(Oddly enough, even the Avid Xpress family of products calls bins “bins”.) It’s unclear to us exactly what Avid was thinking here–it would seem that preserving continuity between product lines would be a logical goal, if only to keep their Technical Support team with full heads of hair. For example, what you usually think of as bins are called racks in Liquid. There are a number of things that Liquid does differently than most other editing systems. Note, however, that if you want to import HDV, the help file does warn that some minor additional configuration is required–it’s not quite as plug-and-play easy as using a Mini DV camcorder. A status display appears after a successful import run. We could successfully import pretty much everything we threw at it, except for some QuickTime DV files that we had received for our previous Videomaker Short Video Contest. You can also use the software to edit multi-cam shoots without too many hassles, as well. You can also bring in a project from Pinnacle Studio 10, scan your network for clips, add other media (WMV, AVI, etc.), import still images and create titles. When you start the program, you’re not far from the Import Wizard, which allows for easy capture from DV. The PDF manual is a good reference, but to really learn the system, you’ll definitely want to invest in some kind of third-party training, such as a book, online training, or a class. Avid Liquid 7 comes with a somewhat unusual help system, and an 1,122-page PDF manual installs with the system.
It was not out-of-the-box intuitive to make the program work after we first launched it, as compared to most other recent editing applications that have come through our doors. From a look at the manual, there is a strong impression of an assumption that you have received formal training on Liquid. We tested Avid Liquid 7 Pro on the NLE Systems Kanai Avid Liquid Pro Editing Solution ( Videomaker, March 2006). There are also versions with SDI breakout boxes, referred to as Liquid Chrome HD, ranging in price from $4,995 to $11,995. Owners of Liquid Edition can upgrade to Liquid 7 Pro for $699.
Liquid by itself omits the USB 2.0 breakout box, and retails for $499.
Upgrades from Liquid Edition to Liquid 7 without hardware changes are $199. Preserved are the various pricing/equipment strata. Avid has reworked Pinnacle’s Liquid Edition (and before it was a Pinnacle product, it was FAST FSDV) into Avid Liquid 7, adding SmartSound integration, additional format support, more realtime effects and HDV editing.
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