Introducing Pinnacle Liquid™ Edition version 6, the most powerful and comprehensive editing solution available today. Liquid Edition combines the proven professional toolset and esteemed broadcast heritage of the Liquid line with the plug and play power and ease of use of Edition. Liquid Edition is more powerful and accessible than ever with friendly interface options and transparent interoperability with Pinnacle’s Studio. In addition to providing all of the strong editing features that professionals demand and require, Liquid Edition now delivers native real-time HDV editing, SmartRT real-time power, SmartEDIT multi-format native editing, advanced audio tools and DVD authoring, all within a single highly intuitive interface.

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.

SmartRT - Unleash the Native Power
SmartRT is Liquid's industry leading format-independent core software based real-time effects engine. Unlike others, Liquid's SmartRT harnesses the full power of your computer's on-board central processing unit(s) (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) to perform 1,000's of amazing format and resolution independent broadcast quality multi-stream 2D and true 3D real-time effects. Why spend another penny on quickly outdated cumbersome proprietary hardware cards, when all of the power you crave is right underneath your fingertips. With Liquid Edition, you have the confidence of knowing you can harvest all of the available resources of your off-the-shelf hardware to power the most complicated resolution independent real-time projects. And SmartRT is flexible enough to go anywhere you go, even to a new computer or on location with your portable.

SmartEDIT- Feel the Freedom
Liquid SmartEDIT provides the freedom to edit in most any SD and HD format (DV, MPEG-2 IBP, MPEG-2 I-Frame, uncompressed and even HDV) independently or more incredibly in the same timeline. Liquid SmartEDIT's unique support for native MPEG-2 IBP material means you can actually edit in the format of choice for HDV, DVD and many servers. This amazing functionality eliminates the need for costly plug-ins and time-consuming quality damaging format conversions when outputting your finished HD or DVD projects. Furthermore, you can maximize your quality while minimizing your hard drive space requirements by choosing the formats that are most appropriate for you. For example, with SmartEDIT you can use uncompressed to garner the best quality possible for effects-laden shots and then go with MPEG-2 IBP where cuts are more standard. And of course, SmartRT works seamlessly with SmartEDIT so that you can always maximize your real-time power in any timeline with any format.

Key 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 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 6 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

• 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

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:
   • Native Capture: DV/DVCPRO25, MPEG-2 IBP SD& HD 4:2:0
     
   • 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. 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.
   
   
7. Compositing
   • Improved Keyframing (Keyframe per parameter)
     New Keyframing UI
     Bezier Keyframe Editing
   
   
8. 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
   
   
9. 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