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THE Paint & Animation Solution for Broadcast & Post Liberty: Powered By Design
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 Requirements and Support
CPU: Runs on Intel based Windows NT / 2000 / XP systems.
RAM: Minimum 128 MB RAM recommended for SD video work. Minimum 512 MB RAM recommended for HD video or film work.
Disk Space: The installation takes under 400 MB, but you will probably want much more than that for storage of images and clips (min 9 GB).
Graphics: Requires Open GL graphics support, and display settings set for "TrueColor" (1280 x 1024 screen resolution recommended). Ask us for recommended graphics accelerator cards.
Tablets:Wacom tablets, including Cintiq, Intuos and UD Series tablets.
Fonts: TrueType fonts, as well as Liberty's native font format.
Record and Playback: Quicktime and AVI (using the Quicktime library (3.0 or above); makes use of any movie codecs installed on the system).
Video I/O Solutions
SD Paint: Both Chyron's Digital pcCodi board and Bluefish444's Deep Blue I|O provide single frame grab and show, and real-time (live) show of Liberty's Paint Canvas (show of fill and key)
HD Paint: Chyron's HD Duet provides single frame show, and real-time (live) show of Liberty's Paint Canvas (show of fill and key)
Advanced SD Animation: Full support of Chyrons's Aprisa DDR, including clip browse, playback, render, and frame-by-frame grab (clips contain both fill and key). Liberty can run on the Aprisa system (see required graphics support above), or it can access Aprisa systems remotely (via Ethernet). (see http://www.chyrongraphics.com).
Basic SD Animation: The DPS Reality board streams video on and off of a disk array (for example, a Medea disk array (http://www.medeacorp.com). Liberty then accesses these clips as RGBA Targa (TGA) sequences, for frame-by-frame grab and render.
SD Still Store: Full support of Chyron's Aprisa Still Store, including browse, recall, and save of RGBA stills and database information, and browse, grab and show of the frame buffers. Liberty can run on the Aprisa system (see required graphics support above), or it can access Aprisa systems remotely (via Ethernet). (see http://www.chyrongraphics.com).
FTP Interfaces: Chyron iNFiNiT! and ImageStor!, including browse, recall, save, and Chyron Motion File output. (see http://www.chyrongraphics.com).
Other DDRs: Liberty supports a variety of other DDRs, including:
Accom (WSD, Xtreme, 2Xtreme), via SCSI or Ethernet
Sierra Design Labs, via SCSI or Ethernet
Pronto Video, via SCSI or Ethernet
Abekas Diskus, via Ethernet
Image/Clip File Formats
Common Graphics Formats: GIF (stills and animation), JPEG, Photoshop Layers (PSD), PICT, PNG, SGI RGB/RGBA, Targa (TGA), TIFF, Windows BMP/DIB, Liberty IM
Movie Files: Quicktime, AVI, and SGI Movie (SGI Movie on IRIX only)
3D Software Image Renders: Alias (picture and matte), Softimage (PIC and tag), Vertigo, Wavefront (RLA/RLB)
