Editing

• Multi-Master Editing™ feature allows distribution in multiple formats from a single timeline
• Mixed resolution desktop and editing timeline
• Real-time HDTV editing
• Multi-format capture and playback including PAL/NTSC, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
• Unlimited vertical timeline editing with nested containers for complex visual effects
• Multi-channel audio editing and mixing
• Multi-tape archiving with browsable table of contents
• Real-time 2K, HD, and SD editing
• Support for 4K (4000x3000) resolutions in timeline
• Edit multiple resolutions and formats into a single timeline
• Support for 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 50, 59.94, or 60 fps
• User-definable resolution and frame-rate conversion
• Real-time letterbox and overlays, loop replay, BVB/VBV/VVV previews, field/frame monitoring, full resolution, or proxy monitoring
• WYSIWYG pan and scan
• Track-to-track, real-time video compare (for example, online/offline) function with split or blend.
• Gestural, picture-based editing
• Head/tail, timeline, and storyboard editing
• Detailed clip information including source/record metadata and clip proxy
• Unlimited source/record areas with searchable libraries
• Intuitive track patching
• Cue marks with comments for fast access to specified parts of timeline
• Creative editorial tools—two- and three-point edits, fit-to-fill, four-point edits
• Cut on the fly
• Trim to mark and/or position
• Track Editor lets you view and slide individual keyframes on a track with multiple tracks or keyframes selected
• Insert, overwrite, ripple replace, and replace edits
• Multi-track trim, slip, slide shots, and transitions
• Soft edits—uncommitted edits, transitions, and speed changes for creative experimentation
• SMPTE wipes and fully customizable Bézier shape wipes
• Dissolve to/from color
• Quick splice for adding edits into clips in the timeline
• “Remove match frame edits” function
• Source timeline comparative views for editing source timelines into new programs
• Multilevel match clip for quickly finding the original source material from a timeline clip
• Automatic audio/video sync break detection and correction
• Re-establish new sync relationships between sources
• Fully animatable speed curves with adjustable interframe mixing and trailing for vari-speeds
• Source to record match
• Soft Effects—Timewarp, Color Corrector, Blend, Axis (including animated matte and keying capabilities), and Sparks® plug-ins
• Drag-and-drop Soft Effects directly on timeline clips and preview before processing
• Apply soft effects to blank segments (gaps) in the timeline to modify underlying segments
• Automatically re-apply soft effects to reconformed timeline clips
• Slip soft effects to adjust soft effect timing
• Sophisticated simultaneous master timeline and container view
• Create, drag, drop, and preview effects on any clip, segment, selection, or container in the timeline
• Multi-selection of soft effects with animation controls
• Multiple players on EditDesk for fast sync, trimming, and Soft Effects
• Capture proxy files only, reducing hard drive space
• User -definable hot keys and specialized keycaps
• Hot key dissolves, fades, and audio crossfades
• Lock effects to prevent accidental modification

Audio Editing

• Unlimited audio tracks with 32 tracks of real-time playback
• Fully integrated 24-bit 48 kHz audio subsystem
• Eight AES/EBU outputs from breakout box with SMPTE/EBU LTC timecode output (audio only).
• Audio waveform display with subframe (1/100) accurate editing
• Audio Soft Effects can be created and edited in real-time on the timeline—NEW
• Vari-speed audio scrubbing for selected or all tracks
• Audio timestretch with pitch correction control
• Audio mix-down capabilities, including at file export
• Audio mixing capabilities with fully keyframable animation control of audio levels, pans, and EQ during real-time playback
• VST Audio plug-in support (reverb, modulation, dynamic compression, full parametric EQ)
• Support of external audio controllers with transport control and hot key mapping ability (for example, JL Cooper MCS-3800)
• Audio file import and export (aiff, aiffc, avr, bicsf, MPEG-1, nextsnd, samplevision, soundesigner2, soundfront2, voc, and wav)
• Dolby® E coding support—NEW

3D Compositing

• True 3D space with full camera control and multiple light sources
• Updated UI enhances artist’s workflow. Object node bin and object menu make it easier to add and control elements in the scene—NEW
• Selective lighting with parenting affecting only specific layers
• Surface attributes like shininess and specular highlights
• Bicubic and extended bicubic 3D warping in DVE Layers
• Multiple DVE layers with independent control of key, color correction, tracking, and axis attributes
• Duplicate animations quickly by applying settings to other objects—NEW
• 3D text capabilities
• Schematic editor for viewing and editing compositing workflow—NEW
• Image source nodes for sophisticated matte combinations—NEW
• Copy layer settings, setups and clip references between DVE media layers
• Displacement mapping and motion blur controls
• DVE blend modes, including add, multiply, and subtract
• Import of FBX® 3D files from Autodesk® 3ds Max®, Autodesk® Maya®, Autodesk® MotionBuilder™, and other 3D applications
• Import multiple 3D models on a single layer
• Fully interoperable with Autodesk Inferno, Flame, and Flint Action setups
• Grids and guides for accurate positioning and element layouts

Keying & Color Correction

• Master Keyer with interactive gestural control for complex keying tasks
• Multi-channel Keyer (Color Channel, HLS, YUV, RGB, or RGBCMYL, Luma)
• Adjust and animate tolerance, softness, shrink, and matte erosion
• Full color suppression controls for accurate spill removal
• Foreground/background matte controls for edge blending
• Degrain tool for cleaner matte edges
• Unlimited number of spline-based garbage mattes
• Advanced gradient GMask for defining per-point fade-out from edge of mask
• Selective motion blur of multiple GMask shapes
• Punch matte option for specifying front or back mattes to be used in the composite clip
• Track and automate spline-based garbage mattes
• Colour Warper™ functionality for advanced primary and secondary color correction
• Overlay user interface with dynamic UI visibility to provide more monitor space for viewing high-resolution images
• Use 3D LUTs with a calibrated display to see how a clip will appear on the final medium, such as film. 3D LUTs also have consistency between different products including Autodesk® Lustre® color-grading system
• View a clip with a 3D LUT turned on to see the effect of a 3D LUT without altering the clip
• Commit and process the clip with a 3D LUT applied, allowing for real-time clip viewing
• RGB control of hue, saturation, contrast, gamma, gain, and offset adjustments
• Histogram and curve controls
• Selective correction of highlights, midtones, or shadows
• Advanced color selection and color matching
• RGB color rewiring for color replacement
• Internal waveform and vectorscope
• Comparison buffer for precise color comparisons

Tracking & Stabilization

• High-speed, high-quality motion tracking with four-point corner pinning (perspective)
• Stabilize footage, compensate for transfer jitter and handheld cameras
• Track and automate spline-based garbage mattes
• Precise subpixel field or frame-based motion analysis/motion estimation tools
• Image magnifying glass for accurate positioning of tracker boxes
• Pre-track path analysis and display for more intuitive selection of potential track points
• Advanced controls for smoothing, refining, or locking track data
• Offset, forwards, and backwards tracking for flexibly tracking off-screen and occluded objects
• Copy and paste tracker values into any other channel in any module

Advanced Paint & Filters

• Advanced Paint module, including Autopaint with motion tracking
• User-definable brush properties include size, opacity, shape, jitter, pressure sensitivity, direction, roll, and rate
• Paint effect brushes include blur, clone, drag, impressionist, recursive, reveal, smear, shade, stamp, warp, and wash effects
• Animate, track, and record all brush strokes
• Animatable multilayer geometry and cutouts (including Bézier shapes)
• Complete drawing tools for motion graphics and garbage mattes
• Precise matte extraction for traveling mattes and fast rotoscoping
• Dirt, scratch, and wire removal using the Clone tools
• Hand-drawn garbage mattes and creative painting
• Map multiple keystroke sequences to a single button, field, or function
• Auto matte feature for quickly creating high-contrast mattes
• Highly efficient high-quality Blur filter
• Negative, monochrome, posterize and other commonly used filters
• Optics module for creating glow effects, emboss, fabric, halo, reticulate, sharpen, soften, and so forth
• User-definable matrices or procedural filters
• Film degrain and regrain tools
• Video interlace/deinterlace, field merge, reverse dominance, and so on
• Hundreds of third-party Sparks plug-ins available

Title Animation & Character Generation

• Create and preview Text animation directly in the Timeline using Soft Text
• Create unlimited numbers of animated text layers
• Import standard Adobe® Type 1 and Apple® TrueType® fonts, including Asian (CID) fonts and ASCII text files
• Import standard Open Type fonts
• Library font preview window
• Layer, paragraph, and character hierarchy for layout and animation
• Independent character adjustment of fill, transparency, shadow, outline, underline, kerning, and axis control, logo import
• Animate all text properties including position, shearing, scaling, and rotation by layer or character
• User-definable tab stops for precise text layout
• Spell checking with customizable dictionary
• Create and apply user-definable font styles
• Roll and crawl layers with “Fit Best Speed” optimization for precise roll/crawl speed
• Group, save, and load text layers as one unit

Animation Channel Editor

• Auto Keyframe capability.· Adjust based on absolute or relative values
• Explicit Keyframe, motion path, or direct manipulation animation
• Full cut, copy, and paste curves between channels
• Constant, linear, and hermite animation curves
• Natural interpolation method for dynamically optimized smooth animations
• Mix interpolation methods between keyframes
• Extrapolation setting for controlling the curve before the first and after the last keyframe
• Convert extrapolated curves to keyframed curves for additional manual control
• Curve functions to swap, flip, reverse, simplify, and remove jitter from curves
• Stretch, compress, and offset groups of channels interactively
• User-definable default interpolation modes
• Redesigned UI is standardized across all Autodesk® Editing and Effects systems applications—NEW

Expressions—NEW

• Create accurate animations based on user-programmed parameters.
• Full library of functions including mathematical, logical, and conditional operators, vectors, and constants.
• Parameters can be linked so that an object’s rotation varies as a function of its distance from a light source—as you animate the object’s position, its rotation is calculated automatically.

Conforming & I/O

• Real-time uncompressed RGB HD/SD video I/O
• HSDL I/O for progressive 2K files
• Dual-link RGB 4:4:4 I/O (Telecine/Datacine/HDCAM SR)
• Support for VariCam footage with automatic frame rate conversion
• Import/Export popular graphics files (TGA, TIFF, SGI, DPX, PICT, JPEG, and etc)
• Real-time support for up to 12-bit RGB media
• Advanced conform tools for EDLs, AAF, OMF (with audio media), and Apple® Final Cut Pro® XML
• Keycode support to conform using scanned film frames (DPX) and telecine log (ALE, FLX, ATN)
• Recursively scan file directories for streamlined file import—NEW
• Automatic tape name assignation on file import—NEW
• Control Fire in VTR Emulation mode via RS-422 interface
• Integrated EDL editor and comprehensive EDL management toolset
• Import/export CMX/SONY/GVG EDLs with cuts, dissolves, SMPTE wipes, freeze-frames, varispeed, split edits, and comments
• 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 50, 59.94, and 60fps EDL conform
• 30 to 24fps EDL conversion
• Multilayer, multitrack, or container assembly from multiple EDLs
• Batch capture multiple clips from EDL or Log file
• C-mode auto capture of multiple EDLs with adjustable trim handles
• Capture on the fly, or from In to Out point
• Automatic 2:3 removal on capture; automatic 2:3 insertion on output
• Full project archiving for backup of selected clips, libraries, or the entire project in a single operation. Setups can be archived together with the media.
• Archives may be stored as files, on data tapes (DLT, DTF, and others), or (multi) videotape (SD and HDTV VTR)
• Output multiple clips directly from EditDesk or Clip Library
• Import Photoshop PSD files with layered structure or as a flat image
• Import/export industry-standard video files
• Import Autodesk® Combustion® compositing software tracker, stabilizer, color correction, and Gmask setups
• Soft Import and Publish audio and video to open file systems
• Import 16- and 32-bit floating point OpenEXR image files. Framestore storage, export, and editing support for 16-bit floating point clips—NEW

Storage & Networking

• Autodesk® Stone® Direct—high-speed fiber channel storage solutions for real-time access to high-resolution media
• Stone® FS—advanced file system guarantees performance and reduces fragmentation risks
• Hardware RAID (RAID 5) or Software RAID (RAID 3) to protect from data loss of audio and video media and non-obstructive background healing
• Capacity- and bandwidth-scalable, including delivery in real-time of a single 2K stream, dual HD, and 601 video streams
• Concurrent storage of clips in all supported resolutions without partitioning
• Autodesk® Wire® networking for visual browsing and high-speed transfer of clips.
• Intuitive user interface to browse remote libraries, view proxies, and scrub through clips
• Supports TCP/IP to run on any network

Workflow & Productivity

• Full clip compatibility between all Autodesk Editing and Effects applications for project roundtripping
• Autodesk® Burn® background rendering in the timeline, Clip Library, and modules—NEW
• Integrated Autodesk® Backburner™ monitoring of Burn renders
• Send encoding tasks directly to Autodesk® Cleaner® XL mastering and encoding software for expanded Export Media format and codec support
• Lustre Color Management includes library of display and conversion LUTs and monitor calibration software—NEW
• Keycode support to conform using scanned film frames
• Composition reformatting, for multistandard conversion (SD/HD/film)
• EditDesk search and undo/redo List (up to 50 levels)
• Extended search filters (search range of timecode, name, comment, and more)
• Proxy processing for fast previews
• Advanced proxy controls. Clip proxies defined by size, resolution, or frame rate
• Media unlinking and relinking
• Film color look-up table (LUT) tools
• Record area list view with sortable display (if clip is selected, highlights clips on the timeline)
• Multiselection soft effect editing with animation controls
• Project-based dual-view Clip Library provides media organization and sharing between separate Autodesk advanced systems
• Clip History automatically saves setups of rendered clips, providing a non-destructive way to access intermediate results and to make changes at any time
• Clip History source clip replacement accelerates versioning—NEW
• Clip list view displays history of source clips—NEW
• Reorganized UI takes advantage of the widescreen interface to minimize menu swapping—NEW
• Online help and button tooltips provide quick access to documentation and button descriptions—NEW