Avid Media Composer

Software

Best choice for offline, file-based, and mobile editing

Features

What's new in version 3:

  • Support for Mac OSX Leopard and Windows Vista 32 & 64
  • Additional HD codec support, such as Sony XDCAM-EX (using the Sony Clip Browser software), Panasonic AVC-I & JVC 23.976p & 25p HDV
  • Improved real-time performance for non-full-raster HD codecs
  • Improved real-time effect performance
  • Improved render performance with optimized multi-threading on multi-core CPUs
  • MetaFuze tool, for quickly merging single-frame files (such as DPX and TIF) from film scanning or CGI systems into a single media clip. (Windows only)
  • Real-time multi-window timecode burn-in tool
  • SubCap subtitling tool
  • Timestamp export for BWF