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What's New
Smart Compositor: Openings that Rock
- Professional-quality opening sequences or segues instantly - with pre-made masks, frames and moving paths
- Choose from a variety of themes and add your own video, images and audio
- Export sequences as virtual clips, which can be opened and further tweaked as required by your production
- All the speed without the "cookie cutter" effect of templates!
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Smart Proxy: Real-time HDV
- HDV editing, even on mid-range or mobile machines - in real-time!
- Lower-resolution, easy-on-the-resources proxies are automatically created in the background for files above a preset frame size
- Completely lossless, your final output always links back to the original full-resolution files
- The perfect solution for producers shooting HDV, who want to edit on the go
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Mobile HD Editing |
Extensive HDV Support
- Batch capture HDV video from all the latest HDV camcorders and decks, with device control
- Edit HDV either in full-resolution lossless native format, or in Proxy Mode
- Freely convert between HDV Program Stream and Transport Stream (.m2t or .mpg), viewing HDV on your PC, or write back to HDV Camcorder or deck
- Convert HDV to WMV-HD, or downconvert to any other SD format of your choice, such as DV, WMV, Quicktime, or MPEG 2 for DVD authoring
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HDV Batch Capture |
Video and Audio Editing
- Create Dolby® Digital 5.1 Surround audio tracks with channel steering
- NEW!
Color Correction Tools perform secondary-color correction on selected, defined areas of the clip, with control over Similarity, Feathering and Size of selection
- SmartSound™ integration allows you to create and insert custom royalty-free soundtracks, precisely matching the duration of the video - easy and fast
- All-new Title Tool allows you to resize and reposition text anywhere in the frame, and easily create text crawls and rolls titles
- Enhanced!
Chroma Key tools greatly simplify keying in backgrounds, with clean edges on foreground subjects
- All-new Video Transitions and Filters give you more creative choices for your video projects
- Organic, modifiable Mask Transitions
- Unique Particle Filters like Clouds, Snow or Rain
- All new Strobe Motion Filter, Flashback transition, Duotone filter and Ghost Motion Filter
- Auto-save functions have been enhanced to automatically save incremental backups at preset time periods. No more hours of lost work due to corrupted project files!
- Unique Enhance Lighting Filter lets you add "fill light" to an image with a dark foreground, without burning out the highlights
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Color Correction

Chroma Key Tools
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Full Integration & Real-time Audio Preview
- PhotoImpact™ UFO files can be directly inserted in the timeline, maintaining all objects and alpha channel
- VideoStudio™ Integration allows you to directly import your existing projects from VideoStudio
- Multi-threaded rendering allows users to see improved performance from Hyper-Threading CPUs
- Real-time audio preview lets you immediately preview an audio clip on the timeline while adjusting parameters, including Dolby Digital 5.1 steering
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What's New in Version 8 (PDF, 60Kb)
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