Avid Liquid Pro.
The ease of Avid Liquid with SD analog video I/O.

Avid Liquid Pro combines a powerful video editor with a versatile breakout box to provide editors and videographers with all the connectivity they need using just a simple USB2 computer connection. Avid Liquid software provides video editing integrated with DVD authoring; surround sound audio; and amazing visual effects. The breakout box adds analog SD video and analog and digital audio I/O, as well as the ability to capture in uncompressed SD and MPEG formats.

Editing. Audio. DVD. Effects. One application.

Avid Liquid combines powerful video editing with integrated DVD authoring from the timeline; Dolby Digital 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: IEEE-1394, composite, component, or S-video standard-definition (SD) video. Avid Liquid Pro hardware adds uncompressed video capture for the highest-quality footage as well as MPEG IBP codec support at DVD-compliant bit rates for streamlined DVD production. It provides analog and digital (S/PDIF and ADAT) audio I/O as well as discrete surround sound outputs.

Complete HDV workflow

Avid Liquid Pro supports native capture and frame-accurate editing of 720p and 1080i HDV content. It features a powerful real-time effects engine that provides multiple streams of HDV in real time; video monitoring either in full-screen on the VGA monitor or down-converted to an SD monitor in real time; and, most important, a smooth workflow for output to SD or back to HDV tape.

Format flexibility

Avid Liquid Pro 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, uncompressed SD, 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

As they edit their projects, 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 Pro, editors can capture footage directly to a DVD-compliant MPEG IBP codec, saving time by avoiding the transcoding process.

Avid Liquid is available for the PC only.