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HDV editing using Avid’s Liquid 7.1, Part 4 

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HD’s Stock Rising 

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As the moviemaking world pushes further into the HD realm, so too do the technological specifications of stock footage companies. While major stock footage players insist the imagery they offer remains best defined by the artistic eye of the cinematographers involved, they agree that their imagery, regardless of how acquired, now needs to be finished to HD to satisfy the needs of clients in all sorts of different media....

HDV editing using Avid’s Liquid 7.1, Part 3 

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In the first installment, I asked “What would it mean to your HDV editing workflow if you could insert multiple video formats into a timeline?” We then began to examine this question by looking at Avid’s Liquid 7.1, with which I had created two HDV sequences....

HD Workflow Sensibilities 

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At first glance, the use of a powerful Adobe OpenHD configured system onsite during the current Madonna Confessions Tour for video content manipulation might appear unnecessary, because, at the end of the day, tour engineers decided to display the imagery in standard-definition during concerts....

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SR Tape DI Alternative 

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