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Chapter 5 High Definition
High Definition in Avid Liquid
The advent of high definition video resulted in several changes in Avid Liquid. This section summarizes
the what, where and why of those changes.
HD-compatible products under Avid Liquid page 84
HD workflow: Adapting settings page 83
Timecode systems page 84
Multiformat in projects and on the timeline page 85
How HD and SD clips coexist
Quality ranks page 90
For greater clarity in the network
HD-Compatible Products under Avid Liquid
All Avid Liquid products (
Avid Liquid Chrome HD
and
Avid Liquid
) can work with HDV, D-
VHS and MicroMV at the input and output via the IEEE-1394 interface.
Avid Liquid Chrome HD
permits uncompressed HD (up to 1920x1080) in the SDI input and SDI
output via special breakout boxes.
All Avid Liquid products can import and edit HD media files of any format via a network or data volume.