Media Composer Nitris DX

When you edit high-profile films, TV shows, or commercials for a living, you need a system that gives you the speed, flexibility, and confidence to take on anything. With Media Composer Nitris DX, you can capture, edit, monitor, and output digital and analog material faster and easier than anything else available.

Using Avid Intelligent Architecture, which squeezes the most performance out of your system, Media Composer software tightly integrates high- performance Nitris DX video hardware with your host computer's CPU and GPU, giving you a single high-bandwidth effects engine that delivers without compromise—no matter what formats and codecs you use. And with onboard 10-bit Avid DNxHD encoding and decoding, you can edit HD projects with incredible beauty and speed—with real-time performance.

Availability

• Media Composer Nitris DX bundle (includes Media Composer, Nitris DX, and one year of Avid Expert Plus support)
• Symphony Artist Package (includes Symphony, Nitris DX, Artist Color control surface, and one year of Avid Expert Plus support)
• Symphony System (includes Symphony, Nitris DX, Artist Color control surface, your choice of Mac or HP workstation, and one year of Avid Expert Plus support)
• NewsCutter Nitris DX System (includes NewsCutter, Nitris DX, HP workstation, and one year of Avid Expert Plus support)
• Nitris DX (hardware only; must currently own Media Composer, Symphony, or NewsCutter software; includes one year of Extended Hardware Coverage)

Host connections

• Computer: PCIe
• Serial machine control: RS-422

Video connections

• Digital video: SDI I/O (SD, HD, Dual-Link)
• Analog video:
  • Component I/O (YCbCr: SD, HD)
  • S-Video I/O (SD)
  • Composite I/O (SD)

Audio connections

• Digital audio:
  • 8 channels of AES/EBU I/O (on DB25 connector)
  • 8 channels of embedded SD-SDI audio I/O
  • 16 channels of embedded HD-SDI audio I/O
  • 8 channels of optical ADAT I/O
  • 2 channels of optical S/PDIF I/O
• Analog audio:
  • 4 channels of balanced XLR I/O
  • 2 channels of RCA audio input

Monitoring and sync

• Monitoring: HDMI output (all rates supported, including full 1920 x 1080 HD)
• Timecode and sync:
  • LTC (XLR I/O)
  • Reference Sync (Black and Burst or HD TriLevel input, combined connector)
  • Reference Sync loop-through
  • Word Clock (output only)

Onboard acceleration and support

• 10-bit Avid DNxHD encoding and decoding
• Optional onboard AVC-Intra support
• Full frame stereoscopic I/O and monitoring (with two cards)
• Thin raster support