Installation guide

New in Avid Media Composer v4.0

What’s New

The following features have been added to this release of the editing application.

• Mixing Frame Rates and Field Motion Types

• Stereoscopic update

• Ancillary Data Handling

• Video Satellite (supported on the Macintosh)

• 1080p/24 Hi Quality SD/HD Downconvert

• Auto-Zoom for Motion Tracking and Stabilization

• AAF Edit Protocol support

• 720p Proxy Transcode Workflow

• Clip Color Changes

• Commit Multicamera Edits option

• Edgecode support enhancements for Timecode Burn-in effect

• Transition Preservation

• Recapturing and Decomposing

• Support for Ikegami GFCAM™

• Numeric Keypad and Mouse Support for MultiCamera Editing

• Entering Timecode changes

• Undo up to 100 previous actions.

• Support for rendering, transcoding and mixing down AVC-Intra resolutions

• Support for 16 tracks of audio in the Audio Mixer Tool. See “Documentation Changes”

on page 68.

For information on new features for the Avid editing products, see the What’s New for Avid

Media Composer v4.0. The What’s New is provided in PDF form on the Avid Knowledge

Base. The What’s New is also provided in the online Help.