One of the most powerful and comprehensive DV editing solutions available

Avid Liquid

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Avid Liquid software is a powerful SD and HD video editor for the PC that offers integrated DVD authoring, surround sound audio processing, and thousands of amazing real-time effects. Its integrated toolset provides all of the tools needed to create high-quality productions and quickly output to tape, DVD or web streams.

Editing. Audio. DVD. Effects. One application
Avid Liquid combines powerful video editing integrated with DVD authoring from the timeline; surround-sound audio processing; and powerful visual effects. Editors only have to learn a single interface to create high-quality video productions with sophisticated effects and audio - and quickly output to tape, disc, or streaming media.

Complete HDV workflow
Avid Liquid offers native transfers and frame-accurate editing of 720p and 1080i HDV content. It also includes an MPEG IBP render codec that provides the same 25Mbit workflow editors use with DV media. It features a powerful real-time effects engine that provides multiple streams of HDV in real time; video monitoring either on the VGA monitor or downconverted to an SD monitor in real time using the available breakout box; and, most important, a smooth workflow for output to SD or back to HDV tape.

Format flexibility
Avid Liquid supports the Avid Open Timeline: mix content from a variety of sources without having to transcode between formats. Videographers can edit DV, MPEG I-frame, MPEG IBP, uncompressed SD, Windows Media, DIVX and MPEG-4, as well as HDV, in the same timeline. With such a broad palette of native codecs, editors can spend more time creatively editing instead of re-rendering from format to format.

Smooth DVD production
Using Avid Liquid Pro software and hardware, editors can capture footage to a DVD-compliant MPEG IBP codec. They can add titles and effects and then dive into a full-featured DVD authoring toolset to define the interactivity; create and customize menus and navigation; preview and modify the DVD from the timeline; add a Dolby Digital 5.1 surround mix; and then intelligently render out to a finished DVD.

Editing for everyone
Avid Liquid software offers a flexible user interface and functions that match any level of editing experience. As users move from other consumer-level or professional-level applications, the transition is smooth and efficient.

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Features

• Integrated DVD authoring
  Author interactive DVDs from the timeline
  Capture from, and output to, professional decks, including: BetacamSP, Digital Betacam, HDCAM, DVCPRO, DVCPRO HD, D5
• Native HDV editing
  Edit pure, native HDV video streams
  Maintain high quality by avoiding multiple generations and time-consuming transcoding
• GPU real-time effects
  Avid Liquid software uses the Graphics Processor to process real-time effects
  By using both the CPU and GPU (graphics processor) to calculate real-time effects, Avid Liquid software maximizes real-time processing while editing; more real-time power provides the freedom to preview multiple creative directions
• Avid Open Timeline
  Mix HD and SD resolutions in a single timeline
  Mixing HDV and SD codecs gives editors the flexibility to work with a broad spectrum of content, avoid transcoding and renders, and maintain quality
• Dolby Digital 5.1 support
  Mix and finish to Dolby Digital 5.1
  The Avid Liquid audio engine enables real-time audio mixing including Dolby Digital 5.1; special surround panners provide perfect control of surround mixes in realtime
• Multicamera editing
  Choose edits from up to 16 cameras
  Make multicamera edit decisions in real-time; select camera angles as the clip plays back; easily compare takes
• Secondary color correction
  Choose specific colors to correct within a clip
  Select a single color to correct within a shot; for example, change red to blue and make everything else black and white; multi-point tone and color balancing offer both color correction and creative color capabilities
• VST plug-ins support
  Support for industry-standard audio effects plug-ins
  Add audio effects and tools written to the audio industry-standard VST plug-in specification
• Background rendering
  Avid Liquid software renders effects in the background without interrupting the edit
  Create complex composites and layered effect; preview effects in real-time; if final renders are required, Avid Liquid software will finish the effect without interruption by a render progress bar
• Avid Liquid Pro breakout box
  Provides IEEE-1394, composite, component and S-video video I/O; stereo and S/PDIF audio I/O as well as surround sound monitoring via a USB-2 connection
  Choose the video and audio connection that suits the footage and the equipment available; the breakout box adds access to the uncompressed codec for high-quality output and MPEG IBP captures at DVD-compliant bit rates for streamlined DVD production

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