Panasonic AVC-INTRA Codec Supported by Avid

Panasonic Broadcast announced today that new editing solutions from Avid Technology, Inc. offer import and native editing support for its AVC-Intra codec. The Avid products supporting AVC-Intra include Avid Media Composer software Version 3.0; Avid Media Composer Mojo DX 3.0; Avid Media Composer Nitris DX v 3.0; Symphony Nitris DX v 3.0; Avid NewsCutter software v 7.0; NewsCutter Mojo DX v 7.0; and NewsCutter Nitris DX v 7.0.

AVC-Intra, the industry’s most advanced compression technology, provides higher-quality 10-bit intra-frame encoding utilizing the Hi-10 and Hi-422 Intra profiles of H.264 in two modes: AVC-Intra 100 for full-raster mastering video quality and AVC-Intra 50 Mbps for DVCPRO HD comparable quality at half the bit rate.

Panasonic’s more advanced, solid-state 2/3” P2 HD camcorders — the AJ-HPX3000 and AJ-HPX2000 — offer AVC-Intra capability, as does the versatile AJ-HPM110 P2 Mobile Recorder/Player. Avid’s latest editing solutions enable AVC-I to be mixed and matched in real-time with other codecs such as Panasonic DVCPRO HD and Avid DNxHD (as long as the same edit rates are used), enabling high performance workflows in multi-format environments.

Source: StudioDaily