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Table Of Contents
- Liquid for Pinnacle Studio Users
- Manual Part 1
- Upgrading to Avid Liquid
- 1 Avid Liquid: Brief Overview
- 2 Initial Contact with Avid Liquid
- 3 EZ Capture
- 4 Album and Project
- 5 Collecting, Sorting, Viewing and Finding Clips
- 6 Importing Clips, Titles, Graphics and Stills
- 7 DVD Menus, Titles and Effects
- 8 Film Window and Timeline: Basics
- 9 Inserting Clips on the Timeline
- 10 Inserting/Deleting Clips on the Timeline
- 11 Trimming Clips on the Timeline
- 12 Moving Clips Horizontally and Vertically
- 13 Effects: Basics
- 14 Effects: Transitions
- 15 Effects: Clip FX (Video Effects)
- 16 Effects: Render or Realtime?
- 17 Timeline Settings
- 18 Audio: Basics
- 19 Fast Audio Fade-ins and Fade-outs
- 20 Making a Movie: Options
- 21 Recording to DV Tape
- 22 Burning Disks / Exporting Files
- 23 The Most Important Settings
- Manual Part 2
- 1 Recording from DV/HDV Video Tapes (Capture)
- 2 Comparison of Recording Instruments
- 3 Recording Clips with Mark-Ins and Mark-Outs
- 4 Recording or Logging Clips “on the Fly”
- 5 Automatic Scene Detection
- 6 Recording Audio: Stereo/Mono and Level
- 7 Naming and Numbering Clips while Recording
- 8 Recording/Digitizing Tips
- 9 Scene Detection in the Clip Viewer
- 10 Protecting and Muting Tracks
- 11 Trimming with the Trim Editor
- 12 Trimming Video and Audio: Split Editing
- 13 Moving Clips Horizontally and Vertically
- 14 Good to Know...
- 15 Effects: Working with Key Frames
- 16 Audio Scrubbing
- 17 The Audio Editor
- 18 Audio Mixer and Volume Lines
- 19 Output Mapping
- 20 Audio: Settings Tab
- 21 Recording Voice Over
- 22 Live Mixing of Audio Tracks
- 23 Sound Effects
- 24 Surround Sound
- Manual Part 1
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STUDIO
LIQUID
Starting up
Studio is “empty” when you start it up. You can
then open an existing project or create a new one.
Saving and backup
Performed manually by selecting: File > Save
Project (As).
1-2-3 user interface
Studio distributes the basic video editing opera-
tions over three tabs: 1 Capture / 2 Edit / 3 Make
Movie.
Starting up
Unless you enter a different user name or are
starting the program for the very first time (in
which case, a sample or standard Project
appears), Avid Liquid opens with the last Project
that was worked on.
Select File > New > Project to create a new,
“emp ty ” Project.
Saving and backup
Avid Liquid automatically saves each individual
operation (Instant Save). Should your computer
ever crash, you can retrieve your work (Sequence,
“Movie”) from the Sequences Rack.
Modular user interface
In single-monitor mode, Avid Liquid appears
either as shown on the right (initial startup) or as
it did when you last exited the program.
You can access functional areas such as “1 Cap-
ture (= EZ Capture/Logging)” or “3 Make Movie
(= Export > Record to Tape)” as needed by means
of menus, the keyboard or tool buttons.
All the toolbars are freely configurable and the
layout of the user interface can be customized
using the Eye icon located at the bottom right
on the taskbar.
2 Initial Contact with Avid Liquid
After installing the program, you’ll find the Avid Liquid icon on your computer’s desktop. Connect your
DV or HDV camera to an IEEE-1394 interface (Firewire, DV In) on the computer, switch on the device
and insert a tape.