Pinnacle Liquid Edition

Liquid Edition description:

Introducing Pinnacle Liquid Edition version 5.5, the most powerful and comprehensive DV editing solution available today. Based on overwhelming customer and market demand, Pinnacle has combined the professional expertise and esteemed broadcast heritage of the Pinnacle Liquid line with the plug and play power and ease of use of Edition to create Liquid Edition. Liquid Edition is not just another editor. On top of providing the strong editing features that professionals demand and require, Liquid Edition delivers stellar tools for impressive real-time compositing, effects and best of all, DVD authoring, all from the same easy to use intuitive interface.

1,000's of Professional Real-Time Effects
Pinnacle Liquid Edition offers an incredible amount of real-time compositing and effects to bolster, not hamper your creative workflow. Up to 10 streams with real-time effects including 2D, true 3D, advanced color correction and chroma/luma key effects to name just a few.

Integrated Timeline Based 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 Edition timeline. Over 40 templates are provided to get you started.

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

Background Processing
With Liquid Edition, you can continue to drive your creativity while you are rendering high quality DV output in the background.

XSend to Broadcast Products and Other Creative Applications
Pinnacle Liquid's XSend feature allows you to seamlessly share clips and projects directly with Pinnacle Commotion Pro, Adobe After Effects, Macromedia Flash MX as well as many of Pinnacle's legendary broadcast products like DekoCast and Thunder.

InstantSave
Why take the risk of losing work when with Liquid Edition's unique InstantSave technology, every step you make is immediately and automatically protected. You can even drop back to an earlier version of your project by using the Undo History palette.

Customizable UI and Keyboard Shortcuts
Liquid Edition adapts to your workflow unlike other editing programs that require you to adapt to their constrained workflow. User interface commands and keyboard shortcuts can be customized to individual needs and can be stored on a per user basis.

Full Onscreen DV Resolution Preview Capabilities
Liquid Edition supports a scalable UI for up to 1600 x 1200 resolution and full size Source and Preview Windows to accurately check your work.

Networked Drives
Liquid Edition allows you to map your networked drives so that multiple users can view and access the same media. Liquid is based on open networking standards and works with 100-baseT, Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel storage solutions. Double the performance of your network by adding a Pinnacle Palladium network storage solution.

Automatic Scene Detection
Based on time code or video content, Liquid Edition divides up the scenes into individual clips to let editors focus on creating rather than sorting through their footage.

SPECIFICATIONS
Minimum
Single 1 GHz processor 1.8 GHz processor
256 MB RAM 256 MB RAM
Windows 2000 or XP Operating System Windows 2000 or XP Operating System
64 MB Graphics card and SVGA monitor capable of 1024 x 768 @ 32-bit resolution Monitor capable of 1024 x 768 @ 32-bit resolution
Hard drive (AV-rated, minimum data transfer rate 10 MB/s) Hard drive (AV-rated, minimum data transfer rate 10 MB/s)
OHCI compatible 1394 card AGP 2x or faster graphics slot
Sound card Sound card

Recommended
Dual 1.8 GHz processor or above Dual 1.8 GHz processor or above
512 MB RAM 512 MB RAM
Windows XP Operating System Windows XP Operating System
64 MB Graphics card and SVGA monitor capable of 1280 x 1024 @ 32-bit resolution Monitor capable of 1280 x 1024 @ 32-bit resolution
Separate hard drive (AV-rated, minimum data transfer rate 16 MB/s) Separate hard drive (AV-rated, minimum data transfer rate 16 MB/s)
OHCI compatible 1394 card AGP 2x or faster graphics slot
Soundcard Soundcard

Liquid Edition Includes
Liquid Edition v5.5 software
Discover Liquid Edition training CD
Pinnacle Hollywood FX Plus
Pinnacle TitleDeko RT
40+ DVD templates
1000+ real-time effects and presets
IEEE 1394 interface card (PCI)
IEEE 1394/FireWire DV cable (6-pin to 4-pin)
Liquid Edition User's Guide
Liquid Edition Reference Manual
Liquid Edition Quick Reference Card
Alpha Magic Quick Reference Card

Liquid Edition PRO Adds
Pinnacle Liquid Edition Accelerator (AGP)
Liquid Edition PRO Breakout Box (Composite, S-Video and IEEE 1394 I/O)

Liquid Edition Productivity Pack Adds
Pinnacle Commotion Pro
Pinnacle Impression DVD Pro
Pinnacle Hollywood FX Pro
Pinnacle TitleDeko Pro