Liberty interfaces seamlessly to industry standard I/O equipment such as Chyrons, DDRs, Still Stores, and many other broadcast systems, saving directly to external devices in their native file format while automatically performing video aspect correction. In the case of most consumer desktop paint applications you must manually rescale each graphic to correct the aspect ratio for video, save your image to disk and import it to the destination device. This can be time consuming. Liberty has integrated animation. Most consumer paint applications have no animation capabilities. If animation were required, you would also have to buy Liberty or After Effects or some other animation application. This would mean creating the graphic image in your paint application, saving it to disk, opening your animation application, importing your graphic files and animating them. If you wanted to make changes, you would have to go through the whole process again. In Liberty, because animation is integrated, you can animate and easily make your changes "on the fly" all within the Liberty environment. Although there are key framing type plug-ins available for some applications, these are designed primarily for simple web animations and are extremely, extremely limited in functionality. Liberty reads and writes layer files. So you can still utilize any existing single- or multi-layer material or libraries that may have been created using other applications. If you like the consumer paint applications because of the large selection of plug-ins that are available from third party developers, guess what, you can run Photoshop plug-ins in Liberty. You can also use After Effects plug-ins in Liberty and key frame their variables over time using Liberty's animation tools. Liberty's mask tools are more comprehensive than most competitors in that there are many ways to select and adjust masks more expediently than other products that simply were not designed for quick creation of Broadcast graphics. Liberty, by default views masks as colored, 0-255 opacity level objects, this makes it easy to visualize your work and perform precision paint operations. In addition, Liberty has a separate undo function for masks, which is very handy when switching between operation modes. i.e. One can undo many paint operations without affecting your recent mask adjustments. Workflow: As Liberty has been designed as a broadcast graphics tool by broadcast graphic designers; the menu has a layout that allows for quick graphics creation and output. Other general-purpose paint applications were originally intended for more print/web-oriented applications, and are cumbersome in a Broadcast environment. Liberty also supports other specific frame sequence based operations such as motion tracking/stabilization, rotoscoping and morphing. Products such as Photoshop for example, were not designed for these types of procedures. Liberty supports most movie formats, including AVI, Quicktime, SGI, and OMF. Liberty also has a built-in broadcast safe title/action generator that can automatically key over images in correct aspect ratio. In addition, Liberty will indicate whether colors used are legal for video. Yes, you can buy a cheaper paint application, but Liberty offers so much more functionality and what you lose on the merry-go-round, you pick up on the slide!

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