About Avid Media Composer
Overview
Avid Media Composer is professional video editing software trusted by film, TV, and news studios. It combines AI automation, deep timeline control, and reliable finishing pipelines to keep massive volumes of footage secure from first cut to final delivery. Editors work with up to 99 video and 99 audio tracks.
Avid offers Media Composer First free for new or casual editors, paid Standard, Ultimate, and Enterprise subscriptions, and perpetual licenses. The toolset spans editing, color grading, finishing, and delivery for professional post-production workflows.
Key Benefits
- AI transcript tools (ScriptSync and PhraseFind) match dialogue to audio waveforms for instant search and editing.
- Responsive timeline tools cut, trim, slip, slide, and rearrange clips with fully customizable keyboard shortcuts.
- Sync up to 64 cameras on the fly using automated waveform and timecode matching.
- Native Symphony color tools grade footage or round-trip frame-accurately to external suites.
- Proxy editing accelerates high-resolution pipelines while automatically relinking to camera originals.
- Shared Projects with real-time bin locking let multiple editors work safely in one project.
How It Works
Editors cut footage against transcripts using AI text and phonetic tools to locate lines and compare takes. They command the timeline with trim, slip, and slide tools, sync multicam angles, grade with Symphony color tools, and finish with delivery formats such as IMF Packaging and DNx Mastering. Media Composer exports sequences directly to Pro Tools for audio post.
Use Cases
- Film editors fast-track pacing with ScriptSync and Multicam for features such as F1 and Wicked.
- TV editors collaborate on shared projects with real-time bin locking across Avid NEXIS storage.
- Newsrooms cut footage against live rundowns with native MediaCentral integration.
- Colorists grade with the built-in Symphony toolset or round-trip to external finishing suites.
- Post-production teams deliver Netflix and OTT masters through IMF Packaging.
- Sound editors round-trip sequences to Pro Tools for audio mixing with metadata intact.
Why Choose This Product
Media Composer is built for production-scale post production, from massive collaborative storage environments to cloud-based remote rooms. A database-driven core tracks every asset, patented bin-locking enables conflict-free collaboration, and full ACES and 32-bit float support preserve pipeline fidelity from the edit to the colorist.
Key Features
AI transcript search
ScriptSync and PhraseFind match transcripts to audio waveforms and search spoken dialogue phonetically across hundreds of hours of footage.
Multicam editing
Sync and switch between camera angles in real time, grouping up to 64 cameras for massive multicam shoots.
Symphony color grading
Access advanced secondary color correction, selective color masks, and relational grading tools.
Pro Tools roundtrip
Export sequences with full track metadata and volume automation preserved for audio editing and mixing.
IMF Packaging
Create interoperable master formats for Netflix and OTT channel delivery.
Proxy editing
Edit with lightweight proxies that automatically relink to camera originals for final conforming.
Shared Projects
Real-time bin locking lets multiple editors work safely in the same project without overwriting cuts.
Speech-to-text
Native speech-to-text generates automated transcripts from source clips to edit via dialogue.
Avid Media Composer Pricing
- 99 video and 99 audio tracks
- Professional editorial toolset
- Standard color management
- Standard web support (24hr response)
- Shared Projects with Avid NEXIS
- 99 video and 99 audio tracks
- Professional editorial toolset
- Advanced color management
- ScriptSync to sync video to script text
- PhraseFind to find and edit words via transcripts
- Shared Projects with Avid NEXIS
- 99 video and 99 audio tracks
- Professional editorial toolset
- Advanced color management
- VM option for virtualized deployments
- Enterprise admin to manage settings and roles
- Shared Projects with Avid NEXIS and third-party storage
| Feature | Standard $259.99/yr | Ultimate $539.99/yr | Enterprise $899.99/yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99 video and 99 audio tracks | |||
| Professional editorial toolset | |||
| Standard color management | |||
| Standard web support (24hr response) | |||
| Shared Projects with Avid NEXIS | |||
| Advanced color management | |||
| ScriptSync to sync video to script text | |||
| PhraseFind to find and edit words via transcripts | |||
| VM option for virtualized deployments | |||
| Enterprise admin to manage settings and roles | |||
| Shared Projects with Avid NEXIS and third-party storage |
Pricing extracted from the product website and may change. Check the source for current details.