Bluefish444 Announces Epoch & Create Support For Avid Media Composer 7

Bluefish444 Announces Epoch & Create Support For Avid Media Composer® 7 On Windows & Mac OSX 2K/HD/SD SDI I/O for Avid Media Composer® 7

Avid and Bluefish444 have partnered to bring together the world’s highest quality SDI I/O support for the most prestigious NLE in film and television today. Bluefish444 OPEN IO support starts from Media Composer® 6, Symphony® 6 and Newscutter® 10 and continues to Avid's most recent release on both Windows and MAC OSX.

Bluefish444 offer a range of HD-SDI products to suit every enviroment from portable HD-SDI preview, right through to RGB 4:4:4 finishing. 12-bit processing of each video frame ensures that you never compromise the image integrity, and is available on every Bluefish444 video card. The highest quality video scalers available today allow you to free the systems CPU and GPU for more important tasks.

(S. Melbourne, Australia--August 12, 2013) Bluefish444, manufacturer of the industry’s highest-quality uncompressed 4K/2K/HD/SD SDI video cards, announced support for Avid Media Composer® 7 for Bluefish444’s Create and Epoch product ranges on Windows 7 and Mac OSX. These drivers are immediately available.

Avid Media Composer® 7 for Windows 7

Bluefish444 has released a new Windows 7 driver compatible with the Create | 3D Ultra and Epoch | 4K Supernova supporting up to HD YUV/RGB SDI I/O for:

• Avid Media Composer® 7
• Avid Symphony ® 7
• Avid Newscutter® 11

New supported features include:

• Audio punch in – enabling a simultaneously voice over record during playback in Avid Media Composer® 7
• Hardware release/acquire – a new workflow feature enabling seamless integration with third party software. This enables Avid users to switch to another software package within the workflow without shutting down Avid software and Bluefish444 hardware.

Avid Media Composer® 7 for Mac OSX 10.8

Bluefish444 has released a new Thunderbolt™ enabled Mac OSX 10.8 driver compatible with the Create | 3D Ultra and Epoch | 2K Horizon supporting up to HD YUV/RGB SDI I/O for:

• Avid Media Composer® 7
• Avid Symphony ® 7

New supported features include:

• SDI input video scaling – enabling pristine hardware scaling of up and down conversion of the SDI input
• Hardware release/acquire – a new workflow feature enabling seamless integration with 3rd party software. This enables Avid users to switch to another software package within the workflow without shutting down Avid software and Bluefish444 hardware.
• Macbook Pro and Mac Mini support through Sonnet™ Echo Express Pro ™ Thunderbolt Expansion Chassis.

“Bluefish444 is committed to the continued development of our Windows and MAC OSX support for the AVID Media Composer family of products” says Tom Lithgow, Bluefish444 Product Specialist. “The development of Thunderbolt compliant drivers gives AVID users access to the world’s highest quality SDI video solutions on the system of their choosing, be it a MAC Book Pro or a MAC Mini.”

The Windows 7 driver V5.11.4 and Mac OSX 10.8 driver V8.7.0 supporting Avid Media Composer® 7 for Create and Epoch video cards is immediately available for download from the Bluefish444 Avid® Open IO landing page http://www.bluefish444.com/avid/.

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