Avid continues to dominate the broadcast television, film and audio production for a little over a quarter of a century now and it has been the mainstay in this segment because over the last year nonlinear editors have been strained and shaken. The new version 6.5.2 of Avid symphony has a new and expanded set of features with impeccable reliability for the users all across the globe. This new symphony 6.5.2 has copying and pasting of audio keyframe attributes, greatly expanded relink options, expansion to 64 voices, dragging non-adjacent segments in the timeline (no need to select filler anymore!), edit titles directly in the timeline, expanded DNxHD compression codecs and  AS-02 archival integration. One feature that is completely misunderstood by many editors is the expansion from 16 to 64 active voices as they think with this feature they will be able to add 64 tracks of audio to their timeline and monitor all of them which are not true because it is 64 voices not tracks. The voices are defined by Avid as discrete audio stream that you send from an audio track to physical audio outputs, such as output channels or speakers. At the same time, stereo clip uses two voices, a 5.1 or 7.1 surround clip uses six or eight voices and the Mono audio clips will use a single voice. This product also enables the user to monitor 24 audio tracks simultaneously which means the user can have the ability to monitor 24 mono audio tracks (24 voices), or eight 7.1 multichannel audio tracks (64 voices), ten 5.1 multichannel audio tracks (60 voices), or 24 stereo tracks (48 voices). With this it can easily eliminate the confusion for editors who want to add 60 tracks of sound or music effects to their four channels of production sound or dialogue. One of features which is outstanding is the ability to drag non-adjacent segments without filler using the segment tool. In this symphony 6.5.2 version, holding Alt on Windows or Option on a Macintosh while clicking the “Select Left” or “Select Right” command will select everything but the filler – is really a great addition to it. Another feature is that the audio keyframe attributes (Gain/Pan) can now be copied, pasted and modified in the dialogue that pops up when pasted in the timeline and the keyframes can now be nudged when using Shift+Command or Control+Shift with the arrow keys to move left or right in 1dB increments or up or down in time. Another feature which is hidden in the Export Settings dialogue under Sequential files when exporting an image sequence. If the “Use Comment” is checked then the corresponding filename will be what is typed as the comment or if “Markers Only” is selected then it will only export the frames that have markers on them. In Avid, relinking has been a mystery for many editors but this exciting version of Avid symphony can now relink by timecodes: Start, Aux TC1-5 or Sound Timecode; Ignore Extensions, in case you used a low resolution JPEG and now have a high-resolution TIFF; Ignore characters after the last occurrence of specified text; Target (if different from original): if the post house encoded the source name to a different column than the original you can set this column appropriately. ; Source names: many of the columns available in bins are now available as relink options such as Source File Name, Source File ID etc.

So, Avid symphony 6.5.2 is a great version and it will be most important for those editors who are willing to use the AS-02 Export Volume support, which means a specification for grouping multiple versions of program content into one single bundle. For instance, it will give same video with multiple versions of audio layouts. Recommended By Software Pro Reviews