Avid Symphony
- Meridien hardware for high-quality SD cature, processing and output
- 720 x 486 images (NTSC) or 720 x 576 images (PAL) (24 fps, 25 fps, and 30 fps)
- ITU-R 601 uncompressed resolution
- All interlaced video resolutions from Symphony v3
- 1:1,2:1,and 3:1 online 24-frame progressive resolutions
- Multicamera resolutions including 10:1m and 4:1m for interlace and 8:1 and 3:1 for progressive
- 14:1,28:1,and 35:1 offline 24-frame progressive resolutions
- All progressive resolutions mixable from 2:1 to 35:1
- Serial digital, analog component YUV, composite and S-Video I/O
- DV option (DV25, DV50) available(windows only)
- DV Scene Extraction (requiresDV option; windows only)
- Eight channels 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz AES/EBU digital audio I/O and monitoring
- Internal waveform monitor and vector cope
- Built-in CD audio import
Project Management/Asset Management
- Media Chunking feature divides files and writes the pieces to disk, letting editors start to work on shots before digitizing is completed
- Folder hierarchy (nestable folders) within Project Window
- Multilevel find, sift, and sort functions
- Frame, script, and text views
- User, project, and site settings
- Supports Avid Unity MediaManager v2.0 for facility-wide or local search and display and media asset management
Picture Editing
- Two ITU-R 601 uncompressed video streams and graphics channel
- User interface based on Avid Media
- Composer system and optimized for finishing
- Two-monitor set-up (bin and edit monitor)
- Separate full-screen NTSC or PAL video monitor
- 24 video tracks with 32 levels of undo/redo
- Mappable function buttons and menus
- Workspaces allow one-button recall of use interface set-ups
- Nine-stream real-time hardware multicamera play
- Support for mixable resolutions
- Locators to mark frames in clips or in timeline
- Match frame
- Variable speed forward/reverse shuttle control
- VTR play emulation
- Single-field step
- Online help
- MetaSync capability
- Film features
- Native 24-frame/25-frame editing
- AutoSync and AutoSequence
- Interactive dupe detection in timeline
- Improved offline resolutions based on progressive frames
- Two-field scratch removal from film-based frame
- Script-based editing
- Frame-accurate cut lists and change list via FilmScribe
- Film matchback from NTSC or PAL 30i, 25i video projects (16 mm,35 mm, 3-perf,and 4-perf)
Audio
- 24 audio tracks for editing and mixing
- Automation gain (external fader controller support)
- Real-time multiband EQ (sweepable mid-range)with real-time adjustment
- Eight-channel scrubbing with pitch change
- Eight-channel I/O
- Support for Broadcast WAV
- Support for Digidesign AudioSuite plug-in
Color Correction/Color Grading
- Three types of color correction - Advanced Color Correction mode, spot correction, and Color Effect
- Advanced 2-channel,real-time,scene-to-scene color correction with 10-bit color precision
- A powerful Source Correction mode that creates efficient cene-to-scene color correction of master clips, sub-clips, segments, or tracks
- Real-time secondary color correction for isolating and adjusting individual color vector within an image
- Advanced tools including eyedropper , sliders, advanced spline curves, and dynamic histograms
- Multiple types of color correction including RGB, HSL, luminance, and composite correction
- Safe Color allows multiple color adjustments to stay within industry-accepted standards
- Spot color correction provides additional color correction effects using Intraframe paint tools
- Color Effect color correction with full-featured tools that are keyframeable on the timeline
Keying + Compositing
- Real-time integrated Ultimatte keyer
- Real-time full-motion alpha keying
- Real-time chroma and luma keys
- Real-time spill suppression with color replacement
- AniMatte—Customizable garbage mattes with integrated keyer and Bezier control
- 10-bit DVE with YUV processing and variable edge softness
- Real-time dissolves, superimpositions, resize, flip, flop, masks and picture-in-picture
- Real-time Moving Mattes
- Real-time wipes, peels, conceals, pushes, spins, etc.
- Unlimited keyframes to customize effects
Character Generation
- Marquee Title Tool provides a true 3D editing environment with a built-in DVE for fast and responsive titling using animated light sources, textures, and greater-than-video resolution files. Hardware accelerated with an OpenGL graphics card
- Separate downstream keyer for graphics, rolling titles, and software crawling titles
- Soft-edge drop shadows with blurs and glow
- Selectable font type, size, style, color, drop shadow, kerning and spacing
Paint +Effects
- Flexible keyframe environment using Bezier, spline, and linear motion controls
- Motion tracking and image stabilization (included within all effects)
- Vector-based paint system
- Scratch removal mode for simple one-step repair of dirt and scratches
- Real-time deep defocus for realistic emulation of the blurry defocus of cameras
- Motion effects including slow, fast, strobe, freeze-frame, reverse, and fit-to-fill with interpolation
- Shape-based and freehand drawing tools with Bezier control
- Fully animatable brushes with keyframeable control over shapes, color and other effects
- Blur, mosaic, clone, erase, and emboss effects
- Median, unsharpen, darken/lighten, and gradient effects
- AVX plug-in support for customized or third-party effects
- Timewarp motion effects
- 30 new image effects, including Lightning, Fluid Morph, Melt, Pattern Generator, FluidBlur, Particle Burst, and Sparkler
Real-Time Pan +Scan
- 4:3 and 16:9 input
- 4:3,16:9,15:9,14:9,letterbox output (compressed resolutions only)
- All Pan and Scan moves are keyframeable on X, Y, and Z axis
Universal Editing +Mastering
- 24 fps and 25 fps ITU-R 601 progressive for NTSC and PAL mastering
- Output 23.976 NTSC, 24 NTSC, 24 PAL, 25 PAL or 29.97 NTSC from a single source
- Allows for program versioning of content and output of 4:3,16:9,14:9,15:9, and letterbox aspect ratios
- Maintains continuous 2/3 pulldown of sequences
- Track 24 fps, 25 fps, 30 fps timecode for source and master from single sequence
Progressive Editing
- Full progressive 24 or 25 frames stored on disk
- Uses 20% less storage than NTSC projects and 4.1% less storage than PAL projects
- 20% faster rendering than NTSC projects and 4.1% faster rendering than PAL projects
- 50% to 60% faster effect manipulation (no 2/3 removal needed) in NTSC projects
- Allows smooth interlace output to PAL or NTSC with no motion artifacts
Relink by KeyKode
- Allows relinking by KeyKode of sequence based on multiple negative re-transfer
- Total Conform of 24 fps- and 25 fps-based sequences
- Frame-accurate cut lists and video conform via Total Conform
Web +Interactive Delivery
- Push-button export of RealMedia G2, Microsoft MediaPlayer (ASF), QuickTime 4.0,and MPEG-2
- QuickTime Reference Movie output
- Support for AvidProNet Web-based Review &Approval Services
- Support for Sonic Solutions' DVDit! authoring package and AuthorScript format
- Support for Avid Unity Media Services ProEncode
- Support for Terran Interactive Media Cleaner Pro encoding package
Interoperability
- Total Conform of Media Composer and Film Composer bins and sequences for batch digitizing
- Import and manipulate native Adobe Photoshop (PSD) files as a multi-layer sequence in Avid Symphony systems
- AAF import/export
- Support for AvidProNet.com for connectivity to Web-based community and services
- Ability to import revised EDLs and re-link to existing online media (30i,25i)
- Bi-directional bin and sequence compatibility with Media Composer v7.2 and later
- Import QuickTime 4.0 movies with Avid 32-bit QuickTime Codec for NT
- OMF 2.0 support
- EDL output with pulldown and field indicator for downstream processing
- Supports JL Cooper Jog Wheel for tactile control of Media Composer editing functions and deck control
- Video Archive for archiving elected footage to standard digital or analog videotape for easy project recreation
- Support for Avid Workgroup Productivity Tools, Avid Unity MediaManager, Avid Unity Transfer Manager and Avid Unity Pro Encode
- FilmScribe support for full featured film cut list