Industry-standard video editing software for independent editors and moviemakers
Whether you’re working independently or freelancing, Media Composer offers the vast format support and advanced video editing and finishing tools you need to take on any job with confidence. From first cut to final delivery, get the creative capabilities to tell great stories, turn around projects faster, and win the work you really want.
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Get started with editing and advance your skills with Media Composer First - free video editing software designed for aspiring editors, moviemakers, and hobbyists. Learn editing and become a better storyteller using the same tools the pros use. Download it now for free.
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Edit at the speed of your imagination
The new Media Composer video editing software provides an intuitive user experience, giving you creative speed to produce better stories. Access the tools you need, when you need them, with new task-oriented workspaces. Find and navigate media faster with new bin mapping. And work more fluidly with the clean, modern UI, which features a smart panel interface that simplifies the complexity, keeping your workspace clutter-free, so you can stay focused on what matters most—your story.
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Finish and deliver with precision
Be confident in your content delivery—whether you complete projects all in Media Composer or roundtrip to other applications for color and effects work. With the new 32-bit floating point color pipeline, OpenEXR decoding, and ACES (Academy Color Encoding System) color space support, you can finish high-res and HDR projects with complete color precision, ensuring pristine picture quality throughout your workflow. Plus, new IMF packaging tools make OTT-destined content a speedy delivery.
Get more power at your fingertips
Media Composer features a more powerful and reliable next-generation Avid Media Engine that goes beyond background rendering, transcoding, and live timeline editing. Get right to work with whatever media comes your way with native OP1a support. And experience smoother editing and playback performance to keep you in your creative mindset.
Create high quality stories
Media Composer comes with a large collection of professional video editing, effects, titling, color, and audio tools to help polish your stories to perfection. Get everything you need to spark and speed your creativity and create more impactful scenes and sounds with unmatched ease.
Every story is unique, and editors are able to drive a story in different ways through timing and shot selection, but the truth must come through.
PHIL BOWMAN, EDITOR, SEE NO EVIL (ARROW MEDIA)
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Media Composer Powers the Jam-Packed Adventure
The timeline on a Paddington movie is colossal and Media Composer handled that with ease. With over 20 layers of audio, and a similar amount of video, it’s easy to take for granted how complicated that can be. Avid not only supported the entire operation, but also enabled us to have playback in a high resolution.
MARK EVERSON, EDITOR
Don’t underestimate really knowing your stuff, especially the tools. Work 100-hour weeks for almost nothing. Be at the right place at right time and have the right skill set and attitude. You need to be prepared to go for it.
JONATHAN WALES, CHIEF EXECUTIVE/RE-RECORDING MIXER, SATELLITE POST PRODUCTION
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Want to make great sounding music? Start off right with this free recording software. Get many of the same tools used by your favorite artists and recording studios. And now you can collaborate online with anyone, anywhere, and create at the speed of your imagination. Making music has never been so easy—or fun.
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With Pro Tools | First, you can quickly turn the ideas in your head into professional-sounding songs, be heard, and stand out from the crowd. Go from creation to final mix with intuitive recording and music creation tools, including hundreds of virtual instrument sounds, over 3 GB of high-quality loops and samples, and great-sounding effects.
Pro Tools | First isn’t a stripped-down application. It’s based on the same music creation and audio production tools that award-winning artists, musicians, producers, engineers, and mixers rely on every day. All built on the rock-solid, great-sounding Pro Tools audio engine. Best of all—it’s free!
With Avid Cloud Collaboration now in Pro Tools | First, you can collaborate with Pro Tools and Pro Tools | Ultimate users online. And when you're ready to start your own collaboration project, upgrade to a cloud plan for less than $5 USD to invite others to work with you. The world is your studio.
Over 70% of all commercial music is produced using Pro Tools. Pro Tools | First opens the door to a career in professional music production. Start learning the essential workflows required to succeed in the industry—for free. Once you know Pro Tools | First, it’s easy to move up to Pro Tools.
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MATT LANGE, MUSICIAN, PRODUCER, SOUND DESIGNER, COMPOSER, DJ
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In music, like in dance, and art, and any art form, we’re perfecting something we can reproduce time and time again, or we can close our eyes and let it come from the inside. In a perfect world we’d be a great blend of both.
ELIJAH RAY, GUITARIST, SINGINGER, SONGWRITER, VIBE CREATOR
When we’re in the booth singing our part, Driver’s standards are so high that we’ll sing the same four measures ten times to get the right vowel, the right placement, the right dynamics, as close to the final product as possible.
STEPHEN ROSS, COUNTERTENOR AND MUSIC DIRECTOR, FACE VOCAL BAND
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