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Media Composer 6 is also platform agnostic, with support for both the latest Mac OS X (Lion) and Windows (Windows 7) operating systems. Although Final Cut Pro 7 is a 32-bit application, the last available version (7.03) is compatible with Mac OS X Lion. That means if youre currently using Mac OS X Lion and Final Cut Pro 7, no additional OS upgrade is required to migrate to Media Composer. Media Composer also has complete parity with its PC version, meaning the application is identical in feature set and operation on both platforms. This provides you with complete platform portability when moving projects between a Mac and PC.
This powerful media management feature means that media remains linked and doesnt irreversibly lose its link due to a minor file system update or file modification changes. Its also flexible when working in an offline to online scenario, where you want to unlink the low-resolution clips and quickly relink to the high-resolution material. Final Cut Pro users do not have the option of choosing a managed media system. All files imported by Final Cut Pro remain in their original location from when they were imported. Media can span across drives and be located in various folder levels throughout the file system. Media files can accidentally be moved, renamed, and deleted without you knowing how many projects reference the media file. Updating a media file in one project may also break the links to a different project using the same media file.
AMA is a technology based on software plug-ins. This means that plug-ins are required to provide support for various file formats. When you install Media Composer, a QuickTime plug-in is installed. This enables you to link to all QuickTime wrapped file formats for use in Media Composer. Its up to the appropriate vendor to develop the AMA plug-in that enables their hardware to be used with Media Composer. This allows each manufacturer to keep their plug-in up-to-date, without waiting for the next release of Media Composer to take advantage of the manufacturers updates. You can install and uninstall AMA plug-ins as desired. To download AMA plug-ins, go to the AMA webpage (www.avid.com/ama), select the Plug-ins tab, and find links to the various AMA plug-ins. When using AMA, files, folders, and volumes can be linked and imported. No media is createdit is practically identical in nature to what you are accustomed to in Final Cut Pro when importing media into a project. One of the major benefits of AMA is that it supports more formats than Final Cut Pro. The Log and Transfer utility, built into Final Cut Pro, was created to mount non-native media in the application. After selecting a clip or part of a clip, the Log and Transfer tool wraps the media into a QuickTime format, often transcoding to Apple ProRes along the way. With AMA, many of the formats that require QuickTime wrapping or transcoding in Final Cut Pro have native support in Media Composer. AMA also gives you the ability to quickly view and play media, mark ins and outs, and transcode to various formats for editorial.
When importing ProRes files, Media Composer can either AMA link, or do a fast import. During a fast import, the media is copied without a conversion, and the container is rewrapped from QuickTime to MXF. Final Cut Pro editors will find that these two methods of importing provide for a very flexible workflow.
Along with timeline video and audio, Boris plug-in users on both Final Cut Pro and Media Composer will find that filters and transitions applied to clips in one system retain all of their settings and keyframed changes during the translation.
Timeline editing
Final Cut Pro users are familiar with the mouse-driven editing and trimming, and Media Composer offers similar functionality with the Smart Tool.
The following features are translated to Pro Tools: Markers created in the timeline Volume automation (rubber banding) Clip gain Clip pan Pan automaton (including surround panning) Avid EQ AudioSuite plug-ins R TAS plug-in assignments and settings This gives the Pro Tools editor a much greater head start when working with projects in which the video editor set volume, panning, and plug-in assignments for their temp mix.
For script-based projects, the ScriptSync option, powered by Nexidia, phonetically indexes all clip dialog in your project and then syncs all relevant clips to your scriptautomaticallyso you can find the best takes fast.
Conclusion
If youre a Final Cut Pro editor whos looking to migrate elsewhere, youll find that Media Composer offers a powerful and easy-to-use set of professional tools. For a successful migration, editors should understand that many of the features found in Final Cut Pro are also included in Media Composer. Features such as Avid Open I/O, AMA, native ProRes support, audio interoperability with Pro Tools, and the ability to work with many third-party software applications makes migrating an easy decision.
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