Avid Xpress Product Family Embraces HD
April 18, 2005
Las Vegas, NV - Avid Technology unveiled the newest offerings in its Avid Xpress family of content creation tools - the Avid Xpress Studio HD all-in-one production suite, and the Avid Xpress Pro HD PowerPack. The Avid Xpress Studio HD system is described as the industry's first HD content creation suite to include highly integrated HD video editing, audio production, 3D animation, compositing and titling, and DVD authoring software applications combined with professional video and audio production hardware.
Avid Xpress Studio HD
The Avid Xpress Studio HD suite is built around five industry-leading software applications, including Avid Xpress Pro HD, Avid Pro Tools LE, Avid 3D, Avid FX, and Avid DVD by Sonic. The system brings the entire media production process into one unified product, enabling professional content creators to offer services such as video editing, audio postproduction, graphics, compositing, titles, effects, and distribution via tape, DVD, or the Web.
The Avid Xpress Studio HD system supports native DVCPRO HD for acquisition, editing, and output over IEEE-1394, plus Avid DNxHD
encoding to create effects, transitions, and titles with the image quality of uncompressed HD files - but the bandwidth of SD files.Users can mix both DVCPRO HD and Avid DNxHD media with SD media in the same timeline in real time, and complete projects in a variety of ways, including output back to DVCPRO HD tape, SD DVD, or export to MPEG-2 HD, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) or WMV-HD.
The system also includes:
- Support for more SD and HD formats and frame rates for Avid 3D including 10-bit uncompressed SD, DV25, DVCPRO 25, DVCPRO 50, as well as Avid DNxHD 1080i/59.94, 1080i/50, 1080p/25, 1080p/23.976, 720p/23.976, and 1080p/24;
- New animation and modeling tools for Avid 3D - including motion presets, parent-child animation, geometry creation with Boolean editing, and new title animation rigs;
- New Template Mode for Avid FX - including streamlined launching and effects application, and one-step editing of title templates directly inside the Avid FX Library Browser; and,
- Enhancements to Avid DVD by Sonic - including new menu/background templates, plus a wide range of new options for managing content, importing and adding files, and enhancing the workspace view.
The Avid Xpress Studio HD system comes in two versions. Avid Xpress Studio HD Essentials includes the Digidesign Mbox hardware for integrating audio I/O with the recording, editing, and real-time mixing capabilities of the Pro Tools LE software. Avid Xpress Studio HD Complete includes the eight-channel Digi 002 for professional audio and touch-sensitive motorized faders for automation control within both the Avid Xpress Pro HD and Avid Pro Tools LE applications. Avid Xpress Studio HD Complete also includes the Avid Mojo Digital Nonlinear Accelerator (Avid DNA) for real-time output of multiple streams of video and 3-D effects to client monitor and tape, SD display of HD media, and the ability to mix uncompressed graphics and animation with DV media in real time.
Avid Xpress Pro HD PowerPack
The Avid Xpress Pro HD PowerPack combines the latest release of Avid Xpress Pro HD software with the Avid Studio Toolkit HD suite of
software offerings, which includes Avid 3D, Avid FX, and Avid DVD by Sonic. Together, this package provides a robust yet affordable way for
content creators to work on HD video projects, create graphics, composites, titles, and effects, and distribute their work to HD tape, DVD, or the Web.
Pricing & Availability
- The Avid Xpress Pro HD PowerPack system is priced at $2,495 USMSRP
- The Avid Xpress Studio HD Essentials system is priced at $3,495 USMSRP
- The Avid Xpress Studio HD Complete system is priced at $5,995 USMSRP
For more information, visit
www.avid.com
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