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News a Safe Harbor blog Avid Ships New Version of Avid Studio Toolkit 0 Posted by Safe Harbor Staff October 16, 2006 If you enjoy this post, please share it! Avid Technology, Inc. has announced the availability of version 5.6 of Avid® Studio Toolkit, which delivers significant enhancements to a set of tightly integrated, industry-leading software applications, including Avid 3D, Avid FX, and Avid DVD by Sonic™. Avid Studio Toolkit is the first multi-format solution for simultaneous DVD and Blu-ray Disc™ authoring, designed specifically for professional film and video editors looking to create and deliver projects in high-definition (HD). "An end-to-end HD workflow for independent professionals is finally here," said Patrick McLean, senior product manager for Avid. "With increasing numbers of professional editors looking to create content and output finished projects in HD, this release of Avid Studio Toolkit comes at a perfect time. With Blu-ray™ support, Avid is offering the first editing solution to make it very easy for independent professionals to deliver their projects in a beautiful HD quality, on a low-cost distribution medium." The Blu-ray Disc format, now supported in Avid Studio Toolkit 5.6, will enable recording and playback of HD video, and has more than five times the storage capacity of traditional DVDs – holding up to 25GB on a single-layer disc. Plus, with more than 1,500 customizable title, effects and transition templates, Avid Studio Toolkit is ideal for content creators who want to infuse their work with powerful 3D effects and sophisticated visuals, using any system in the new Media Composer® family, as well as Avid Xpress® Pro or Avid NewsCutter ® systems. With Avid Studio Toolkit, professionals will be able to expand the range of creative services they offer to their customers by delivering more compelling graphics, composites, titles, and effects, and distributing completed projects to tape, DVD, Blu-ray Disc or the Web. New features in Avid Studio Toolkit v 5.6 include: Integrated Blu-ray support in Avid DVD by Sonic – allowing Avid Xpress Pro, Media Composer and NewsCutter users to output HD projects to Blu-ray Discs. Avid DVD by Sonic offers new HD and 16:9 menu support, enabling customers to make the most of the next generation of DVDs. Updated UI, new paint engine and more for Avid FX – offering professionals the ability to create visuals with integrated 2D and 3D compositing, titles and animation. With Avid FX version 5.6, editors can benefit from: AVX™ 2 plug-in support for 16-bit color rendering; A streamlined UI for improved integration and ease-of-use; A new paint engine for touch up and rotoscoping; A Raster-to-Vector conversion tool for easily bringing corporate logos and other graphics into a vector-animation environment, including 3D extrusion; A new motion key feature, to remove unwanted objects from the frame; Several new filters - in addition to the 110 existing filters - such as color match, half-tone, median, noise map, and turbulence; and A new subtitle workflow that converts EBU format subtitle files to a flat movie with alpha channel. Updated UI, new title features and more for Avid 3D – delivering more powerful "3D for the Video Guy," via an updated UI that allows any editor to import, animate, and light 3D models and create compelling text animations with greater ease. It includes directly accessible controls for camera and model animation, task-oriented workflow, and new title creation features. This makes it easier to create text animations, create unique 3D looks, and export back to the Avid editor. Expanded I/O with Avid Mojo® SDI – providing digital and analog SDI I/O to expand interoperability with mastering quality SD cameras and decks. 0 responses to "Avid Ships New Version of Avid Studio Toolkit" Leave a comment You can use select BBCode tags to format your thoughts including: [b], [i], [s], [u], [url], [quote] and [code].

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