Avid Media Composerfor Windows
App info
A free video and music editing and composing program
Avid Media Composer is a professional video editing application for Windows. It is mostly used as a multimedia app for editing videos and music. It is full of tools, for example skewing tools, color tools, speed tools, and so on, which will make editing your videos much easier.
Review
If you decide to install Avid Media Composer on your Windows, you will get a series of editing tools, thanks to whom you will be able to knit your video filters together. This app doesn't include numerous tools and, as a consequence, each tool there has numerous features and adjustable settings. That means, that the interface seems overloaded and confusing. So don't worry at first, because it takes a while before you will get used to this application.
What is important, there is a special function that will show you the original clip so you will have the ability to compare the original and the altered one. Moreover, you can even see them side-by-side. This will help to see and learn every step of editing.
Avid Media Composer is, in most cases, used by professional video editors to edit news packages and shows on Windows. It gives you a lot of control, which is great for professionals but can be difficult for those, who just started learning this field. However, if you have a great desire to become better and better in editing, Avid Media Composer will be suitable for you.
Features
As has been mentioned before, this application has lots of features needed for editing videos. First of all, it has editing tools for creating animations and effects. Secondly, it has a 10-bit color correction toolset. Also, there is a remote collaboration with team members in real time. And it is important to mention native support for H.264 and HDV codecs.
Conclusion
Summing up, Avid Media Composer is a professional video editing application, which is full of tools and is widely used for editing videos and music. This app is for those, who already have a piece of core knowledge in this field, who are on a budget and looking for something good for editing to install on Windows.
- Payment free
- Plenty of video editing tools
- Suitable for semi-professionals
- Very confusing and unintuitive interface
- Not suitable for top professional editors