Media Capture
- 720 x 486 images (NTSC)
or 720 x 576 images (PAL) (24 fps, 25 fps, and 30 fps)
- ITU-R 601 uncompressed
resolution
- All interlaced video
resolutions from Symphony v3
- 1:1,2:1,and 3:1 online
24-frame progressive resolutions
- Multicamera resolutions
including 10:1m and 4:1m for interlace and 8:1 and 3:1 for progressive
- 14:1,28:1,and 35:1
offline 24-frame progressive resolutions
- All progressive resolutions
mixable from 2:1 to 35:1
- Serial digital, analog
component YUV, composite and S-Video I/O
- Support for SDTI-CP
and MPEG IMX format (Windows only)
- DV Option (DV25, DV50)
available (Windows only)
- DV Scene Extraction
(requires DV Option; Windows only)
- Eight channels 44.1
kHz or 48 kHz AES/EBU digital audio I/O and monitoring
- Internal waveform monitor
and vector cope
- Built-in CD audio import
Project Management/Asset
Management
- Media Chunking feature
divides files and writes the pieces to disk, letting editors start to work
on shots before digitizing is completed (Windows only)
- Folder hierarchy (nestable
folders) within Project Window
- Multilevel find, sift,
and sort functions
- Frame, script, and
text views
- User, project, and
site settings
- Supports Avid Unity
MediaManager v2.0 for facility-wide or local search and display and media
asset management
Picture Editing
- Two ITU-R 601 uncompressed
video streams and graphics channel
- User interface based
upon the Avid Media Composer system, optimized for finishing
- Two-monitor set-up
(bin and edit monitor)
- Separate full-screen
NTSC or PAL video monitor
- 24 video tracks with
32 levels of undo/redo
- Mappable function buttons
and menus
- Workspaces allow one-button
recall of use interface set-ups
- Nine-stream real-time
hardware multicamera play
- Support for mixable
resolutions
- Locators to mark frames
in clips or in timeline
- Match frame
- Variable speed forward/reverse
shuttle control
- VTR play emulation
- Single-field step
- Online help
- MetaSync capability
- Illusion FX Pack plug-ins
- Film features
- Native 24-frame/25-frame
editing
- AutoSync and AutoSequence
- Interactive dupe detection
in timeline
- Improved offline resolutions
based on progressive frames
- Two-field scratch removal
from film-based frame
- Script-based editing
- Frame-accurate cut
lists and change list via FilmScribe
- Film Matchback from
NTSC or PAL 30i, 25i video projects (16 mm,35 mm, 3-perf,and 4-perf)
Audio
- 24 audio tracks for
editing and mixing
- Automation gain (external
fader controller support)
- Real-time multiband
EQ (sweepable mid-range)with real-time adjustment
- Eight-channel scrubbing
with pitch change
- Eight-channel I/O
- Support for Digidesign
AudioSuite plug-in
- Broadcast Wave Format
(BWF) file support
Color Correction/Color
Grading
- Three types of color
correction - Advanced Color Correction mode, spot correction, and Color
Effect
- Advanced 2-channel,real-time,scene-to-scene
color correction with 10-bit color precision
- A powerful Source Correction
mode that creates efficient cene-to-scene color correction of master clips,
sub-clips, segments, or tracks
- Real-time secondary
color correction for isolating and adjusting individual color vector within
an image
- Advanced tools including
eyedropper , sliders, advanced spline curves, and dynamic histograms
- Multiple types of color
correction including RGB, HSL, luminance, and composite correction
- Safe Color allows multiple
color adjustments to stay within industry-accepted standards
- Spot color correction
provides additional color correction effects using Intraframe paint tools
- Color Effect color
correction with full-featured tools that are keyframeable on the timeline
- AutoCorrect color correction
Keying + Compositing
- Ultimatte™ real-time
color difference keying with Advantedge™
- Real-time full-motion
alpha keying
- Real-time chroma and
luma keys
- RGB Keyer effect with
post-key foreground color correction
- Real-time spill suppression
with color replacement
- AniMatte–Customizable
garbage mattes with integrated keyer and Bezier control
- 10-bit DVE with YUV
processing and variable edge softness
- Real-time dissolves,
superimpositions, resize, flip, flop, masks and picture-in-picture
- Real-time Moving Mattes
- Real-time pushes and
spins
- Unlimited keyframes
to customize effects
- Partial Render
Character Generation
- Marquee Title Tool
provides a true 3D editing environment with a built-in DVE for fast and
responsive titling using animated light sources, textures, and greater-than-video
resolution files. Hardware accelerated with an OpenGL graphics card (Windows
only)
- Separate downstream
keyer for graphics, rolling titles, and software crawling titles
- Soft-edge drop shadows
with blurs and glow
- Selectable font type,
size, style, color, drop shadow, kerning and spacing
Paint +Effects
- Flexible keyframe environment
using Bezier, spline, and linear motion controls
- Motion tracking and
image stabilization (included within all effects)
- Vector-based paint
system
- Scratch removal mode
for simple one-step repair of dirt and scratches
- Real-time deep defocus
for realistic emulation of the blurry defocus of cameras
- Motion effects including
slow, fast, strobe, freeze-frame, reverse, and fit-to-fill with interpolation
- Shape-based and freehand
drawing tools with Bezier control
- Fully animatable brushes
with keyframeable control over shapes, color and other effects
- Blur, mosaic, clone,
erase, and emboss effects
- Median, unsharpen,
darken/lighten, and gradient effects
- AVX plug-in support
for customized or third-party effects
- Avid Pan + Zoom support
- Plasma Wipe effects
- Timewarp motion effects
- FluidMotion rendering
- 30 new image effects,
including Lightning, Fluid Morph, Melt, Pattern Generator, FluidBlur, Particle
Burst, and Sparkler
Real-Time Pan +Scan
- 4:3 and 16:9 input
- 4:3, 16:9, 15:9, 14:9,
letterbox output
- All Pan and Scan moves
are keyframeable on X, Y, and Z axis
Universal Editing +Mastering
- 24 fps and 25 fps ITU-R
601 progressive for NTSC and PAL mastering
- Output 23.976 NTSC,
24 NTSC, 24 PAL, 25 PAL or 29.97 NTSC from a single source
- Support for 23.976P
projects for offline editing of HD projects
- Allows for program
versioning of content and output of 4:3,16:9,14:9,15:9, and letterbox aspect
ratios
- Maintains continuous
2/3 pulldown of sequences
- Track 24 fps, 25 fps,
30 fps timecode for source and master from single sequence
Progressive Editing
- Full progressive 24
or 25 frames stored on disk
- Uses 20% less storage
than NTSC projects and 4.1% less storage than PAL projects
- 20% faster rendering
than NTSC projects and 4.1% faster rendering than PAL projects
- 50% to 60% faster effect
manipulation (no 2/3 removal needed) in NTSC projects
- Allows smooth interlace
output to PAL or NTSC with no motion artifacts
Relink by KeyKode
- Allows relinking by
KeyKode of sequence based on multiple negative re-transfer
- Total Conform of 24
fps- and 25 fps-based sequences
- Frame-accurate cut
lists and video conform via Total Conform
Web +Interactive Delivery
- Push-button export
of RealMedia G2, Microsoft MediaPlayer (ASF), QuickTime 4.0,and MPEG-2
- QuickTime Reference
Movie output
- Support for Sonic Solutions'
DVDit! authoring package and AuthorScript format
- Support for Avid Unity
Media Services ProEncode
- Support for Terran
Interactive Media Cleaner Pro encoding package
Interoperability
- Total Conform of Media
Composer and Film Composer bins and sequences for batch digitizing
- Import and manipulate
native Adobe Photoshop (PSD) files as a multi-layer sequence in Avid Symphony
systems
- AAF import/export
- Ability to import revised
EDLs and re-link to existing online media (30i,25i)
- Bi-directional bin
and sequence compatibility with Media Composer v7.2 and later
- Import QuickTime 4.0
movies with Avid 32-bit QuickTime Codec for NT
- OMF 2.0 support
- EDL output with pulldown
and field indicator for downstream processing
- Supports JL Cooper
Jog Wheel for tactile control of Media Composer editing functions and deck
control
- Video Archive for archiving
elected footage to standard digital or analog videotape for easy project
recreation
- Support for the Avid
Unity MediaManager, Avid Unity TransferManager, and Avid Unity ProEncode
Productivity Tools
- FilmScribe support
for full-featured film cut list
Networking +Storage
- Support for Avid Unity
TransferManager to move media transparently, either standalone or in conjunction
with Avid Unity
- MediaNetwork 2.0 and
MediaManager, between the Symphony system and any CPU, anywhere
- Avid MediaDock iS Pro
and iS Plus removable storage
- Avid MediaDock LVD
iS Plus removable storage
- Avid MediaDrive iS
Pro and rS Plus fixed storage
- Avid Unity MEDIArray
fibre storage as local storage
- Avid Unity MediaNetwork
2.0 support
Note: Product specifications
subject to change without notice.