Avid Media Composer Nitris DX

When you edit high-profile films, television programs, or commercials for a living, your editing system becomes an extension of yourself. Media Composer Nitris DX integrates the Media Composer toolset with the new Avid Nitris DX hardware for a remarkably responsive, high performance, multi-codec SD and HD editing solution. The result is the most powerful Media Composer system ever built.

What's new in Media Composer Nitris DX

• New Nitris DX hardware for SD and HD with comprehensive analogue and serial digital I/O as well as multi-stream Avid DNxHD codec acceleration
• Support for Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista
• Additional HD codec support, such as Sony XDCAM-EX, Panasonic AVC-I, JVC 23.9764p & 25p HDV
• Real-time playback of non-full-raster HD codecs through video outputs
• Improved timeline responsiveness
• Improved real-time effects performance with optimized CPU/GPU acceleration
• Improved render performance with optimized multi-threading on multi-core CPU's
• MetaFuze tool, for quickly merging single-frame files (such as DPX and TIF) from film scanning or CGI systems into a single media clip (Windows only).
• Real-time multi-window timecode burn-in tool
• SubCap subtitling tool

Connectivity

• IEEE-1394 (audio/video I/O, machine control)
• RS-422 (serial machine control)
• SD SDI I/O
• HD SDI I/O
• HDMI output
• SD YCbCr Component I/O
• HD YCbCr Component I/O
• SD S-Video I/O
• SD Composite I/O
• Reference Sync Black&Burst and HD TriLevel input (combined connector)
• Reference Sync loop-through
• 8 channels AES/EBU digital audio I/O (on DB25 connector)
• 8 channels SD-SDI embedded digital audio I/O
• 8 channels HD-SDI embedded digital audio input
• 16 channels HD-SDI embedded digital audio output
• 2 channels optical S/PDIF digital audio I/O
• 8 channels optical ADAT digital audio I/O
• 4 channels XLR analog audio I/O
• 2 channels RCA analog audio input
• 2 channels 1/4¨ TRS audio output
• Headphone stereo 1/4¨ TRS output
• LTC XLR I/O
• Wordclock output

Avid Mojo DX is planned for shipment in June 2008

Affordable upgrades available