Avid Liquid 7

Avid Liquid 7 - Editing. Audio. DVD. Effects with One application.

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Avid Liquid's powerful SD and HD video editor offers integrated DVD authoring; surround sound audio processing and 1000s of powerful real-time effects. Avid Liquid 7's integrated toolset provides all of the solutions needed to create the highest quality productions and finish to tape, DVD or web streams.

Benefits:

Editing, effects, authoring, and more -

Avid Liquid 7's powerful video editor integrates DVD authoring, surround sound audio processing and powerful visual effects.

Complete HDV Workflow -

Liquid features frame-accurate editing of HDV content. Avid Liquid 7's real-time effects engine provides multiple streams of HDV, video monitoring with Liquid Pro and a smooth workflow for finishing in SD or back to HDV tape.

Format flexibility -

Avid Liquid 7 supports Avid Open Timeline. Liquid lets videographers edit DV, MPEG I-frame, MPEG IBP, uncompressed, Windows Media, DIVX and MPEG-4 in SD as well as HDV.

Smooth DVD Production -

Edit, create titles and effects and then dive into a DVD authoring toolset that lets users define the interactivity, create menus, add a Dolby Digital 5.1 surround mix and then burn a finished DVD.

Features:

Editing. Audio. DVD. Effects. One Application

Avid Liquid 7 offers a fully integrated video toolset: editing, audio, DVD authoring and effects in one application.

Native HDV Editing Liquid provides a complete HDV editing workflow.

Native HDV transfer from camera to timeline via IEEE-1394. Frame accurate editing of your HDV 720p or 1080i material. Add any of the Liquid real-time effects to up to four streams of HDV material. Render your effects as needed to MPEG IBP. Preview your HDV timeline on your computer monitor. Easy output back to HDV tape or downconvert to standard definition for output to tape or DVD.

Multi-format Support from SD to HD

Avid Liquid 7 includes expanded native support for just about any SD and HD format (DV, MPEG-2 IBP, MPEG-2 I-Frame, DivX, Windows Media, MPEG-4, HDV and even uncompressed) in the same timeline. This eliminates the need for untimely and damaging transcoding for HDV output and DVD authoring.

1,000's of Real-time, SD & HD Effects

Pinnacle Liquid offers an incredible number of key-frameable, real-time SD and HD compositing effects. Liquid uses the power of the CPU and GPU to provide multiple streams of real-time effects including 2D, true 3D, advanced color correction and chroma/luma key.

Advanced Video Effects

Liquid features the Liquid CX Color Correction with both secondary and selective color correction, Dynamic Slow Motion and a host of other resolution independent high precision, sub-pixel software effects.

Integrated DVD Authoring

Create wizard-based DVD/VCD/SVCD with motion menus, motion buttons and automatic links using the same intuitive easy to use interface directly from the Liquid timeline. Over 40 templates are provided to get you started. Furthermore, Liquid's native MPEG-2 IBP editing eliminates the need for time-consuming renders at the output stage.

Advanced Audio Editing with Surround Sound and VST Plug-in Support

Advanced real-time audio mixer and full 5.1 surround sound mixing and VST plug-in support with send busses, audio TimeWarp and much more.

Multicam Support

Powerful editing tool for demanding multi-camera projects. Liquid supports 16 simultaneous cameras with real-time camera angle selection.

Background Processing

With Avid Liquid 7, you can continue to drive your creativity while you are rendering high quality format and resolution independent SD and HD output transparently in the background.

Input/Output Flexibility

Using Liquid Pro, editors can capture DV and HDV via IEEE-1394 or editors requiring analog capture or output can choose Liquid Pro which offers composite, S-video and component video I/O. For audio I/O, choose from stereo or S/PDIF as well as 6-channel surround sound monitoring.

Minimum System Requirements: 

For DV and MPEG-2 IBP SD Editing

• CPU - Intel Pentium ® 4 Processor 1.8GHz
• OS - Microsoft ® Windows® XP Professional or Home Edition (SP1 or SP2)
• RAM - 512MB RAM
• Graphics Card - AAGP 4X Graphics Card with 64MB RAM, DirectX® 9 Hardware Support
• Additional - Soundcard, OHCI-compatible IEEE 1394 card. Microsoft DirectX ® 9 Software, DVD-ROM drive (required for software installation)

Recommended System Requirements:  

For DV and MPEG-2 IBP SD Editing

• CPU - Intel Pentium ® 4 Processor 3.0GHz or 2 X 2.2 GHz or better
• OS - Microsoft ® Windows® XP Professional (SP1 or SP2))
• RAM - 1GB RAM
• Graphics Card - AGP 8X Graphics Card with 128MB RAM, DirectX® 9 Hardware Support
• Additional - Soundcard, OHCI-compatible IEEE 1394 card. Microsoft DirectX ® 9 Software, DVD-ROM drive (required for software installation)

Minimum System Requirements 

For HDV Editing (720p)

• CPU - Intel Pentium ® 4 Processor 2.8GHz (Hyperthreading enabled)
• OS - Microsoft ® Windows® XP Professional or Home Edition (SP1 or SP2)
• RAM - 512MB RAM
• Graphics Card - AGP 8X Graphics Card with 128MB RAM, DirectX® 9 Hardware Support
• Additional - OHCI-compatible IEEE 1394 port, Microsoft DirectX ® 9 Software, DVD-ROM drive (required for software installation)

Recommended System Requirements

For HDV Editing (720p)

• CPU - 2 X 3.0 GHz or better (Hyperthreading enabled)
• OS - Microsoft ® Windows® XP Professional (SP1 or SP2)
• RAM - 1GB RAM
• Graphics Card - AGP 8X Graphics Card with 128MB RAM, DirectX® 9 Hardware Support
• Additional - OHCI-compatible IEEE 1394 port, Microsoft DirectX ® 9 Software, DVD-ROM drive (required for software installation)

Minimum System Requirements

For HDV Editing (1080i)

• CPU - Intel Pentium ® 4 Processor 3.0GHz (Hyperthreading enabled)
• OS - Microsoft ® Windows® XP Professional or Home Edition (SP1 or SP2)
• RAM - 1GB RAM
• Graphics Card - PCIe Graphics Card with 256MB RAM, DirectX® 9 hardware support
• Additional - OHCI-compatible IEEE 1394 port, Microsoft DirectX ® 9 Software, DVD-ROM drive (required for software installation)

Recommended System Requirements  

For HDV Editing (1080i)

• CPU - 2 X 3.0 GHz or better (Hyperthreading enabled)
• OS - Microsoft ® Windows® XP Professional (SP1 or SP2)
• RAM - 1GB RAM or better
• Graphics Card - PCIe Graphics Card with 256MB RAM or better, DirectX® 9 hardware support
• Additional - OHCI-compatible IEEE 1394 port, Microsoft DirectX ® 9 Software, DVD-ROM drive (required for software installation)