Edit Tools — Avid

Realtime, single-timeline combination of multiple formats and resolutions. Price: $1,695 (Xpress Pro version 4.8); $25,000 (Adrenaline version 1.8)

Avid started on the Mac when it launched its first Media Composer in 1987. Now, with Mac-based NLEs thriving in video post, Avid reinvigorates its OS X product line. Avid touts improved performance and unique features in the latest upgrades to its Media Composer Adrenaline and Avid Xpress Pro. New features include Noise Industries Factory Tools, which provide more than 80 realtime effects. Meanwhile, Quartz Compositions are highly stylized visual effects, filters, and transitions that can be applied to individual clips, titles, or entire Avid sequences.
Tewksbury, Mass. • (800) 949-2843
www.avid.com