 ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE 3
PRODUCTION PREMIUM
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What it does |
When should I use it? |
Complete set of professional video and audio post production tools. Includes desktop non-linear editing system Premiere, Flash, Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator, Soundbooth and Encore.
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For offline and online editing. Capable of
SD and HD formats. |
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APPLE COLOR |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
Advanced grading suite that sits on Final
Cut Pro platform.
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For advanced colour correction and grading of finished programmes. |
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APPLE FINAL CUT
STUDIO 2 |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
Complete set of professional video and
audio post production tools. Includes
desktop non-linear editing system Final
Cut Pro that allows you to edit everything
from uncompressed SD to HDV, DVCPRO
HD and uncompressed HD – as well as
Panasonic P2 and Sony XDCAM HD
tapeless formats.
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For offline and online editing. Capable of
SD and HD formats. |
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APPLE XSAN |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
| Scalable shared storage. |
When working on FCP projects. Where media needs to be shared
between a wider network of cutting
rooms to gain simultaneous access to
material, i.e. useful for multiple cutting
rooms working on the same programme.
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ASTON FAMILY |
ETHOS |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
Two channel version of the Motif enabling
more complex graphics, or combination of
graphics with video clips.
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For greater complexity than a single
layer of text or a large amount of name
captions.
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MOTIF |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
| Caption generator, sometimes referred to
as ‘cap gen’. |
To create a name strap or other text
on screen which sits over your pictures.
Also for end rollers in a linear edit.
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VIP (VIDEO INSERT PLANE) |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
Allows real time video to be recorded and
replayed.
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For greater animation and flexibility.
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AVID EDITING PROGRAMS |
Non-linear editing systems |
Non-linear offline or online editing |
AVID XPRESS PRO |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
A powerful editing application that offers
most of the editing features of Avid
Adrenaline or Media Composer. Xpress Pro
can also be run on a desktop or
(specified) laptop. Normally used at native
DV or offline resolution but can be
configured for SD or HD (using DNXHD).
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For most offline projects that require
later finishing in an Avid online suite.
A cost-effective and compact editing
workstation in work areas or on location,
when offline or DV editing facilities are
required in a limited space. |
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AVID MEDIA COMPOSER |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
Classic family of non-linear editing tools.
Offline/online capable, offering
compression ratios from 1:1 (uncompressed) to 20:1 (heavily
compressed) and native DV. Latest version
is Adrenaline.
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Except in Adrenaline, only runs a single
resolution on the timeline at once. Don’t
do native DV on a Meridian Media
Composer if you can book Adrenaline. |
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AVID MEDIA COMPOSER
(MC) SOFT |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
Software version of Adrenaline. Has all the
editing functionality of an Adrenaline but
with no deck connectivity, therefore
unable to digitise or playout locally.
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For editing offline when no digitising or
playout is required. Can be used to export
files e.g. can be used to take projects off
Unity and repackage for the web.
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AVID ADRENALINE |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
Offline/online non-linear editor capable of
offering a variety of SD compression ratios
and native DV. In addition, it can offer HD
using Avid's DNxHD compression codec.
It also offers support for HDV and DVC
Pro HD codecs.
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Offline/online editing capable of HD.
Permits any combination of resolutions on
the timeline. |
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AVID NITRIS |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
A multi-stream, 10-bit uncompressed
HD and SD finishing and mastering
workstation. Capable of working with
compressed (DNxHD) or uncompressed
HD formats. Comes with two software
options: DS Nitris and Symphony Nitris.
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For complex programmes with lots of
effects and graphics. |
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AVID DS NITRIS |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
Complex HD and SD effects tool for
special effects heavy sequences. Similar
abilities to Autodesk Smoke.
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Special effects sequences. |
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AVID SYMPHONY NITRIS |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
HD and SD online non-linear editing that
allows more real time effects than Media
Composer. Good colour correction and
grading/styling ability. Lots of DVE
functionality.
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To finish and grade programmes. |
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AVID SYMPHONY |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
SD version of Symphony Nitris.
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To finish and grade programmes. |
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AVID AIRSPEED |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
Dedicated video ingest, storage, and playout
directly to and from Avid Unity shared
storage.
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For ‘as live’ productions and quick
turnaround e.g. sport, ceremonial events. |
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AVID DNxHD codec |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
A high-definition video post-production
codec engineered for multi-generation
compositing with reduced storage and
bandwidth requirements.
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To deliver high quality HD without
additional computing and storage costs to
manipulate uncompressed HD. |
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AVID INTERPLAY |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
Integrated asset management system.
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To support collaborative ingest, desktop
logging, graphics work and editing for both
Avid and non Avid clients.
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AVID LANshare |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
A Unity product that can be used by up
to 20 workstations at a time with a
maximum of 5 Tb (terabytes)
of storage.
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Ideal for smaller workgroups who need to
share media during post production. |
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AVID UNITY |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
Family of scalable shared network storage
systems, optimised for use with Avid
editing products.
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Where media needs to be shared
between a wider network of cutting
rooms to gain simultaneous access to
material. |
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AVID UNITY MEDIA
MANAGER |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
Asset management system.
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To find, sort and retrieve media quickly. |
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LOGGING PLATFORM |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
Allows media storage at low quality for
viewing logging and storyboarding before
moving to a dedicated non-linear edit.
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Where volume of rushes verses quick turn
around or long production requiring pre
edits to plan further shoots. |
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HIGH END |
AUTODESK FIRE |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
Uncompressed, high-end, non-linear
editing and finishing system.
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For complex effects, powerful colour
correction and motion tracking. Suitable
for promos and pres graphics but also
useful for documentaries and dramas.
Use Fire for editing and Inferno for
graphics.
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AUTODESK FLAME |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
High performance visual effects system.
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For complex effects (a baby Inferno). |
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AUTODESK INFERNO |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
Visual effect system for graphics.
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For complex effects. Ideal for 3D design,
motion tracking, film work and D cinema.
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AUTODESK SMOKE |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
An uncompressed high-end compositing
system offering non-linear editing and
finishing.
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For complex effects, powerful colour
correction and motion tracking. Offers SD,
HD and 2K resolutions. Full HD picture
monitoring.
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QUANTEL EDITBOX |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
Classic non-linear editing and effects
system.
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For short form items like commercials
where little or no sound editing is
required. Offers lots of video effects and
complex graphics.
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QUANTEL eQ |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
An uncompressed, non-linear editing and
effects system. Allows you to work at SD
and HD on the same timeline.
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For uncompressed online finishing for
programmes that need to be delivered in
HD and SD. From the first conform to final
mastering and versioning, the eQ combines
powerful editing, effects and colour
grading tools with ‘resolution
co-existence’.
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EVS LSM XT |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
Hard disc recorder for live
slow motion/playback, devised for use in
quick turnaround operations, allows only
very basic editing.
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For sport or similar programmes where
transmission is not necessarily live, but
may be transmitted ‘as live’ only a few
minutes later. Also useful for ‘instant
replay’ applications and frequently used in
a multi-camera environment such as sport.
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PHOTOSHOP |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
Graphics editor.
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To produce special effects such as
backgrounds, textures, key mattes within a
non-linear edit.
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PIERO |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
A system for generating virtual views of
sporting events and adding 'tied-to-pitch'
graphics.
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To create a virtual stadium, which is
synchronised to the 'real' pictures coming
from the TV cameras. Ideal for sport
analysis.
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SHAKE |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
Compositing and effects software package
for Mac OSX. Layering, tracking,
rotoscoping, painting and colour correction
are all standard effects tools available in
SHAKE.
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For flexible decision making in a non-linear
environment. Technical and creative
decisions can be changed or edited at any
point in the compositing process. |
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SONY DME3000 DVE |
What it does |
When should I use it? |
Digital video effects tool.
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When editing in a linear suite. It allows
complex video manipulation and effects.
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