Editing. Audio. DVD. Effects. One Application. Avid Liquid’s powerful SD and HD video editor offers integrated DVD authoring, surround sound audio processing and 1000s of real-time effects.
Liquid offers editors a complete native HDV workflow with multiple streams of real-time effects and external monitoring with Liquid Pro. Liquid also let’s editors mix HDV with any of Liquid’s SD codecs: DV, MPEG2, DivX, Windows Media and uncompressed. Once these formats are edited, real-time effects are created, and audio is mixed in Dolby Digital 5.1, Liquid editors can easily finish to fully interactive DVD directly from the Liquid timeline for the smoothest capture, edit and finishing experience possible.
- Editing. Audio. DVD. Effects. One Application – Avid Liquid 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
Liquid 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 Liquid, 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.