Now Available: AVoption|V10 Avid Video Interface for Pro Tools|HD on Windows XP

AVoption|V10 combines Avid's latest-generation DNA video hardware with custom capture and conform software, giving you something that no other audio/video combination can: fast, efficient interchange with the complete family of Avid editors, and total control of the video sweetening workflow, from capture to layback.

AVoption|V10 & Media Station|V10 Features

Utilizing only a standard FireWire connection, the AVoption|V10 hardware supports Pro Tools playback of all Avid-created video media, including all JFIF (up to 1:1) and AVR resolutions, DV25 and DV50, multi-cam, interlaced, and 24P/25P progressive scan. AVoption|V10 even allows you to mix different video resolutions in the timeline. With this much flexibility, you can accept projects cut on the full line of Avid DNA products, including Xpress Pro, and Media Composer Adrenaline, as well as legacy Meridien and ABVB-based editing systems. Video captured with Digidesign's AVoption and AVoption|XL is also supported. Component, Composite, S-Video, and Serial Digital Interface (SDI) Input/Output are all included.

Media Station|V10 software, shipping exclusively with AVoption|V10, has been designed and built by Avid specifically for the Pro Tools operator's unique needs. It allows you to perform automated capture and conform of both audio and video with full machine control, and to import an EDL or open an existing Avid sequence. The ability to render effects and export sequences for use in Pro Tools affords audio engineers complete control of the entire AAF/OMF export process. An "Export to Pro Tools" command automates the export process, ensuring that you get the video and audio files exactly as you need for use in Pro Tools. You can also import audio from Pro Tools into Media Station|V10 in order to verify audio is in sync with the original video, to lay back audio and video to tape with full machine control, or to export digital movies for review, mastering, or for Web distribution.

AVoption|V10 also includes DigiTranslator 2.0 for easy OMF and AAF interchange, and fully supports record and playback of audio and video with Avid Unity™ Shared Storage.

Pricing and Availability

Initially, Avoption|V10 is only available for the Windows XP operating system. Apple Mac OS X support will be provided in a future release. IMX and MXF video will also be supported in a future release. In the meantime, these resolutions may be transcoded for playback via Media Station|V10 software.

AVoption & AVoption|XL Upgrades

AVoption|V10 is available to current owners of AVoption|XL and AVoption at special pricing. If you purchased and registered AVoption|XL with AVoption|V10 Assurance, Digidesign will be contacting you shortly to arrange for your exchange to be fulfilled.

Mac users looking to expand their client base with Avid video support are recommended to purchase AVoption|XL now, as all such purchases will include an exchange to AVoption|V10 as soon as it becomes available for Mac OS X.

For details on pricing and options, contact Audio Intervisual Design, your full-line Digidesign reseller and integrator.

About Audio Intervisual Design

Audio Intervisual Design sells and supports the complete line of Digidesign professional audio products and maintains complete systems available for demonstration by appointment at their Hollywood offices. For over 20 years, Audio Intervisual Design has been a reseller, integrator, and consultant to Production and Post-Production professionals in the Television, Motion-Picture, and Recording industies. Email us today or call (323) 845-1155 so we can discuss your questions and specific needs, arrange a demonstration, and customize a system for you.