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This complete package lets you capture & edit all your videos — even that old VHS/8mm footage from years ago — and share them with your family & friends on tape, DVD or via the web - the choice is yours!! No more frustration with cheap, ineffective software that lacks the capability to get the job done right! Now you can get all the tools you need to produce high-quality movies at an affordable price!
Avid Xpress DV is the perfect way to explore the exciting world of digital video and make an investment in your future with a product that has minimal requirements and cross-platform compatibility sure to run on your current WindowsXP or Mac OS X machine! Avid Xpress DV is also completely upgradeable & compatible with every level of Avid’s Academy Award® winning broadcast technology!
The ADS PYRO A/V Link media converter gives you the freedom to use footage from any video source with Avid Xpress DV. Just connect the A/V Link to your PC or Mac’s FireWire port and begin capturing high-quality audio and video. You may also use the A/V Link to output your final masterpiece to any camcorder or VCR for a tape to share with your friends or family.
Capture and edit all your videos – AV link gives you all the inputs you need to edit your DV, Old VHS, S-Video, 8mm, Hi8 and even component video!! The AV Link also allows you to watch your project on a standard TV monitor while you edit. This means you’ll be able to see the video exactly as it will appear in the final production. You can also use the AV Link to record directly to your VCR to make VHS/S-VHS tapes to give your friends and family.Avid Expert Color Correction. With a few simple clicks of the mouse you can automatically color correct and restore your older footage. You an compensate for poor lighting or backlighting or improper white balance. You can even match the colors from two different clips automatically. Sure other video editing programs have color correction, but nobody comes close to combining the ease of use and power of Avid Expert Color Correction.
Avid Superior Media Management – What is Avid media management? The ability to organize all your footage so that you can quickly and easily find it. You can add notes about each clip while you capture it. You can color code your clips and/or then group them together to make finding them easier. You can breakdown longer productions into smaller segments, then put them all together when you are done. You can even experiment with different version of your project, all the while using the same footage.
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Real-Time editing. With Xpress DV you can view all your edits immediately on your computer monitor. You can add transitions, filters, effects and titles and play them back immediately to see how they look. When your video needs to be rendered for final playback, Xpress DV uses Avid’s Intelligent rendering technology to only render those portions of the video that require it. As a result, you will have the shortest possible render times.
Learn to Edit the right way – the Avid way! Avid is the industry standard used by Hollywood, the networks, cable companies and independent film producers. When you learn to edit the Avid way you will not just edit your video, you will become an Avid editor. Using the worlds best tools for the job.
Outstanding value – No other video editing solution comes close to offering you such a complete solution at this affordable price level. In addition to the AV Link hardware and the Avid Xpress DV video editing software you get adtional software worth over $400!!:
- Sonic DVDit! Software for authoring and burning interactive DVDs – complete with motion menu’s, buttons, chapter points and cool features like automatic play or secret easter eggs.
- Sorenson Squeeze for creating MPEG files for DVD authoring or encoding your video for the internet.
- Boris Graffiti ltd for adding animated 3D titles
Works with any platform and with older computers. With Xpress DV you get botht he Windows XP and Mac versions of the software. Not only can you edit on either platform, you can edit on a desktop or laptop. While having a faster more powerful machine will give you more real-time performance, Xpress DV will run great on your 2 or even 3 year old computer! As long as you have a 933 MHz Pentium III or any Pentium 4 or any Pentium M processor or 667 MHz G4 or any G5 you can create professional quality video with Avid Xpress DV. (Note: You will need a full GB of memory or more. Thankfully adding more memory to your computer is one of the easiest and least expensive upgrades you can make)
Welcome to the Avid Family! After you’ve been editing your video with Xpress DV you may find that you want additional features and tools, or that you have taken the plunge into HD. With Avid this is never a problem. You can always upgrade to Xpress Pro, Pro HD or Studio. When you do upgrade all your projects and footage can still be used. Even cooler – you will already know how to edit the Avid way, so you all you will have to learn are the new features!
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Professional-level tools made easy for the novice
Most Affordable Avid Ever Lowest price point ever for the professional power of a real Avid editor. Now there is no reason to look elsewhere.
Industry-defining Editing – Hundreds of Hollywood films and thousands of television shows, commercials, and music video are edited every year using Avid software. Experience the combination of speed, power and ease of use that has made Avid the leading choice of professional editors for nearly 20 years.
Avid Real-time Architecture - Avid Xpress DV offers more customizable real-time effects than any other product in its class, including titles, keys, transitions, and audio mixes with multiple simultaneous streams. Over 100 infinitely customizable real-time effects provide the most powerful software-only, real-time system available.
Expert Color Correction Toolset - Avid’s real-time color correction tools provide unmatched professional-caliber functionality that’s also incredibly easy to use. One-touch Auto Correct automatically makes each shot look its best, or you can go even further with color correction tools based on Avid Symphony finishing software.
Advanced Productivity Features - Avid Xpress DV is easier and faster to use thanks to Avid’s built-in software experts: Dynamic Storyboarding, One-Step Technology, NaturalMatch™ color correction, SuperBins, DV Scene Extraction, Quick Transitions, and more.
Customizable Tools - Avid Xpress DV allows you to personalize every aspect of the editing interface – toolsets, timeline, keyboards, buttons, even interface colors. Work the way you want to work.
Expandable and Open - Work seamlessly with other systems using industry-standard AAF, OMF, and (coming soon) MXF file formats. Import industry-standard video, graphic and audio files, and output files in Windows Media, Real Media, QuickTime, Flash and MPEG media formats*.
Fast, easy DVD creation – You’ve finished your edit. Now create a DVD with only a few clicks using the industry-leading DVD creation tool for Windows. Sonic DVDit SE (included with Avid Xpress DV) automatically converts your audio to Dolby Digital, and supports a wide range of devices and media. Mac users can also use any of their favorite DVD-authoring applications for their Avid Xpress DV projects.
*Using Sorenson Squeeze Lite – some encoding formats not available on Mac platform.
Avid Xpress DV FAQ
Q. What is the Avid Xpress Family of products?
A. The Avid Xpress family of products is powerful video, audio, and film editing tools built on Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning technology. Avid’s sole focus on exceeding the needs of this market, enhanced by over a decade of customer-inspired improvements, make the Avid Xpress family of products the first choice for professionals everywhere. Avid Xpress products feature the industry-defining editing toolset used by professionals at the highest levels to make, manage, and move most of the media seen on television, at the movies, and on the Web.
No other low-cost editing solutions have the power, performance or professional features provided by the award-winning Avid Xpress family of products.
Q. What is Avid Xpress DV?
A. Priced at just $495 USMSRP (after rebate - complete details), Avid Xpress DV is portable, affordable digital video editing for both Windows and Mac, featuring over 100 customizable real-time effects, automatic expert color correction, and legendary Avid media management.
Q. What else comes in the box with Avid Xpress DV?
A. Avid Xpress DV comes with a variety of additional software, including Avid Pan and Zoom, Sorenson Squeeze Lite, Boris Graffiti LTD, and Sonic Solutions DVDit! SE.
Q. Why do you provide both Windows and Mac versions of Avid Xpress software in the same box?
A. Avid believes in the power of choice. In providing both Windows XP and Mac OS X versions of our software in the same box, we allow you to work the way you want to work. Use either platform, or use them both, knowing that your projects and your media will work identically on both platforms because our products work identically on both platforms.
Work wherever you want, however you want. Only Avid gives you this power to choose.
Q. What is the Avid real-time architecture?
A. Many editing systems offer only a limited number of "real time" effects that require rendering the moment they are modified. In contrast, the Avid real-time architecture offers over 100 infinitely customizable real-time effects, titling compositing and color correction with multiple, simultaneous streams - all without rendering. Users can create richly layered compositions such as a moving title with a dissolve, a color correction effect, and a picture-in-picture overlay simultaneously - all in real-time - depending on the performance of the computer used. Avid software is also unique in offering support for real-time animated alpha channels, composited over multiple layers of moving video, all in real time.
Q. How do Avid’s color correction tools stand up to the competition?
A. Avid Xpress DV benefits from years of real-time color correction expertise gained with Avid Symphony, the standard against which all editing color correction tools are measured. No other software-only NLE comes close to level of color correction sophistication found in the Avid Xpress software family, including Avid Xpress DV.
Avid Xpress DV software features the powerful One-Step AutoCorrect, an amazing time-saving innovation that can automatically color correct and legalize an entire sequence in a single click. It doesn’t just apply a single effect to all the clips – AutoCorrect individually analyzes each clip, and applies exactly the right correction for that single clip, and so on, and does this for an entire sequence in just a second or two.
Avid Xpress DV also leverages the Avid Symphony system’s powerful real-time color correction tools by offering previous, current and next-frame windows, before and after split-screens and patent-pending NaturalMatch technology with sophisticated vector scope and waveform monitors. Avid’s software experts automatically make each shot look its best:
- Real-time professional-level color correction tools
- Patent-pending Avid NaturalMatch color matching
- Four Chroma Curve interactive graphs
- Three Chroma Wheel controls
- HSL master controls
- Patent-pending OneStep AutoCorrect Color Correction
- Three-up Color Correction windows
- Advanced Waveform and Vector scope monitors
Q. What is the upgrade path for current Xpress DV customers to Avid Xpress Pro HD?
A. Customers of Avid Xpress DV 3.5 and earlier can upgrade to Avid Xpress Pro HD for $445 US MSRP. This upgrade is purchasable via the Avid Web Store at www.avidstore.com under the heading Avid Xpress Pro HD Upgrade.
Customers of Avid Xpress DV 4.X can upgrade to Avid Xpress Pro HD for $995 US MSRP. This upgrade can be purchased either via your local reseller or via the Avid Web Store at www.avidstore.com under the heading Avid Xpress DV 4 to Avid Xpress Pro HD Upgrade.
Q. How does Avid Xpress Pro HD differ from Avid Xpress DV?
A. Avid Xpress DV software is designed for DV-only editors who need professional-strength editing tools.
Avid Xpress Pro HD adds support for additional video formats including high definition video, DV50, offline resolutions, editing of 24p projects, multicamera clip grouping, OpenGL-based 3D effects, and a number of film tools, including the ability to open projects from Avid Film Composer.
Avid Xpress Pro HD also works with Avid Mojo hardware for true real-time uncompressed SD video and 24P out to tape. More important, it allows uncompressed graphics and animations to be mixed with DV in real time, for unparalleled flexibility and quality. As a result, even many DV-only editors will want to consider the combination of Avid Xpress software and Avid Mojo hardware.
Other differences include 24 tracks of both video and audio for Xpress Pro HD (compared to only 8 in Xpress DV), as well as collaborative creation over Avid LANShare networks, as well as a more extensive collection of included third-party software, as listed above.
Q. How do I know which product I should buy– Avid Xpress DV or Avid Xpress Pro HD?
A. Ask yourself the following questions when considering which Avid Xpress Family software is right for you:
- Do you want to go beyond DV (HD, uncompressed SD, 24P, offline resolutions, film, etc.)?
- Are you planning to create professional-level DVDs?
- Do you need real-time 3D effects?
- Will you be shooting with more than one camera and wish to cut between them in a quad-split view?
- Do you plan to work with film projects?
- Do you want to collaborate with other Avid editors on a Unity LANShare?
- Are you planning on adding Avid Mojo for additional I/O options, including uncompressed SD and real-time DV output to both monitor and tape?
If you answer yes to any of the above questions then you should purchase Avid Xpress Pro HD. All of these features are only available in Avid Xpress Pro HD.
Q. What are the minimum system requirements for Avid Xpress DV?
A. For the latest configuration information, please visit www.avid.com/products/xpressdv/specs.shtml.
Q. Can I use Avid Xpress DV on a system not qualified by Avid?
A. Yes you can. We advise that you take a look at the Videoguys recommended systems page first, then feel free to give us a call 800 323-2325. We will review your system specs, and make sure it will run Avid Xpress DV perfectly!
Avid Xpress DV Features
Avid Real-time Architecture- Over 100 customizable real-time software effects and multiple simultaneous real-time streams to create and view richly layered effects without rendering
- Real-time professional level color correction tools that increase productivity and deliver better, more sophisticated results
- Real-time performance on a wide range of desktops and notebooks on both Windows and Macintosh
- ExpertRender optimizes real-time performance
- Keyframable, real-time picture-in-picture effects
- Expert color correction toolset
- Patent-pending NaturalMatch color matching allows users to click on a face in two shots to instantly match skin tones
- A three-window view allows users to more easily compare color from frame to frame
- Customizable real-time waveform and vectorscope for more accurate assessment of color correction
- Customizable, advanced histogram and parade monitors include RGH and YcbCr histogram and parade, Y & YC waveform, and quad displays.
- Based on sophisticated color correction technology found in Avid Symphony - no other software-only NLE comes close to this level of professional color correction
- Real-time audio dissolves and punch-in
- Industry-standard Avid user interface that's easy to navigate and learn
- Customizable menu, toolbars and keyboard commands to enhance your workflow can be saved and transfered to other Avid editing systems
- Unlimited video tracks via nesting for dynamic multilayered compositions
- Best of class audio tools including real-time audio mix, punch-in, EQ, automation gain, stereo VU meters, and DigiDesign AudioSuite
- Easy manipulation of imported graphics, including Adobe Photoshop layers
- AutoSave with Attic folder to revert to previous version and 32 levels of undo
- Superior title animation, effects, and 2D/3D compositing through Boris Graffiti LTD
- SuperBins provide access to all media using minimal screen real estate
- 24-bit audio support
- DV Scene Extraction
- Avid Pan & Zoom
- Windows XP Professional and Macintosh OS X versions in one box
- Avid One-Step technology to automate common tasks
- Dynamic storyboarding with drag and drop to the timeline
- Scrub clips with JKL control in any bin window
- Award-winning online tutorial and documentation
- DV scene extraction instantly builds individual clips from a single DV clip
- Six customizable toolsets speed up common tasks: basic editing, source/record editing, color correction, effects editing, audio editing and capture from tape
- JKL trim
- Segment drag anywhere and user selectable snap mode
- Dual rolling trim
- Highly customizable user interface
- User protection with AutoSave and 32 levels of undo
- Real-time professional-level color correction tools
- NaturalMatch expert can match skin tones and other elements across scenes with one click
- New OneStep AutoCorrect can fix an entire sequence with one click
- Keyframeable color effects
- Three-up color correction windows
- Advanced Waveform and Vectorscope monitors
- Before and after split screens
- One Step Dynamic Storyboards
- Quick Transitions
- AutoSave
- SuperBin
- DV Scene Extraction
- ExpertRender
- Avid DV codec provides exceptional quality
- DVCPRO PAL 4:1:1 support
- Export in many popular formats, including MPEG, Windows Media and QuickTime
- OMF files for collaboration with graphics and other systems. EDL import/export allows finishing in tape online facilities
- Seamless audio exchange with Digidesign Pro Tools systems
- Supports all AVX 1.5 plug ins including 3rd party RT plug ins
- Unparalleled power of choice: every box includes both Windows and Macintosh software and license. Use either or both.
- Application, projects and media identical on both platforms
- Support for popular FireWire cards, cameras and decks
- Multiprocessor optimized
- Sorenson MPEG-4 Professional
- Windows Media 7, 8, 9
- MS ISO MPEG-4 video version 1.0
- MS MPEG-4 3
- Windows Media Audio 8
- Windows Media Screen 7
- RealVideo 8 and 9
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