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As a professional finishing tool for film and just about any format of video, Avid Symphony 6 pulls together everything professional editors love about Avid's venerable, highly regarded Media Composer nonlinear editing software and adds Artist Color for advanced secondary color correction & grading, plus Boris Continuum Complete for 2D/3D graphics & effects and Universal Mastering tools for output to tape when you're using Nitris DX hardware (sold separately).
Avid Symphony 6 adds the DNxHD 444 codec to accelerate your workflow with RGB 4:4:4 video. And of course you can work in stereoscopic 3D, given the proper hardware. On that front, Symphony 6 is far more open to third-party hardware than its predecessors, thanks to Avid's Open I/O architecture. You can input and output all manner of media using solutions such as I/O boxes from Blackmagic Design, AJA, Matrox, and more. And of course Avid's Nitris DX and Mojo DX are fully supported, as are Artist series control surfaces, which are highly useful for the high-end finishing tasks you're no doubt likely to undertake within Symphony.
Version 6 software also includes a few modules that give you the tools you need to perform those crucial tasks that are ancillary to the craft of editing: create special effects, perform encoding tasks, and author DVDs by using Boris RED (Avid FX), Sorenson Squeeze, and Avid DVD, respectively.
Incorporating Media Composer's updated interface and toolset wholly, Symphony 6 also provides entrée to the upper echelon of Avid software. The addition of effects software, print-to-tape formatting software, and color-correction & color-grading tools makes this software package a professional finishing suite of the highest order.
To be eligible for this crossgrade, you must already own Final Cut Pro (any version)..
Supported Formats |
Project Formats NTSC: 23.976p, 24p, 30i PAL: 24p, 25i, 25p HD: 720p23.976/25/29.97/50/59.94, 1080p23.976/24/25/29.97, 1080i59.94/50 Native Codec Support AVCHD: All frame rates supported by Media Composer family Avid DNxHD 444: All DNxHD 444 formats Avid DNxHD: All DNxHD formats Avid compressed SD resolutions: AVR (playback only), 15:1s, 4:1s, 2:1s, 20:1, 10:1, 3:1, 2:1, 35:1p, 28:1p, 14:1p, 3:1p, 2:1p, 4:1m, 10:1m, 3:1m(p), 8:1m(p) Avid proxy formats: Interplay MPEG-2 proxy, MPEG-4 proxy, 720p H.264 proxy (transcode service only) Canon XF: 50 Mb/s, 4:2:2 DV: DV25 / DVCAM 4:1:1 NTSC, 4:1:1 PAL, 4:2:0 PAL, 24p; DV50 HDV: JVC HDV, 720p; Sony HDV, 1080p24/25, 1080i50/59.94; Canon HDV, 1080p24, 1080i50/59.94; native project formats, 1080i59.94/50, 720p23.976 (with support for 24p material), 720p25/29.97/50/59.94; capture over IEEE 1394, edit, play back, export to file without timecode (export not for 24p material) Ikegami GFCAM: GFCAM 50 Mb/s, GFCAM 100 Mb/s Microsoft VC-1 Panasonic DVCPRO: DVCPRO, DVCPRO 50 Panasonic DVCPRO HD: DVCPRO HD, AVC Intra (no encode from baseband over HD-DI), native project formats: 1080i59.94/50, 720p59.94/50/25/23.976 QuickTime: ProRes encode (Mac only) and decode; most QuickTime-compatible movies (playback performance dependent on codec, frame size, and hardware configuration); full metadata support RED: R3D (frame sizes scaled to HD), RED EPIC, RLX support Sony HDCAM SR Lite: 220 Mb/s Sony XDCAM (SD): DV, IMX30, IMX40, IMX50, full ancillary data support through AMA Sony XDCAM EX: MPEG 25 Mb/s CBR, MPEG 35 Mb/s VBR, full ancillary data support through AMA Sony XDCAM HD: MPEG 18 Mb/s VBR, MPEG 25 Mb/s VBR, MPEG 25 Mb/s CBR, MPEG 35 Mb/s VBR, MPEG 50 Mb/s CBR, MPEG-4 Proxies, full ancillary data support through AMA File-Based Support Canon XF: Full native direct access to Canon XF media and metadata; native editing of all listed formats Ikegami GFCAM: Full native direct access to GFCAM material and metadata; native GFCAM editing of all listed formats; direct edit of GFCAM media from GFPAK cards or disk drive MXF: Full native direct access to MXF media and metadata; native editing of all formats Panasonic P2: Full native direct access to P2 media and metadata; native DVCPRO HD and AVC Intra editing of all listed HD formats; direct edit of P2 media from cards or disk drive; support for P2 Store; write-back of finished program to P2 media (Windows only) QuickTime: Full native direct access to QuickTime media and metadata (including Canon 5D and 7D media); full native ProRes encode (Mac only) and decode support; native editing of all listed formats; direct edit of QuickTime movie files RED: Full native direct access to RED (.R3D) media and metadata (frame size scaled to HD); full native direct access to RED EPIC (5K/4.5K/3K2K RAW, 1080p RGB, and 720p RGB) material; native editing of all listed formats; direct edit of RED (.R3D) files from a RED-FLASH card or RED-DRIVE Sony HDCAM SR Lite: Full native direct access to HDCAM SR Lite media and metadata; native editing of all listed HD data rates Sony XDCAM / XDCAM EX / XDCAM HD: Full native direct access to XDCAM media and metadata; native editing of all listed SD and HD data rates; full ancillary data support; import via File Access Mode (FAM) over IEEE 1394; ingest via FTP client over Ethernet; ingest, playout and write-back of finished program to XDCAM media Uncompressed HD and SD Video SD: 1:1 interlaced 8-bit, 1:1 interlaced 10-bit, 1:1 progressive 8-bit, 1:1 progressive 10-bit HD: 1:1 8-bit, 1:1 10-bit, YUV 4:2:2, RGB 4:4:4 (via dual-link HD-SDI) Supported Audio and Video Plug-In Formats Audio: RTAS (Real-Time AudioSuite), AudioSuite Video: AMA (Avid Media Access), AVX 2 (Avid Video eXtension) |
System Requirements |
For details on Avid-qualified Mac & PC systems, please visit this link . Windows Computer: Avid-qualified Windows-based computer or laptop1 OS: Windows 7 Professional SP1 (64-bit) Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33 GHz processor or faster Memory: 4 GB of RAM (6+ GB of RAM recommended for Windows 7 and Windows Vista) Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro FX family2 (FX 560 or higher) Internal Hard Drive: Minimum 80 GB 7200 rpm hard disk Mac Computer: Avid-qualified Mac-based computer or laptop1 OS: Mac OS X Lion (64-bit) Processor: Intel Dual or Intel Dual Core 2.66 GHz Xeon processor or faster, or Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33 GHz processor or faster (laptops) Memory: 4 GB of RAM (6+ GB of RAM recommended) Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce family2 or ATI Radeon family (as supported by Apple) Internal Hard Drive: Minimum 80 GB 7200 rpm hard disk 1Uncompressed video on laptops is limited to one stream of uncompressed SD video, except for Windows-based Intel Core i7 laptops (Quad Core with Hyper-Threading) with eSata external storage, which can play multiple streams of 1:1 uncompressed SD. 2NVIDIA cards are recommended; full-screen playback requires a minimum of 128 MB of graphics memory. |