Avid Liquid Pro.

The ease of Avid Liquid with professional I/O.

Avid Liquid Pro combines a powerful SD and HD 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 Pro software provides video editing integrated with DVD authoring from the timeline; surround sound audio processing; and amazing visual effects. The integrated breakout box adds analog and digital video and audio I/O as well as 1:1 and MPEG capture codecs.

Avid Liquid Pro product brief

Editing. Audio. DVD. Effects. One application.

Avid Liquid combines powerful video editing integrated with DVD authoring from the timeline; surround-sound audio processing; and powerful visual effects. Editors only have to learn a single interface to create high-quality video productions with sophisticated effects and audioand 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 video. Avid Liquid Pro hardware adds access to the uncompressed codec for high-quality output as well as MPEG IBP captures at DVD-compliant bit rates for streamlined DVD production. It provides stereo and S/PDIF audio I/O as well as surround sound monitoring via a USB-2 connection.

Complete HDV Workflow

Avid Liquid Pro features native transfers and frame-accurate editing of 720p and 1080i HDV content. It also includes an MPEG IBP render codec that provides the same 25Mbit workflow editors use with DV media. A powerful real-time effects engine provides multiple streams of HDV in real time; video monitoring either on the VGA monitor or downconverted 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, uncompressed SD, Windows Media, DIVX and MPEG-4, as well as HDV, 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

Using Avid Liquid Pro software and hardware, editors can capture footage to a DVD-compliant MPEG IBP codec. They can add titles and effects and then dive into a full-featured DVD authoring toolset 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.

Key Features

Integrated Workflow

Liquid combines video editing, audio editing, DVD creation and visual effects into one application. This means that you only have on piece of software to learn to perform all kinds of work with your video.

Hardware Breakout Box

Liquid Pro includes a hardware breakout box which allows you to easily capture video via FireWire, composite, component and S-video connections. The breakout box also allows for uncompressed video output as well as both stereo and S/PDIF audio input and output.

HDV Video Support

Liquid fully supports native editing of 720p and 1080i footage, allowing you to work with your HDV video without compromising any quality. The software also includes a codec to reproduce the workflow used with standard DV video.

DVD Production

Liquid includes a full-featured DVD production toolkit that allows users to create menus and navigation tools for a DVD, add a Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound track and output to a finished disc.

Entry-Level Editing

Liquid features an intuitive user interface and functionality that allows new video editors to dive in and start working immediately. Users will feel comfortable moving from other professional and consumer-level editing packages.