Liberty V8 is a comprehensive paint, animation and compositing software package for Windows NT/2000/XP as well as SGI Workstations. It is being used globally in hundreds of major broadcast and post-production facilities, and has been a standard graphics design package for over a decade. General Features 32 or 64-Bit RGBA Up to 8,000 x 8,000 pixel resolution Seamless paint and animation environments Unlimited layer graphic compositing Paint and effects on canvas, layers or masks Paint and effect 2D/3D warp layers Real-time warp and filter previews Multi-layer file management Import/export paint layers as Photoshop layer formats Unlimited undo/redo (user configurable) Separate undo for canvas, temp and mask Undo picture browser Grid, safe title, panning and magnification tools, plus full-screen canvas view Supports Photoshop plug-ins Multi-channel rotoscoping with layers Fast, automated VTR/DDR rotoscoping tools Multi-step rotoscope undo Extensive file importing/exporting Simple cross-platform connectivity Comprehensive video board, DDR, disk array support Record, edit, save, recall, and playback macros Multiple image and mask buffers User configurable environment 64-Bit configurable color range display Pressure sensitive tablet support including erasure pens Paint Tools Automatic alpha channel Over/under painting Full color palette and alpha channel control Multiple color space modes (HSV, HSL, RGB, CMYK, color mixer) Scaleable solid, air, program, & custom brushes Up to 80 on-line custom brushes (over 300 supplied) Paint modes including blur, burn, dodge, clone, paste, duplicate, pick, smear, reveal (color, hue, tint and luminance), warp, saturate, de-saturate, dust and emboss Fold, jitter, noise, fractal and pressure brush modes Single and radiate line paint Overlay mode (onion-skinning) Mask Tools Automatic alpha channel Mask tools based on alpha, chroma, color component, color difference, field- difference, grids, hue, luminance and safe areas Create geometric, text and gradated shapes Adjust mask tools including blur, clamp, contour, median and shrink Paint mask tools Add, subtract and invert mask modes Image Tools Comprehensive color/image correction tools with full channel control Comprehensive image processing tools include blur, edge filter, directional blur, field extraction, edge detect, mosaic, noise, posterize, reveal, ripple, sharpen, tint, bump map & despeckle Powerful user-defined convolution filters Adjustable natural texture pattern generator and noise tool Sphere tool that allows mapping of images onto spheres Support of After Effect plug-ins in Liberty NT/2000 (includes Boris FX, DFT Composite Suite, DigiEffects, Knoll Light Factory, Panopticum Pan Lens Pro II, Sapphire Effects, Tinder Box I and II & Ultimatte Chroma Keying Paste modes including shadow, color, distort, extrude, emboss and tile 3D paste and warp corners Two separate morphing tools NTSC/PAL color clipping tool Support of MetaCreations Final Effects imaging plug-ins on the SGI platform Support of Photoshop plug-ins in Liberty NT/2000 (includes Kai PowerTools from MetaCreations, TypeCaster, Paint Alchemy, Terrazzo from Xaos Tools and Aged Film from DigiEffects) Blue/Green-screen keyer Text & Shape Tools Vector based text outlines available from more than 1300 Bitstream fonts TrueType and Adobe Type 1 font support Full editing of size, kerning, leading, alignment and 3D transformations International accents and characters International font support Fully editable polygon and spline tools Save/recall text, curve and shape files Animation Features Unlimited animation layers with single pass rendering Intuitive color-coded layering time-line Full spatial and temporal control of motion paths, 3D paste/warp parameters and transparency using dynamic keyframes Linear or spline speed curves Wide variety of layer types, including images, filmstrips, masks, film masks, macros, cel & color cycling, morphs, plug-ins, reference, troupe, switcher effects, vector text, and write-ons Support of MetaCreations Final Effects imaging plug-ins on the SGI platform Support of Photoshop plug-ins in Liberty NT/2000 (includes Kai PowerTools from MetaCreations, TypeCaster, Paint Alchemy, Terrazzo from Xaos Tools and Aged Film from DigiEffects) Audio import from Movie files (scratch track) Support of After Effect plug-ins in Liberty NT/2000 (include Boris FX, DFT Composite Suite DigiEffects, Knoll Light Factory, Panopticum Pan Lens Pro II, Sapphire Effects, Tinder Box I and II & Ultimatte Chroma keying Seamless integration of paint and effect tools Motion tracking and image stabilization High resolution panning backgrounds Automatic render to VTR, DDR or hard disk Wireframe, outline, render or movie file previewing Create templates for repetitive animation Import 3D image files Background rendering of animations with easy menu-based set-up and render using multiple processors Input / Output Resolution independent for video, film, multimedia, web or print Support of SGI O2 analog and digital video, SGI Impact digital video and Octane digital video, with real-time paint show and live video grab capabilities Support of DDRs, including DPS Reality, Aprisa, Accom Abekas Diskus, Sierra Design Labs Quickframe and DVS Pronto Video, via Ethernet or SCSI Support for Ciprico, DataDirect and Eurologic disk arrays, with real-time video streaming I/O Automatic Chyron iNFiNiT! & Imagestor! File transfers Automatic updating of Chyron Imagestor! Database Keyword information Interface to Chyron Aprisa Still Store V-LAN support for VTR control Support of Wacom's Intuos, UD and SD series pressure Sensitive tablets, including eraser pen Extensive file support including Alias, Aurora.sim Aurora 280, Cineon, DPX, GIF, Chyron iNFiNiT!, Chyron Imagestor!, JPEG, PICT, Photoshop, Pixar, Prisms, QuickTime, RLA, Scitex, SGI.rgb, SGI.mv, Softimage, Targa, TDI, TIFF, Vertigo, YUV, Quantel, AVI & PNG Import/export of OMF (Open Media Framework) clips Import/export of Photoshop files with layers 3:2 Pulldown for film/video conversion Two types of de-interlacing filters Generate clips for real-time playback on the Chyron iNFiNiT! Multiple channel output recording Animation logging Read Artstar disks Read files from DP-MAX systems

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