On the show floor Pinnacle Systems introduced Liquid Edition, a professional editing system with real-time compositing, effects and DVD authoring, all within the same user interface.At the IBC show it was clear that Pinnacle Systems continues to tightly integrate its products into its vision of an IT-based end-to-end system approach. Judging by people's reaction to established products like the Vortex networked edit system and the FX Deko line of character generators, the industry is taking notice. On the show floor Pinnacle Systems introduced Liquid Edition, a professional editing system with real-time compositing, effects and DVD authoring, all within the same user interface. The software is a combination of the company’s existing Liquid purple and Edition, two programs that offered similar features.Liquid Edition is the first professional nonlinear video editing application to utilize both the CPU and GPU to provide more than 1,000 real-time 2D and true 3D effects, chroma and luma keys, and up to ten real-time streams.

• Pinnacle Liquid Edition 5.5 Manual

Other features include a primary and secondary color corrector, and slow-motion controls. The system also offers background rendering so that editors do not have to interrupt their creative workflow. With Liquid Edition Pro, there is analog out to a NTSC/PAL video monitor and/or tape from the timeline with real-time effects.Liquid Edition also provides direct from the timeline DVD authoring. The DVD track appears alongside the standard audio and video tracks and enables the user to easily create and edit graphic menus directly within the editing environment. Wizards and templates expedite the DVD creation process.Liquid Edition is part of the Pinnacle Liquid line which includes Liquid blue for multi-format broadcast environments, Liquid chrome for real-time post settings and Liquid silver for MPEG-2 post editing.Liquid Edition version 5.5 is now available.For more information visit:.

For years, Pinnacle lacked a credible answer to Matrox's RT2000 and its successors. But with the acquisition of German video-editing specialists Fast, the company finally had a secret weapon. Although the first few updates of Edition under the Pinnacle label remained niche, with version 5 the software started to show its potential. Now with version 6, it has finally come of age.As we said in the introduction to this Labs, one of the key differentiators between entry-level and professional software is real-time rendering capabilities. Since version 5, Pinnacle has harnessed the power of your AGP graphics card to accelerate effects rendering. There are, in fact, three types of effect available: GPU- and CPU-powered real-time options, plus the classic non-real-time effects for backwards compatibility.Canopus EDIUS 2.5 still beats Liquid Edition 6 in terms of raw real-time layers on the same hardware, but Liquid's more sophisticated 3D options and keyframing make it much more flexible.

Pinnacle has also re-engineered many of the effects to improve quality, so you can't get quite as much in real-time as previously. But with hardware increasing in power all the time, this is only a temporary set-back.

In particular, Liquid's use of your system's 3D graphics card will take advantage of the extra bandwidth afforded by PCI Express and perhaps also dual cards in SLI mode, when they're present.For DV, AGP may already have been fast enough, but Pinnacle is also making claims about Liquid Edition's compatibility with the MPEG2-based HDV (High-Definition Video) format. The software can edit all manner of MPEG formats, as well as DV and uncompressed video - and even mix them within the same sequence in real-time. With Sony's HDR-FX1 camcorder already on sale, HDV is likely to develop into a favourite format for semi-professionals and enthusiasts.

Liquid Edition supports capturing HDV directly, with the appropriate Windows driver for the camcorder. So it's all ready to take advantage of the next desktop video revolution. It can import and export Windows Media Video 9, too, including WMV HD.A major criticism of Liquid Edition has always been the interface. But Pinnacle has made version 6 more friendly for new users. There are numerous wizards to simplify frequent activities, such as importing media or outputting video. Liquid Edition can now import Pinnacle Studio files, giving users of the entry-level software a viable upgrade path.

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Best of all, there's a new Windows-like interface, although the classic mode is also available for those familiar with the old style. Liquid still does strange things to your PC, though. As soon as you load it, some white areas, such as Windows Explorer folder backgrounds, turn grey, which can be disconcerting.Liquid Edition is an unquestionably powerful and responsive editing platform. The effects configuration windows update immediately and if you stick with the real-time effects, you'll be able to play back the results immediately. Curve graphs are now available to help you tweak your keyframing, and you can apply effects to whole tracks. You can save presets for each of the effects you apply by copying the little icons at the end of the clip and pasting them into the sequence library.

Titling is still taken care of by the capable Title Deko. But new with version 6 is the multi-camera system, which allows you to synchronise up to 16 sources from a live shoot.There's very capable DVD authoring built-in as well. The menus are placed on a special track on the timeline, making the authoring process an integrated part of editing itself. Plus, you can encode your audio to AC3 5.1 Dolby Digital to save on disk space.

Pinnacle Liquid Edition 5.5 Manual

Liquid Edition can import unencrypted VOB files for editing - great for redoing DVDs when you only have the finished disc. But we found that some unencrypted VOBs didn't load successfully.