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

Complete HDV workflow
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Avid Liquid offers native transfers and frame-accurate editing of 720
and 1080 interlaced and progressive HDV content from a wide variety of
popular cameras and decks. It features a powerful real-time effects
engine that provides multiple streams of HDV in real time; video
monitoring in full-screen on the VGA monitor; and, most important,
a smooth workflow for output back to HDV tape.

Format flexibility
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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, HDV and DVCPRO-HD, as well as
Windows Media, DIVX and MPEG-4, 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
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Even during the editing process, Editors can use a full-featured,
integrated DVD authoring toolset right in the timeline; define the
interactivity; create and customize menus and navigation; preview and
modify the DVD; add a Dolby Digital 5.1 surround mix; and then
intelligently render out to a finished DVD. Using supported video I/O
hardware, editors can capture footage directly to a DVD-compliant MPEG
IBP codec, saving time by avoiding the transcoding process.

Editing for everyone
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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.

Requirements
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Intel Pentium 4 Processor 3.0GHz (Hyperthreading enabled) or
AMD AthlonTM 64 3000+
Microsoft Windows XP
1GB RAM
PCIe Graphics Card with 256MB RAM, DirectX« 9 hardware support

Sapphire Plug-ins for Avid AVX Products equips digital artists with a collection of over 200 state-of-the-art image processing and synthesis effects such as: Glows, EdgeRays, LensFlare, Lightning, FilmEffect, Warps and Textures. The effects seamlessly integrate into a number of editing and compositing systems including: Media Composer, Symphony, Xpress, Xpress Pro, Newscutter, and DS

Sapphire Plug-ins have become the industry standard for high-end visual effects creation by providing unrivaled image quality, a unique organic look, and ease of use. They have been used extensively in an array of television programs, music videos and feature films, including: Pirates of the Caribbean 1, 2, and 3, Spider-Man 1, 2 and 3, Superman Returns, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Star Wars - Episode I, II and III, Sin City, The Matrix trilogy, X-Men 1, 2 and 3, Titanic, Lost and CSI.