Avid Liquid Pro combines a powerful SD and HD video editor with a versatile breakout box to provide editors and videographers with all the connectivity they need using just a simple USB2 computer connection. Avid Liquid Pro software provides video editing integrated with DVD authoring from the timeline surround sound audio processing and amazing visual effects. The integrated breakout box adds analog and digital video and audio I/O as well as 1:1 and MPEG capture codecs. Features: Editing. Audio. DVD. Effects. One application. Avid Liquid combines powerful video editing integrated with DVD authoring from the timeline surround-sound audio processing and powerful visual effects. Editors only have to learn a single interface to create high-quality video productions with sophisticated effects and audioand quickly output to tape, disc, or streaming media. I/O Flexibility Choose the video and audio connection that suits your footage and equipment: IEEE-1394, composite, component, or S-video video. Avid Liquid Pro hardware adds access to the uncompressed codec for high-quality output as well as MPEG IBP captures at DVD-compliant bit rates for streamlined DVD production. Complete HDV Workflow Avid Liquid Pro features native transfers and frame-accurate editing of 720p and 1080i HDV content. It also includes an MPEG IBP render codec that provides the same 25Mbit workflow editors use with DV media. Format flexibility Avid Liquid Pro supports the Avid Open Timeline: mix content from a variety of sources without having to transcode between formats. Videographers can edit DV, MPEG I-frame, MPEG IBP, uncompressed SD, Windows Media, DIVX and MPEG-4, as well as HDV, in the same timeline. With such a broad palette of native codecs, editors can spend more time creatively editing instead of re-rendering from format to format. Smooth DVD Production Using Avid Liquid Pro software and hardware, editors can capture footage to a DVD-compliant MPEG IBP codec.