Media Composer is the most popular and reliable editing program used by Hollywood editors. Compared to its competition its not as intuitive, but once you have sufficient knowledge of the program its the most robust option for editing professional material. Avid has been in business for a significant amount of time, excelling it past Final Cut Pro & Adobe, because of its additional tools (i.e. Avid Airspeed, Media Director, Media Central, Interplay, ISIS, etc). Project sharing in small, medium, and large environments is the best quality of Avid, in my opinion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Avid Media Composer often is associated with many bugs, which can cause distress across clients. AMA linking features can be improved, and very easily user MC settings/site settings/site attributes become corrupt quickly. The fix for this is to generally remove these settings, resulting in the clients having to rebuild their user settings within MC. Not ideal, but a small price to pay for an overall incredible product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This software is designed for both form and function. Very intuitive interface. Stable software and great support from Avid. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is really nothing I dislike about this software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love that this program has keyboard shortcut control. It's use with large servers such as Isis and Unity make it a great program when dealing with large media, many file and many projects being shared by multiple editors. Because Avid creates duplicate MXF files for all of it's media, it allows easy relinking and it's impossible to lose any of the media since it's backed up within the program itself. It's keyboard commands allow the fastest editing out of every editing program. The color grading in Avid is also very good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The biggest downfall to using Avid MC is the complexity in the UI. The UI hasn't changed since the 90's and many of the most important features are hidden within the program, so new users often become confused when learning it. Avid also isn't dynamically linked to industry standard animating and illustrating software like Adobe Premiere is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are many features of MediaComposer that I like best, but by far the difference is in the database management, the back-end. That is the real strength of this software over any of the competitors that have tried to overtake this software in terms of use and user-base. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The direction of the company always seems to be a discussion point across the web. "Where are they going?" I just want to see a bit more interaction with the Adobe suite of products, similar to how Adobe Premiere works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Media and project structure really solid, easy to share a project and work at the same time, easy to organise Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MXFs format need to be created so not compatible with any formats, animation and motion graphic hard to make. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability for an editor and assistant to work dynamically within the same project using the bin lock feature has yet to be replicated in any other video editing software. Depending on the needs of a production I would highly recommend avid. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Avid's file reading system has the tendency to cause errors (media offline in particular) very easily. Editors and assistants need to know troubleshooting and stay organized -- if not, you're in for trouble. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I start using Avid back in 1997, I'm still pleased with the product in so many ways. Editing capabilities, stable platform and well known brand.

Now that you can own the software can be used like Adobe cloud is even better. Back in the days Avid was pretty expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Avid, can be a very closed software to use, it's been hit by competition, like Media 100, FCP and Premiere. I feel that it should be a better way to translate projects from other editing systems like Adobe. I try to bring a Premiere project using EDL of AAF and I'm still having issues linking media. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really enjoy the interface and user experience of AVID as opposed to other editing software I've used in the past. Most people use Adobe Premiere, which is good for quicker/shorter projects, but if you're editing a feature and dealing with lots of footage, AVID has better capabilities. I also like that there are other tools included directly in the product, such as color correction, stabilization, and audio tools. This makes the whole post process easier and more streamlined. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The downside of AVID is that it's more difficult to link to media, and importing footage takes a very long time. I often have to wait 6-8 hours to import a couple of cards worth of 1080p footage. Linking media is often also unreliable. It's happened to me a few times where I had to relink media when accessing the project again. That was a long process that seemed unnecessary and is perhaps easier in other softwares. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

File management and stability. Plugins available help with stabilizing, and other useful effects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not the most easy program to navigate logically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the way this program deals with media organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has a bit of a learning curve but nothing worth doing is easy! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.