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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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1 Avid Liquid: Brief Overview
First of all, we’d like to introduce the most important modules in Avid Liquid. To the right you see the
user interface after a standard installation (single computer monitor).
Timeline
The Timeline is where the Sequence (in Studio: Film) is assembled from the clips (scenes). Any type of
clip (video, audio, graphic, title) can be positioned on the Tra c k s .
The Timeline appearance, clip display and Audio/Video Playback are all managed in the Track Header
area to the left of the Timeline.
Project Browser
The Project Browser contains the elements of your film, i.e. the video and audio clips and the effects. It’s
functioning is similar to that of the Windows Explorer, with its folders and subfolders.
Source Viewer (Player) or Project Window
The Source Viewer is where you view your source material, meaning the clips (scenes). In terms of an
analog tape-based editing suite, this would be your player and monitor. You can drag clips from the
Project Browser to the Source Viewer with the mouse.
You can also select a screen layout in which the Project window is displayed in this spot (Single Monitor
View; see page 14).
Master Viewer (Recorder)
The Master Viewer displays the current image from the Timeline, i.e. it is the master video output for the
recorder or for output to DVD, etc. The red Playline identifies the current position.
Toolbars
The Too lb ar s contain the most important tools (buttons) and commands. You can customize these tool-
bars individually (right-click > Customize).
Menu bar
The most important commands are arranged here in typical Windows style.
Taskbar
The taskbar contains valuable information and functions you need to have on hand while editing,
including an audio level, the Render Viewer, the Key Caps icon, etc.
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