AVID MEDIA COMPOSER 2019 PROFESSIONAL

The standard timeline buttons have been boiled down to the minimum in order to fit the buttons from the timelines side-menu that is now completely gone. Some more UI changes have been made – all buttons have been given a make-over with some like the Lift-button changing altogether. A nice improvement is that switching between the edit and the colour correction mode has become a bit faster than in the versions before. This feature could definitely prove to be useful. A Resolve-like dock was introduced for switching between customisable workspaces. The first thing noticeable when starting the new Media Composer 2019 is its changed UI look that now resembles those of the DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Premiere Pro.

This fact was probably getting harder to ignore by Avid as the market continued to grow and the release of Media Composer 2019 is the biggest step made so far to try to fit in into this market. It has offered a more intuitive, easier to learn UI, uncomplicated media management and was better suited for editing using only one monitor – in other words everything that Avid Media Composer wasn’t. Their projects tend to be short and often self-produced – the perfect tool for this faster moving style of projects turned out to be Adobe Premiere Pro. This is why there is a very high chance that a number of your favourite movies have been edited in Avid Media Composer.īut the success of YouTube and relatively inexpensive cameras with good video quality have given rise to a new kind of video content creator. For these reasons, Avid Media Composer was very well suited for big shared projects in which as little room as possible will be left for human error. Avid’s media files could only be OP-Atom MXFs and the manipulation of the UI was restricted to opening, closing and resizing the windows. In order to achieve workable performance, the footage needed to be converted into media files in most cases. Therefore production workflows always needed to conform with Avid’s way of working. Media Composer has always been quite inflexible when it came to project organisation compared to other NLEs on the market. 😀 Well, upon first use of the all new shiny Media Composer 2019, I’ve gotten a tiny reminder on how that nightmare scenario could feel. Stop worrying Filip, there’s no way that the media people will not get that Demolition man reference.

They have continued evolving with no regard for my absence and now when I try to get back to work, instead of familiar buttons and menus, all I see is three seashells. I imagine going out on a long world travel, or for some other reason not working as I currently do and returning back to work only to find that the technology and the tools that I was working with have moved on.

AVID MEDIA COMPOSER 2019 PROFESSIONAL

So, I kind of have this fear that I believe most of us have felt at some point in our professional lives.

Avid media composer 2019