Media Composer 8 Academic Edition Note: To activate this software, you will be asked to verify your education eligibility with Avid after purchase. You must provide proof that you are currently a college or university student or teacher. This is a perpetual license with one year of free support and upgrades. Media Composer is proven and trusted by professional editors in every segment of film, television, and broadcast. Designed to handle high volumes of disparate file-based media, Media Composer delivers accelerated high-res-to-HD workflows, real-time collaboration, and powerful media management, eliminating time-consuming tasks so you can focus on telling a great story. More content today is shot with high-res cameras, but the majority of programming is still HD. With the new FrameFlex tools, you can immediately start working in HD directly from high-res sources and maintain full creative control of the image reframing and keyframing, from beginning to end. In addition, 1D/3D Look Up Tables (LUTs) and Color Decision Lists (CDLs) make it easy to perform real-time RAW and LogC to Rec. 709 color space conversions. Gain more time for creativity with new features that accelerate and simplify file-based workflows. With Dynamic Media Folders, noncreative media tasks such as transcoding, copying, and consolidating can be automated in the background, without disrupting your editorial flow. Plus, youll get peace of mind as Media Composer now fully manages AMA-linked media as reliably as it does with native Avid media. Edit, share, tag, track, and sync media and projects with everyone on your editing team no matter where you are in the world. Media Composer enables you to connect to Interplay | Production systems through Media Composer | Cloud (formerly Interplay Sphere), making remote cloud-based collaboration easy and cost-effective. Whats more, you can edit just as efficiently as you would if you were all at the home facility, using the same tools and workflows you know and trust.