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Media Composer is the most proven video editing software in the industry, trusted by professional editors in every segment of movie making, television, broadcast, and streaming media. Designed to handle high volumes of disparate file-based media, Media Composer delivers accelerated high-res and HD workflows, real-time collaboration, and powerful media management, eliminating time-consuming tasks so you can focus on telling a great story. And now the choice is yours—edit on premises, or remotely through the cloud—access through a low-cost subscription, on-demand via floating license, or own it outright—making Media Composer the most versatile and accessible tool for professional creative editorial.

New features

Edit 4K and other high-res media natively

Satisfy your audience’s insatiable appetite for higher quality, more inspiring content—delivered when they want, where they want, and on any device they want. With native support for 2K, 4K, Ultra HD, and higher resolution media, you can acquire, manage, edit, and deliver content with speed and ease. Plus, you can view 2K/4K media in its native resolution on a client monitor—in real time—using Avid Artist | DNxIO or your choice of third-party Open I/O-compatible hardware.

Work with Avid Resolution Independence

Take on any job—in any media resolution—without limits. With Avid Resolution Independence, you can work with practically any media in every resolution—SD, HD, 4K, and beyond—using your existing infrastructure. Coming soon, Custom Raster Support lets you work with any raster, from 8K to special rasters you can define.

Get greater beauty without the bandwidth

When we introduced Avid DNxHD, we gave you “beauty without the bandwidth,” enabling you to work with and master HD media easily, without blowing your storage budget. And now we’re expanding these same benefits to high-res. With Avid DNxHR, you can work with a wider range of resolutions to fit your task at hand—from lightweight proxies that are a fraction of the raw file sizes for high-performance editorial (making remote collaboration easier), to even more mastering resolutions, including 2K and 4K for delivery. Plus, it’s completely backwards compatible with DNxHD, as it’s built on the same extensible, standards-based media codec.

Use the tools the pros use starting at just $49.99/month

When reputations are on the line, professional editors in film and television have long turned to Media Composer to help them expertly manage mountains of media, simplify workflows, and accelerate the editorial process to tell the best story possible. And now the software is an easy fit for any budget, with a range of low-cost options to add the media industry standard to your workflow. Choose a monthly or annual subscription, buy and own the software outright, or deploy flexibly across your facility with floating licensing. The choice is yours.

And more…

New DNxHR Export Options: Quicktime-wrapped or MXF OP1a
Create XAVC-I masters at UHD and 4K resolution
GPU effects acceleration on Mac with AMD and NVIDIA cards
Export high-res files in DPX format
Easily switch project resolutions and have all precompute clips (renders) automatically relink
Search for bins within the Project window using the Quick Filter tool
Toggle clips and tracks on and off in the timeline to explore and compare sequence variations
Speed up editing with new timeline enhancements
Read DPX files without transcoding using the Avid Image Sequencer plug-in
Create groups from stereoscopic clips for easy multicam editing
Automate non-creative tasks such as transcoding, copying, and consolidating in the background with Dynamic Media Folders
Keep your Avid software, plug-ins, and related third-party software up to date with the application manager