At the 2009 Academy Awards, the winners in the Best Motion Picture, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Film Editing, Directing and Music (Song and Score) categories were all created with Avid solutions. In all, Avid customers accounted for more than 80 nominations.

Need more convincing? At the 2008 Academy Awards, all of the nominated and award-winning films in the Best Motion Picture, Directing, Film Editing, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Visual Effects, Documentary Feature and Original Score categories were created using at least one Avid, Digidesign, Sibelius or Softimage system.

This has been a similar trend for years and the momentum does not appear to be slowing down which is why we would like to add to the pile of awards at Avid by presenting them the 2009 “TopTenREVIEWS Bronze Award” for Video Production Software to Avid Media Composer 3.5.

What's in the Box

• Avid Media Composer – HD and SD editing
• Avid MediaLog – logging and metadata management
• Avid Log Exchange – File based conversion from file to tape transfer to Avid formats
• Avid FilmScribe – film metadata export, cut lists, change list and XML
• Avid EDL Manager – Timecode metadata export in all industry standard formats
• Avid MetaSync Manager – Avid enhanced objects creation tool for interactive programming
• Avid MetaFuze – R3D, DPX and file based conversion to Avid MXF media file formats
• Avid Interplay Transfer (standalone version) – point to point transfer tool for Avid media and metadata

Third-party bundled software

• Avid DVD by Sonic - Industry-leading DVD and Blu-ray authoring (Windows only)
• Boris Continuum Complete - Comprehensive library of customizable video filters and transitions
• Sorenson Squeeze - Multimedia export with customizable compression templates
• SmartSound SonicFire Pro - Automated music track creation
• Avid FX - 2D & 3D compositing, titles, animation and effects