Overview
Avid Xpress Pro software gives you everything you need to do more: the Academy Award® winning Avid editing environment in an affordable package - combining professional video, audio, film, encoding tools, and custom music creation software - for both Mac and PC platforms in a single box
 

• Avid Unity MediaNetwork 5.0
• Mac Pro with eight core processing (dual quad-core)
• Mac OS 10.4.9
• Apple QuickTime 7.1.6

Avid Xpress Pro 5.7 added:

Universal Mac support. With version 5.7, every Avid Xpress Pro system now contains a version of Avid Xpress Pro for the Mac and Avid Xpress Pro for the PC. The Mac version has been updated with a Universal version that fully supports both Intel and PowerPC-based systems.  The even more recent releases - v5.7.2 (PC) and v5.7.3 (Mac) - enhance Avid Xpress Pro v2.7 by adding support for Avid Unity MediaNetwork v5.0 as well as support for Mac Pro systems with 8-core processing (dual quad-core), Mac OS 10.4.9, and QuickTime 7.1.6.

Sorenson Squeeze 4.5. Not only has Sorenson updated Squeeze Compression Suite to run natively on Intel-based Macs, but now encoding on Squeeze 4.5 is up to 3 times faster than with prior versions. Key new updates include:

• Metadata encoding/passthrough
• Metadata input and output for Flash, QuickTime, Windows Media, MPEG-4, and MP3
• The ability to transfer chapter markers from the timeline to Squeeze, or even set up and edit chapter markers directly within Squeeze
• QuickTime-compatible video codecs, including Apple's H.264
• Sony PSP support
• 3GPP support

Sony XDCAM workflow enhancements. Added support for bit rates of 18 and 35 Mb/s offers more flexibility to balance picture quality and recording length when capturing XDCAM HD. Version 5.7.x now offers the option to write back to XDCAM media via FireWire.

Panasonic P2 workflow enhancements. Version 5.7.x offers the option to write back to P2 media via FireWire. (P2 write back on PC systems and PowerPC-based Macs only. Intel-based Mac systems to be supported in a future release.) You can now copy your P2 card to a FireWire drive or network drive, import clips and media directory from the P2 card, or write your sequence back to the P2 card.

720/50p support. Well established in Europe, the popular 720p50 format displays twice as many frames as are minimally necessary to achieve the illusion of motion. The faster frame rate is ideal to capture action sequences and fast-moving sports without blurring.

AudioSuite plug-ins. The editing applications now include the Time Shift Audio Plug-In.

Scrolling Timeline. You can have the Timeline scroll over the position indicator while you play a sequence.

Advanced Keyframe Improvements. Allows you to adjust your view of advanced keyframe graphs.

MXF vs. OMF default media. In previous releases, the default media type in the Media Creation settings was set to OMF. The default media type is now set to MXF.

Adding Text to Multiple Clips. Allows you to enter the same comment to several clips at once
 

Equally powerful on Mac and PC.
. Use the most powerful machine you can find, on the platform of your choice
. One platform at work, another on the road
. Change your platform later? Just take the software with you! Every license is for both platforms

More cameras. More formats.
. Native HDV, no need for transcoding
. XDCAM and XDCAM HD selectable bit rates
. Panasonic P2 ingest and write back
. Avid DNxHD, uncompressed HD quality in SD bandwidth, ideal for compositing

Manage your business, not your gear.
. Every part of your Avid solution is guaranteed, and it's all guaranteed to work together.
. Installation, troubleshooting, workflow: with Avid Total Services, we'll help you with any of it.
. Industry-leading tools mean you can make money doing what you love

The power of the pros and the tips of your fingers.
. One-touch automatic color correction
. Image stabilization with auto-zoom
. Pan and zoom with real-time preview
. Real-time animated alpha channels
. Avid Marquee: industry's most complete integrated 2D and 3D title and graphics animation toolset

Film, HD, and the Web: together at last.
. Integrated metadata tracking
. Real-time 24p pulldown straight to disk over FireWire
. From HDV to Blu-ray: add in Avid Studio Toolkit (PC only) for the most complete HD creation suite: capture HDV over 1394, add Avid DNxHD for pristine 2D and 3D graphics and animations, then output to Blu-ray Disc
. Publish to the Web with Sorenson Squeeze

Media management made easy.
. Never waste time looking for media
. "Relink by Resolution" makes managing multiple versions a breeze, even across multiple machines
. Consolidate tools make moving media and projects from one computer to another painless - even if they're on different platforms

It's all about collaboration.
. Total Conform and finish projects on Media Composer, Avid Symphony Nitris , and Advanced Conform on Avid DS Nitris quickly, easily
. Not just shared storage, Avid Unity LANShare lets multiple editors use the same project - even the same media - at the same time, even across platforms