SpeedEdit Specification
HD Render presets
Whether your are rendering a High-Definition project in
Windows Media HD, VC-1, Blu-ray or HD DVD, SpeedEDIT™
already has you covered.VST Audio plug-in support
Virtual Studio Technology allows you to use hundreds of
audio tools for sophisticated sweetening, and SpeedEDIT™
even provides dozen useful audio plug-ins.
Force I-Frames
SpeedEDIT lets you use project markers to determine the
exact frame to begin each DVD chapter, for faster authoring.Project Backup
Let the SpeedEDIT Project Backup Wizard quickly conform all
your assests to another drive for easy transport or
archiving.
Resolution independence
It doesn't matter what you want to create, you can output in
that resolution. Low-res web streams, standard def, or high
def can all be created from the same project file by simply
rendering out the desired size.Edits in native formats
Don’t waste valuable time conforming or converting your
clips. DVCPro HD, MPEG-2, M2t, QuickTime, AVI and most other
formats are ready to use the moment you drag them into
SpeedEDIT™.Auto-insert fades into project
One keystroke. That’s all it takes to insert smooth fades
into a selected region or your entire project. Keep building
your story, without even thinking about the process behind
it.Process all clips in HD resolutions
Using Image Super-sampling, SpeedEDIT™ allows you to
transparently scale standard-definition clips up to
High-definition.Overlapping clips auto-fade
Just stack clips as you need, and slide them to one side or
another to shorten or lengthen the pace of the dissolve.
It’s all about working visually.Modify project WHILE it plays
Enjoy the flexibility of adding or deleting clips from your
project -- WHILE it plays. That is flexible.Global in/out adjustment
SpeedEDIT™ allows you to lasso a group of clips and with one
gesture, shorten, lengthen, rotate or color-correct the
entire region at once.Clip roll-over previews in file bin
Quickly choose the shot you want from among numerous takes,
and drag it straight to Timeline or Storyboard, without
importing or creating intermediaries or converting or… Quick copy clips
Need another copy of the clip you’re working on? Hold down
Ctrl key and drag a fresh copy, complete with all settings
from the original.Clip inherit
One of SpeedEDIT’s coolest features: If you have already
edited, sized or positioned a clip, it can be effortlessly
replaced with another by just holding down the Alt key while
dragging the new clip on top. All of the already created
properties are instantly applied to the new clip.Local scrubbing
Left-clicking on the bottom of a Timeline clip pops up a
thumbnail showing the frame. Holding the left button down
and dragging horizontally will perform a ‘local scrub’ of
just this clip. This is very handy when you are trying to
find a clip or frame in a layer of elements.Track selection
When active, clicking on any clip in the project causes the
time bar to snap to that clip. This behavior can also be
refined by having the time bar jump to the first, middle or
last frame in the clip.Fade handles on clips
Instead of invoking Clip Properties panel, grab the fade
handle in the lower corners of a clip and drag it inward.
This ramps transparency for video and volume for audio
clips. Another SpeedEDIT™ workflow boost.Audio waveform feedback
Any adjustment to audio levels are immediately visible in
the clip’s timeline waveform, as you adjust. SpeedEDIT™
workflow is all about feedback now, not when you render.Intelligent background rendering
HD and multi-layered SD projects may require more disk
bandwidth than your laptop can provide. SpeedEDIT™ has
dynamic background renders that keep your complex comps
ready for playback as soon as possible. Make a small change,
and only that adjusted portion re-draws for immediate
feedback.Real-time full resolution fielded on-screen rendering We show real, fielded (or progressive) video on your
monitor.
Undo/Redo
Load that project tonight, tomorrow or two years from now,
and you can undo your steps back to the project’s first
action (if that is how your preference is set).
User presets
Within SpeedEDIT™ is Tool Shed: your secret weapon. Any time
you have carefully worked a clip fly-though, a color
enhancement or gamma boost, that can be saved as a Tool Shed
Preset. The next time it’s needed, there is no need to spend
any time on it. Select the clip, choose the preset and click
Done. You’re done.Ctrl-drag a clip into a folder and it saves clip settings
This provides multiple benefits, such as music clips already
marked to the beat of the music. These instances point back
to the source clips, and take no disk space.
Classify clips by color
Use your own system to visually distinguish between audio
narration, music clips and background efx; pinpoint problem
areas from your last session; have the freedom in this
session to mark something for later…and keep telling your
story.
Cut to music (or narration)
With one click, markers can do some very helpful things to
your project:trim all video clips to fit within markers for building a
highlights reel to music or narration.
razor clips or filters at every marker in the clip, for easy
cutting of long takes. Combine SD and HD clips on the timeline.
This is as big as the clips you'll be editing. Anything can
be edited alongside or on top of anything else. Mixing your
existing library into your new HD clips never gets in the
way of the story, as there’s no converting or re-scaling to
distract you.Real-time up and down conversion
Edit a project in any resolution, from a 320x240 web stream
to 2880x1920 max resolution and then render it out to any
resolution, progressive or fielded, that you need. This also
gives you the ability to output HD, SD and web-sized
versions of the same project.YUV rendering engine
Every important compression format is YUV (MPEG, DV, HDV,
DVCPro) so we talk directly to these without color
conversions. This results in faster feedback with more
accurate color.Full resolution HD previews
High-Definition brings not just more pixels, but more
clarity, detail and subtle coloration. Accurately monitor
work as you progress without having to guess.Real-time HD previews
No intermediaries. Drop an HD clip onto the timeline from a
folder and it is ready to scrub and play. Avoid time wasted
converting or rendering clips when you could be building
your project. SpeedEDIT allows you to send your project back
through the camera for HDV project playback on your
broadcast monitor.Output any frame-rate
Whether you are editing for output to Jumbotron, HD, DVD or
broadcast, you can provide exactly what your client wants.
Output any resolution
Edit any clips you have, and focus on the pacing and
storyline. When completed, you can render out to any
resolution you need.Output any aspect ratio
Regular television aspect or wide-screen support throughout
the workflow from capture, to titling and output.Input most formats
Pay no attention to clip formats, file types or file
extensions, and put all your attention on building the
project without any performance penalty for mixing different
clips.Output via FireWire
All cameras and decks now have FireWire, making it the
simplest way to ingest or lay back video.Tool Shed automation
Perfect a move or color-correction once. Then, with two
clicks, recall it to apply to one or dozens of clips in the
project.CG Post™
CG Post™ allows animated titling in any aspect or
resolution. Nearly 200 preset pages allow a quick starting
point for fast set-up.Fully multi-threaded
Push the pedal to the metal. SpeedEDIT™ takes advantage of
the new dual-core and multi-processor systems, wringing
maximum performance your hardware.White Balance correction
Sometimes, when shooting quickly, you may not notice that
going from full-sun to shade affected your shot, until you
examine it later. SpeedEDIT™ lets you make both subtle and
major warm/cool correction to your video.Real-time 3-wheel color correction
While separate color and gamma controls for shadows,
mid-tones and highlights has become the standard for color
correction, SpeedEDIT™ lets you do this in real-time, with
adjustable smoothing between bands for the most subtle
corrections or changes. Make adjustments in the most
relevant view for you: Color wheel, Waveform or Vectorscope.4-band color selection
Pick a color. Any color. Now, modify just that color with
saturation or hue. Do that three more times and you have the
ability to fine-tune anything in the frame.Simultaneous Storyboard and timeline views
Storyboards are one of the most effective means of story
set-up, and are still sketched out to pitch, and then
produce commercials, movies and documentaries. Most editing
software gives minimal attention or power to any existing
storyboard interface. Only SpeedEDIT™ uses storyboarding as
a real-time, interactive process beside the timeline.
Dual Timeline views of the same project
Once you begin layering or refining audio, the timeline
becomes the best place to work, and SpeedEDIT™ gives you
simultaneous wide and close-up views of the project.
Real-time layering
With a PCI express graphics card, enjoy multiple HDV layers
with titles in real-time.
3D control of position, size and rotation
When you need it, the visual positioning panel in SpeedEDIT™
is extremely fast. It gets faster and easier when you turn
on Auto Keyframe, remembering every move you make.Spline-based control of all properties and effects
Splines are just ways you connect 2 keyframes with a curve,
but this allows very subtle control over audio levels, color
corrections and playback speeds.
Real-time image sequence playback
If you have original footage or a LightWave animation as a
Targa sequence,
SpeedEDIT's intelligent use of meta-data will give you
immediate clip
playback, in full resolution. This also means while
browsing, you can mouse
over a Targa frame in a file folder, and get real-time
playback of the
sequence. Fast and easy.Mixture of formats with no performance penalty
You will instead be focused on how to pace your story
instead of analyzing and then converting clips in the middle
of your day.
Real-time chroma and luma keying with spill suppression
Place talent shot in front of green screen in a new
environment, or key out black portions of a clip for video
motion graphics.Real-time high-quality scaling of graphics
This keeps details crisp and clean, whether you are sizing a
video clip down as a picture-in-picture, or needing to size
an SD clip up to fill an HD frame.
Real-time video and audio filters
All of these filters are real-time, and animatable.3D audio positioning
With the ease of dragging a target point around a virtual
room, you can pan and fade audio through space. You can even
keyframe this while the clip is playing.
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