Avid unveils Media Composer updates

Avid has revealed a host of updates for its Avid Media Composer | Distributed Processing software, aiming to improve the speed of content editing and production.

The main innovation is offloading processor-intensive media creation workflow tasks to any available local computers, freeing up their Media Composer edit workstations and removing downtime.

It can offload media encoding tasks with support for a variety of camera, video, and audio file formats and codecs to allow work to continue, as well as complete processor-intensive tasks - including transcode, consolidate, render, mixdown, and export - much more quickly by coordinating dispersed processing power.

The web-based dashboard and new coordinator tools give teams access to this processing, allowing users to track, modify, monitor, prioritize, and filter jobs, and the program also optimizes available resources by turning Media Composer Mac or PC workstations into distributed processing “workers” when they’re not in use for editing.

Dave Colantuoni, vice president of product management at Avid, said: “Film and TV production teams all over the world are being tasked with creating more content faster than ever before to meet audience demand, and we’re excited to introduce processing capabilities that enable Media Composer users to overcome this challenge.

“New features in Media Composer | Distributed Processing give users everything they need to accelerate workflows by reducing delays that result from running processor-intensive tasks, helping teams to work smarter, not harder.”

Media Composer | Enterprise software subscriptions include Media Composer | Distributed Processing, and more about the update can found here.