Picture Editing

• Unlimited number of video and overlay tracks
• Mix multiple compression ratios, resolutions and proxy images within a sequence
• Direct timeline manipulation of all edits
• Source-side timeline display mode
• Timeline multi-selection for copying, moving and adding effects to multiple clips
• Ability to overwrite, insert, and replace editing with fit-to-fill capabilities
• Split edits and sync-point editing
• Video interlacing and de-interlacing
• 3:2 pull-down removal and replacement
• Sync selection for adding edits to multiple clips simultaneously
• Sophisticated sync-locking capabilities
• Global and local timeline ripple controls
• Full-featured edit trimming, clip rolling and slipping tools
• New zoom and pan controls for easy manipulation of the image
• Unlimited clip, track and timeline-based effects
• Timeline overview area for fast orientation and navigation
• Ability to display tracks in small, standard or large format
• Ability to customize start time in the timeline
• Match-frame and match-clip capabilities
• Clip and timeline-based markers for navigation and synchronization
• Containers for managing multi-layer effects and organizing complex timelines
• Reference clips allow sharing and reuse of containers with multiple layers and effects
• Simple powerful user interface including Swift Menus for fast gestural selection of common functions in the Avid DS Nitris system
• Media Composer-style track patching

 

Effects, Filters, Time Effects + Transitions

• Real-time effects at 10-bit HD resolutions
• Real-time dissolves, fades, superimpositions and standard SMPTE wipes
• Real-time 2D DVE Effect
• DVE Hierarchies in effects
• Real-time picture-in-picture effect, improving ability to work interactively with basic scale, border, crop, opacity, rotation and translation effects
• Effects processing at 16 or 32 Float bit precision
• Real-time Avid Symphony-style advanced color correction
• Sophisticated keyframe-animatable interpolated timewarp with position and speed curves
• Motion effects, including strobe, freeze frame, reverse and frame averaging
• High-speed Gaussian blur, noise effects, fractal noise generator, edge detection, custom, emboss, fades, sharpen, reticulation, stamp, ripple, threshold and gradient effects; deflicker, dithering, posterize and solarize effects; film effect simulates appearance of celluloid film
• Automatic drop shadows with independent 3D DVE control
• Hundreds of Avid DS Nitris Painterly Effects and Impressionist effects presets to choose from-or create your own
• 3D warp effect for loading and rendering 3D scenes
• Shape-to-shape spline warping and morphing (based on Elastic Reality technology)

 

Compositing + Tracking

• Compositing on unlimited layers and layer duplication
• Timeline-Tree conversion, layer views, motion region visualization
• Unlimited external mattes per layer with Boolean operations for combining mattes
• Extensive set of compositing operations between layers and mattes
• Full animation of all layer parameters
• Intelligent caching to improve interactive performance
• Direct-manipulation DVE for each layer with motion path editor and real-time wireframe preview
• Global DVE for manipulating several layers at once
• Global DVE in effects tree
• Extremely fast 1-,2- and 4-point motion tracking including the ability to track in fields
• Motion stabilization and de-stabilization
• Corner-pinning
• Painting directly on any layer
• Direct support for images with pre-multiplied alpha
• Field and frame-based rendering per effect
• Comparison buffer-Compare two images using a snapshot (before/after)

 

3D DVE + Character Generation ****

• User friendly 3D environment with interactive OpenGL-accelerated display and true 3D X, Y and Z coordinate space ***
• 3D rotate, scale, translate and skew controls ***
• Animatable camera for simulation of common camera effects, including rolls and zoom-ins ***
• Full object hierarchy with multiple, high-quality specular light sources, reflection mapping and materials editor ***
• Deformation effects such as cylinder, sphere and 3D page curls
• Interactive manipulation of text and shapes with 3D extrusion, displacement mapping and Boolean combinations
• Independent control over face, edge and drop-shadow properties for all text
• Projected, soft and textured drop shadows
• Fully integrated WYSIWYG 2D and 3D text module
• Text along a path, inter-character kerning, fully animatable down to individual characters
• Paragraph formatting controls
• Support for all TrueType fonts; hundreds of Avid DS Nitris fonts included; utilizes MIME for support of multi-byte characters sets for Far East fonts; EPS import

 

2D Character Generator

• WYSIWYG, automatic real-time title rolls and crawls
• Copy/paste support for quick insertion of text from other applications; import HTML files
• Per-character animation, kerning, leading, offset and tracking controls; tabulation and justification
• Per-style selection -Select and modify multiple text elements with common font, style and format attributes with a single click
• Independent control over face, edge and drop-shadow properties
• User-defined text and style presets
• Avid DS Nitris paint effects can also be applied to titles

 

Keying Tools

• Keying can be performed on any layer or inside any paint stroke
• High-quality blue-green chroma keyer with enhanced spill correction
• Built-in garbage matting tools for all keyers
• General-purpose, real-time HLS keyer, linear luminance keyer and chrominance keyer based on selected color
• Difference keyer
• Matte enhancer with sub-pixel shrink and grow
• Painting with keys for fast garbage mattes

 

Color Correction

• Real-time Symphony-style color correction at resolutions up to 10-bit HD
• Global hue, saturation, gain and brightness control
• Constant-luminance controls for shadows, midtones and highlights
• Interactive color-curve manipulation
• Selective color correction based on image alpha channel
• Per-channel gamma, gain and offset tools

 

Paint

• Enhanced Photoshop import with layer transparency and blending
• Vector-based, nondestructive paint system with high-performance raster mode for rotoscoping
• Freehand, polyline and shape-based drawing, animated handwritten strokes, combine or separate strokes, clusters
• Animated stroke morphing and text-to-strokes feature
• Pressure-sensitive painting tools
• Fully animatable and editable brush strokes, shapes and parameters, including interactive brush resizing
• Painting with effects including keying
• Reshaper effect for interactive freehand selection and manipulation of a shape's geometry, without being constrained to control points
• Wireframe preview command for previewing then rendering animated strokes in wireframe mode
• Hundreds of Avid DS Nitris preset brushes, styles, effects and textures
• Custom brushes and custom preset and stackable effects
• Clone and noise tools for single-click scratch, dirt and dropout removal
• EPS file import with retained color properties
• Rotoscoping and matte creation tools
• Paint strokes can be animated by tracking the entire stroke or by applying an unlimited number of trackers to individual stroke points
• Independent viewing and operating on R, G, B and Alpha channels
• Magic Wand tool for selecting image regions based on RGB or HLS value
• Animatable cutouts for selecting and manipulating image regions
• Graphics object view for fast timeline-based selection and manipulation of graphics objects
• Grouping of paint and graphics objects

 

Audio Editing + Mixing

• Unlimited audio tracks for editing
• Support for multichannel audio mixing and panning including 5.1 Surround Sound
• Up to 16 streams of simultaneous 24-bit 96 kHz audio playback
• Sample and frame-based audio editing
• Automatic audio sample-rate conversion
• Real-time, animatable mixing with volume, pan, mute and solo per track; real-time 4-band parametric EQ, 10-band graphic EQ and 3-band tone control
• Direct monitoring of up to 8 audio channels*
• Real-time full dynamics effects, including compression, expansion and limiting
• Real-time fade-ins, fade-outs and cross-fades
• Fast timeline waveform display; sync status on timeline
• Analog-and digital-style audio scrubbing
• Matrix routing
• Input and output VU metering with user-controlled headroom, alignment, minimum level, peak level, peak hold and max hold
• High-quality audio time warp; reverb effect
• Support for optional third-party hardware fader control surfaces

 

Global Features

• Full cache recovery
• Resolution independence-mix and match different resolutions in a composite and customizable output resolutions
• Unlimited levels of undo and redo
• Interactive viewer: comparison buffer, onionskin mode, channel selection, proxy resolution, pan and zoom
• Parameters of effects can be animated with an unlimited number of keyframes
• Unified Animation Editor for editing effect parameters across all toolsets
• Automatic keyframing
• Import and export animations (function curves)
• Unlimited, user-definable presets for all effects
• User-configurable drag-and-drop toolbars
• User-configurable key accelerators with visual keyboard mapping
• User-configurable interface layouts
• Automatic save
• Interactive viewer pan and zoom
• Support for dual-display monitors with on-screen video playback
• Graphics tablet and customizable MIDI control surface support
• Available optional Software Development Kit (SDK) for creating software extensions

 

Video I/O

• 10-bit SPMTE 292M SDI high-definition video I/O (One input, two outputs)
• HD Component YPbPr or RGB Output
• HD XVGA Monitor Output : use any standard computer monitor for low-cost HD monitoring
• 10-bit SMPTE 259M SDI standard-definition video I/O (One input, two outputs)
• Analog standard definition video I/O
• Component YPbPr, S-Video, and Composite Inputs
• Component YPbPr, S-Video, Composite (2) Outputs

• Uncompressed and compressed HD formats:
• 1080i at 30, 29.97, 25 Hz
• 1080 PsF at 30, 29.97, 25, 24, 23.976 Hz
• 720p at 60 and 59.94 Hz

• Real-time mastering-quality Avid DNX encoding at 145 MBit/sec (8-bit 4:2:2) and 220 MBit/sec (10-bit and 8-bit 4:2:2)
• Real-time uncompressed PAL and NTSC ITU-R 601 formats
• Real-time DV25, DV50, and MPEG IMX standard definition formats
• HD Trilevel sync and standard definition sync reference inputs
• Avid legacy standard definition support for uncompressed Meridien JFIF
• HD, NTSC and PAL support on same system without reformatting drives
• Streaming capture and on-the-fly logging
• I/O support for tapes with timecode breaks and repeated timecodes
• Assembly insert mode for output
• 16:9 anamorphic media support
• Sony RS-422 and RS-232 machine control; additional support for VISCA, LANC, Panasonic and JVC Protocols
• 2K/4K RGB editing of DPX files with real-time HD proxy playback and timecode support
• Windows Media 9 HD and SD encoding

 

Audio I/O

• 8 channels of 24-bit, 96kHz digital audio input and output
• Up to 16 streams of simultaneous 24-bit 96 kHz audio playback
• 8-channel AES/EBU digital audio I/O
• S/PDIF Digital audio I/O
• 8-channel XLR balanced audio I/O
• Dual audio monitor outputs
• Audio sampling at numerous rates including 96kHz, 48 kHz, 44.1 kHz and 32 kHz

 

Capture Tools

• Log and capture from tape; capture on-the-fly
• Capture and recapture from still and movie files, frame sequences and audio files in numerous industry-standard formats, including QuickTime, AVI, PhotoShop, Illustrator EPS, TIFF, SOFTIMAGE PIC, Cineon, TARGA, YUV, RGB, AIFF, and PICT
• Advanced AAF conforming from Sympony, Media Composer and Xpress DV systems
• Automatic conform of OMF 2.0 composition
• OMF audio media support
• Batch capture and auto-conform from EDLs (CMX and GVG)
• Imports Avid Log Exchange (ALE) from external clip-logging stations

 

Media Management

• Media management tools for sorting, viewing, moving and deleting media; share media across projects and machines
• Automatic tracking of multiple media compression ratios and resolutions per clip
• Purge tools for selectively deleting unused media
• DPX file support
• Support for High Dynamic Range images
• Thumbnail and details view of annotatable clips and sequences, with clip data tracking
• Search tool for locating clips and sequences
• Sophisticated cache management
• Outsource effect-allows shots to be sent to third-party applications with a live update in Avid DS Nitris
• Ability to import PhotoShop .psd files and preserve all of the layers
• Ability to import Illustrator .eps files and preserve vectors and colors
• Output QuickTime and AVI movies that reference original media in the Avid DS Nitris timeline
• Integration of Avid Unity ProEncode capability for background conversion of media files into popular web formats
• Print conforming log and EDL functionality

 

Avid DS RP System Option

(one license included)

• Allows you to continue working while CPU-intensive tasks are processed in the background on a remote system
• View icon or receive e-mail notification once processing is complete
• Functional with both Avid DS Nitris and Avid DS Nitris Editor systems
• Increases creativity and speeds delivery by network rendering in the background
• Multiple render stations supported over Ethernet or Avid Unity MediaNetwork
• All DS Nitris systems include one seat of DS RP and DMS Broker
• Ability to install on a wide variety of workstations - from one to many, with the same operating system as Avid DS Nitris
• Uses standard network configurations such as 10/100-Base-T Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet or shared storage systems such as Avid Unity MediaNetwork

 

Archive + Restore

• Multiple methods for archiving of project data, video and audio media, and cache files
• Complete archiving of all editorial and effects setup information, including paint strokes, compositing and audio mixing parameters
• Selective restore of any part of an archive
• Automatic conversion of effect alpha channels to mattes for archive
• Automatic, unattended restore of all project data, media and caches

 

Networking + Storage

• Supported in Avid Unity MediaNetwork shared storage environments, enabling collaborative workflows and productivity-enhancing tools
• Supports a wide range of Avid's Local Storage products for fully tested solutions with guaranteed performance

 

*** Available on Avid DS Nitris only not DS Ntris Editor

**** 3D DVE and 3D titling process at 8 Bits only