Avid XPRESS-PRO

As a standalone solution or portable offline editor, Avid Xpress Pro software combines professional video, audio, film, effects, DVD authoring, and encoding tools-plus custom music creation tools-for both Mac and PC. Find out why industry-standard Avid tools are used to create nearly all of today's feature films and prime time television shows:

Do more, and do it faster, with the most flexible, customizable editing toolset and the best effects available. Fast, fingertip trim tools. Real-time Avid multicam editing. One-Touch and NaturalMatch automatic color correction. Crisp image stabilization with auto-zoom. Pan and zoom of oversized stills. Real-time animated alpha channels. Only Avid Xpress Pro video editing gives you all this-and much more.

With Avid's unique Open Timeline technology, you can use more of the industry's most popular formats more ways, including P2, XDCAM and other tapeless media-and do more with them. Only Avid Xpress Pro software lets you combine multiple formats in their native form - DV, SD, HD* and film -- on one timeline, in real time. When you're done, encode them anyway you want: WMV HD, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), MPEG 2, Flash, and more.

Avid media management tools Avid media management tools are used to manage the world's largest, most demanding projects. Find exactly what you're looking for every time, and never slow down for even the largest and most intricate projects.

Avid Marquee remains the only directly integrated 3D and advanced 2D title solution, and it's now available for Avid Xpress Pro systems on Mac and PC.

With Academy Award® winning Avid Film Composer tools built right in, Avid Xpress Pro software has what you need for every kind of 24-frame editing, including film and both SD and HD 24p video.

Avid MarqueeStart with Avid Xpress Pro software, and there's no limit to where you can go. Add seamlessly integrated 3D animation, Pro Tools audio, audio and video hardware, and more. Connect with the smartest shared storage and collaborative tools in the business. And Avid Total Conform makes it easy, fast, and affordable to give your project the same professional finish of today's big-budget productions.

New HDV Support:

Plug in, capture, and go. Both 1080 and 720 HDV formats are handled natively. No intermediate formats and no transcoding give you maximum quality in minimum time.

With Avid's unique Open Timeline, native HDV plays nicely with DVCPro HD, XDCAM, DV, and other HD and SD formats – all natively, all in real time. It couldn't be easier to add HDV to the other HD and SD formats you use.

Just as you can use multiple formats the same timeline in real time, you can use more than one kind of camera while shooting: HDV, DVCPro HD, DV, BetaSP—whatever you need. Choose between different cameras while you make decisions—and cuts—on the fly, without worrying about mixing different formats. Only Avid makes it this easy.

*We highly recommend the purchase of a fully integrated computer system to assure functionality of the software and hardware. Please visit the manufacturers web site for compatibility and tested configurations.