DISC Avid Media Composer Studio Education

Full Description

Media Composer Academic Studio includes professional software and hardware at a price that that enables any school to teach the same audio, video, animation, and DVD authoring tools and workflows used throughout todays film, television, and music industries. No other production bundle integrates the same Avid and Digidesign products used to create most of worlds Academy Award® winning feature films, Emmy® award-winning primetime television shows, documentaries, news stories, music videos, and more.

Available only to schools, this specially priced package for Windows-based systems features the latest versions of:

Avid Media Composer Academic: industry-standard film and video editing

Digidesign ProTools 7.1 with Mbox 2: integrated audio software and hardware

Avid Studio Toolkit: a suite of three creative applications

Avid FX: compositing, effects, titling, raster/vector paint, and more

Avid 3D: model-based animation, 3D titles, 3D DVE effects, and more

Avid DVD by Sonic: DVD authoring with Blu-ray Disc� output

Key capabilities:

Mix and edit multiple formats in real time

Combine HD, SD, DV, and film formats and resolutions without rendering, transcoding, or re-digitizing. Edit native DVCPRO HD and HDV media. And take advantage of real-time, mixed-format HD, SD, and DV multicam editing.

Handle film and video sources with confidence

The industry's most precise 24p technology lets you handle film and video projects with ease and efficiency. Real-time pulldown of 24p media directly over IEEE-1394 (FireWire) eliminates time-consuming conversions and flexible output to video or film.

Use the audio tools the major film studios use

Plug in Mbox 2 hardware for audio input/output and use Digidesign ProTools software to change the pitch of a vocal, rearrange sound effects, record voice-over and sound effects, clean up unwanted background noise, replace dialog, and more.

Create sophisticated DVDs with Blu-ray Disc� output

Author interactive DVD titles in SD or HD. Create multiple audio and subtitle tracks. Produce DVD titles with alternate languages, commentary tracks, and more. When you`re ready to burn, just choose an output format: standard DVD or Blu-ray Disc.

Add advanced compositing, titling, and graphics

Avid FX includes motion tracking; selective color correction; pressure-sensitive paint; rotoscoping; motion key; raster-to-vector conversion; 2D/3D charts; EPS graphic import, and over 110 advanced image-processing filters.

Integrate professional 3D animation

Based on the industry-leading 3D animation and special effects technology of Softimage, Avid 3D offers drag-and-drop 3D title and model animation tools for video editors. An extensive library of high-quality objects and scenes dramatically accelerates learning.