Media Composer - Features

Features

The Current version of Media Composer (MCSoft) has the following features

• Animatte
• 3D Warp
• Paint
• Live Matte Key
• Tracker / Stabilizer
• Timewarps with motion estimation (FluidMotion)
• SpectraMatte (high quality chroma keyer)
• Color Correction toolset (with Natural Match)
• ScriptSync (with Nexidia phonetic indexing and sync)
• Stereoscopic editing abilities (expanded in MC v6)
• AMA - Avid Media Access, the ability to link to and edit with P2, XDCAM, R3D, QuickTime and AVCHD native material directly without capture or transcoding.
• Mix and Match - put clips of any frame rate, compression, scan mode or video format on the same timeline
• SmartTools - drag and drop style editing on timeline, can be selectively adjusted to the types of actions that the user wants to use when clicking on timeline.
• RTAS - (RealTime AudioSuite), support for realtime track-based audio plug-ins on the timeline.
• PhraseFind - analyzes clips and indexes all dialog phonetically allowing text search of spoken words. (with Nexidia phonetic indexing and search)
• 5.1 and 7.1 Surround Sound audio mixing, compatible with Pro Tools (MC v6)

Media Composer differentiates itself from Avid Symphony because it is missing Advanced/Secondary Color Correction and Universal Mastering.

The software used to be protected by a USB dongle that will operate on either Mac or Windows. As of version 3.5 the dongle is optional, and existing users may choose to use software activation or keep using their dongles, while new systems are being sold exclusively with software activation. The software ships with installers for both Mac and Windows, and can physically be installed on several computers, allowing the user to move the software license (or the dongle) between systems and/or platforms.

The installer includes installers for

• EDL Manager
• Avid Log Exchange
• FilmScribe
• MediaLog
• Interplay Transfer
• MetaSync Manager (no longer in v6)
• MetaSync Publisher (no longer in v6)
• MetaFuze (Windows only), a standalone application to convert files (R3D, DPX, TIFF) from film scanning, CGI systems or RED camera into MXF media files. Actually based on an import module that was taken from Avid DS.

Also included with the boxed version of Media Composer is the following 3rd party software:

• Avid FX - 2D & 3D compositing and titling software (aka Boris RED)
• Sorenson Squeeze - Compression software to create, Windows Media, QuickTime, MPEG 1/2, MPEG 4 or Flash video
• SonicFire Pro 5 - music creation software (includes 2 CDs of music tracks)
• Avid DVD by Sonic - DVD and Blu-ray authoring software (Windows only)

Software are full versions with online manuals.