Media Composer Vs. Avid Xpress Pro

[Michael Hancock]

[Nathan Byrne] “What is the difference between these two anyway?”

Media Composer supports more resolutions, will work with an Adrenaline box, and has more effects. It can also display more information in the Source/Record monitors (two lines and center duration), more lines in the Timecode window, keyframeable timewarps…little things like that.

[Nathan Byrne] “Can you open Meridian Media Composer projects and read media with Avid Xpress Pro? 10:1, 3:1, 2:1 and 1:1 SD?”

Best practice is to make a new project in Xpress with the same name as your Meridien project (so any new media and old are linked to the same project), then transfer only the bins.

Xpress Pro will do 15:1s, DV25, DV50, 1:1. When you get into 24p projects there are different resolutions available, but I’m not familiar with them because I don’t work in anything but 30i. I do know it won’t do 2:1 or 3:1 in any project, and I don’t think it does 10:1 either.

Michael.

[Nathan Byrne]

Thanks, that was really helpful. Looks like I need the full version. Most my legacy projects are in 2:1.

[Joe Womble]

You can find out all the latest info on the AXP 5.8 readme here:

https://tinyurl.com/2frea3

Regards,

Joe Womble