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Avid Xpress™ for Windows NT® (Elite)

The Avid Xpress system is the fastest, most creative way to create high-quality video and multimedia content. Designed with unique breakthrough technologies, the Avid Xpress system lets you produce content faster than any other digital video system in its class. So you can not only deliver the highest-quality content, but achieve significant productivity increases and cost savings as well.

Avid Xpressprovides creative professionals with the most powerful digital video system in its price category regardless of platform.

The Avid Xpress system gives you this unprecedented speed and creativity through these substantial advantages:

  • Avid's One-Step™ Technology
  • More real-time features
  • More built-in functionality
  • Industry-leading image and audio quality
  • Easy fit in a multi-platform workflow

These advantages, combined with Avid's adherence to ITU 601-R broadcast-industry standards, have made the Avid Xpress system the leading solution for creative professionals working with digital media.

Avid elite 3 comp.jpg (6601 bytes)Unprecedented Productivity with
One-Step Technology
Avid Xpress is the only digital video system to offer Avid's powerful One-Step Technology, which lets you accomplish the most common editing and creative tasks in the fewest possible steps, often with a single mouse click. One-Step Technology helps you save time and keep the creative process flowing. With other systems, much of your creative time is spent working manually and slowly, due to multiple steps and work-arounds. Avid's One-Step Technology takes you to new levels of speed and productivity when working with digital media.

Avid Xpress' highly-productive interface comes from years of Avid's leadership in digital media content creation. The Avid Xpress interface is based on Avid's seventh generation award-winning, software, used in the film and television industries putting it years ahead of other systems in terms of speed, simplicity and creative options.

Truest Online Image Quality
Avid Xpress supports ITU 601-R broadcast industry standards for the truest online image quality so you are assured of the highest quality video production used in broadcast applications today. Avid Xpress also delivers 2:1 image compression (300KB/NTSC; 360KB/PAL). No other digital video system combines unmatched speed and productivity features with the highest image standards for the utmost in professional-quality output.

Built-In Compositing for Streamlined Production
Built-in compositing saves production time and eliminates frustration. Avid Xpress offers up to four video tracks for real-time, integrated, non-destructive layering and nesting, eliminating the need for expensive and time-consuming third-party applications. You can create multi-layered effects within Avid Xpress, then composite multiple layers into a single track in one easy step.

Real-Time Processing for Increased Productivity
With all the real-time features in Avid Xpress, you spend less time waiting and more time creating. Customizable real-time 3D effects, real-time picture-in-picture, over 24 real-time transitions and so much more are available. Titles and graphics are displayed in an uncompressed format for the best quality representation in real time. And real-time 2D keyframed titles and graphics can be played over other real-time effects.

Richest, Most Advanced Sound
Eight-track, real-time, online audio mixing with 3-band EQ, real-time rubberband gain adjustments, and external audio device control make it faster and easier
to produce the richest, most advanced sound. Audio can be input in either analog or digital formats and is compatible with a wide range of audio equipment including Digital Audio Tape (DAT) machines. For more complex sound design, the tracks edited in Avid Xpress can be opened in Digidesign® ProTools® software, either on the same computer or on a dedicated ProTools workstation.

Third-Party Integration for Ease of Use
Avid Xpress is compatible with your favorite applications for animation, effects and audio. It works seamlessly with QuickTime® applications and with audio applications from DigiDesign, including ProTools. With Avid Visual eXtension (AVX™) plug-in support, third-party developers such as Artel Software (Boris Effects), Integrated Computing Engines, Inc. (ICEfx) and Ultimatte Corporation (Ultimatte for Macintosh) have full access to Avid Xpress' multiple video tracks and nesting capabilities for the tightest possible integration.

Avid Xpress Fits into Your Multi-Platform Workflow
If you have a multi-platform environment, Avid Xpress fits right in, so you can maintain your existing equipment investment. Avid Xpress is the only system in its class to support all of the following:

  • HIIP®: Multi-platform graphics I/O - popular graphics and animation files on Windows, Macintosh and SGI
  • OMF®: Easy-to-move compositions
  • AVX: Third-party video plug-ins
  • AudioSuite™: Third-party audio plug-ins
  • AIFF, WAV: Macintosh and PC format audio files
  • EDL: Import / export a wide range of formats
  • QuickTime and AVI: Macintosh and Windows video file formats
  • Software CODEC: Work with Avid media in third-party programs

From Avid, the Digital Media Leader
Avid Xpress is based on Avid's award-winning seventh-generation software for the film and television industry. With Avid as your business partner, you have the peace of mind knowing that you are buying from the industry leader-a corporation with the vision and leadership to position you for long-term success.

One-Step Technology lets you accomplish the most common editing and creative tasks in the fewest possible steps.
Following are some examples of how One-Step Technology puts content creation speed and power at your fingertips.

Tight Timeline Editing || Each shot edited to the timeline is automatically joined with the shots around it, eliminating the need for a second step to close gaps between shots.

Single Track Transitions || Avid Xpress uses a single-track editing model. With a single drag-and-drop motion you place a transition directly on the transition point between shots, eliminating the need to place shots on the correct tracks, line up overlaps, and apply the transition to a third effects track.

32 Levels of Undo/Redo || 32 levels of undo and redo make it easy to go back and make changes or view a previous version of a cut.

Matchframe || Park your cursor on the timeline and with a single click recall the source for the shot or audio track where your cursor is parked.

Pop-Up Source Monitors || Double-click on a clip in a bin to open its source monitor with its own toolbar for playback, modification, and editing. You can keep several pop-ups open at once for quick access to multiple shots.

Sift || Sift through source material using several simultaneous criteria, eliminating the need to search through material and locate specific shots manually.

Consolidate || Keep useful material and delete unwanted material in one simple step, maximizing disk space, leading to greater efficiency and cost savings.