Video effects & system specs
Edition has a single button for applying dissolve transition effects to the timeline, allowing users to choose duration and decide whether the effect should start, end, or be centred on the cut. More elaborate transitions can be accessed through Edition's Project window.There's a huge selection of fades and wipes, plus many categories of crazy 2D and 3D slides, swaps, flips and peels. Hollywood FX Plus RT and Alpha Magic FX gradient wipes are also bundled, to extend the options.
Keyframing with Bezier curves has been added to 2D and 3D effects editors, providing, for instance, first-class control for animated picture-in-picture effects
System requirements
Standard (HDV editing) for LE 6 and LE6 Pro Windows XP; DirectX 9.0c; free compatible USB 2.0 port for LE 6 Pro hardware; OHCI-compliant FireWire port for software-only version; 1.8GHz processor (3GHz); 512MByte RAM (1GByte); DirectX 9-compatible 4x/64MByte AGP graphics card (8x/128MByte AGP); hard drive with sustained data rate of 10MByte/sec; sound card
Review system
Windows XP Pro (with SP2); Asus A7N8X motherboard with integrated Nvidia nForce2 USB 2.0 chipset and Realtek ALC650 six-channel amplifier, audio processor and Dolby Digital AC-3 encoder; 2.16GHz AMD Athlon XP 3000+ processor; 768MByte DDR Ram; 120GByte hard drive for system and software; 160GByte hard drive for video; 128MByte ATI Radeon 9600 Pro All-In-Wonder graphics card (used in place of non-compatible 128MByte Nvidia GeForce FX 5600XT card); two Liteon LitePanel 150 TFT monitors
Also used for the review
Liquid Edition 6.1 beta (build 3948); Sony DSR-11 DVCAM VCR; Philips 17PF9945 17in widescreen TFT TV set