Avid Everywhere Brings Avid Resolution Independence to Life in the Latest Version of the Industry s Preeminent Editing Solution

Avid Everywhere Brings Avid Resolution Independence to Life in the Latest Version of the Industry's Preeminent Editing Solution 09 July 2015

Avid Everywhere Brings Avid Resolution Independence to Life in the Latest Version of the Industry's Preeminent Editing Solution

Available now, enhancements to Avid Media Composer facilitate fast, efficient and collaborative workflows, enabling editors to deliver high-quality results

Burlington, MA, July 8, 2015 Avid (Nasdaq: AVID) today announced that the latest version of the industry's most proven editing software, Avid Media Composer , is now available. Part of the Avid Artist Suite, powered by the Avid MediaCentral Platform, Media Composer 8.4 delivers accelerated high-resolution workflows, facilitates real-time collaboration, and frees editors from time-consuming background tasks.

Today s video professionals need to be able to handle whatever media walks in the door, ingest that media, edit it, and deliver a master for distribution, said Charlie Russell, senior segment marketing manager, Avid. Increasingly, the media they need to work with is greater-than-HD: 2K, 4K and Ultra HD. With the latest version of Media Composer, editors and assistants will be able to handle this high-resolution media, while leveraging their existing HD infrastructure.

New Media Composer 8.4 features include:

Custom raster support Bringing Avid Resolution Independence to life, users can work with any raster up to 8K, in any format.

AVC-I, ProRes, XAVC-I and XF-AVC native high-resolution playback Optimized performance for Apple ProRes, Canon XF-AVC, Panasonic AVC-I and Sony XAVC-I gives users the flexibility to mix and match high-resolution media in the timeline, from DNxHR to other popular formats, and edit with smooth real-time playback.

AAX factory presets With Media Composer 8.4, users have access to the same AAX presets as with Pro Tools .

Enhanced closed captioning Users can see closed caption timing in the timeline to avoid breaking captions, and can view captions on external monitors as well as in the interface.

Alpha channel support for QuickTime-wrapped Avid DNxHR Users can now enhance their graphics, effects and compositing workflows when working with QuickTime applications.

Media Composer | Cloud with dynamic media folders and background services Customers can use Media Composer software and Media Composer | Cloud workflows on a single system, including remote cloud-based editing while simultaneously performing background uploading, rendering, consolidating, or transcoding.

Availability

Media Composer 8.4 is now available for download online and through authorized Avid resellers.

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, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, or subscribe to Avid Blogs.

2015 Avid Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. Avid, the Avid logo, Avid DNxHR, Avid Everywhere, iNEWS, Interplay, ISIS, AirSpeed, Media Composer, Pro Tools, and Sibelius are trademarks or registered trademarks of Avid Technology, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. The Interplay name is used with the permission of the Interplay Entertainment Corp. which bears no responsibility for Avid products. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Product features, specifications, system requirements and availability are subject to change without notice.

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