AVID MEDIA COMPOSER

"Avid", adalah jenis aplikasi komputer perangkat lunak yang dikenal sebagai sistem editing non-linear (NLE). Ini adalah produk unggulan dari Avid Technology. Software ini dirilis pada tahun 1989 pada Macintosh II sebagai sistem editing offline. Sejak saat itu, fitur aplikasi telah ditingkatkan untuk memungkinkan untuk mengedit film. Sejak awal 1990-an, Avid  telah menjadi non-linear editing sistem dominan di industri film dan televisi, pertama pada Mac dan kemudian juga pada Windows. 

Beberapa Project yg dikerjakan menggunakan AVID :

• The Celibacy (film), Director: Horacio Bocaranda Avid Media Composer 6 and Avid Symphony 6 Nitris DX
• American Hardcore (film), Director: Paul Rachman Avid Xpress Pro and Symphony
• Summercamp! (film), Director: Spike Lee Avid Xpress Pro and Symphony
• When the Levees Broke, Avid Media Composer and Symphony Nitris
• Superman Returns, Avid Media Composer Symphony
• Die Another Day, Director: Lee Tamahori (2002) Avid Media Composer Symphony
• Collateral (2004), Director: Michael Mann Avid Media Composer
• Just Like Heaven (2005) Avid Media Composer Symphony
• Transformers, Director: Michael Bay (2007) Avid Media Composer Symphony Nitris DX
• Iron Man (2008) Avid Media Composer
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) Avid Media Composer
• Avatar (2009) Avid Media Composer
• Iron Man 2 , Director: Jon Favreau (2010)
• Predators (2010) Avid Media Composer
• The Expendables (2010) Avid Media Composer
• Black Swan (2010) Avid Media Composer
• 127 Hours (2010) Avid Media Composer
• Inception, Director: Christopher Nolan (2010) Avid Media Composer Symphony 5
• Unstoppable (2010) Avid Media Composer
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)
• Tron Legacy (2010) Avid Media Composer Symphony
• The Celibacy (2011) Avid Media Composer Symphony
• The Fallen 2 (2012) Avid Media Composer

History AVID MEDIA COMPOSER :

Year	Operating System	Version	Notes/Major Features
1989	Macintosh	Avid/1	First Avid. Becomes Media Composer. Serial #001 ships to Alan Miller @ Rebo Studios in June on a Mac IIx. Jeff Bernstein becomes second editor on the Avid.
1992	Macintosh		Introduction of the Avid Film Composer. First true 24-frame capture, editing, and playback system. Open Media Framework (OMF) introduced (April)
Jan 1993	Macintosh		Models 210 (unbundled) and 220 (with Mac IIci) at $15.000 / $24.900
Dec 1994	Macintosh	5.2	AVR27, multicamera editing, realtime chroma and luma keys, support for Avid Media Reader, support for 3rd party Photoshop plugins
Jul 1995	Mac OS 7.5	5.5	Last version to run on Macintosh 68K hardware. Film Cutter (simplified version of Film Composer). Hardware-independent QuickTime codec, 3D effects module.
Sep 1995	Mac OS	6.0	First Media Composer to use the Avid Broadcast Video Board (ABVB)
Mar 1996	Mac OS	6.1	First PCI-based system
Dec 1996	Mac OS	6.5	Script-based editing, AVR77, AVR9s
Feb 1998	Mac OS	7.0	Paint, Animatte, AVX plugins, spot color correction, image cloning, Intraframe Editing, AudioSuite plugins. Models like MC 1000 ($66.500) and MC 8000 ($94.625)
1999	Mac OS 7.6 to 8.6	7.2	Last version on ABVB hardware.
1999	Mac OS 8.5.1	8.0	First version based on Meridien hardware. Uncompressed SD video. "Media Composer XL"
1999	Windows NT	9.0	First Media Composer release on Windows NT 4.0 (Meridien)
2000	WinNT/Mac OS9	10.0	SD 24p support for Meridien on Mac
2001	Win2K/Mac OS9	10.5	Support for Windows 2000
2002	Win2K/Mac OS9	11.0	Marquee integrated (Windows only), DV support (option)
Feb 2003	Mac OS X	11.7	First version to support Mac OS X. MetaSync.
May 2003	WinXP/Mac OS X	1.0	First version of Media Composer Adrenaline
Nov 2003	Win2K/Mac OS X	12.0	Last version of Media Composer on Meridien hardware
Sept 2004	WinXP/Mac OS X	1.5	MXF support, Marquee on Mac
Dec 2004	WinXP	2.0	HD support, 10-bit video, SpectraMatte keyer, AVX2
March 2005	WinXP	2.1	P2 support, XDCam support
Dec 2005	WinXP	2.2	HDV support
24 April 2006	WinXP/Mac OS X		introduction of Mojo SDI (Mojo, but now with SD-SDI I/O)
June 2006	WinXP/Mac OS X	2.5	HD on Mac, Media Composer soft, Mojo and Mojo SDI support, XDCam HD, Tracker
Sept 2006	WinXP/Mac OS X	2.6	Interplay, Safe Color Limiter effect
March 2007	WinXP/Mac OS X	2.6.4	DNxHD36, low-bandwidth HD compression rate for offline editing
May 2007	WinXP/Mac OS X	2.7	MacPro (Intel) support, ScriptSync, P2 / XDCam writeout
Dec 2007	WinXP/Mac OS X	2.8	VC-1/MXF (SMPTE 421M) support
June 2008	WinXP & Vista/ Mac OS X	3.0	'DX' hardware support, new render engine (better multi-threading and GPU support), RT timecode generator, SubCap effect, AVC-I codec support
Sept 2008	WinXP & Vista/ Mac OS X	3.05	XDCAM 50mb format, DNA hardware on MacOS 10.5.5, RED workflow support
Dec 2008	WinXP & Vista/ Mac OS X	3.1	Video Satellite option for Pro Tools (Windows only)
March 2009	WinXP & Vista/ Mac OS X	3.5	Avid Media Access (AMA) for better file based workflows, FluidStabilizer, Keyframeable Color Correction, Native XDCAM EX support, Timecode in Quicktime files, Stereoscopic support, Software Activation, 14-day Downloadable Trial
Sept 2009	WinXP & Vista/ Mac OS X	4.0	Mix and Match frame rates on timeline, Expert Decompose, AVC-I writeout, Macintosh Video Satellite support, 1080p24 (not-PsF) output, HD Ancillary data support on DX hardware, GFCAM 50mb/100mb support, Stereoscopic enchantments, updated 3rd party software bundle
Nov 2009	WinXP & Vista/ Mac OS X	4.0.4	Support for Mac OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard
June 2010	WinXP, Vista, Win7/ Mac OS X	5.0	AMA support for RED, Quicktime and Canon cameras, Matrox MXO2 Mini output, SmartTools 'drag & drop' editing, HD-RGB support, AVCHD import, SMPTE 436M support, RTAS audio plug-in support, ScriptSync will become a paid option on future versions, Windows 7 support
March 2011	WinXP, Vista, Win7/ Mac OS X	5.5.1	AJA Io Express hardware support, HDCAM SR Lite native editing, AVC-Intra codec module for Nitris DX, PhraseFind option, Support for EUCON hardware interfaces, SmartTool enhancements.
August 2011	WinXP, Vista, Win7/ Mac OS X	5.5.3	Mac OSX 10.7 Lion support.
November 2011	Windows 7 x64/ Mac OS X 10.7	6.0	Native 64-bit application, Improved UI (more tabs & less modal), Redesigned stereoscopic toolset, Open I/O (Supports 3rd party video hardware), 5.1/7.1 audio mixing support with interoperability with Pro Tools, RED EPIC and AVCHD support for AMA, Support for EUCON Artist hardware interface in the Color Corrector, DNxHD 4:4:4 format, ProRes encoding on OSX, built in store to purchase stock footage and plug-ins.