People came from all over LA, during the first rain of the season, to watch Michael Krulik of Avid wow a capacity crowd with the new features in Media Composer 4. The coolest thing is the ability to mix and match resolutions and frame rates on the timeline in realtime. A long-requested feature has also been implemented – the ability to keep transition on clips while moving them in the timeline. He also highlighted improvements in the stabilizer. I encourage everyone to go to Avid.com and download a free trial today. I did. In related news, Avid also demonstrated its advances in 3D workflows.
