Avid presenta Media Composer 6, NewsCutter 10 y Symphony 6

The new half composer, Symphony and NewScutter at 64 bits, available for Mac OS and Windows, offer faster workflows, greater flexibility and great time savings. With these versions, AVID also introduces a new and elegant user interface, designed to accelerate workflows.

Avid He has just announced new versions of his well -known video editing systems: Media Composer version 6, NewScutter version 10 and Symphony version 6.

With more than two decades in constant innovation, these editing systems now offer a new level of opening, performance, collaboration and productivity that allows independent professionals, postproduction studies, broadcasters and all kinds of audiovisual companies to carry out their work faster, work collaboratively in projects more efficiently and reduce costs by increasing productivity.

Media Composer 6, Symphony 6 and NewScutter 10 have been redesigned with a new 64 -bit open architecture that further improves the performance, flexibility and production capacity.

With these versions, Avid also introduces a new and elegant user interface, designed to accelerate workflows and at the same time preserve the same functionality on which so many professionals have based their career. In addition, systems now include hardware support from other manufacturers; Compatibility with Avchd and Red Epic with Avid Media Access (AMA); An AVID DNXHD 444 cod and support for the Avid Artist color control surface.

All this adds to existing innovations as Ama, to access directly based on files; Avid Phrasefind, licensed by Nexidia, and Avid Scriptsync, for phonetic searches and editing; and the Mix and Match function in real time, which allows us to use several formats in the same timeline. This important launch reinforces the position in the Middle Composer, NewScutter and Symphony market as the latest in professional editing systems, specifically designed to meet the technical and creative demands of a huge range of workflows used in the edition.

More open, more flexible

Take advantage of hardware investments and easily add AVID editing systems to current workflows with the new AVID OPEN I/O, which offers support for well -known video and AJA audio cards Video Systems, Blackmagic Design, Bluefish44, Matrox and Motu.
It easily incorporates the high -end workflows of film or television, video hardware with acceleration Avid Nitris DX, the most versatile and powerful hardware option, optimized for Avid editing systems. Now available as independent hardware for purchase for a small price. Nitris DX is available with one or two “chipset” AVID DNXHD or AVC -int and admits full resolution and stereoscopic workflows to full frame.
Symphony software offers greater flexibility and choice capacity to edit or apply color corrections anywhere or simply to address more projects in the study. Now available as a solution only software at a reduced price.

Improved postproduction integration

Increases the flexibility in editing and finishing with a greater integration with Pro Tools, Surround Sound 5.1/7.1 and better metadata management, to transfer more medium composer session information to Pro Tools. Additional metadata are available in the AAF exchange format. The expanded surround support 5.1/7.1 is now also fully compatible with Pro Tools thanks to the improved AAF capabilities.
Follow a known and reliable editing process with the new workflows in 3D stereoscopic that offer complete resolution, real -time edition, Workflows "Mixed Eye" and a powerful set of tools with titles and conversion control. Editors can also easily export metadata to AVID or other finishing systems to apply color corrections and high -end effects.
It retains all the color information of HD RGB 4: 4: 4 without sacrificing the performance or storage of the system with the new AVID DNXHD 444, a high quality HD codec. AVID DNXHD 444 helps to significantly improve HD production in real time with the greatest possible color detail; It is appropriate for the most demanding productions, in addition to an ideal format for file.

Higher speed

More power and flexibility in high -level color correction with the support of the Avid Artist color control surface for Avid editing systems.
Accelerates the time to the edition by eliminating the laborious transcoding, re -enhancement, cataloging and transfer processes thanks to AMA, which now offers native support for AVCHD and Red Epic as well as the coding in Apple Prores (only in Mac OS systems).
Strengthen the workflows and complete your tools set with the new Avid Marketplace, which offers within the system access to gross material from the Thought Equity Motion. Avid Marketplace also allows customers to search video and audio plug-ins available together with other AVID store products to complete a suite.
Improved Customer Assist tool (Customer Assistance), which offers direct access from within the application to guides, help and configuration information.
It encodes more than double speed with Sorenson Squeze V8, including with the Mid Composer, NewScutter and Symphony software.

Chris Gahagan, senior vice president of Avid products and solutions, stressed that "with the launch of these more open, accessible and powerful versions of Media Composer, Symphony and NewScutter, we are excited to provide new standards in speed, ease and access that help our clients to do their jobs more efficiently."

Terence Curren, colorist and editor of Alphadogs (teenage newspaper, The Spiderwick Chronicles, the conspiracy of panic) has been satisfied by stating that “the authentic value of the new media composer and Symphony systems is their improvement in interoperability and openness; in the end everything is reflected in the work. The conclusion is that if four people save 15 minutes for 15 minutes, they Much more than the cost difference with any of the other software systems. ”

"With Media Composer 6, all of us who invested in hardware for final cut pro can move on Avid easily and without problems. I am very happy," added Shane Ross, autonomous editor.

John Mauldin, director of Operations and Technology of Fotokem Non-Linear, has been convinced that "anyone who works in 3D will use half composer from now on. Simply, now it is the system with which to do these things."

Avid Vantage

Simultaneously to the launch of these new systems, AVID also presents the new Avid Vantage support plan, an annual subscription program for users of Media Composer and Symphony that incorporates juicy advantages. Avid Vantage (also available for Pro Tools users) provides unlimited internet technical support and an important discount on telephone support with experts when needed.

It also offers a fabulous collection of NewBluefx effects (for clients with half composer or symphony) or audio plug-ins (for customers with Pro Tools). And for limited time, customers receive a discount coupon for purchases or software updates at the AVID store.