Pinnacle Liquid Edition™ PRO version 6, the most powerful and comprehensive editing solution available, is more powerful and accessible than ever with professional I/O via an external USB-2 breakout box. Liquid Edition now delivers native real-time HDV editing, SmartRT real-time power, SmartEDIT multi-format native editing and DVD authoring, all within a single highly intuitive interface.

New Professional USB 2 Breakout Box Intuitive Interface SmartRT Powered Effects Integrated DVD Authoring

Liquid Edition PRO version 6 includes the highly acclaimed Liquid Edition software and the all new Liquid Edition PRO breakout box. The Liquid Edition PRO breakout box provides all of the centralized I/O options professionals demand within a convenient external USB-2 plug and play breakout box. The handy breakout box offers access to both consumer and professional camcorders and VTRs using composite, s-video or component video. Impressive new professional audio options supply stereo and S/PDIF audio, and output in full 5.1 surround sound. Now you can view all of the amazing Liquid SmartRT powered real-time effects with surround sound on your NTSC/PAL video monitor. 1,000's of Real-time SD & HD Effects with SmartRT 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 colour correction and chroma/luma key effects to name just a few. All-format Editing from SD to HD with SmartEDIT Liquid now includes SmartEDIT with expanded native support for just about any SD and HD format (DV, MPEG-2 IBP, MPEG-2 I Frame, HDV and even uncompressed) in the same timeline. This eliminates the need for untimely and damaging transcoding for HDV output and DVD authoring. Integrated 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 timeline. Over 40 templates are provided to get you started. Furthermore, Liquid SmartEDIT's native MPEG-2 IBP editing eliminates the need for time-consuming renders at the output stage. Accessible New Windows' friendly user interface options to complement the classic Liquid look and feel make Liquid more accessible and easy to use than ever. Add to this, import and export wizards, seamless Pinnacle Studio project import and plug-in support, a highly configurable keyboard and interface layout, and a Liquid programmable jog/shuttle control for fast and tactile control of the media and you are in editing heaven. Advanced Audio Editing with Surround Sound and VST Plug-in Support Pinnacle's Steinberg inspired new audio effects engine commands an advanced audio mixer and full surround sound and VST plug-in support. Broadcast Quality Effects Liquid features the Liquid CX colour Correction with both secondary and selective colour correction, Dynamic Slow Motion and a host of other resolution independent high precision, sub-pixel software effects. Advanced Multicam Support Now even the most complex multi-camera productions can be edited in a breeze with Liquid's new powerful resolution independent Multicam feature. Background Processing With Liquid, you can continue to drive your creativity while you are rendering high quality format and resolution independent SD and HD output transparently in the background. InstantSave Why take the risk of losing work when with Liquid'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. Network Native Liquid 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 is optimized to work with 100-baseT, Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel storage solutions. Liquid uniquely offers the ability to share not only media across a network, but also to share projects for multi-user workgroups, and even communicate by SMS between users.

  Key New Features Detailed

1- Native HDV Editing
    IBP editing (HDV 720p)
    HD with real-time (3+ streams in HDV with real-time effects)
    HDV I/O over 1394


2- MPEG IBP Editing (SD)
    Capture in MPEG-2 IBP from analogue sources
    Edit pure IBP file
    Smart rendering only encodes changes and not the projects

3 - Codecs Supported:
    o Native Capture: DV/DVCPRO25, MPEG-2 IBP SD& HD 4:2:0
    o Encode Capture: DV/DVCPRO25, MPEG-2 IBP, Uncompressed (only available with Liquid Edition PRO)

4 - More Accessible User Interface
    Windows Standards (Menu bar)
    Import/Export Wizards

5 - Studio – Interoperability and Migration
    Studio Project Import
    Common plug-in architecture w/ Studio
    Studio-specific training materials to ease the transition

6 - Simplified, Expanded I/O
    Liquid Edition PRO breakout box = S-video, Composite, Component, stereo audio,
    SPDIF and ADAT I/O and Surround audio monitoring via     USB-2. Adds Uncompressed Codec.

7 - Audio
    Surround sound
    VST plug-in support
    Audio Timewarp
    AC3 encoding (Virtual Surround - 2channels, Dolby Digital 5.1)
    Track Effects
    Direct XSend call for Wavelab with multiple audio clips and updated waveform in Liquid.

8 - Compositing
    Improved Keyframing (Keyframe per parameter)
    New Keyframing UI
    Bezier Keyframe Editing

9 - More Professional Effects and Editing Features
    Multicam
    Real-time Effects: Track Matte, Classic Liquid Effects
    -are now real-time, Mosaic (Privacy Effect)
    Subtitling – CG API

10 - Additional Enhancements
    Simplified Backup and Restore: backup the project including all
    -media to a destination (optional burn to DVD)
    Encode to WM9 with custom profiles

Post Production	Broadcast
SmartRT Real-time power gives greater creative freedom. Pure DVD editing and authoring preserves quality and saves time and money. Offers required broadcastquality toolset and effects (e.g. Multicam, Secondary Color Correction, and Dynamic Slow Motion. SmartEDIT provides the ability to mix and match in any format even HDV and uncompressed.	Offers required broadcastquality toolset (e.g. RS-422 machine control and ALE/OMFI project support) and effects. Share projects with the entire Liquid line of products as well as broadcast products like DekoCast and Thunder. Connect to Pinnacle Palladium Store 100 SAN solution for guaranteed high bandwidth and optimized workgroup productivity.
Videographer	Corporate
Comprehensive solution with editing, compositing, effects, professional audio tools and DVD authoring all in one place. Up to 10 streams of SD and HD video with SmartRT powered realtime effects. Affordable price and plug and play set up make it accessible for all. New easy and intuitive interface options and training resources minimize the learning curve.	Built-in SmartRT Real-time power allows for quick turnaround on multiple creative directions. SmartEDIT provides the ability to mix and match in any format. Template-based editing and DVD authoring for consistent corporate look and feel. Create once and publish to tape, web and DVD. Share projects with the entire Liquid line of products.

Pinnacle Liquid Edition is the first professional video editing system to use the throughput of either the AGP or PCI Express which offers up to 30 times more bandwidth than competitive PCI-based solutions and therefore offers unequalled bandwidth for real-time effects on multiple video and graphic streams.

Key Liquid Edition Features

• Fully featured broadcast editor with source record monitors, multi-layer timeline, comprehensive media management, extensive effects, and advanced capture and publishing tools
  
  
• 1,000's of 2D and 3D resolution independent SD and HD real-time effects powered by Liquid's SmartRT
  
  
• Efficient and quality conscious native editing in HDV and the format of DVD's fueled by Liquid SmartEDIT
  
  
• Integrated, timeline-based DVD authoring with MPEG encoder and more than 40 templates included
  
  
• Export to DVD/SVCD/VCD with editable presets for CBR and VBR MPEG encoding, burn to multiple discs and disc capacity calculator
  
  
• Integrated Pinnacle TitleDeko character generator for broadcast quality titles
  
  
• Advanced audio mixer with full support for surround sound, VST plug-ins and send busses
  
  
• Full Multicam editing support
  
  
• XSend to other applications for seamless integration to compositing, web authoring and audio applications, servers and asset management systems
  
  
• InstantSave technology means that you never lose your work
  
  
• Integrated networked media management
  
  
• XFind network clip browsing option
  
  
• Background processing of effects means no waiting for rendering
  
  
• Customizable user interface and programmable keyboard shortcuts
  
  

Liquid Edition Includes

• Liquid Edition 6 Software CD
  • Liquid Edition 6 software
  • Liquid Edition Start-up project
  • Pinnacle Hollywood FX™ Plus RT
  • Pinnacle TitleDeko™ RT
  • 40+ DVD templates
  • 1,000+ real-time effects and presets
  • Liquid Edition Reference Manual on CD

  
  

• Liquid Edition Users Guide
  
  
• Discovering Liquid Edition DVD including
  • Introduction to Liquid Edition 6 Video Tutorial
  • Liquid Edition 6 for Liquid 5.5 Users Video Tutorial
  • Liquid Edition 6 for Pinnacle Studio Users Video Tutorial
  • Sample SD and HD footage

  
  

• Liquid Edition Installation and Users Manual
• Liquid Edition Quick Reference Card

Liquid Edition PRO Adds

• Liquid Edition PRO breakout box (Component, Composite, S-Video, IEEE 1394 and analogue RCA S/PDIF)
  
  
• Liquid Edition PRO breakout box stand
  
  
• Printed Liquid Edition Reference Manual
  
  

• Intel Pentium® 4 Processor 1.8 GHz (3.0 GHz or dual 2.2 GHz recommended) or AMD® equivalent
• Microsoft Windows® XP Professional
• 512 MB RAM, 1GB recommended
• Hard drive (AV-rated, minimum data transfer rate 10 MB/s)
• AGP 4x Graphics card with 64MB graphics RAM for real-time effects (128 MB recommended)
• Microsoft DirectX 9
• Sound card
• OHCI-compatible IEEE1394 interface

• Intel Pentium 4 Processor 3.0 GHz (dual 3.0 GHz recommended) or AMD® equivalent
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional
• 1GB RAM
• Hard drive (AV-rated, minimum data transfer rate 10 MB/s)
• AGP 8x Graphics card with 128 MB graphics RAM for 720p, 256 MB RAM for 1080i with dual head output for HD preview
• Microsoft DirectX 9
• Sound card
• OHCI-compatible IEEE1394 interface

• Capture from IEEE1394 DV and HDV camcorders and VCRs
• Audio format: 16-bit PCM stereo, 32, 44 or 48 kHz
• 32 kHz audio: capture either channel A or B (but not both simultaneously)
• Import AVI, QuickTime, WAV file formats
• Import all standard image formats: TIF, TGA, BMP, etc.
• Works on both laptop and desktop computers

• Record to IEEE1394 DV and HDV camcorders and VCRs
• Export to DVD (MPEG-2 MP@ML, video elementary stream with WAV or MPEG-1 layer 2 audio file)
• Export to SVCD (MPEG-2 and MPEG-1 VCD program stream with MPEG-1 layer 2 audio file)
• Export to Windows Media, QuickTime, AVI