Avid Media Composer
The best professional video editing software for film and television
Whether you’re a seasoned video editor or just starting your career, get unmatched speed and creative freedom to tell more inspired stories. Do your best work with Media Composer’s award-winning toolset, the go-to choice of professional editors.
New speech-to-text transcription tools
Powered by Avid Ada, the Transcript Tool with PhraseFind™ gets expanded functionality to include both source and sequence transcription. Search for words or phrases through your source media or edits and make new and improved edit decisions fast and easy. Display speaker ID and Timecode at any time, generate sequence subtitles automatically with a single click and share or archive transcriptions across workstations. PhraseFind™ is included with Media Composer Ultimate and Media Composer Enterprise, and is an option for Media Composer. In tandem with ScriptSync™, the pair offer the most feature-rich editorial tools for working with dialogue.
Improved Media Composer and Pro Tools interoperability
Media Composer and Pro Tools, the two most trusted creative toolsets in postproduction, continue to grow more compatible than ever before. New in Media Composer is the ability to automate volume and pan information at the sub-frame level. In addition, Pro Tools 2024.6 can export Media Composer-specific session files that maintain crucial edit and mix metadata.
Avid Huddle support for all versions of Media Composer
Enable creative teams to collaborate more efficiently and securely from anywhere they need to be. Avid Huddle is now available for all versions of Media Composer and Avid | Edit On Demand. Recent updates include password protection for session summaries and watermarking on output. Through a direct connection to Microsoft Teams, Avid Huddle accelerates your time to delivery by speeding up and simplifying the review and approval process.
More open than ever to third-party integration
With the new Panel SDK, Media Composer literally has a new window to third-party workflows. Customers and technology partners can use the Panel SDK to directly access external applications and services, enabling greater speed and efficiency when moving and managing media assets throughout Media Composer. Request the Panel SDK.
Share projects, bins, and media
Add Avid NEXIS shared storage to your workflow and multiple video editors and assistants can work on the same projects at once. No more accidentally overwriting work or needing to duplicate and micromanage media.
Maintain quality from end to end
As projects move from offline to online—and from in-house to external teams and back again—the standardized ACES color space ensures that all high-res and HDR projects will maintain full image quality and color accuracy from end to end, across all color and VFX work.
Enable remote collaboration
Up-level your workflow with Avid Huddle, our new video review software for real-time review and feedback. Notations can be imported back into Media Composer, speeding up and simplifying the review process for creative teams. Or deploy a full virtual production suite in the cloud with Avid | Edit On Demand.
Virtualize post production
Gain efficiency and reduce costs by virtualizing your post-production environment with Media Composer | Cloud VM, extending video editing with virtual machine technology for on-premises or remote network access to projects and media. Cloud VM provides the full Media Composer video editing experience to multiple clients from a single on-premises shared storage system and/or a centralized server.
Keep production moving
With the Distributed Processing option, included with Media Composer | Enterprise, you can offload time-consuming rendering, transcoding, and exporting tasks to unused or idle networked computers, freeing up Media Composer workstations, and taking wasteful downtime out of the process.
Customize the interface for any role
Media Composer is the only video editing solution that lets you tailor the interface for any role in your organization—from video editors, to assistants, loggers, or journalists. Provide only the tools needed to do the job, enabling better focus and faster completion.
Secure your production
Media Composer is the only video editing software that enables you to limit user access to workspaces and tools and restrict content export, so you can safeguard your media and mitigate costly mistakes and leaks.
Bridge workflows between teams
For editors working in news, sports, and studio production environments, Media Composer integrates with MediaCentral, enabling teams to connect and access content locally and remotely across the entire platform ecosystem.
