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If you are new to video editing or you want to get more serious about it, why not go with the same tool used to produce more than 85% of the shows you watch on television today? The Avid Xpress DV interface and underlying technology is the same toolset used by professional video editors all over the world. Just because professionals use Avid every day doesn't mean you can't. The Avid way of editing video is the industry standard. Whenever a new NLE software title gets released by the competition, the one comment you keep seeing is that it has a more Avid-like look & feel. Why settle for anything less than the real thing!
The new Avid Xpress DV is the portable, affordable, professional digital video studio. Avid Xpress DV provides over 100 customizable real-time effects, automatic expert color correction and legendary Avid media management for both the Windows and Macintosh systems. Avid Xpress DV software is designed for DV-only editors needing professional-strength editing tools and is the perfect, low-cost way to enter the Avid family of professional editing products. The advanced toolsets and creative controls in the new Avid Xpress DV are based upon the powerful Avid editing so lutions that are used by countless professionals to make, manage, and move most of the media seen on television, at the movies, and on the Web. Avid Xpress DV 4 key features
Click here for all the latest Avid news on the Videoguys Blog!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.Professional-level tools made easy for the novice 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:
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:
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 FeaturesAvid Real-time Architecture
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