Avid Xpress Pro was a

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aimed at professionals in the TV and movie industry. It was available for

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PCs and

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computers. Xpress Pro included many of the high-end editing features offered by other Avid editing systems, and was closely based on Avid's

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systems. In conjunction with the Avid Mojo hardware, it provided real-time uncompressed

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at a professional level. Xpress Pro was capable of sharing media files with Avid's advanced

editing systems making it a capable logging or offline editing system for larger projects. While Xpress Pro was originally aimed at DV and uncompressed standard definition editors, the upgrade to Xpress Pro HD with version 5.0 of the software added support for high-definition editing with the 8-bit version of Avid's

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or Panasonic's

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codec, and version 5.2 added support for

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editing. Unlike some other editing packages, Xpress Pro HD edits HDV natively by decompressing the MPEG-2 stream on the fly, rather than transcoding into an intraframe codec. Xpress Pro was discontinued on March 17, 2008, and was no longer for sale after June 30, 2008. Avid offered Xpress Pro users a discounted upgrade price for their flagship non-linear editing software

. One of the controversial aspects of the software was that it did not work on Microsoft's

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