More cameras. More formats.
Sony HDV.
Native capture of HDV material means no transcoding and no quality loss. Key support for Sony formats, including 1080i/60, 1080i/50, and 1080i/30f.
JVC HDV.
JVC's HDV cameras support SD via DV format recording and HD via HDV format recording. Avid Xpress Pro software supports all SD DV formats, as well as the 720p/29.97 HDV resolution.
Canon HDV.
Canon's new XL H1 HDV camera supports SD via DV format recording and HD via HDV format recording. Avid Xpress Pro software supports all SD DV formats; for HD, it supports 1080i/60, 1080i/50, and 1080/30 HDV resolutions.
Sony XDCAM.
Sony XDCAM decks and camcorders store media on optical discs with capacities of up to 23.3GB. Key XDCAM features supported include: DVCAM, XDCAM HD at 25Mb/s, MXF support, and real-time playback of select variable framerates.
Panasonic DVCPRO HD and P2 media.
Start editing right away with native DVCPRO HD capture and editing. Key support for Panasonic DV, DVCPRO, DVCPRO 50 and DVCPRO HD, with direct edit and write-back to P2 media.
Tapeless editing.
Say goodbye to digitizing. P2 and XDCAM aren't the only tapeless formats Avid Xpress Pro handles. FireStore and Ikegami are just two of the companies providing hard drive recorders that capture native Avid media direct to disk, ready to be mounted as Avid media drives.
Better PAL support.
Quickly and easily convert between 25p PAL media and 24p media simply by speeding up or slowing down picture, sound, or both.
Use the industry's first HD format designed for post production.
All other HD formats are camera formats. They're not designed for compositing or animation. In fact, some of them don't have software codecs that you could render to if you wanted to. Avid DNxHD encoding is engineered to stand up to multi-layer, multi-generation editing and compositing, and use about the same bandwidth and storage space as uncompressed SD—without throwing away a single pixel. So shoot in your favorite format, and do all your processing in the only HD format that's up to the task.
720/50p support.
Well established in Europe, the popular 720p50 format displays twice as many frames as are minimally necessary to achieve the illusion of motion. The faster frame rate is ideal to capture action sequences and fast-moving sports without blurring.
