What's New in Avid Liquid 7.2


New product: Avid Liquid Chrome Xe
Function Support for the XENA LHe board from AJA Video Systems (board not included), for SD and HD analog and digital I/O; high-quality SD down-conversion; and uncompressed 8-bit HD capture, editing, and playback
Benefit The highest possible picture quality and I/O flexibility at a budget when capturing and laying back to tape; when viewing your project during editing; and when creating an SD version of your HD project


Additional native support for JVC progressive video formats
Function Complete native support (capture, edit, and playback to tape) via IEEE1394 for progressive HDV video formats from the JVC GY-HD100 and 200 series cameras: 24p, 25p, 50p, 60p
Benefit Keep the highest possible picture quality with complete flexibility when working with the popular progressive HDV video formats from JVC


DVCPRO HD XReceive from P2
Function Import DVCPRO HD files in native format directly from Panasonic P2 cards: 1080/50i, 1080/60i, 180/25p, 1080/30p
Benefit Save time and keep the highest possible picture quality when working with the popular DVCPRO HD format from Panasonic


Native support for Canon progressive video formats
Function

Native capture of progressive formats via IEEE1394 from the Canon XL H1 camera: 1080/24F, 1080/25F, 1080/30F plus 4 channel audio

Benefit Keep the highest possible picture quality and complete flexibility when working with the popular Canon camera


Serial machine control

Function Support for RS232-to-422 converter (“Rosetta Stone”) for serial machine control
Benefit More professional support for tape decks; better synchronization when capturing video; more insert flexibility when recording back to tape

 

Avid Liquid 7 New Features

SmartSound
Quickly create soundtracks from a library of samples. Soundtracks are added directly to the timeline and update automatically as the length is trimmed.

DIVX Capture and Editing
Capture and Edit DivX v.5. Use the new EZ Capture tool in combination with Liquid Pro and capture, edit and finish in the high-quality, low-bandwidth DivX codec.

Windows Media 9 Editing
Import and edit existing Windows Media 9 content. Re-edit web streams, add new content without transcoding. Save time.

Real-time Time Warp
Liquid’s high quality time linear time warp is now processed in real-time.

Image Stabilization
Removes the shake and wiggle from hand held camcorder shots.

HDV Preview
Preview HDV content via Liquid Pro to a SD broadcast monitor.

More than 50 New Effects
Real-time Lighting, RGB Color Balance, Duo Chrome, Soften, White Balance, Dream Glow, Earthquake and Turbulent Edges. Plus, dozens of style and compositing effects from Commotion.
Single Monitor UI
New UI option optimized for single monitor editing. Looks like Pinnacle Studio UI.

EZ Capture
Users can now capture to named files (not cryptic Liquid media names). Opens up encoded DivX capture and DV to MPEG capture for faster DVD production.

Muxed File Editing
Natively edit files that mux or interleave audio and video. Previously Liquid had to separate the audio and video out on import. Big timesaver.