Media Composer 5 is coming

He could be referring to the mouse drag and drop editing that everyone else is very familiar with from other editing systems, Avid has been more of a keyboard based editor since it came out.
 
AMA support for all Quicktime files, natively reads Red files, AVC-Intra native support, new timeline openness, realtime audio effects, improved support for XDCam, monitor with Matrox MXO2 (less than $500). Properly mixes framerates, aspect ratios, HD and SD, in realtime. These improvements are absolutely huge!!!
 
I upgraded one of my Avids last Tuesday (4/6/10). The press release says if you upgrade after 4/12 you get 5.0 for free. Anyone have a similar experience? Everyone's at NAB, nobody left to call. Am I about to get boned?
 
Wait until they officially announce pricing and upgrade options. There may be a cutoff date for free upgrades to MC 5 prior to April 12th. Everyone who can probably answer this for sure is at NAB right now, so I'd wait a week and check the Avid forums. They'll make an announcement there was the upgrade details/cutoff dates are officially announced.

Michael
 
For those who care....I did get a note back from Marianne and they are going to honor the upgrade to 5 for me. Im back in love with Avid!
 
but i'm curious about performance and how it will handle its media management. is Avid taking advantage of Cuda and going to be gpu acclerated? How are they going to gain the speed they need in the edit for all these file supports? especially h264 and r3d.

The reason things could run smooth before was because of the dnx rewrap, and that allowed for the amazing media management too. Is it just going to be dependent on processor and disk speed? You may be spending thousands more building a super fast raid system just to cut r3d smoothly, it has to debayer and resize to HD scaling on the fly!

Very curious indeed.
 
Butcher said:
Glad to hear you got good news MikeyP. Marianna is a godsend for Avid.
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Indeed! Marianna once helped me with a frustrating issue I had upgrading. Some software glitch or something. It was on like a Saturday night while she was at home. She even got another engineer involved. Through the weekend we solved the problem. I wrote her boss a nice letter.
 
When is the release date?

I switched from Avid to Edius due to cost considerations but I am definitely tempted as I miss certain things about AVID.

Just wish the price wasn't so high per licence compared to much of their competition.

Any word on a full 64bit version?

It sounds like one will be able to interact with FCP editors. I am currently working with someone that edits on FCP. I would like to be able to do the color grading in avid (on a PC) etc whithout as many hoops as previously. Will this AMA make this easier?
 
xmephestox said:
but i'm curious about performance and how it will handle its media management. is Avid taking advantage of Cuda and going to be gpu acclerated? How are they going to gain the speed they need in the edit for all these file supports? especially h264 and r3d.

The reason things could run smooth before was because of the dnx rewrap, and that allowed for the amazing media management too. Is it just going to be dependent on processor and disk speed? You may be spending thousands more building a super fast raid system just to cut r3d smoothly, it has to debayer and resize to HD scaling on the fly!

Very curious indeed.
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Avid has BEEN using Cuda. Work's great. I was absolutely stunned at the speed when I did my trial of 4.04. I have no doubt that the system will do just fine with a few streams of H.264. And I am going to get to put that theory to the test shortly. I've got another 5D shoot coming up in a month.

I would not use AMA as a permanent solution. When I used AMA for cutting files from my EX1, I used it for speed purposes, but then brought the media into the database later when I had time. I've seen demos of the timeline performance with both 4K RED files and Canon 5D files and it was real time.

I am not sure why anyone would see the need to build a super-fast RAID system for RED footage. It's no more demanding than ProRes or Cineform RAW. In fact, you SHOULD be able to cut at least 2K RED right off the Compact Flash card.
 
Denwa said:
When is the release date?

I switched from Avid to Edius due to cost considerations but I am definitely tempted as I miss certain things about AVID.

Just wish the price wasn't so high per licence compared to much of their competition.

Any word on a full 64bit version?

It sounds like one will be able to interact with FCP editors. I am currently working with someone that edits on FCP. I would like to be able to do the color grading in avid (on a PC) etc whithout as many hoops as previously. Will this AMA make this easier?
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Supposedly being released June 10 or thereabouts.

I've looked at Edius also, but feel that Avid brings more to the table both in terms of plug-ins, media management, and maturity of product. The cost gap isn't really THAT big when you think about it. It comes with Sorensen Squeeze which retails at $599. Comes wth Boris FX and Continuum Complete which retail together at $1k. It replaces the need for something like Cineform. And it's @2399. FCS is about $1100, and Adobe CS5 is what, $1600? Not really that big a gap.

AMA should make your life easier since you should be able to grade the files without having to import them into the Avid database and do a transcode on them. The question is, whether you can write them back out as ProRes (which I doubt), or whether you'll have to have your FCP folks install the DNxHD codec. That codec is free, it's as good as ProRes in nearly all forms, and works seamlessly for PC <-> Mac workflows.
 
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