Avid Xpress Pro 5.7 Academic

There's a reason nearly all of today's feature films and prime-time television shows are created using Avid® systems: end-to-end, concept-to-conform creative flexibility you won't find anywhere else. The same tools are built into Avid Xpress Pro, a full-featured editing environment for HD, SD, DV, and film that's also ideal as a portable companion to every Avid system.

Edit faster
Do more, and do it faster, with the most flexible, customizable editing toolset and the best effects available. Fast, fingertip trim tools. Trim across multiple tracks, with both sides of the trim monitor updating at once. Avid's Open Timeline for mixing multiple HD resolutions, HD and SD in the same sequence – even the same clip group for mixed resolution multicam editing.

Equally powerful on Mac and PC
Use the most powerful machine you can find, on the platform of your choice. With both platforms included in every box, you can work on one platform at work, another on the road any way you need it, no problem. Change your platform later? Just take the software with you!

Portable and powerful digital and analog I/O
Avid Mojo hardware expands the power and capability of Avid Xpress Pro with expanded I/O, hardware acceleration, and preview to a client monitor.

Avid manages media
Powered by a patented dynamic media database, Avid's no-excuses media management proves itself daily on the world's most complex productions. Share bins between projects, work with multiple versions and resolutions of a project, move projects between computers with only the media you need perfectly, painlessly, every time. Your media deserves this kind of care, and so do you.

The Filmmaker's Companion
Powered by the Academy Award-winning Avid Film Composer, you can easily track advanced film metadata, including KeyKode™ and multiple timecodes, directly inside the editing interface no separate database application required. That's just the beginning of the most complete film editing toolset in the business.

Unmatched graphics and effects
Exceptionally powerful color correction with tools you won't find elsewhere, including Curves and One-touch automatic correction means your images will look better, faster. Avid Marquee for the industry's most complete integrated 2D and 3D title animation toolset.

If you're working in HD, you need the industry's first HD format designed for postproduction, Avid DNxHD: the beauty of uncompressed HD in the bandwidth of SD.

System Requirements

Macintosh

Mac OS X 10.4.6 or later. Earlier versions of Mac OS X are not supported.
(NOTE: Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later requires Avid Xpress Pro version 5.5 or later software.)

PowerMac G5 and PowerBook models only. Universal Binaries for Mac Intel will be supported in a future release

System memory (same requirements for software-only, with Mojo or with Mojo SDI)

1 GB system minimum

2 GB recommended for HD or high-stream count SD projects

A graphics adapter supported by Apple – 128MB memory on graphics card

Apple native FireWire, included with all qualified systems

40 GB or larger internal SATA boot drive

CD or DVD-ROM drive or DVD+RW drive

QuickTime 7.1 or later

Windows

Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2

QuickTime 7.1 or later; Windows Media Player 10 (with version 9.5 codecs)

1 GB system memory minimum, 2 GB recommended for HD or high-stream count SD projects

One of the following processors:
2.4 GHz Xeon processor
Pentium D processor
Pentium 4 1.8 GHz processor
Pentium M 1.8 GHz processor (mobile configurations)
Intel Core Duo processor (mobile configurations)

Qualified graphics card (per model, as supported by system vendors)

Qualified IEEE-1394 FireWire port (integrated or add-in card2 ; Mojo is not supported on notebook systems with PCMCIA cards of any kind)

40 GB or larger internal drive3

DVD-ROM or DVD+RW drive

The following specific graphics cards have been tested by Avid:

Graphics Cards (Workstations)

NVIDIA QuadroFX 3500 PCI Express

NVIDIA QuadroFX 3450 PCI Express

NVIDIA QuadroFX 3400 PCI Express

NVIDIA QuadroFX 1500 PCI Express

NVIDIA QuadroFX 1400 PCI Express

NVIDIA QuadroFX 1300 PCI Express

NVIDIA QuadroFX 560 PCI Express

NVIDIA QuadroFX 550 PCI Express

NVIDIA QuadroFX 3000 AGP 8X

NVIDIA QuadroFX 1100 AGP 8X

NVIDIA QuadroFX 500 AGP 8X

Graphics Cards (Notebooks)

NVIDIA QuadroFX 1500M

NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M

NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400

ATI Mobility FireGL V5200*

ATI Mobility Fire GL V5000*

ATI Mobility Radeon X600*

* Please Note: Refer to the support matrix for any specific Avid editor version requirements regarding ATI chipsets.

The add-in PCI card must be a universal PCI card with the T.I chip set. Qualified 1394 (FireWire) Cards for PC Workstations include:

ADS PYRO PCI 64, part #API-311 or API-315 [Required in Intel Xeon systems with expanded storage]

SIIG 1394 3-Port PCI i/e, part #NN-440012

SUNIX FWA2414

Qualified 1394 (FireWire) Cards for PC Notebooks include:

ADS PYRO 1394DV for Notebooks, part #API-601 or #API-602

SIIG CardBus PC Card, part #NN-PCM012

SIIG 1394 CardBus Dual, part #NN-PCM212

IBM 1394 CardBus PC Card, part #19K5678

The boot drive should be IDE, SCSI, or SATA 7200 RPM. Do not use internal SCSI as a boot device if you also plan on adding external SCSI drives (in which case use IDE or SATA).