Avid Pro Tools LE

Based on the Academy Award-winning Digidesign Pro Tools, the industry-leading digital audio production system, Avid Pro Tools LE software with Digidesign Mbox hardware features matchless flexibility, power, and simplicity.

Avid Pro Tools LE empowers users to easily accomplish all of their production tasks, whether they are experienced audio specialists or just beginning to add digital audio editing to their video productions. Avid Pro Tools LE supports up to 32 tracks of professional-quality 24-bit/96 kHz audio with and 256 MIDI tracks with easy automation and complete sample accuracy. It features the same tools that major film studios use to tweak sounds, change the pitch of a vocal, rearrange sound effects, clean up unwanted background noise, replace dialog, easily and instantly change the tempo of audio files, and much more.

In Avid Xpress Studio Complete, the optional Digidesign 002 hardware replaces Mbox, and adds an ideal, finger-friendly control surface for both Avid Pro Tools LE and Avid Xpress Pro’s audio mixing tools.

Key Features of Avid Pro Tools LE

• Powerful, easy audio editing - Use the same tools as major film studios do to tweak sounds, change the pitch of a vocal, rearrange sound effects, clean up unwanted background noise, replace dialog, and more
• Integrated hardware - Whether the Mbox or the 002, Digidesign hardware works with Avid PT LE software to provide the ultimate in performance and control. 002 also controls audio editing in Avid Xpress Pro
• Integration with Avid Xpress Pro - Import a project file (OMF or AAF), then record new audio such as voice-over, clean up existing audio such as unwanted background noise, and replace audio such as compromised on-camera dialog.
• 002 integration with Avid Mojo - Synch Pro Tools audio hardware input with Avid Mojo video output for real-time mix to pix on client monitor
• Compatibility with Pro Tools TDM systems - Sample-accurate conform from PT LE to the most advanced Pro Tools|HD system

Avid 3D

Based on industry-leading 3D animation, compositing, and special effects technology from Softimage, Avid 3D is designed for the special needs of video editors. Extruded text and logos, 3D models, powerful particle systems, and dynamic warping effects –created in real time with OpenGL hardware acceleration –are just some of the effects within easy reach.

Models, textures, materials, and shaders can simply be dragged and dropped into 3D scenes, whether created from scratch using Avid 3D’s powerful creation tools or by customizing elements provided in Avid 3D’s supplied libraries.

Avid 3D is optimized for use with Avid Xpress Pro and the Avid Xpress Studio. Shared media and metadata formats allow easy interoperability. Video clips from Avid Xpress Pro open as textures that can be applied directly onto 3D objects or used as backgrounds inside Avid 3D, and Avid 3D’s camera view can be displayed to a client monitor through Avid Mojo hardware.

Key Features of Avid 3D:

• Powerful 3D animation - Industry-leading power of Softimage technology adds exceptional impact to video productions
• 3D title animation - Combine extrusion with powerful 3D warping and effects and real time composition for fast, unique animations
• Customizable models and elements - Includes models from the highly respected Digimation libraries, as well as customizable texture maps, backgrounds, and scenes
• Video integration - Video clips from Avid Xpress Pro open as textures that can be applied directly onto 3D objects or used as backgrounds inside Avid 3D
• Special effects - Particle systems, warps, deformations and explosions are just a small sample of the effects capabilities of Avid 3D

Based on Boris Red, the industry-leading integrated effects package, Avid FX provides the widest range of high-quality titling and effects ever offered in an NLE. Available separately or as part of the Avid Xpress Studio suite of integrated applications, Avid FX works as an AVX plug-in. With over 1500 customizable title, effects and transition templates it’s the ultimate combination of power and convenience.

Product highlights include the industry’s most advanced title animation, dynamic compositing, motion tracking, vector paint, rotoscoping, animated 2D and 3D charts, EPS file import and animation, true 3D DVE, and over 110 powerful filters including Wire Removal, Light Zoom, Light Wrap, Z Blur, Grain Match, Motion Blur, powerful keying and matte filters, and a wide range of time effects.

In addition to software integration, Avid FX integrates with Avid Mojo DNA hardware, displaying output from the Avid FX composite window on a broadcast monitor in real time.

Key Features of Avid FX:

• Integrated effects creation - Save time by creating effects for video projects where the project is being created: inside the Avid NLE
• The industry’s most advanced titling - Take advantage of native vector text, one-click animation, powerful styles, text on path (text- and path-animatable in 3D space) and more, to easily distinguish your titling capabilities from your competitors
• Powerful compositing and image processing technology - Over 110 effects filters, integrated dynamic compositing, powerful keys and mattes, time filters, and more
• Graphic animation including 2D and 3D charts and EPS support - Import and animate client logos, or create powerful custom graphics, including charts from imported data
• Customizable effects templates - The Avid FX library of over 1500 title, effects and transition presets mean that you can very quickly start using these powerful features without a steep learning curve

Avid DVD by SONIC™

Enjoy expert DVD authoring without the steep learning curve. Developed expressly for Avid by Sonic Solutions, the leader in DVD creation software, Avid DVD allows you to create distinctive, interactive DVDs with advanced menus and navigation –all within a simple point-and-click user experience. Along with tight Avid Xpress Pro integration, Avid DVD features MetaSync integration, providing a complete end-to-end workflow with the perfect balance of speed, flexibility, and power.

Advanced authoring features in Avid DVD include support for Sonic’s OpenDVD® technology that allows finished DVDs to be edited without having to access the original source files, as well as Sonic’s JumpAnywhere™ technology that provides an easy point-and-click authoring experience to create exciting DVD interactivity. Users can create extensive DVD playlists with Avid DVD’s Playlist Manager, featuring up to 60,000 individual links, and can deliver them to DVD-recordable via Avid DVD’s WriteDirect™ single-step formatting technology for massive time savings.

Key Features of Avid DVD:

• Integration with Avid Xpress Pro - Powerful metadata tools within Avid Xpress Pro enable easy creation of DVD chapters, thumbnails and subtitles directly on the Avid Xpress Pro timeline.
• Open DVD - Allows users to change DVD content without requiring re-authoring from scratch, making DVD an even more suitable medium for client approvals.
• Advanced authoring made easy - Features such as JumpAnywhere remove the science and expertise typically required to create complex titles
• Advanced mastering - Full support for 24p and mixed 16:9/4:3 projects
• Avid Xpress Studio creation of DVD assets - Use Studio applications for 3D buttons and menu animations, animated backgrounds, professional music creation, advanced encoding, and more

DigiDesign MBox

Complementing the intuitive, comprehensive software components of Mbox is a unique and innovative hardware configuration that provides access to inputs and outputs, visual indicators, and tactile controls. Once you've routed your audio signals via Mbox's I/O and created a session to build and manage your project, you are in an ideal position to create from beginning to end in a fully self-contained environment. Together, Mbox's hardware and software interact seamlessly, offering you all the power and flexibility of a Pro Tools workstation in a results-oriented micro studio.

Features:
• Two analog inputs and outputs, featuring Focusrite mic preamps
• Pristine 24-bit signal path from input to output
• 24-bit stereo S/PDIF digital I/O (RCA)
• Separate source selection (MIC/LINE/INST) and gain control per channel
• 48V phantom power
• Hi-Z input for instrument pickup
• Two analog TRS inserts
• Zero-latency monitoring
• Balanced/unbalanced connections
• Headphone output with dedicated volume control
• 100% USB* powered
• Pro Tools LE software

* Passive USB hubs are not supported

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Avid Xpress Studio HD Complete - includes all the features of Xpress Studio Essentials, plus the following:

Avid Mojo - The Portable Digital Nonlinear Accelerator.

The power of Avid Mojo, when used with Avid Xpress Pro Software, is much more then a DV/IO converter. Adding Avid Mojo to Avid Xpress Pro software enables the capture, editing, and playback of a single stream of 1:1 (uncompressed) standard definition video and the ability to mix & render uncompressed titles and graphics over DV media for the best looking video and effects possible at breakthrough price points. Avid Mojo provides a full complement of real-time DV, S-Video and Composite I/O ports, plus optional Component video I/O, all wrapped in a rugged anodized aluminum case. Connected via a single FireWire cable to qualified Mac or PC systems, it is the first and only real-time video solution for notebook computers.

Avid Xpress Pro has a scalable real-time architecture which not only provides real-time software preview but when used with Avid Mojo DNA delivers true real-time video out to tape over a FireWire connection. Avid Xpress Pro with Avid Mojo is scalable from DV to uncompressed SD so editors can be more creative and get more work done in less time, all with legendary Avid quality.

• Real-time effects rendering through both analog and FireWire outputs
• Accelerates time-consuming media I/O and conversion operations
• Real-time DV output to tape with real-time 2D and 3D DVE
• Real-time video monitoring, analog-DV and DV-analog conversion, and uncompressed graphics and titles (via analog output)
• Multi-channel audio punch-in with low-latency monitoring
• Genlock synchronization to black burst on both analog and digital ports
• Adds ability to deal with uncompressed 601 media
• Frame accurate output to tape
• 20-bit analog audio input and output

Digi 002

Complementing the intuitive, comprehensive software components of Digi 002 is a unique and innovative hardware configuration that provides access to inputs and outputs, visual indicators, and tactile controls via the integrated control surface. Once you've routed your audio and MIDI signals via Digi 002's I/O, and created a session to build and manage your project, you are in an ideal position to create from beginning to end in a fully self-contained environment. Together, Digi 002's hardware and software interact seamlessly, offering you all the power and flexibility of a Pro Tools workstation in a brand new, results-oriented mini studio that fits under your arm.

Features

• FireWire connectivity (no PCI card required)
• 8 touch-sensitive, motorized faders
• 8 motion-sensitive rotary encoders used for pan/send/meter/plug-in control
• 10 scribble strips for track name, pan, send, fader, plug-in values, and timeline position
• 8 analog inputs, 8 analog outputs
• 4 mic pres with individual gain and high-pass filter; 48V phantom power enabled on channel pairs
• 8 channels of ADAT optical I/O, 2 channels of S/PDIF I/O
• Outputs 1 & 2 mirrored on 1/4" TRS monitor output (with dedicated volume control) and RCA-based -10 dBV fixed output
• MIDI I/O: 1 IN port, 2 OUT ports (16 channels IN/32 channels OUT)
• 24-bit/96 kHz A/D and D/A converters
• Stand-alone mode: 8x4x2 digital mixer with EQ, dynamics, effects
• Alternate Source Input for direct monitoring of -10 dBV audio equipment (tape players, CD players, etc.)
• Headphone output with dedicated volume control knob included
• Transport control

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