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Avid Media Composer gets slick overhaul
Announced at ACA today going into NAB. New, overhauled version of Media Composer coming in late May. This will be version 2019.5. Slick, modern UI without losing the essence of what people love about MC. Panel layout with bins that can dock, tab, float or stack. New engine under the hood. 32- bit float color, ACES compliant, IMF and DPX workflows. Up to16K projects.
Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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Wow after all these years.
Fixing that GUI was always on my list next to the numerous error options.
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About time too, they’ve finally made it look like……Resolve!
Cue wailing and gnashing of teeth in parts of the Avid Community ☺
https://www.avid.com/media-composer-movie-editing-software-for-makers
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Hard to not gag on the web page spruiking it. “Edit at the speed of imagination. Reimagined to inspire creative video editing through a more intuitive interface and an enhanced user experience.”
The interface has improved but the sales blurb is still last century. Yes it does look more like Resolve.
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[Michael Gissing] “The interface has improved but the sales blurb is still last century. Yes it does look more like Resolve”
Gosh, if that’s what bothers you, then you are reaching ☺ I don’t see any less marketing BS all over BMD’s website. Or Apple’s or Adobe’s for that matter. OTOH, let’s see which company delivers their hardware mixing consoles first ☺
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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[Steve Connor] “About time too, they’ve finally made it look like……Resolve!”
There’s a lot more going on than just the UI refresh. It’s also the first iteration of an ongoing overhaul project that will continue to play out over the year.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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Absolutely hate that interface, much too cluttered for me. But great to see Avid MC finally catching up with modern workflows on the performance side. Hopefully, this will keep their small but loyal user base happy for another few years.
– Ronny
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[Ronny Courtens] “Absolutely hate that interface, much too cluttered for me.”
The interface can be as cluttered or as streamlined as the user wants. Obviously for demo purposes, they tend to use a lot of open panels and colors, but that doesn’t need to be how a user runs it. Also these are single screen views. It’s less cluttered on dual displays, which is how most Avid editors work anyway.
At the enterprise level, large broadcast users can set up restricted workspaces by task. For example, a very streamlined view with limited permissions for the user, like a logger, producer, reporter, or assistant editor. All set up via a central profile control panel by a sys admin. Log in as the editor and you may see the full toolset, but log in as a reporter and you are only exposed to a subset. This is something that places like NBC or large university film labs are quite interested in.
Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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looks pretty good to me. As a long time Avid user – whose been lampooned on PPRO for the last couple years – I love this. The interface in Avid has needed an overhaul for a while and was one of the things holding it back from new audiences.
Looks like they struck a balance of new “look” (flatter”) and familiarity while adding in all the tabbing and is a great foundation for them to build on.
They’ve been on a developmental roll the last two years, adding in lots of stuff weve been asking for for decades and cant wait to see where they take it.
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[Ronny Courtens] “But great to see Avid MC finally catching up with modern workflows on the performance side. “
Avid hasnt has t rally play catch up in this regard IMO. The latest iteration of the software (2018.12) handles all modern codecs, has enhanced multicam, 16k + custom resolutions – background rendering/saving/ and transcoding that doesnt pause when you work and a really slick one button proxy system.
In the last two years theyve basically been releasing updates once a month and bug fixes biweekly.
It was severely lagging behind in UI, and it continues to lag behind in FX handling and Color but performance with modern workflows has never been an issue for Media Composer and it has the most robust toolset for actual timeline editing.
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A new inspector window, eh? Where’d they come up with that?
Andy
https://plus.google.com/u/0/107277729326633563425/videos
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