Pro Sound Effects Launches the Industry’s First and Only Native Sound Effects Integration for Avid Media Composer at NAB 2026
Pro Sound Effects (PSE), the leading provider of professionally recorded sound effects for film, television, advertising, and technology today announced the launch of its native panel integration for Avid® Media Composer®, making PSE the first and only sound effects platform to offer this capability. Avid Media Composer is an industry-standard nonlinear editing platform, with deep adoption across media production, broadcast, animation, and entertainment.
The new integration gives video editors and post-production professionals direct access to PSE’s library of more than 1.2 million sounds without leaving the Media Composer interface. Built using Avid’s Media Composer Panel SDK, this results in a faster, fully licensed sound effects workflow from early temp edits through final picture lock — a critical advantage for post-production teams working under tight deadlines on feature films, scripted television, and streaming content.
The integration also connects to PSE’s free, cross-platform desktop app, SoundQ, allowing teams to browse, search, and organize sounds from their internal SFX libraries on local, network, or cloud storage (like Avid Nexis), and import them into Media Composer bins with metadata intact.
“Sound effects are integral to every media production project — they need to be quick and easy to access,” said Bradford Swanson, Head of Product at Pro Sound Effects. “We’re proud to be the first sound effects platform to offer this tight integration with Avid Media Composer.”
“It is great to see that Avid Media Composer editors have, for the first time, access from within the editor to a massive library of professional sound effects at their fingertips with the new Pro Sound Effects extension,” said Ray Thompson, Senior Director of Worldwide Partners and Alliances at Avid. “Editors now can drive greater efficiency and have more creative flexibility by leveraging PSE in the editor, allowing them to stay creative with a deep sonic toolset covering categories from A to Z.”
The PSE panel for Avid Media Composer is available now and is free to all Pro Sound Effects customers. It will also be available to demo at the Avid booth (North Hall – N2226) during the 2026 NAB Show.
More information can be found at prosoundeffects.com/media-composer.
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