Pinnacle Systems introduces Liquid Edition

Pinnacle Systems have introduced Liquid Edition, a comprehensive professional editing solution with real-time compositing, effects and DVD authoring, all within the same intuitive interface.
The newest entry the Liquid family combines Pinnacle’s Liquid editing family with the plug-and-play power and ease of use of Pinnacle’s Edition.
Pinnacle claim Liquid Edition as the first professional non-linear video editing application to utilise both the CPU and GPU to provide more than 1,000 real-time 2D and true 3D effects, chroma and luma keys, and more with up to 10 real-time streams.
Other professional features include Pinnacle’s advanced CX primary and secondary colour corrector, and dynamic slow-motion controls. Liquid Edition offers background rendering so that the editor does not have to interrupt the creative workflow. With Liquid Edition Pro, there is both analogue out to a NTSC/PAL video monitor and/or tape from the timeline with real-time effects.
Among Liquid Edition toolset is direct-from-the timeline DVD authoring and XSend which allows for rapid sharing of clips and projects with Pinnacle Commotion Pro, Adobe After Effects and Macromedia Flash MX as well as with Pinnacle’s leading broadcast products such as Pinnacle Thunder servers and Dekocast graphics systems.
With Liquid Edition it is possible to use networked drives as well as local drives for direct playback and rendering in a networked workgroup environment. Liquid Edition projects are compatible with the entire Liquid product line including Liquid blue, Liquid chrome and Liquid silver. Liquid Edition also attaches directly to high performance Pinnacle Palladium Store systems and integrates with Vortex networked news systems which provides an all-in-one solution for ingest, journalist editing, craft editing, media management and playout.
Visit Pinnacle at IBC at Hall 1, stand 201, to get a first-look at Liquid Edition version 5.5 which replaces Pinnacle Edition and Liquid purple, which will no longer be sold.
Pinnacle is also offering a Liquid Edition Productivity Pack, including Commotion Pro, Hollywood FX Pro, TitleDeko Pro, Impression DVD Pro for the new low price.
For information on these upgrades as well as competitive trade up information, visit www.pinnaclesys.com
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