Safe at any speed. Avid Xpress Pro features the most flexible, customizable editing toolset you've ever seen. Best of all, everything is designed for speed, accuracy, and above all, the protection of your work. Key editing features include: Open Timeline. It's not just that you can work with the industry's most popular formats. Only Avid Xpress Pro software allows you to combine video and film formats and resolutions in their native form, on the same timeline, in real-time. Want to work with more than one HD format at the same time? Or mix HD and SD footage? Maybe even have some film footage in the mix? Skip the pain of transcoding to a common format before you can even begin editing. Edit faster with Avid’s Open Timeline. Learn more about format flexibility by reading Avid Xpress Pro: HD Done Right. Fast editing. Drive edits with your mouse or your keyboard, with the fastest, most precise editing tools in the industry. In the world of Avid editing, the sequence is sacred. Avid's unique model editing means that you can move as quickly as you need to, without looking back, safe in the confidence that you'll never accidentally move a clip or have a random typo throw your sequence out of sync. Never waste time fixing actions you never meant to perform. Editing tools that understand editing. Here are two fast examples. Every NLE lets you copy and paste, of course. But only Avid lets you see the video you've copied to your clipboard, with complete playback and editing controls before you paste. That's right - copy a clip and trim it before you paste it. Then, select a clip or group of clips and start to move them. You'll automatically switch to a four window display, showing the in and out points of what you're moving, with the frames on either side of every potential edit. Let go in your new location, and the display automatically returns to your normal view. Powerful, easy trim tools. To begin, trim any clip, any time, with the comma and period keys. For more, step into Avid's world-famous trim mode, as easily as alt- or option-dragging a lasso across as many tracks as you want to work with, and trim all of them at once! Set up easy L-cuts by automatically trimming video and audio independently or in opposite directions together. See both sides of an edit update at the same time. Monitor the audio on either side of a trim simply by letting your mouse hover over the side you want to hear. You've never seen trim tools anything like this. Customizable toolsets. Everything you need to do is organized for you in the Toolsets menu. Capture, color correction, audio, and editing exactly the way you want it. Every workspace can be laid out to suit you and saved so that they reopen the same way, every time. Customize keyboard shortcuts and settings for additional controllers like the Digi 002. Change anything you want to in the interface, including how buttons are shaded really, it's all up to you. Take these settings with you and use them on any Avid system, anywhere in the world. Only Avid understands multiple users on multiple systems this well, because we know the best way to edit is your way. 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. Real-time Avid multicam editing. Avid offers the industry's most powerful real-time multicam editing with the industry's only mixed resolution clip groups HD, uncompressed SD, DV and film, each in their native format, with no transcoding required. Get more out of Avid Xpress Pro. When you're through editing, enjoy exceptional export flexibility to formats such as WMV HD, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), MPEG 2, and Flash. Equally powerful on Mac and PC The features you want, on all the platforms you work on. Only from Avid. Both Mac and PC software in the same box. Most companies that support both Mac and Windows require you to buy a separate copy of the software to use on each platform. Not Avid every box contains software for both platforms, and a hardware license key (dongle) that works with both. Install Avid Xpress Pro on all the computers you need, regardless of platform, and simply move the hardware key between them as you need. Great new features for Mac editors. Now enjoy the same features on both Mac and PC. For a complete list of the new features that have been added to the most recent Mac release, check our Tech Specs page. Avid manages media. Avid's media management is based on years of experience managing large projects for the world's most demanding clients. It works. Every time. Patented dynamic media database. Avid’s media management works better than anyone else’s does because it’s based on technology that nobody else has. It’s working all the time, automatically tracking footage as it’s captured or deleted. Easily and reliably make subclips from a single capture, track which clips have been used, seamlessly work with multiple resolutions of the same clip, share bins between projects, and much more all without ever thinking twice about whether or not it’s going to work. It works. Integrated metadata tracking. Advanced film and visual effects (VFX) tracking are built directly into Avid bins and timelines, including tracking of 24, 25, and 30 frame timecode, feet and frames, and film perf information. A single window tracks and displays all of this and more. Custom metadata and Custom Sift. Out of the box, Avid Xpress Pro tracks more kinds of metadata than anyone else. You can also add as many custom fields as you want simply click in a bin column heading and type away. Use any of these provided or customized fields as the basis for media-based searches across projects and volumes to find information far beyond the reach of OS-level searches. Painless consolidation. Starting projects on one computer and moving them to another perhaps from a desktop system to a laptop system, or from an offline machine to a finishing suite is one of the central facts of life in the real world of production. Nobody comes close to making it as easy for you as Avid does. In a single step, you can choose to move only the footage from a project that you’re actually using nothing more and nothing less while also transcoding to another resolution if you want. No need to manually relink on the other side of the process either! Avid handles it automatically, even if the two computers have different operating systems. Avid’s dynamic media database frees you from having to worry about file paths. Or anything else. Relink by resolution. You can have as many versions of a clip as you need to: offline, online, HD, SD, NTSC, PAL, anything at all. The "Relink by Resolution" command allows you to painlessly connect your edit to any of the versions of it you have the perfect way to manage your offline-online workflows or multi-format output needs. Share bins and sequences between projects. Avid’s media management doesn’t just apply to individual projects. It understands how you’ve organized those clips and sequences into bins, and doesn’t ask you to lock each of them you create to a single project. Why do the same work twice? It’s much easier to organize your projects in the way that works best for you, once, and let Avid take care of the rest. The Filmmaker's Companion With Academy Award® winning Avid Film Composer tools built right in, you can view film metadata while you edit using industry-standard offline resolutions. Real-time 24p pulldown, normal and advanced. Capture 24p media straight to disk over IEEE-1394, including the industry's first and only live capture of normal pulldown over 1394. And once you have your film files on disk, you can handle every possible pulldown cadence, not just the single one that other apps limit you to: no transcoding, wasted time and disk space, or lost timecode and metadata from destructive renders. Script-based editing. Changes to your screenplay are automatically reflected in your editing timeline. In fact, you can edit without touching the timeline at all arrange paragraphs to arrange scenes, and trim clips when you trim words from your script. It really is that simple. AutoSync and quarter-frame slip. The fastest, most flexible way to match film pictures with external audio sources, such as DAT and Broadcast WAV recorders and common timecode references. Better PAL support. Quickly and easily convert between 25p PAL media and 24p media by speeding up or slowing down picture, sound, or both. Unmatched graphics and effects The most powerful color correction in the business. Avid’s color correction curves offer dramatically more power than the elementary color wheels offered by others. They’re easier to use than the curves you’ll find in other applications, too, with built-in color-coded guides for beginning tweakers. Add the widest range of waveform and vectorscopes, split-screen before and after display to both computer monitor and broadcast monitor through optional Avid Mojo and Avid Mojo SDI hardware, we’re still only getting started with the color correction power you’ll find in Avid Xpress Pro. Automatic color correction. One-touch automatic color correction analyzes every clip in an entire sequence, and applies the unique correction that’s exactly right for each individual clip, using the same color correction found in the renowned Avid Symphony. You won't find anything like this anywhere else. Patented NaturalMatchTM color correction. Sometimes the challenge isn’t just to get each shot corrected in isolation. The challenge is to use color correction to join shots from multiple locations, cameras, and lighting conditions and into a cohesive whole. That’s where Avid’s NaturalMatch comes in, making it one-click easy to match multiple shots any way you need, especially optimized for skin tones. Image stabilization with auto-zoom. This one-step process corrects unwanted camera movement while simultaneously resizing the stabilized image to fill the frame. Doing it all in one pass saves time and preserves image quality. Pan and Zoom with high-quality real-time preview. Toggle between viewing the animation output (the zoomed-in portion of the image only) or the whole image with a moving preview rectangle for maximum flexibility and speed. Real-time animated alpha channels. Only Avid lets you bring movies with animated alpha channels back to your editing timeline with no additional rendering. Even animate the position, scale, and opacity of clips and add drop shadows, all in real-time. Other systems don't even let you do this with additional hardware! Avid Marquee: the industry’s only professional, integrated 3D title animation. Yes, extruded text with full control over materials, bevels, and textures. But also extruded vector graphic elements and 3D lights, for even 2D titles. A fully scriptable environment lets you automate the creation of as many titles you need, fully styled and animated, in a single keystroke. AVX 2 plug-in architecture. Deep colorspace and add advanced keyframing, including complete control over parameter curves, for both native Avid and third-party plug-in effects mean the highest resolution and most control offered by any NLE plug-in architecture. 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. Of course, you probably wouldn't want to, since so many HD formats have limited colorspace or throw away pixels to lower their data rates. Only Avid DNxHD can stand up to whatever multi-layer, multi-generation editing and compositing you need it for, and do it in 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. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.5. Earlier Mac operating systems are no longer being tested or qualified. PowerMac and PowerBook models only. Universal Binaries for Mac Intel will be supported in a future release 1 GB minimum system memory A graphics adapter supported by Apple Apple native FireWire, included with all qualified systems 40 GB or larger internal IDE boot drive CD or DVD-ROM drive QuickTime 7.0.4. QuickTime 6.x is not supported with Tiger. Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 QuickTime 7.0.4 1 GB system memory minimum, 2 GB recommended for HD or high-stream count SD projects 2.4 GHz Xeon processor OR Pentium 4 1.8 GHz processor OR Pentium M 1.8 GHz processor (mobile configurations) Qualified graphics card (per model, as supported by system vendors) Qualified IEEE-1394 FireWire port (integrated or add-in card ; Mojo is not supported on notebook systems with PCMCIA cards of any kind) 40 GB or larger internal IDE drive DVD-ROM or DVD+RW drive 0500-03789-01 AVID XPRESS PRO V5.x EDITING SOFTWARE |