Avid to Support Microsoft Windows Media 9 Series
January 15, 2004
Park City, UT - Avid Technology, Inc. has announced plans to support Microsoft's Windows Media 9 Series in future versions of the Avid Xpress Pro and Media Composer Adrenaline products.
Similar to the export option for Windows Media 9 Series currently available
in the Avid DS Nitris system, both Avid Xpress Pro and Media Composer
Adrenaline systems will include this capability, the manufactruer reports, enabling filmmakers to output their projects in high-definition with a single click using Windows Media Video 9 (WMV HD) - a component of the Windows Media 9 Series platform.
Windows Media 9 Series is the most comprehensive platform available for the
creation, distribution, and playback of digital media.
Support for Windows Media 9 Series is expected to be included in future
versions of both the Avid Xpress Pro and Media Composer Adrenaline systems.
Avid DS Nitris - Avid's real-time HD and SD finishing system - has offered
support for Windows Media 9 Series since the product shipped in October
2003.
Avid Xpress Pro software offers 24p film editing capabilities and support
for the Panasonic AG-DVX100 24p camera and various offline formats,
including 15:1s, 35:1p, 28:1p, and 14:1p.
When paired with the portable Avid Mojo Digital Nonlinear Accelerator, Avid Xpress Pro software benefits from the industry's only hybrid architecture designed to leverage the power of both host-based CPU processing and hardware-based acceleration. Together, Avid Xpress Pro software and the Avid Mojo
accelerator deliver professional video, film, and audio editing
capabilities, including true real-time digital and analog output.
The new Media Composer Adrenaline product combines feature-rich, next-generation Media Composer software with the powerful Adrenaline hardware (also part of the Avid DNA family) to offer real-time, multi-stream, uncompressed standard-definition video editing and 10-bit high-definition media expandability.
Both Avid Xpress Pro with Avid Mojo and Media Composer Adrenaline systems
are qualified to run on a range of Windows- and Mac-based platforms,
including the Power Mac G5.
For more information, visit
www.avid.com
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