Pinnacle Debuts Liquid chrome Post Production Video Editing System
March 12, 2003
Mountain View, CA - Pinnacle Systems, Inc. has announced Liquid chrome, a comprehensive video editing and compositing solution for the postproduction market. The newest member of the Liquid family brings together Pinnacle's Liquid editing application, Pinnacle's TARGA 3000 compositing engine and Pinnacle's K2 single-chip 3D DVE.
Liquid chrome is a fully professional solution featuring high quality codecs for I-frame MPEG-2 4:2:2 up to 50 Mbps, uncompressed and DV25 video formats, as well as extensive real-time 2D and 3D DVE capability, four real-time video streams, unlimited layering. Liquid's effects processing renders many-layered effects without interrupting workflow, the manufacturer describes.
Liquid chrome includes a suite of creativity enhancing software including TitleDeko character generator, Commotion image editing and compositing, Impression DVD authoring, and Liquid CX color correction. Details of the system include:
·Powerful, real-time highest quality 2D, 3D, Color, Key and Matte effects driven by Pinnacle's TARGA 3000 and K2 single-chip 3D DVE.
·Up to four real-time layers of video and unlimited tracks of audio and video.
·A multi-pass process automatically renders composites with more than four layers without taking foreground control from the user.
·A modern interface for fast editing with intuitive contextual menus, no annoying windows to shift around, and an easily configurable environment that is quickly accessible to users accustomed to older interfaces from Avid or Discreet.
·An open networking and exchange model that won't lock customers into a single, proprietary solution.
Suggested retail price for a complete Pinnacle Liquid chrome turnkey system without storage is $24,995 (US). Existing Liquid silver systems can be upgraded for $6,995 board and software (US suggested retail price) and current TARGA 3000 systems can upgrade for $4,995 board and software (US suggested retail price) during initial promotional periods.
For more information, visit
www.pinnaclesys.com
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