Avid has released a fairly feature-rich update for their Media Composer NLE. Version 2018.7 offers a new live timeline that allows certain tasks to be performed without interrupting playback. Furthermore the new version now supports massive projects at up to 16K resolution. Since its Media Composer is, just like Adobe’s Creative Cloud, a subscription based product, Avid tends to release updates on a regular basis throughout the year rather than just one major version each year. This new version 2018.7 of its flagship product, the Media Composer NLE, adds quite a few (maybe overdue) features. Avid Media Composer 2018.7 One big feature of this new Media Composer is the ability of natively editing and playing back 16K footage. That might be a little ahead of the current 4K camera market but it’s always nice to be prepared, right? If you want you could download that 2018.7 Media Composer update right away and open up a 16K 120p project… If you happen to have some footage of that resolution and framerate handy, that is. The other big improvement is the so-called live timeline. In previous versions of Avid’s Media Composer playback would stop immediately once you want to do anything else than watch. Now, you can do quite a few background editorial tasks while still playing back the timeline in front of you. You can access the menus, switch between applications, zoom in and out of the current timeline, add and remove bins, add markers and perform some other helpful everyday...
Published By: CineD - Monday, 16 July, 2018