Avid has announced that the latest version of Avid Media Composer, 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 – users can work with any raster up to 8K, in any format.
– AVC-I, ProRes, XAVC-I and XF-AVC native high-resolution playback – Optimised
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.
– 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.
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.
Media Composer 8.4 is now available for download online and through authorised
Avid resellers.
