Avid Media Composer

Overview

Avid Media Composer has been a leader in nonlinear, digital video editing for thirty years. This software is well known in the industry and used by many professional video editors and production teams.

Whether you’re working with SD, HD, ultra HD, 2K, 4K, or 8K media, you’ll experience the same smooth and reliable editing and playback performance. Media Composer is optimized for the best HDR experience, offering the high-efficiency media handling, ACES color space, and 32-bit floating color pipeline needed for editing accuracy.

Make changes to sequences during playback with the live timeline and unlimited playback streams. The software offers native support for lots of different formats, allowing you to start editing asap without waiting on transcode.

Avid Media Composer is especially well-suited for production teams as the software makes it easy for multiple editors to one on one project. Teams can collaborate remotely by adding web browser editing, storyboarding, project management and more to their workflow.

The software also provides more flexibility, allowing you to expand your production team and start new projects quickly with an editing suite that’s completely in the cloud. 

Who doesn’t love to automate time-consuming tasks? Avid Media Composer runs tasks like transcoding, rendering, consolidating, and relinking media in the background so you can keep working without your project timeline slowing down. You’ll also benefit from automated bin saving, audio mixes, audio and video sync, and more.

Avid is known for consistently providing new features and improvements to their software, and users get them as soon as Avid releases them. This means that anyone using Avid Media Composer benefits from the best of the best when it comes to video editing features and functionality.

Overall, Avid Media Composer is ideal for professional editors or those who are editing high-quality video projects on a regular basis. The free version is still pretty powerful, making it a great option for amateurs who want a feature-rich video editing software.

Pricing

The more limited Avid Media Composer First subscription is free. The regular subscription starts at $34.99 per month, and the ultimate subscription starts at $74.99 per month with free trials for each.

Key Features

Video effects like TimeWarp and Stabilize

Timecode tool

Sequence map

Bulk editing

Color corrections

Audio editing and mixing

Keyboard mapping