Whats New Media Composer V8.3.1

New Features What’s New for ® ® Avid Media Composer | Software v8.3.1 Revision History Date Description March 9, 2015 Added note to Support for XAVC-I UHD/4K to state that at this time, Avid does not support playback of XAVC-I 4K 10bit 60fps material. New Features The following table describes What’s New for the current editor release. Feature Description For More Info QuickTime® Movie export The editing application allows you to export See “QuickTime Codecs for for greater than HD as DNxHR QuickTime. DNxHR” on page 2. Material Support for XAVC-I With this release, the editing application See “Support for XAVC-I UHD/4K export. allows you to export XAVC-I for greater than UHD/4K” on page 3. HD media. DNxHR MXF OP1a export The editing application allows you to export See “Exporting DNxHR Media as DNxHR media as MXF OP1a wrapped MXF OP1a” on page 3. media. Pro Tools® | Duet and The editing application has been qualified See the documentation provided Pro Tools | Quartet Support with the Pro Tool | Duet and with the Pro Tools | Duet and Pro Pro Tools | Quartet audio I/O hardware. Tools | Quartet products for information on installing applicable drivers. GPU Acceleration Support The editing application includes GPU See “GPU Acceleration for the acceleration support for the Mac platform. Mac” on page 4. Media Creation Setting The default for a Media Creation quality See “Media Creation Default Default Change setting has changed. Change” on page 4. 1 QuickTime Codecs for DNxHR QuickTime Codecs for DNxHR The editing application now includes QuickTime codecs for DNxHR. This allows you to perform a QuickTime Movie export of higher than HD resolution media. Both Same as Source and Custom exports are supported for higher than HD resolutions. When performing a Custom export, the DNxHR codec is available in the Standard Video Compression Settings in the QuickTime movie Export Settings dialog. n Note on working with Same as So…