotely in post production environments. Remote production teams using Media Composer can collaborate more efficiently by using Avid NEXIS | EDGE to build proxy workflows, enabling editors to flip between high-resolution and proxy content from a single click and with no relinking required.
Media Composer’s new Multiplex IO feature enhances the “over the shoulder” experience by giving users the ability to have up to 10 active I/O plugins simultaneously. This allows output from Media Composer to multiple streaming platforms and devices through SRT (Secure Reliable Transport), NDI and any connected and supported I/O hardware, enabling local monitoring while streaming to remote viewers.
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