Avid DS Nitris | features

Picture Editing

  • Unlimited number of video and overlay tracks
  • Mix multiple compression ratios, resolutions and proxy images within a sequence
  • Direct timeline manipulation of all edits
  • Source-side timeline display mode
  • Timeline multi-selection for copying, moving and adding effects to multiple clips
  • Ability to overwrite, insert, and replace editing with fit-to-fill capabilities
  • Split edits and sync-point editing
  • Video interlacing and de-interlacing
  • 3:2 pull-down removal and replacement
  • Sync selection for adding edits to multiple clips simultaneously
  • Sophisticated sync-locking capabilities
  • Global and local timeline ripple controls
  • Full-featured edit trimming, clip rolling and slipping tools
  • New zoom and pan controls for easy manipulation of the image
  • Unlimited clip, track and timeline-based effects
  • Timeline overview area for fast orientation and navigation
  • Ability to display tracks in small, standard or large format
  • Ability to customize start time in the timeline
  • Match-frame and match-clip capabilities
  • Clip and timeline-based markers for navigation and synchronization
  • Containers for managing multi-layer effects and organizing complex timelines
  • Reference clips allow sharing and reuse of containers with multiple layers and effects
  • Simple powerful user interface including Swift Menus for fast gestural selection of common functions in the Avid DS Nitris system
  • Media Composer-style track patching
Effects, Filters, Time Effects + Transitions
  • Real-time effects at 10-bit HD resolutions
  • Real-time dissolves, fades, superimpositions and standard SMPTE wipes
  • Real-time 2D DVE Effect
  • DVE Hierarchies in effects
  • Real-time picture-in-picture effect, improving ability to work interactively with basic scale, border, crop, opacity, rotation and translation effects
  • Effects processing at 16 or 32 Float bit precision
  • Real-time Avid Symphony-style advanced color correction
  • Sophisticated keyframe-animatable interpolated timewarp with position and speed curves
  • Motion effects, including strobe, freeze frame, reverse and frame averaging
  • High-speed Gaussian blur, noise effects, fractal noise generator, edge detection, custom, emboss, fades, sharpen, reticulation, stamp, ripple, threshold and gradient effects; deflicker, dithering, posterize and solarize effects; film effect simulates appearance of celluloid film
  • Automatic drop shadows with independent 3D DVE control
  • Hundreds of Avid DS Nitris Painterly Effects and Impressionist effects presets to choose from-or create your own
  • 3D warp effect for loading and rendering 3D scenes
  • Shape-to-shape spline warping and morphing (based on Elastic Reality technology)
Compositing + Tracking
  • Compositing on unlimited layers and layer duplication
  • Timeline-Tree conversion, layer views, motion region visualization
  • Unlimited external mattes per layer with Boolean operations for combining mattes
  • Extensive set of compositing operations between layers and mattes
  • Full animation of all layer parameters
  • Intelligent caching to improve interactive performance
  • Direct-manipulation DVE for each layer with motion path editor and real-time wireframe preview
  • Global DVE for manipulating several layers at once
  • Global DVE in effects tree
  • Extremely fast 1-,2- and 4-point motion tracking including the ability to track in fields
  • Motion stabilization and de-stabilization
  • Corner-pinning
  • Painting directly on any layer
  • Direct support for images with pre-multiplied alpha
  • Field and frame-based rendering per effect
  • Comparison buffer-Compare two images using a snapshot (before/after)
3D DVE + Character Generation
  • User friendly 3D environment with interactive OpenGL-accelerated display and true 3D X, Y and Z coordinate space
  • 3D rotate, scale, translate and skew controls
  • Animatable camera for simulation of common camera effects, including
    rolls and zoom-ins
  • Full object hierarchy with multiple, high-quality specular light sources, reflection mapping and materials editor
  • Deformation effects such as cylinder, sphere and 3D page curls
  • Interactive manipulation of text and shapes with 3D extrusion, displacement mapping and Boolean combinations
  • Independent control over face, edge and drop-shadow properties for all text
  • Projected, soft and textured drop shadows
  • Fully integrated WYSIWYG 2D and 3D text module
  • Text along a path, inter-character kerning, fully animatable down to individual characters
  • Paragraph formatting controls
  • Support for all TrueType fonts; hundreds of Avid DS Nitris fonts included; utilizes MIME for support of multi-byte characters sets for Far East fonts; EPS import
2D Character Generator
  • WYSIWYG, automatic real-time title rolls and crawls
  • Copy/paste support for quick insertion of text from other applications; import HTML files
  • Per-character animation, kerning, leading, offset and tracking controls; tabulation and justification
  • Per-style selection -Select and modify multiple text elements with common font, style and format attributes with a single click
  • Independent control over face, edge and drop-shadow properties
  • User-defined text and style presets
  • Avid DS Nitris paint effects can also be applied to titles
Keying Tools
  • Keying can be performed on any layer or inside any paint stroke
  • High-quality blue-green chroma keyer with enhanced spill correction
  • Built-in garbage matting tools for all keyers
  • General-purpose, real-time HLS keyer, linear luminance keyer and chrominance keyer based on selected color
  • Difference keyer
  • Matte enhancer with sub-pixel shrink and grow
  • Painting with keys for fast garbage mattes
Color Correction
  • Real-time Symphony-style color correction at resolutions up to 10-bit HD
  • Global hue, saturation, gain and brightness control
  • Constant-luminance controls for shadows, midtones and highlights
  • Interactive color-curve manipulation
  • Selective color correction based on image alpha channel
  • Per-channel gamma, gain and offset tools
Paint
  • Enhanced Photoshop import with layer transparency and blending
  • Vector-based, nondestructive paint system with high-performance raster mode for rotoscoping
  • Freehand, polyline and shape-based drawing, animated handwritten strokes, combine or separate strokes, clusters
  • Animated stroke morphing and text-to-strokes feature
  • Pressure-sensitive painting tools
  • Fully animatable and editable brush strokes, shapes and parameters, including interactive brush resizing
  • Painting with effects including keying
  • Reshaper effect for interactive freehand selection and manipulation of a shape's geometry, without being constrained to control points
  • Wireframe preview command for previewing then rendering animated strokes in wireframe mode
  • Hundreds of Avid DS Nitris preset brushes, styles, effects and textures
  • Custom brushes and custom preset and stackable effects
  • Clone and noise tools for single-click scratch, dirt and dropout removal
  • EPS file import with retained color properties
  • Rotoscoping and matte creation tools
  • Paint strokes can be animated by tracking the entire stroke or by applying an unlimited number of trackers to individual stroke points
  • Independent viewing and operating on R, G, B and Alpha channels
  • Magic Wand tool for selecting image regions based on RGB or HLS value
  • Animatable cutouts for selecting and manipulating image regions
  • Graphics object view for fast timeline-based selection and manipulation of graphics objects
  • Grouping of paint and graphics objects
Audio Editing + Mixing
  • Unlimited audio tracks for editing
  • Support for multichannel audio mixing and panning including 5.1 Surround Sound
  • Up to 16 streams of simultaneous 24-bit 96 kHz audio playback
  • Sample and frame-based audio editing
  • Automatic audio sample-rate conversion
  • Real-time, animatable mixing with volume, pan, mute and solo per track; real-time 4-band parametric EQ, 10-band graphic EQ and 3-band tone control
  • Direct monitoring of up to 8 audio channels*
  • Real-time full dynamics effects, including compression, expansion and l imiting
  • Real-time fade-ins, fade-outs and cross-fades
  • Fast timeline waveform display; sync status on timeline
  • Analog-and digital-style audio scrubbing
  • Matrix routing
  • Input and output VU metering with user-controlled headroom, alignment, minimum level, peak level, peak hold and max hold
  • High-quality audio time warp; reverb effect
  • Support for optional third-party hardware fader control surfaces
Global Features
  • Full cache recovery
  • Resolution independence-mix and match different resolutions in a composite and customizable output resolutions
  • Unlimited levels of undo and redo
  • Interactive viewer: comparison buffer, onionskin mode, channel selection, proxy resolution, pan and zoom
  • Parameters of effects can be animated with an unlimited number of keyframes
  • Unified Animation Editor for editing effect parameters across all toolsets
  • Automatic keyframing
  • Import and export animations (function curves)
  • Unlimited, user-definable presets for all effects
  • User-configurable drag-and-drop toolbars
  • User-configurable key accelerators with visual keyboard mapping
  • User-configurable interface layouts
  • Automatic save
  • Interactive viewer pan and zoom
  • Support for dual-display monitors with on-screen video playback
  • Graphics tablet and customizable MIDI control surface support
  • Available optional Software Development Kit (SDK) for creating software extensions
Video I/O
  • 10-bit SPMTE 292M SDI high-definition video I/O (One input, two outputs)
  • HD Component YPbPr or RGB Output
  • HD XVGA Monitor Output: use any standard computer monitor for low-cost HD monitoring
  • 10-bit SMPTE 259M SDI standard-definition video I/O (One input, two outputs)
  • Analog standard definition video I/O
  • Component YPbPr, S-Video, and Composite Inputs
  • Component YPbPr, S-Video, Composite (2) Outputs
  • Uncompressed and compressed HD formats:
  • 1080i at 30, 29.97, 25 Hz
  • 1080 PsF at 30, 29.97, 25, 24, 23.976 Hz
  • 720p at 60 and 59.94 Hz
  • Real-time mastering-quality Avid DNX encoding at 145 MBit/sec (8-bit 4:2:2) and 220 MBit/sec (10-bit and 8-bit 4:2:2)
  • Real-time uncompressed PAL and NTSC ITU-R 601 formats
  • Real-time DV25, DV50, and MPEG IMX standard definition formats
  • HD Trilevel sync and standard definition sync reference inputs
  • Avid legacy standard definition support for uncompressed Meridien JFIF
  • HD, NTSC and PAL support on same system without reformatting drives
  • Streaming capture and on-the-fly logging
  • I/O support for tapes with timecode breaks and repeated timecodes
  • Assembly insert mode for output
  • 16:9 anamorphic media support
  • Sony RS-422 and RS-232 machine control; additional support for VISCA, LANC, Panasonic and JVC Protocols
  • 2K/4K RGB editing of DPX files with real-time HD proxy playback and timecode support
  • Windows Media 9 HD and SD encoding
Audio I/O
  • 8 channels of 24-bit, 96kHz digital audio input and output
  • Up to 16 streams of simultaneous 24-bit 96 kHz audio playback
  • 8-channel AES/EBU digital audio I/O
  • S/PDIF Digital audio I/O
  • 8-channel XLR balanced audio I/O
  • Dual audio monitor outputs
  • Audio sampling at numerous rates including 96kHz, 48 kHz, 44.1 kHz and 32 kHz
Capture Tools
  • Log and capture from tape; capture on-the-fly
  • Capture and recapture from still and movie files, frame sequences and audio files in numerous industry-standard formats, including QuickTime, AVI, PhotoShop, Illustrator EPS, TIFF, SOFTIMAGE PIC, Cineon, TARGA, YUV, RGB, AIFF, and PICT
  • Advanced AAF conforming from Sympony, Media Composer and Xpress DV systems
  • Automatic conform of OMF 2.0 composition
  • OMF audio media support
  • Batch capture and auto-conform from EDLs (CMX and GVG)
    Imports Avid Log Exchange (ALE) from external clip-logging stations
Media Management
  • Media management tools for sorting, viewing, moving and deleting media; share media across projects and machines
  • Automatic tracking of multiple media compression ratios and resolutions per clip
  • Purge tools for selectively deleting unused media
  • DPX file support
  • Support for High Dynamic Range images
  • Thumbnail and details view of annotatable clips and sequences, with clip data tracking
  • Search tool for locating clips and sequences
  • Sophisticated cache management
  • Outsource effect-allows shots to be sent to third-party applications with a live update in Avid DS Nitris
  • Ability to import PhotoShop .psd files and preserve all of the layers
  • Ability to import Illustrator .eps files and preserve vectors and colors
  • Output QuickTime and AVI movies that reference original media in the Avid DS Nitris timeline
  • Integration of Avid Unity ProEncode capability for background conversion of media files into popular web formats
  • Print conforming log and EDL functionality

Archive + Restore

  • Multiple methods for archiving of project data, video and audio media, and cache files
  • Complete archiving of all editorial and effects setup information, including paint strokes, compositing and audio mixing parameters
  • Selective restore of any part of an archive
  • Automatic conversion of effect alpha channels to mattes for archive
  • Automatic, unattended restore of all project data, media and cache

 

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