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Avid Xpress vs. Avid Media Composer Adrenaline
Hi. I received job offer to work as an editor for some television project. The offer has one condition – I must perfectly learn how to use Avid Media Composer Adrenaline. I have no experience with this editing system (I used only Sony Vegas and Adobe Premiere so far), but I can borrow Avid Xpress Pro 5.8 from my friend and I can start learning with this version of Avid at home. My question is – if I master Avid Xpress Pro 5.8, could I then work with Media Composer Adrenaline without any problems? Whats the main differences between these versions of Avid? Thanks for answer!
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Xpress Pro 5.8 versus Media Composer 3.x. The same, but on Media Composer you also get:
More resolutions.
More effects. Namely Spectramatte (chromkeyer), Animatte, better shot stabilization, keyframeable timewarps…
More realtime playback enabled. XPress Pro is artificially limited to playing back 1 stream of 1:1 footage. Media Composer is limited only
by your system specs.More info about your work–two lines of info above your Source/Record monitors, two rows of buttons, more lines in your timecode window, etc…
Some more keyboard shortcuts – Top and Tail edit, Select Clips To Right/Left of position indicator, and Between In/Out marks.
These are the major differences I can think of. Otherwise, they share the same codebase, so they’re nearly identical in terms of operating the software.
Good luck!
Michael.
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