Avid DS is a full-featured editing, graphics creation, color correction, and compositing solution, and is the absolute best conforming tool for Media Composer and Symphony to create and deliver high-end content. Save time and money by keeping all editing and finishing in house. Choose the low cost software-only version to use with your existing hardware, or the complete Avid DS System—a hardware/software bundle that comes with everything you need to capture, edit, monitor, create, and conform high-end content.
Top features
Maximize your creativity and productivity with full-featured tools - With Avid DS, you have all the editing, compositing, painting, conforming, and finishing tools you need to create and deliver projects fast. Speed up editing and color correcting with Media Composer 6. Eliminate tedious reassembling with Total Conform to Avid DS. Design high-end graphics, effects, titles, and composites. And with the fully integrated workflow, youʼll spend more time creating than rendering or exporting to other applications.
Accelerate RED and other file-based workflows - With direct file-based editing and native conform, waiting is a thing of the past. Edit RED (including EPIC and SCARLET), QuickTime, AVCHD, XDCAM, and other file-based formats directly through AMA (Avid Media Access) with Media Composer 6. Keep the vision intact from the offline to finishing; no need to manually reassemble work, as all timeline information is automatically re-created natively in high resolution, including effects, titles, and color data. And with the supported RED Rocket card, you get real-time playback and accelerated rendering for immediate review/approval and clientassisted sessions.
Get beauty without the bandwidth - Work with all popular HD sources in a real-time collaborative environment, minimizing storage and infrastructure costs with DNxHD encoding, you can edit and finish sequences in mastering picture quality over multiple generations—in files that consume a fraction of the bandwidth of uncompressed HD.
Achieve the look you want - Create stunning visual effects, animations, graphics, titles, and more with a huge collection of sophisticated paint and compositing tools, 2D and 3D effects, motion tracking, image stabilization, filters, transitions, and fonts. And with support for AVX/AVX 2 and OpenFX (OFX) plug-ins, you can expand your creative palette with software from top visual effects designers, including Boris FX, GenArts, and The Foundry.
Complete Digital Intermediate processing - Create the right look with powerful color grading tools. Clean up footage and add effects, titles, and end credits. Speed up your workflow with real-time 2K, HD 4:4:4 RGB, and HD 4:2:2 YUV playback and integrated DPX, R3D file support. Itʼs the perfect solution for TV productions; no matter what resolution the show is finished, Avid DS adapts to the required resolution or color space.
Get easy collaboration and integration - Gain better collaboration and save time when you add Avid DS into an existing Avid workflow. Integrate with Interplay and ISIS systems to simultaneously access and share media. Eliminate having to copy or transcode media for different disciplines. Get complete conform to Avid DS from Media Composer and Symphony. And boost productivity with support for industry-standard project formats, including AAF, AFE, EDL, and OMF.
Free up resources with Remote Processing - Free up your most valuable tools and talent by rendering sequences in the background using the included Avid DS Remote Processing (RP) System Option. With it, you can transfer all processing to a remote system, enabling the team to spend more time creating and less time waiting, increasing productivity and client satisfaction.
Work with what you have and want - As a standalone software solution, Avid DS lets you work with a variety of hardware to meet your needs and budget. Add video capture and output with an I/O interface. Use your favorite graphics tablet to design. Open your workflow to collaboration by adding a shared storage solution. Choose the computer and monitoring system you want. Or choose the complete and optimized Avid DS System, which includes all of the hardware and software you need, plus computer power, to edit and finish projects.
New features
* Get Media Composer 6 included with Avid DS (full and upgrades), and edit and color video with speed and ease (software bundle not included)
* Gain hands-on precision and speed up color correction, grading, editing, and navigation with support for Artist Color and Artist Transport control surfaces
* Get resolution independence with the canvas, enabling you to customize the size for source generators and visual effects
* Apply blending operations directly on the timeline to single or multiple clips or containers
* Conform high-resolution sequences to Avid DS from Media Composer 6 or Symphony 6 (except stereoscopic 3D)
* Connect to and play Long-GOP MXF essence (such as from XDCAM) when conforming from Media Composer or Symphony, eliminating transcoding time
* Edit high-resolution media—in master quality—using the Avid DNxHD 444 codec
* Use HDR imagery in your projects with support for the Open EXR/TIFF DCDM format
* Capture and output up to 16 channels of audio (up from 8) to create bigger, richer audio mixes
* Work with RED EPIC and SCARLET footage with the new RED SDK
* Integrate KONA 3G hardware, as well as any hardware supported by Media Composer and Symphony, into your Avid DS workflow
System requirements
* Computer: HP Z800, Z400, xw8600, or other Avid-qualified workstation
* OS: Windows 7 Professional SP1 (64-bit)
* Processor: Intel Xeon Core 2 processors (Quad or higher)
* Memory: 12 GB RAM (for HD, HD-RGB, and other high-res format support); 6 GB RAM (for SD and DNxHD)
* Graphics card: NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics card
For detailed system requirements go to :
http://aviddssupport.avid.com/index.htm?menu=dsv11/d_dsv11.htm&page=configurations/ds-11-requirements.htm
Homepage : http://www.avid.com/US/products/avid-DS