The Avid Xpress Pro 5.5 software offers professional video, audio, film, effects, and encoding tools plus custom music creation software for both Mac and PC platforms in a single box.

The software supports native HDV and DVCPRO HD for acquisition, editing, and output; real-time effects and 2:3 pulldown insertion over FireWire; and Avid DNxHD encoding to create effects, transitions, and titles with uncompromised image quality. Avid s unique Open Timeline enables users to mix HDV, DVCPRO HD, and Avid DNxHD formats with SD and DV media in the same timeline in real-time, eliminating the time-consuming process of incorporating media from multiple sources into a single project.

Whats New in This Release:

· Due to changes in Avid Xpress Pro 5.5.x (Mac), some third party AVX plug-ins may not load properly. This is due to moving the Avid editors to Xcode from CodeWarrior 9 for future support of the new Mac Intel based systems. Customers may need to upgrade their AVX plug-ins. Please note that Avid has informed Thirds Party partners of this change. Third Party AVX plug-ins that have not been updated, will not be supported in this release. Please reference the Knowledge Base tech note on this topic for updated information.
· When exporting QuickTime movies from the editor with the "Same as Source" option selected, customers will no longer experience longer export times with QuickTime 7.1 and Xpress Pro v5.5 or higher.
· A change in the 1394 (FireWire) bus of the new Apple dual core Power Mac G5 systems requires an update to your Avid editor application and Avid Mojo or Avid Mojo SDI firmware. If you attempt to attach an Avid Mojo to your new dual core Power Mac G5 system prior to following the steps outlined in the ReadMe document included in this download, the system will not recognize the Avid Mojo and you will not be able to run the Avid editor application.
· Avid Xpress Pro v5.5.2 customers that would like to sample Noise Industries Factory Floor, the new and exciting third party plug in, can download a fully functioning 15 days trial version at: http://www.noiseindustries.com/downloads/FactoryTools.dmg.

Avid Xpress DV is the affordable, real-time DV studio from the company that ignited the digital video revolution. Featuring more customizable real-time effects than any other product in its class, Avid Xpress DV combines legendary Avid ease of use with the powerful tools that continue to define the editing industry.

Here are some key features of "Avid Xpress DV":

· Industry-defining Editing
· Avid Real-time Architecture
· Expert Color Correction Toolset
· Advanced Productivity Features
· Customizable Tools
· Expandable and Open
· Fast, easy DVD creation.

Hour Glass, Beachball, Spinning Wheel and other isolated reports of crashing are resolved.Several issues of audio and video drift have been fixed.

Desktop play delay sync is now fixed.Importing Quicktime with an alpha channel on Mac is fixed.Support added for Shared/Non-local ProjectsAvid Xpress DV now supports Mac OS X 10.2 and QuickTime 6Added Help for the Avid Storage Manager

Perfect for students, DV camera owners, video enthusiasts or anyone exploring video editing - Avid Free DV software is an easy, free way to join the Avid family and test-drive the industry-standard editing interface used by more professionals than any other video editing solution.

Avid Free DV is feature-streamlined, standalone software which includes basic video and audio editing capabilities, up to two streams of real-time effects and support for both Windows XP and Macintosh OS X platforms.

Once you ve had a chance to familiarize yourself with the Avid Free DV software, we invite you to step up to the robust production and networking features found in our professional line of products such as Avid Xpress DV software and Avid Xpress Pro software.

Ver 1.6.1 supports Mac OS X 10.2.8 up to 10.3.4; Version 1.8.1 supports Mac OS X 10.4.x
NOTE :
Demo Serial Number : AvidFreeDV-85E0
Demo Authorization Code: AF7R-XJ5C-UC7K-552H-KE7Q

Episode Pro provides powerful desktop encoding plus professional broadcast format support and unlimited batch encoding. In addition, Episode Pro will act as a gateway to our workgroup server.

Here are some key features of "Episode Pro":

· Encode MPEG 1/2/4, Windows Media 9, DV, 3GPP/2, M4A, MOV and other QuickTime codecs, Flash 8 encode is optional.
· Plus high-end professional formats, such as MXF, GXF, H.265 High Pofile, DVCPRO HD, MPEG 2/4 Transport Streams, mobile multi-bitrate and more Plus Surround Sound
· Audio filters include balance, channel mixing fade in/out, five-band equalizer, high pass/low pass filters and audio normalization
· Video filters include timecode burn in, black and white restoration, contrast, fade, gamma correction, HSV levels, RGB filter, sharpen, smoothing, visible watermark, resize, de-interlace, fade in/out, inverse telecine and noise reduction
· Unlimited batch processing
· More than 80 professional setting templates Plus the ability to scale to Episode Workgroup server-based solutions
· Multiprocessor support
· Prioritize encoding
· Metadata support.

Now that youve locked your edit, it s time to load Colorista to apply a natural finish, and make your image pop. Under the hood is the next generation Magic Bullet engine with real-time processing for quick review and rendering of SD and HD media. Colorista is ready for action with industry-standard color wheels for precise color control.

Tweak the image further with saturation and exposure to make it balanced. Plus, isolate areas with an animatable mask shape the easiest way to light up your talent. Colorista paired with Look Suite are the perfect tools for color finishing.

Here are some key features of "Magic Bullet Colorista Avid":

· A great compliment to Magic Bullet Editors
· Includes a 15 minute tutorial done by Eric Escobar which covers basic color correction techniques and how to use Colorista
· Familiar color correction tools that are easily accessible with simple color wheels and basic masking
· Colorista ships as a native plug-in for all major hosts applications including Final Cut Pro (FX Plug), Motion, After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Avid AVX 2-compatible systems
· Results that meet professional standards and generate visually pleasing results
· ACL-compliant color processing using a traditional Lift Gamma Gain model
· Fast, GPU-accelerated rendering with DeepColor RT
· Complete high-bit depth and full floating-point support to process 8, 10, 16 or 32-bit projects to guarantee perfect output

Whether you are an HTML Pro, a designer with traditional training and work-experience or a Novice to the exciting world of the Web - Freeways integrated web design environment makes life easy offering you advanced functionality blended with a superbly accessible user interface. Freeway is designed to encompass the whole workflow, including the production of Web-ready graphic elements, flexible and precise HTML page layout, site upload and automatic site maintenance. In short, its a complete solution for producing professional-looking Web sites.

Limitations:

· 30 days trial version.


Whats New in This Release:

· Freeway now includes an option for generating CSS that is compatible with Internet Explorer 6 for Windows (IE6). This feature provides a solution to a number of problems that can occur when designing web sites that are viewed under IE6. In Freeway 4 Pro this option can be turned on or off document wide by simply clicking a check box in the Document Setup dialog, or on a page by page basis by clicking a check box in the Inspector palette. In Freeway 4 Express, the IE6 browser compatibility option is always on.
· A new Styles Inspector has been added. This appears as a new pane in the Inspector Palette. The Styles Inspector displays all the styles in the current selection (the cascade). It is also an easy to use UI allowing styles to be added or removed from all of the elements relevant to the current selection. Please see page 429 in the new Freeway 4 documentation for further details (Freeway Pro Only)
· Freeway supports transparency in (TIFF/Photoshop) CMYK and LabA images (Freeway Pro only).

The PowerKey Pro 650 is an intelligent power strip for USB Macs. The "SOHO" version features six individually-switched outlets, telephone control, and a built-in scheduler to control your peripherals and automate the starting up, shutting down and sleeping of your entire system).

The "Admin" version adds powerful crash detection and recovery tools and scheduled execution of AppleScripts.

Whats New in This Release:

· If the control panel was resized vertically, the help button didnt follow the bottom of the window -- fixed.
· In Mac OS 9, sometimes the icon in the help button disappeared -- fixed.

Avid Media Composer 10.5 offers users a universial standard nonlinear system for offline, online, and film editing. It offers the industry's most widely-used editing model and largest trained talent pool, a design built for collaboration, and a product family that scales in performance and control from basic offline to feature film and uncompressed online.

Creative Manager Pro is web based ad agency software and project management software with integrated job tracking for creative oriented companies. Creative Manager Pro streamlines your entire business, from developing new business, to staffing, managing, and executing projects, all the way through to accounting and financial reporting.

Creative Manager Pro is a full-featured, intuitive system making project management a breeze. In addition, Creative Manager Pro includes Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Document Management, Shared Calendaring, Accounting, and much more. It will even support Calendar and Contact sharing using iCal, AddressBook.

Creative Manager Pro covers all of the areas that you need for job tracking and project management. Because it is web based, there is nothing to install and you can set up in a single day. It works with both PC and Macintosh from any location over any connection. Or install it locally on your own servers - its all up to you! All options include training and support to ensure that youll be up and running in no time.

Here are some key features of "Creative Manager Pro":

· Graphically view your firms metrics - manage your firm by the numbers.
· Manage Contacts and Leads
· Create Project Schedules, Calendars and Manage Tasks
· Take your contacts and calendar on the road with iCal, AddressBook.
· Approve Timesheets, Purchasing, Billing and Budgets
· Review and Approve Artwork Online
· Store and Manage Digital Assets
· Manage and Balance the Books
· Free client and vendor access to streamline workflow.
· Quick startup from Clients & Profits, Adman and many others
· Full-featured CRM (Client Relationship Management)
· Extranet capabilities.
· Charting of important industry metrics and firm statistics.


Whats New in This Release:

· Creative Manager Pro Version 8.35 adds improvements for general project management, accounting, time tracking, invoicing, media buying with Strata or SmartPlus and more.
· Among the variety of updates now available to all Creative Manager Pro users are added security settings on custom report data sets. Users can create a report and give a group access to run it, but they may not be able to edit the report. Should users want to allow others to create their own reports for contact management, but only be able to run existing reports for time details, this new security feature now provides that flexibility.
· Media enhancements are also included in this new version. Improvements to the Transaction Preference function provide users the option to sync vendor invoices from Strata and SmartPlus as "approved" or "not approved." Additionally, new upgrades offer logic to determine the outstanding open amount on a vendor invoice being applied to pre-billed orders when importing form Strata or SmartPlus.
· As always with Creative Manager Inc.s products, no installation or conversion will be necessary, and all updates are at no cost to users of Creative Project Manager and Creative Manager Pro®. All client logins and vendor logins are always free.
· Further details of this update may be found at http://CreativeManagerPro.com/PressRls_060905a.asp.asp

MathMagic Pro Edition is an equation editor mainly for use with Adobe InDesign software in editing any mathematical expressions and symbols with WYSIWYG interface and various powerful features.

Whats New in This Release:

· Added: MathMagic fonts are revised to v2.4 and some new symbols are added in the MathMagic fonts. New fonts has some additional symbols and some of the font information including baseline position have been adjusted to align symbols better with characters. So, please be aware of using these new fonts(v2.4) when you need to print previously created equations since they might have some layout reflow. The new MathMagic fonts are compatible with previous versions of MathMagic application, and previous versions of MathMagic application work with the new v2.4 MathMagic fonts.
· Added: Matrix Reloaded submenu is added to Format menu, allowing users to delete row/column, add row/column when the cursor is located in a matrix.
· Added: 2 new Fence Alignment options are added: Fence height is not variable but fixed.
· Added: Equation from MathMagic XTension window can be copied and then pasted into MathMagic application window directly, without saving it as an external .MMF file.
· Added: Alert dialog window displayed when you open a newer version or old version document.
· Fixed: Size conversion loss is minimized over unit conversions in the Spacing dialog.
· Fixed: Two empty boxes were overlapped a little when they were adjacent.
· Fixed: 8-bit 1-byte character, like special characters for European, is handled better in the MathMagic editor window.
· Fixed: Superscript/Subscript box is now closer to its left base character.
· Fixed: Message for missing fonts is fixed.

Subtitler is a program to spot, edit and render subtitles for video editing, DVD authoring and digital cinema. Translators can spot directly with a QuickTime movie and translate precisely. The subtitles can then be imported to Avid Media Composer, Avid Xpress, Avid DS and Final Cut Pro for editing. The same subtitles can be sent also to Adobe Encore DVD, Apple DVD Studio Pro, Sonic Producer and Sonic Scenarist for authoring. Belle Nuit Subtitler frees the video editors from repetitive work and from typo errors. Subtitler is currently the fastest solution working with nonlinear editors and does not need any specific hardware.

NOTE : The offline version is free of charge.

Here are some key features of "Subtitler":

· Full quality antialiased titles with alpha-Channel
· Support for PAL, NTSC (nonsquare pixels), HD, DVD, 4:3 and 16:9
· Fast batch rendering to PICT, TIFF and losless-compressed TIFF
· Spotting with a QuickTime movie
· Importing of more than 20 subtitle formats
· Exporting of more than 15 formats to use subtitles in Avid Media Composer, Avid DS, Avid Xpress, Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Sonic Producer, Sonic Scenarist and other.
· Straightforward title editing
· Automatic or manual text wrapping
· Customizable fonts, styles, colors, position, opacity, softness, alignment, borders, shadows and underlying boxes
· Unicode support: Works with any installed font on the system.

XPress Scripts is a collection of thirty AppleScripts for QuarkXPress.
XPress Scripts contains many new scripts and updates some of the scripts from the previous version.

XPress Scripts now uses the Dialog Director osax instead of the old Dialog Runner osax which is no longer compatible today.

XPress|Scripts 3.0 comes in two flavors:
- XPress|Scripts 3.0 S, which consists of compiled AppleScript files, and,
- XPress|Scripts 3.0 A, which consists of compiled AppleScript applications, or Applets.

Belle Nuit Subtitler is a program to spot, edit and render subtitles for video editing, DVD authoring and digital cinema. Translators can spot directly with a QuickTime movie and translate precisely. The subtitles can then be imported to Avid Media Composer, Avid Xpress, Avid DS and Final Cut Pro for editing.

The same subtitles can be sent also to Adobe Encore DVD, Apple DVD Studio Pro, Sonic Producer and Sonic Scenarist for authoring.

Belle Nuit Subtitler frees the video editors from repetitive work and from typo errors.

Here are some key features of "Belle Nuit Subtitler":

· Full quality antialiased titles with alpha-Channel
· Support for PAL, NTSC (nonsquare pixels), HD, DVD, 4:3 and 16:9
· Fast batch rendering to PICT, TIFF and losless-compressed TIFF
· Spotting with a QuickTime movie
· Importing of more than 20 subtitle formats
· Exporting of more than 15 formats to use subtitles in Avid Media Composer, Avid DS, Avid Xpress, Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Sonic Producer, Sonic Scenarist and other.
· Straightforward title editing
· Automatic or manual text wrapping
· Customizable fonts, styles, colors, position, opacity, softness, alignment, borders, shadows and underlying boxes
· Unicode support: Works with any installed font on the system.


Whats New in This Release:

· adds a small timeline with audio waveform, audio scrubbing
· improves DVD rendering
· adds importing of Cavena (.890) and Chetah (.asc) files and fixes many bugs.