
Experience more inspired storytelling
Find your creative flow with a modern new interface and task-based workspaces that make organizing media and video makers more fluid and intuitive. Media Composer’s responsive smart panel design helps clear the clutter, so you can spend more time focusing on what matters most—your story.
Create stories more easily
- Create better stories with more creative focus using task-based workspaces that lead you through the storytelling process, displaying only the tools you need
- Bring what’s important into focus with the redesigned interface, which clears the clutter, providing a more contextual user experience
- Get complete video editing, finishing, and packaging* tools all in one solution
- Maintain full image quality and consistent color accuracy with the new 32-bit floating point color pipeline and ACES color space support
* IMF packaging tools for OTT delivery is available through Symphony, included
Edit easily with new and improved tools
From better bin handling and project access, to countless timesaving features, there’s a lot more to love about Media Composer. Plus, with input from customers and other video makers, we’ve added many of your top requests (say hello again to the weightlifter and scissors icons!).
Edit at the speed of imagination
- Organize and access media and projects easily with new bin containers, which now include projects and adaptive bin frames
- Sift through tons of content and find media fast with the new Bin Map, which provides a zoomable overview map
- Access Project, User, and Site settings quickly through a dedicated tabbed Settings window
- Create stunning and inspired visual effects faster and more easily with the new Effects palette tool
- Work more easily with the optimized Smart Tool now in the Timeline toolbar, making it more convenient to access for those who use it and less dominating for those who don’t
- View only the metadata you want with the new Inspector
- And much more!
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Work faster—the way you want
Freely resize and rearrange Media Composer interface panels to suit your editing preferences. Display and arrange the tools you want—hide what you don’t—enabling you to work more instinctively. Without the interface getting in the way.
Customize your interface for you
- Resize and rearrange panels and have all surrounding panels readjust accordingly—or turn off responsive behaviors and you can move things as you wish
- Pop out panels to become floating windows for complete interface layout control
- Display only the interface elements you want to complete your editing, color, audio, and effects work
- Customize the color of tracks, clips, markers, and other elements, plus give your interface a pleasing gray theme or edgier dark side
Finish and deliver with total color precision
Whether you do all editing, effects, and color work in Media Composer or roundtrip projects to another application, the new 32-bit floating point color pipeline and ACES color space support future-proof your content and ensure consistent color accuracy from end to end. OpenEXR decoding accelerates HDR effects work. Plus, new IMF packaging tools make OTT delivery easy.
Maintain the highest image quality, end to end
- Perform color correction and grading tasks with full color precision using 32-bit floating point color tools and management
- Maintain consistent color accuracy and full image quality with support for ACES (Academy Color Encoding System) color spaces
- Maintain full image quality when rendering effects and correcting color with support for 32-bit DNxUncompressed lossless formats
- Work faster with automatic color transformations that eliminate the need to re-encode media
- Get OpenEXR decoding to accelerate HDR visual effects workflows
- Deliver content to the required specifications directly from Media Composer with new IMF packaging tools in Symphony

Keep production moving
With the new Media Composer | Distributed Processing option, you can offload rendering and transcoding tasks to unused or idle networked computers, freeing up Media Composer. Keep working instead of waiting for jobs to complete. Plus, its parallel processing greatly speeds up turnaround time.