Avid Media Composer Ultimate (Perpetual, Download)

Every timeline tells a story. Media Composer is the professional video editing software trusted by film, TV, and news studios. With AI-automation, deep timeline control, and reliable finishing pipelines, it keeps massive volumes of footage secure from first cut to final delivery. Please select frequency type and user type values. Media Composer First Ideal for new or casual editors curious about Avid. Free to use forever. Cut faster from transcripts Turn large volumes of dialogue into searchable story structure. Navigate transcripts instantly using AI-powered text and phonetic tools to locate lines, compare takes, generate multicam edits by speaker and shape scenes or intuitively. Command the timeline Cut, trim, slip, slide, and rearrange clips with responsive tools that match your pace. Complete flexibility over keyboard shortcuts lets you design a workflow that fits your style and keeps you moving at blazing speeds. Sync massive multi-cam shoots Turn thousands of hours of footage into multi-camera timelines on the fly using automated waveform and timecode matching. Group up to 64 cameras and cut between angles on a responsive, zero-lag engine. Color and finish Grade natively with a built-in Symphony toolset, or execute frame-accurate round-trips to external suites. The metadata engine preserves every edit and layer for a flawless return. Production-Scale Deployments From massive collaborative storage environments to cloud-based remote rooms, this is where major studios run their entire pipeline for ultimate stability and scale. Integrate seamlessly with Avid NEXIS and now with Third Party Shared Storage solutions to let multiple editors safely work inside the same project using real-time bin locking and centralized shared media. Explore Media Composer features Match transcripts to audio waveforms for instant dialogue search. Search spoken dialogue phonetically across hundreds of hours of footage. Generate accurate automated text from source clips to edit via dialogue. Convert generated transcripts into localized, timestamped timeline subtitles. Loop transitions dynamically and nudge multi-track cuts frame by frame. Automate track volume attenuation to lower background music under dialogue. Sync and switch between up to nine camera angles in real time fluidly. Seamlessly conceal jump cuts into a single continuous shot. Access advanced secondary color correction and relational grading tools. Isolate and color-correct specific areas of the frame with moving shapes.