Media Capture

• 720 X 486 images (NTSC) or 720 X 576 images (PAL)
• NTSC and PAL (25 fps and 30 fps)
• Two uncompressed ITU-R 601 video streams standard
• 2:1,3:1,10:1,and 20:1 two-field compressed image resolutions
• 2:1,4:1,and 15:1 single-field compressed image resolutions
• Progressive offline resolutions 14:1,28:1,35:1
• Multicamera resolutions including 10:1m and 4:1m for interlace and 8:1 and 3:1 for progressive
• Serial digital, analog component YUV, composite, and S-Video I/O
• Support for SDTI-CP and MPEG IMX format*
• DV Option available (DV 25, DV 50)*
• 8 channels AES/EBU digital audio I/O
• 8 channels analog audio I/O
• MediaLog for logging material
• Batch digitize of video and batch re-import of graphics
• Digitize to timeline with handles
• ALE support (includes Avid Log Exchange)
• Serial deck control
• Internal waveform monitor and vector cope for input
• Built-in CD audio import
• Media Chunking* (requires Avid Unity MediaManager)

 

Project Management/Asset Management

• Multilevel find, sift, and sort functions
• Frame, script, and text views
• Unlimited number of bins
• Media Consolidate feature
• Folder hierarchy (nestable folders) within Project Window
• Advanced project accounting tools
• User, project, and site settings
• Ability to lock media
• Supports the Avid Unity MediaManager service for facility-wide search and display and local or remote asset management

 

Editing Features

• Two ITU-R 601 uncompressed video streams and graphics channel
• Two-monitor set-up (bin and edit monitor)
• Separate full-screen NTSC/PAL video monitor
• 4:3 and 16:9 support
• 24 video tracks with 32 levels of undo/redo
• Extensive customizable user interface capability
• 9-stream real-time hardware multicamera play
• FilmScribe adds matchback-level film capabilities, Script-based Editing, film effects, and more
• AutoSync
• Support for mixable resolutions
• Dupe detection in the timeline (tied to FilmScribe)
• Support for 23.976P projects
• Locator to mark frames in clips
• Match frame
• Scrolling, scalable timeline
• VTR play emulation
• AutoSequence
• Single-field step
• Online help
• Universal Offline Editing
• MetaSync capability
• DV Scene Extraction (requires DV/MPEG Option; PC only)
• Reformat Effects

 

Audio Editing

• 8 channels In, Out, and Monitoring
• 48 kHz and 44.1 kHz
• 24 audio tracks for editing and mixing
• Automation Gain (external fader controller support)
• Real-time multiband EQ (sweepable mid-range) with real-time adjustment
• Waveform display in timeline
• Downsampling on export to 22 kHz and 11 kHz
• AIFF-C and WAV input/output, plus SDII on Macintosh
• Audio Punch-in
• Support for Digidesign AudioSuite plug-ins
• Ability to convert 44.1<->48
• Broadcast Wave Format (BWF) file support

 

Digital Video Effects

• New keyframe model
• Timewarp motion effects
• FluidMotion rendering
• Blended motion effects rendering
• Illusion FX Pack plug-ins
• Real-time dissolves, superimposition, resize, flips, flops, wipes, conceals, squeezes, masks, and picture-in-picture
• Real-time moving mattes from imported animations
• Real-time corner pinning and "stamp and clear"
• Real-time customizable 3D effects, including warp, picture-in-picture, shapes, video titles
• Real-time, full-resolution color correction
• Peels, pushes, spins, matrix wipes
• Shape wipes, sawtooth wipes, and diagonal wipes
• Motion effects including slow, fast, strobe, freeze-frame, reverse, and fit-to-fill with interpolation
• Real-time full-motion alpha keying
• Real-time deep defocus for realistic emulation of blurry camera defocus
• Effects window with dual split capability for before/after views
• Unlimited keyframes to customize effects
• Effects grid for precise placement
• AVX plug-ins for third-party effects support
• ExpertRender renders just the effects you need
• Partial render
• Real-time Avid Pan + Zoom support
• Real-time Plasma Wipe effects
• 10-bit effects processing on new Media Composer 9000 XL systems

 

Compositing + Color Correction

• Real-time color effects
• AutoCorrect color correction
• Real-time two-stream color correction with keyframes
• Automatic Color Correction tool
• Color correct white and black levels
• Color correct based upon RGB levels
• Control contrast, brightness, and gamma
• Tint or rotate hue
• Real-time chroma and luma keys
• Nondestructive compositing on unlimited layers
• AniMatte
• Paint
• RGB keyer

 

Integrated Titling

• Marquee titling (requires OpenGL hardware)*
• Downstream keyer for real-time uncompressed graphics and titles
• Integrated real-time Title Tool
• Real-time rolling titles
• Software crawling titles
• User-savable title style sheets
• Selectable font type, size, style, color, drop shadow, kerning and spacing
• Soft-edge drop shadows
• International character support (ICS)

 

Intraframe Editing

• Vector-based paint system
• Shape-based and freehand drawing tools with Bezier control
• Keyframeable control over shapes, color, and other effects
• Unlimited customizable brushes
• Unlimited customizable organic wipes
• Blur, mosaic, and emboss effects
• Clone and erase effects
• Median, unsharpen and gradient effects
• Darken/lighten effects
• Colorize with eyedropper or YUV slider color election
• Add/subtract and invert color effects
• Shape-based color effects
• Split-screen image comparison
• Magic Mask for creating color replacement based on chroma values inside a custom shape
• Two-field Scratch removal from film-based frame

 

Real-time Pan + Scan Previsualization

• 4:3 and 16:9 input
• 4:3, 16:9, 15:9, 14:9, letterbox output (compressed resolutions only)
• All Pan and Scan moves are keyframeable on X, Y, and Z axis

 

Web + Interactive Delivery

• Push-button export of RealMedia G2, Microsoft MediaPlayer (ASF), QuickTime 4.0,and MPEG-2
• QuickTime Reference Movie output
• Support for Avid NetReview Web-based services
• Sonic Solutions' AuthorScript format embedded into the system
• Support for Avid Unity Media Services ProEncode
• One-click access to Terran Interactive Media Cleaner Pro encoding package

 

Interoperability

• Total Conform of offline bins, sequences, edits, composites, audio settings, and effects for highly efficient online
• Bi-directional bin, sequence, project, and user-setting compatibility with Media Composer v7.2 and Symphony
• Media compatibility with Symphony systems and between Macintosh and Windows NT versions of Media Composer XL products
• HIIP® support for import/export of dozens of file formats
• Import QuickTime® 4.0 movies with alpha channel with new Avid 32-bit QuickTime Codec
• Supports logging file formats from third-party logging programs
• EDL Manager for generating EDLs in all major formats
• Support for JL Cooper Jog Wheel for tactile control of common Media Composer editing functions and deck control
• Video Archive of archive-selected footage to standard digital or analog videotape for easy project re-creation
• Supports AvidProNet.com for connectivity to Web-based community and services such as Avid NetReview
• Drag and Drop Import/Export
• Adobe Photoshop layer import
• Push to Playback* (requires DV Option)

 

Networking + Storage

• Avid Unity MediaNetwork v2.0 support for connectivity, shared storage, media protection, and network security
• Supports Avid Unity TransferManager to move media transparently, either standalone or in conjunction with Avid Unity MediaNetwork and MediaManager, between Media Composer systems and any CPU, anywhere*
• Avid Unity MediaDock iS Pro and iS Plus removable storage
• Avid Unity MediaDock LVD iS Plus removable storage
• Avid Unity MediaDrive iS Pro and rS plus fixed storage
• Avid Unity MEDIArray 10K Fibre Channel storage (local and shared)
• Avid Fibre Channel local storage support

 

* Available on PC only.

Note: Product specifications subject to change without notice.