Avid’s new Media Composer 2020 release includes a redesigned customizable user interface, a new Universal Media Engine, finishing and delivery tools, and support for Apple ProRes for Windows and Catalina. These updates are based on user feedback and are available now.

Here are some details of the updates:
– Customization: Users can tailor their workspace to exactly how they want to work. Improvements to the paneled UI increase ease of use and accelerate editing and mastering. A new Timeline Sequence Map increases efficiency by letting creators navigate their entire sequence without taking up the whole screen, while the Blank Panel unclutters the UI and stops panels from resizing.

– More precise finishing/delivery: Expanding on the editing and finishing capabilities introduced a year ago, Media Composer 2020 is offering users the ability to fine-tune color with greater precision and make more granular gain value adjustments when working in ACES (Academy Color Encoding System) spaces. Users can finish high-resolution and HDR projects with total color precision and interoperability, ensuring pristine picture quality throughout their workflow.

– Next-generation Avid Media Engine: The Universal Media Engine enables users to accelerate their workflows by reducing the reliance on QuickTime to deliver better media importing, playback, editing and export performance. The media engine increases processing speed of hi-res HDR media and provides native support for a wider range of formats, including direct media access and Open EXR for over-the-top services such as Netflix. Media Composer 2020 allows users to more easily create content for mobile video platforms and social media by providing 9×16 and 1:1 Mask Margins and FrameFlex framing presets

– Apple ProRes for Windows and Catalina: Like Mac users, Windows users can now create, edit, collaborate and export ProRes media natively with encoding supported on Windows machines for media creation and exporting to Mov export, MXF OP1a and MXF OP-Atom workflows. Creators also can use Media Composer on Apple’s latest macOS Catalina, a 64-bit OS that provides superior performance while leveraging the power of the new Mac Pro.

– Media Composer | Enterprise: Media Composer | Enterprise expands its role-based customization capabilities to enable users to deploy or update site settings across an organization and deploy user settings independently to individuals or groups quickly without impacting any existing site settings.