Specifications
What’s Included
Hardware
- Hewlett Packard HP Z800 Workstation
- 2.93 GHz dual quad-core Intel® Xeon® processor
- Windows 7 64-bit Professional
- 6 GB DDR SDRAM
- NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 OpenGL graphics accelerator card
- AJA XENA 2Ke Dual Link I/O card with K3-Box breakout box
- 320 GB SATA boot drive
- Avid VideoRaid SR storage configurations of 8 TB and 16 TB
- 30-inch flat panel LCD monitor or optional dual 20-inch LCD monitors
- 9x12 graphics tablet with pen, keyboard, and mouse
Software
- Avid DS 10.5 software (with one license)
- Avid DS Remote Processing (RP) System Option (with one license)
- Media Composer 5 software (with one license)
Note: Please see the Media Composer Specifications page for additional file, format, and codec support (please note that the Production Suite is not included).
Optional purchase: Bundle Avid DS 10.5 with the GenArts Sapphire plug-in suite and save.
Video I/O
- 10-bit SMPTE 292M SDI high-definition video I/O (channel 1/A: HD; channel 2/B: SD)
- HD Component YPbPr or RGB Output
- 10-bit SMPTE 259M SDI standard-definition video I/O (channel 1/A: HD, channel 2/B SD)
- 10-bit SMPTE 292M dual-link SDI for high-definition 4:4:4 I/O
- Component (YPbPr) or RGB Analog standard definition video output
- HD formats:
- 1080i at 30, 29.97, 25 Hz
- 1080 PsF at 30, 29.97, 25, 24, 23.976 Hz
- 720p at 60, 59.94, 50, and 23.976 Hz
- 1080p 59.94, 60, 50 Hz
- 2K DCI
- Real-time mastering-quality Avid DNxHD encoding (4:2:2 only)
- Real-time uncompressed PAL and NTSC ITU-R 601 formats
- HD Tri-level sync and standard definition sync reference input
- Avid legacy standard definition support for uncompressed Meridien JFIF
- Streaming capture and on-the-fly logging
- I/O support for tapes with repeated timecodes
- Assembly and Insert mode for output
- 16:9 anamorphic media support
- Sony RS-422 machine control
- Support for 2K RGB DPX files with real-time HD proxy playback and DPX 2.0 metadata (including timecode)
- Resolution-independent support for 4K and higher resolution RGB DPX files with DPX 2.0 metadata (including timecode)
- Native support for .R3D (RED) files; Windows Media 9 HD and SD encoding with optional Windows Media Encoder
Audio I/O
- 8 channels of audio I/O supported bit depths:
- 16-bit
- 24-bit
- Supported frequencies:
- 48 kHz
- 96 kHz
- Up to 16 streams of simultaneous I/O
- 8-channel AES/EBU (BNC and XLR) digital audio I/O
- 8 channels of SDI-embedded audio I/O
- 2-channel RCA audio monitoring
Capture Tools
- Log and capture from tape, and 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
- Get advanced AFE and AAF conforming from Symphony, Media Composer, and Xpress DV systems
- Automatic conform of OMF 2.0 composition
- Supports OMF audio media
- Batch capture and auto-conform from EDLs (CMX and GVG)
- Import Avid Log Exchange (ALE) from external clip-logging stations
Picture Editing
- Full Media Composer toolset
- Edit 3D stereoscopic material
- Manipulate 3D content with convergence tools
- Play back sequences and effects in real time
- Preserve or change clip durations in the timeline with user-selectable frame rate conversions
- Work with an unlimited number of video and overlay tracks
- Mix multiple compression ratios, resolutions, and proxy images within a sequence
- Directly manipulate all edits in the timeline
- Source-side timeline display mode
- Copy, move, and add effects to multiple clips with timeline multi-selection
- Overwrite, insert, and replace editing with fit-to-fill capabilities
- Split edits and perform sync-point editing
- Interlace and de-interlace video
- 3:2 pull-down removal and replacement
- Add edits to multiple clips simultaneously by syncing selections
- Sophisticated sync-locking capabilities
- Global and local timeline ripple controls
- Full-featured edit trimming, clip rolling, and slipping tools
- Easily manipulate images with zoom and pan controls
- Create unlimited clip, track, and timeline-based effects
- Quickly get oriented and navigate through projects with the timeline overview area
- Display tracks in small, standard, or large format
- Customize the start time in the timeline
- Speed up editing with match-frame and match-clip capabilities
- Navigate through and sync sequences using clip and timeline-based markers
- Manage multilayer effects and organize complex timelines using containers
- Share and reuse containers, with multiple layers and effects, using reference clips
- Simple, powerful user interface, with Swift Menus for fast gestural selection of common DS functions
- Media Composer-style track patching
Effects, Filters, and Transitions
- Source-side effects management
- Create timewarp effects with FluidMotion
- Expressions-based effects model
- Create real-time dissolves, fades, superimpositions, and standard SMPTE wipes
- Real-time 2D digital video effects (DVEs)
- Create DVE hierarchies in effects
- Work easier with basic scale, border, crop, opacity, rotation, and translation effects with the real-time picture-in-picture effect
- Effects processing at 16- or 32-bit Float precision
- Enhance and correct color with real-time, advanced color grading tools
- Sophisticated keyframe-animatable interpolated timewarp with position and speed curves
- Create motion effects, including strobe, freeze frame, reverse, and frame-averaging
- Includes 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; and a celluloid film simulation effect
- Automatic drop shadows with independent 3D DVE control
- Choose from hundreds of Avid DS Painterly and Impressionist effects presets, or create your own
- Shape-to-shape spline warping and morphing (based on Elastic Reality technology)
- Expand your creative palette with support for AVX, AVX2, and OpenFX (OFX) plug-ins
Compositing and Tracking
- Create composites on unlimited layers and duplicate layers
- Timeline-Tree conversion, layer views, and motion region visualization
- Get unlimited external mattes per layer, with Boolean operations for combining mattes
- Work with an extensive set of compositing operations between layers and mattes
- Fully animate all layer parameters
- Improved interactive performance with intelligent caching
- Directly manipulate DVE for each layer with the motion path editor and real-time wireframe preview
- Manipulate several layers at once with global DVE
- Global DVE in the 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
- Paint directly on any layer
- Direct support for images with pre-multiplied alpha
- Get field and frame-based rendering per effect
- Compare two images using a snapshot (before/after) with the comparison buffer
3D Digital Video Effects (DVE) and Character Generation
- Create and animate graphics in a user-friendly 3D environment, with interactive OpenGL-accelerated display and a true X-Y-Z coordinate space
- Manipulate 3D material with rotate, scale, translate, and skew controls
- Simulate rolls, zoom-ins, and other common in-camera effects with the animatable camera
- Full object hierarchy with multiple, high-quality specular light sources, reflection mapping, and materials editor
- Create deformation effects such as cylinder, sphere, and 3D page curls
- Manipulate text and shapes interactively with 3D extrusion, displacement mapping, and Boolean combinations
- Get independent control over face, edge, and drop-shadow properties for all text
- Create projected, soft, and textured drop shadows
- See your work in real time with the fully integrated WYSIWYG 2D and 3D text module
- Create text along a path and adjust inter-character kerning, fully animatable down to individual characters
- Tidy up text with paragraph formatting controls
- Work with all TrueType fonts (hundreds of fonts included), get multibyte character set support for Far East fonts through MIME, and import EPS files
2D Character Generation
- WYSIWYG interface, with automatic real-time title rolls and crawls
- Copy/paste text from other applications for quick insertions; import HTML 7 text files
- Get per-character animation, kerning, leading, offset, and tracking controls, tabulation, and justification
- Select and modify multiple text elements containing common font, style, and format attributes with a single click (per-style selection)
- Import subtitle information from text files
- Control face, edge, and drop-shadow properties independently
- Create your own text and style presets
- Apply Avid DS paint effects to titles
Keying Tools
- Perform keying 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
- Includes 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 Grading
- Real-time Symphony-style color grading tools at resolutions up to 2K DCI
- Global hue, saturation, gain, and brightness control
- Fine-tune levels with constant-luminance controls for shadows, mid-tones, and highlights
- Interactive color-curve manipulation
- Perform selective color grading or color correction based on the image alpha channel
- Per-channel gamma, gain, and offset tools
Paint
- Import Photoshop (v7) files with all layer transparency and blending preserved
- Vector-based, nondestructive paint system—create high-quality graphics, with high-performance raster mode for rotoscoping
- Freehand, polyline and shape-based drawing, animated handwritten strokes, combine or separate strokes, and 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
- Interactively freehand select and manipulate a shape's geometry with the Reshaper effect, without being constrained to control points
- Preview then render animated strokes in wireframe mode with the Wireframe Preview command
- Get started fast with hundreds of Avid DS preset brushes, styles, effects, and textures
- Create the look you want with custom brushes, custom presets, and stackable effects
- Remove scratches, dirt, and dropouts in a single click with the Clone and Noise tools
- Import EPS files, with all color properties retained
- Rotoscoping and matte creation tools
- Animate paint strokes by tracking the entire stroke or by applying an unlimited number of trackers to individual stroke points
- View and operate R, G, B, and Alpha channels independently
- Select image regions based on RGB or HLS values using the Magic Wand tool
- Select and manipulate image regions with animatable cutouts
- Quickly select and manipulate graphics objects in the timeline through graphics object view
- Group paint and graphics objects
Audio Editing and Mixing
- Work with unlimited audio tracks for editing
- Mix and pan multichannel audio in up to 5.1 surround sound
- Play back up to 16 streams of simultaneous 24-bit, 48 kHz audio, with support for sampling rates up to 96 kHz
- Sample and frame-based audio editing
- Automatic audio sample rate conversion
- Real-time, animatable mixing controls, with volume, pan, mute, and solo per track; real-time 4-band parametric EQ, 10-band graphic EQ, and 3-band tone control
- Monitor up to 8 audio channels directly
- Includes real-time full dynamics effects, including compression, expansion, and limiting
- Real-time fade-ins, fade-outs, and cross-fades
- Fast timeline waveform display, with 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
- Includes high-quality audio timewarp and reverb effects
- Support for optional third-party hardware fader control surfaces
- Supports VST 64-bit audio plug-ins
Global Features
- Full cache recovery
- Mix and match different resolutions in a composite and customize output resolutions
- Get unlimited levels of undo and redo
- Interactive viewer: comparison buffer, onionskin mode, channel selection, proxy resolution, pan, and zoom
- Animate effects parameters with an unlimited number of keyframes
- Edit effect parameters across all toolsets with the Unified Animation Editor
- Automatic keyframing
- Import and export animations (function curves)
- Get 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
- Supports single or dual-display monitors
- Support for graphics tablets
- Available optional Software Development Kit (SDK) for creating software extensions
Media Management
- DPX file support including conform from Avid EDLs and AFE
- RED file support including conform from Avid AFE and ALE
- Visual-based Media Management: Get tools for sorting, viewing, moving, and deleting media, and share media across projects and machines
- Automatic tracking of multiple media compression ratios and resolutions per clip
- Selectively delete unused media with the Purge tools
- Get thumbnail and details views of annotatable clips and sequences, with clip data tracking
- Locate clips and sequences with the Search tool
- Sophisticated cache management
- Send shots to third-party applications, with a live update in Avid DS, using the Outsource effect
- Import Photoshop PSD files and preserve all layers
- Import Illustrator EPS files and preserve vectors and colors
- Output AVI reference movies from the original video media in an Avid DS project
Avid DS Remote Processing (RP) System Option (one license included)
- Continue working while processing-intensive tasks are rendered in the background on a remote system
- View icon or receive email notification when processing is complete
- Gain more creativity time and speed up delivery through background network rendering
- Supports multiple render stations over Ethernet, Unity MediaNetwork, or ISIS
- Includes one seat of Avid DS RP
- Installs on a wide variety of Windows 7 workstations (Windows XP and Vista not supported)
- Uses standard network configurations such as 10/100-Base-T Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, or shared storage systems such as Unity MediaNetwork or ISIS
Archive and Restore
- Archive project data, video and audio media, and cache files in multiple ways
- Complete archiving of all editorial and effects setup information, including paint strokes, compositing, and audio mixing parameters
- Selectively restore any part of an archive
- Automatic conversion of effect alpha channels to mattes for archive
- Automatic, unattended restore of all project data, media, and caches
Networking and Storage
- Works with Unity MediaNetwork 5.1, Unity ISIS (1.1 and higher), and ISIS 5000/7000 shared storage environments, enabling real-time collaborative workflows and productivity-enhancing use of previously stored footage
- Supports Avid VideoRAID SR fail-safe local storage for guaranteed high performance, even in the event of a disk drive failure or during a drive rebuild (VideoRAID ST not supported)
