Avid Liquid Chrome Xe.
The ease of Avid Liquid with support for SD/HD digital I/O.
Avid Liquid Chrome Xe combines powerful video editing software with support for the AJA XENA LHe hardware ( not included) to provide editors and videographers with all the connectivity they need: SD, HD, analog, and digital. Avid Liquid software provides video editing, DVD authoring, surround sound audio, and amazing visual effects. The AJA XENA LHe board adds analog and digital SD and HD video I/O as well as analog and digital audio I/O, with the ability to capture in uncompressed SD and HD.
Editing. Audio. DVD. Effects. One application
Avid Liquid Chrome Xe combines powerful video editing with integrated DVD authoring from the timeline; Digital Dolby 5.1 surround-sound audio processing; and a wide range of powerful visual effects. Editors only have to learn a single interface to create high-quality video productions with sophisticated effects and audio—and quickly output to tape, disc, or streaming media.
I/O flexibility
Choose the video and audio connection that suits your footage and equipment. It starts with IEEE-1394 from the host CPU. The AJA XENA LHe boards adds analog SD (composite, component, or S-video), analog component for HD; SDI digital for SD and HD; as well as balanced analog and AES digital audio. Avid Liquid Chrome Xe has support for uncompressed video capture in SD and HD for the highest quality footage.
Complete HD workflow
Avid Liquid Chrome Xe supports native capture and frame-accurate editing of 720p and 1080i HDV content, with real-time playback of multiple streams and native output back to HDV tape and video monitoring in full-screen on the VGA monitor. With the AJA XENA LHe hardware, Avid Liquid Chrome Xe also offers support for uncompressed HD, real-time HD monitoring on an external HD monitor as well as high-quality down-conversion for SD output, and playback to tape via analog and digital HD I/O.
Format flexibility
Avid Liquid Chrome Xe 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, Windows Media, DIVX, and MPEG-4, as well as uncompressed SD and HD, 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
Even during the editing process, editors can use a full-featured, integrated DVD authoring toolset right in the timeline to define the interactivity; create and customize menus and navigation; preview and modify the DVD from the timeline; add a Dolby Digital 5.1 surround mix; and then intelligently render out to a finished DVD. Using Avid Liquid Chrome Xe, editors can capture footage directly to a DVD-compliant MPEG IBP codec, saving time by avoiding the transcoding process.
Avid Liquid Features
Feature |
Integrated DVD authoring |
Function |
Author interactive DVDs from the timeline |
Benefit |
Save time and gain flexibility: no need to learn another user interface |
Feature |
Native HDV editing |
Function |
Edit pure, native HDV video streams |
Benefit |
Maintain high quality and save time and storage space by avoiding multiple generations and transcoding |
Feature |
GPU real-time effects |
Function |
Graphics card (GPU) assists the CPU in creating real-time effects |
Benefit |
Maximize real-time performance, save time and gain freedom to preview multiple creative directions |
Feature |
Avid Open Timeline |
Function |
Mix HD and SD resolutions in a single timeline |
Benefit |
Maximum flexibility to work with a broad spectrum of content; save time and retain the highest quality by avoiding rendering and transcoding |
Feature |
Dolby Digital 5.1 support |
Function |
Real-time mixing of Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound audio |
Benefit |
Save time when creating a surround mix; stay ahead of your competition by supplying your customers with the highest standard in DVD audio |
Feature |
Multicamera editing |
Function |
Edit in real-time with up to 16 cameras angles; choose and switch to any camera while playing |
Benefit |
Gain flexibility and save time when working with multicamera content |
Feature |
Secondary color correction |
Function |
Choose specific colors to change within the video frame and play the result in real time |
Benefit |
Maximum creativity and flexibility when changing the look of a video clip |
Feature |
VST plug-ins support |
Function |
Support for industry-standard audio effects plug-ins |
Benefit |
Gain flexibility and creativity when mixing your audio tracks; achieve the best possible audio quality |
Feature |
Background rendering |
Function |
Avid Liquid software renders non-real-time effects in the background without interrupting the edit |
Benefit |
Save time when working with non-real-time effects or complex composites and be free to quickly preview multiple creative directions |
Feature |
InstantSave |
Function |
Avid Liquid automatically saves your work every 1/30th of a second |
Benefit |
Whatever happens to your system, you will never lose any work. |
Avid Liquid Chrome Xe Features (with AJA XENA LHe board)
Feature |
Analog SD and HD video I/O |
Function |
Composite, S-video, and component I/O for SD video and component I/O for HD video. |
Benefit |
Maximum flexibility using any SD or HD video device; maximum picture quality when capturing or playing back to tape |
Feature |
Digital SD and HD video I/O |
Function |
SDI digital I/O connections for SD and HD video |
Benefit |
Highest possible picture quality without any loss when transferring video from and to digital SD and HD video devices |
Feature |
Real-time HD output |
Function |
Component HD video output with real-time effects playback |
Benefit |
View HD projects directly in full HD quality on an external HD monitor |
Feature |
Professional analog audio I/O |
Function |
2 channels of balanced audio I/O on XLR connectors |
Benefit |
The best possible sound quality when working with analog audio devices |
Feature |
Digital audio I/O |
Function |
2 channels of AES digital audio and 8 channels of embedded digital audio on SDI |
Benefit |
The best possible sound quality without any loss, when working with digital audio devices |
Feature |
HD down-conversion |
Function |
Full-screen SD video output with real-time effects for HD projects, using 10-bit conversion hardware |
Benefit |
Check colors and effects settings of HD projects at the highest quality, without the expense of an HD monitor |
Feature |
Uncompressed SD and HD video |
Function |
Capture, edit. and play back 8-bit uncompressed SD and HD video |
Benefit |
The best possible video quality when working with baseband SD and HD video sources |
Feature |
MPEG video capture |
Function |
Capture footage directly in the MPEG IBP codec at DVD-compliant bit rates |
Benefit |
Save time when creating DVDs by avoiding the output transcoding process, while editing MPEG material in real time |
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