Edit easily with new and improved tools

From better bin handling and project access, to countless timesaving features, there’s a lot more to love about Media Composer. Plus, with input from customers and other video editors, we’ve added many of your top requests to our video editor software (say hello again to the weightlifter and scissors icons!).

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Finish and deliver with total color precision

Whether you do all editing, effects, and color work in Media Composer or roundtrip projects to another application, the new 32-bit floating point color pipeline and ACES color space support future-proof your content and ensure consistent color accuracy from end to end. OpenEXR decoding accelerates HDR effects work. Plus, new IMF packaging tools make OTT delivery easy.

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Accelerate multicam editing

Media Composer offers tons of updates and improvements to its entire multicam editing workflow, saving you time and money while providing a better user experience. From the ability to create groups directly from sequences, to making adjustments to multiple clips with mixed frame rates in real time, you can spend less time on prep work and get right to the creative aspects of editing faster.

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Selectively correct color

Need to adjust color on a specific part of an image separately from the image’s overall color grade? With new shape-based color correction in the Media Composer | Symphony Option, available as a subscription and included with Media Composer | Ultimate, you can isolate an area for independent adjustment by creating a shape layer, which draws a matte. Choose a preset shape or draw your own. You can also create multiple shapes in the same layer, isolate by Luma and Chroma values, and do serial and parallel correction, giving you tons of creative flexibility.

Get unlimited video playback streams

Got a powerful computer? You can now take full advantage of your CPU's power and play back complex video sequences with multiple video tracks, images, and picture-in-picture effects in their entirety, without any limitation to the number of playback streams (up to the maximum power capabilities of your computer's processing performance).

Do more on the fly

You can now perform even more tasks in the timeline as clips continue to play, without interrupting playback. Solo and mute audio in any track. Adjust gain levels of any selected clip. Add timeline markers with the press of an Add Marker button in the interface or a mapped keyboard key. And control how you want the Edit Marker window to display.

Go bigger—without barriers

With new 16K project presets, you can now write and play back 16K media in their native project types. Boost your creative capabilities with support for more high frame rates and freedom from stream count limitations. And create hyper-realistic 3D and 360 VR content, as well as dramatic slow-motion sequences, with support for 120 fps video, minimizing blur and motion artifacts.

Splice edits onto OP1a files

Forget having to re-export an entire sequence just to make a small edit. You can now quickly replace any portion of a previously exported iFrame, XAVC-I, or OP1a DNxHD or DNxHR video file—similar to splicing into film or overwriting tape, but with a digital file. In addition, you can export XDCAM MXF OP1a files to speed your workflow.

Edit more easily

Media Composer includes several new enhancements and improvements that put more flow into your workflow. Freely resize your Composer window to any dimension and aspect ratio that suits your needs. Show and hide fields and groups to streamline your view. And more.

Get better UHD performance

With support for four real-time streams of XAVC-I media, Media Composer delivers greater performance with high-res media, so you can spend less time rendering or transcoding media to lower resolutions.