With Media Composer 6.5, Avid Improves Workflow Speed ​​and Transparency

The new releases of Media Composer and NewsCutter are also the first to work in combination with the Avid Interplay Sphere to support universal connectivity and collaborative production.

Avid has announced the latest release of its video editing tools, Media Composer 6.5, Symphony 6.5 and NewsCutter 10.5, which provide fast, open workflows that greatly help improve editing performance.

The new releases of Media Composer and NewsCutter are also the first to work in combination with Avid Interplay Sphere to support universal connectivity and collaborative production, giving contributors the freedom to work in distributed environments spanning multiple locations and time zones. With support for new standards that help streamline media mastering and archiving, plus new audio features and rebinding capabilities, these latest releases allow customers to further enhance their creativity and productivity.

Media Composer 6.5, Symphony 6.5, and NewsCutter 10.5 deliver key enhancements that enable customers to accelerate improved workflow performance.

Avid Media Authoring

Now customers in facilities that handle a variety of input formats and deliver multiple output formats will be able to master and archive projects more efficiently with Avid Media Authoring. This new component of Avid Media Access (AMA) offers support for AS-02, a standard developed by the Advanced Media Workflow Association that helps post-production facilities simplify media management for versioning programs and expedite delivery to a variety of platforms and devices. Additionally, with the addition of the ability to support the JPEG 2000 codec, customers will be able to package streams for easy versioning and archiving, as well as scale streams to meet the needs of multiple passes of generational content, without media degradation. The Media Composer 6.5 product family also supports Active Format Description (AFD) to ensure a consistent audience experience regardless of reverse conversion or reformatting.

Hardware I/O release

With the launch of Hardware I/O control in Media Composer, Symphony and NewsCutter, customers using third-party hardware through Avid Open I/O will be able to customize their workflows even further. Now editors can simply toggle hardware on and off to pass control back and forth between Media Composer and third-party applications, such as Adobe After Effects or Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve. Additionally, editors will now be able to access software-only features, such as full-screen streaming, directly in Media Composer without having to go offline.

Audio improvements

Industry-leading audio tools Media Composer, Symphony and NewsCutter take a big leap forward with major new enhancements. Incorporating advanced audio keyframing speeds up the automation process within and between audio tracks. Additionally, with support for 64 audio voices, video editors will gain the power to work with multiple root mixes and re-output them all simultaneously.

Advanced rebind support

Editors will now gain the flexibility to interact with media from third-party applications, such as DaVinci Resolve, through expanded relinking support, allowing them to dynamically reconnect clips to new or original media using a variety of common metadata fields.

Leading Asset-Based Workflow Solutions

Avid has unveiled a series of fundamental new advancements in its integrated solutions for advanced asset-based workflows. Spanning distributed production, media management and storage, Avid is demonstrating how customers working in news, TV, sports and post-production can produce and distribute high-quality content more effectively.

Among these solutions is Interplay MAM (Media Asset Management) Active Archive, a solution package that provides essential Interplay MAM technology to support key workflows around core archiving capabilities. Consisting of software, workflow automation, partner onboarding and professional services, Interplay MAM Active Archive allows media producers to customize their system to meet their needs, increase workflows and easily add system additions and clients.

Writing solutions

Avid has announced a wide range of newsroom offerings including the Avid Interplay Sphere, an affordable solution that helps journalists write, edit and produce more and better stories wherever they happen. With Interplay Sphere connectivity, NewsCutter or Media Composer software and a laptop, operations can be carried out for a fraction of the cost of a traditional mobile unit. The Avid Interplay Sphere, the industry's first distributed news production cloud hub, is now available for shipment.

Key Interplay Sphere features include:

• Easy two-way access/connection, allowing editors and journalists in the field to edit entire stories securely from any location, collaborate with distributed teams on complex workflows, and easily deliver content to production facilities.
• Simplified workflows, which automatically manage transcoding, uploading and logging into any connected Avid Interplay system and allow users to edit directly from any Interplay asset store; Predefined output processes simplify editing and automatic entry into the production asset system.
• Intelligent media transfers, which accelerate the critical transfer of local media from the field by providing the ability to start uploading media at the same time as editing a story, prioritizing media transfer based on working content and delivering proxy files ahead of full resolution files.
• Extend the newsroom to any location, working with full-fledged NewsCutter and Media Composer editors and Interplay Production, the Interplay Sphere enables the full spectrum of media creation, workflow management, collaboration and connectivity.