Key Features

Fast Editing

Drive edits with your mouse or your keyboard, with the fastest, most precise editing tools in the industry. In the world of Avid editing, the sequence is sacred. Avid's unique modal editing means that you can move as quickly as you need to, without looking back, safe in the confidence that you'll never accidentally move a clip or have a random typo throw your sequence out of sync. Never waste time fixing actions you never meant to perform.

Editing Tools That Understand Editing

Here are two fast examples. Every NLE lets you copy and paste, of course. But only Avid lets you see the video you've copied to your clipboard, with complete playback and editing controls before you paste. That's right - copy a clip and trim it before you paste it. Then, select a clip or group of clips and start to move them. You'll automatically switch to a four window display, showing the in and out points of what you're moving, with the frames on either side of every potential edit. Let go in your new location, and the display automatically returns to your normal view.

Powerful, Easy Trim Tools

To begin, trim any clip, any time, with the comma and period keys. For more, step into Avid's world-famous trim mode, as easily as alt- or option-dragging a lasso across as many tracks as you want to work with, and trim all of them at once! Set up easy L-cuts by automatically trimming video and audio independently or in opposite directions together. See both sides of an edit update at the same time. Monitor the audio on either side of a trim simply by letting your mouse hover over the side you want to hear. You've never seen trim tools anything like this.

Customizable Toolsets

Everything you need to do is organized for you in the Toolsets menu. Capture, color correction, audio, and editing, exactly the way you want it. Every workspace can be laid out to suit you and saved so that they reopen the same way, every time. Customize keyboard shortcuts and settings for additional controllers like the Digi 002. Change anything you want to in the interface, including how buttons are shaded - really, it's all up to you. Take these settings with you and use them on any Avid system, anywhere in the world. Only Avid understands multiple users on multiple systems this well, because we know the best way to edit is your way.

Real-time Avid Multicam Editing

Avid offers the industry's most powerful real-time multicam editing with the industry's only mixed resolution clip groups, uncompressed SD, DV and film, each in their native format, with no transcoding required.

Automatic Color Correction

One-touch automatic color correction analyzes an entire sequence, and applies exactly the right correction for each individual clip, using the same tools found in the renowned Avid Symphony color corrector. You won't find anything like this anywhere else.

Image Stabilization with Auto-Zoom

This one-step process corrects unwanted camera movement while simultaneously resizing the stabilized image to fill the frame. Doing it all in one pass saves time and preserves image quality.

Pan & Zoom with High-Quality Real-Time Preview

Toggle between viewing the animation output (the zoomed-in portion of the image only) or the whole image with a moving preview rectangle for maximum flexibility and speed.

Real-Time Animated Alpha Channels

Only Avid lets you bring movies with animated alpha channels back to your editing timeline with no additional rendering. Even animate the position, scale, and opacity of clips and add drop shadows, all in real time. Other systems don't even let you do this with additional hardware!

Intuitive, Industry-Leading Asset Management Tools

Automatically identify which shots have already been used, rename a clip and automatically update every instance of the clip in every bin and sequence, and much more. The best part about Avid's media management? Most of the time you'll never notice it, because