• Professional-quality opening sequences or segues instantly - with pre-made masks, frames and moving paths
• Choose from a variety of themes and add your own video, images and audio
• Export sequences as virtual clips, which can be opened and further tweaked as required by your production
• All the speed without the “cookie cutter” effect of templates!

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• HDV editing, even on mid-range or mobile machines - in real-time!
• Lower-resolution, easy-on-the-resources proxies are automatically created in the background for files above a preset frame size
• Completely lossless, your final output always links back to the original full-resolution files
• The perfect solution for producers shooting HDV, who want to edit on the go

• Batch capture HDV video from all the latest HDV camcorders and decks, with device control
• Edit HDV either in full-resolution lossless native format or in Proxy Mode
• Freely convert between HDV Program Stream and Transport Stream (.m2t or .mpg), viewing HDV on your PC,or write back to HDV Camcorder or deck
• Convert HDV to WMV-HD, or downconvert to any other SD format of your choice, such as DV, WMV, Quicktime, or MPEG 2 for DVD authoring

• Single-track editing does away with the limitations of A/B roll - you can now place transitions on ANY track
• Expand and collapse video tracks, with automatic transitions on overlaps, and overlay options for clips on every track
• Multiple Timelines give you the flexibility of working on different parts of a project separately. Create a Main Timeline but also work and edit on other timelines, combining them for final output
• Virtual Clips allows you to wrap a group of edited tracks in a timeline window into a Virtual Clip, and easily insert into your main project’s timeline
• Effect Manager offers large buttons and expandable view to put keyframes exactly where you want. Control all aspects of audio video filters and transition, as well as video distortion and moving paths

• Create Dolby® Digital 5.1 Surround audio tracks with channel steering
• NEW Color Correction Tools perform secondary-color correction on selected, defined areas of the clip, with control over Similarity, Feathering and Size of selection
• SmartSound™ integration allows you to create and insert custom royalty-free soundtracks, precisely matching the duration of the video - easy and fast
• All-new Title Tool allows you to resize and reposition text anywhere in the frame, and easily create text crawls and rolls titles
• Enhanced Chroma Key tools greatly simplify keying in backgrounds, with clean edges on foreground subjects
• All-new Video Transitions and Filters give you more creative choices for your video projects
• Organic, modifiable Mask Transitions
• Unique Particle Filters like Clouds, Snow or Rain
• All new Strobe Motion Filter, Flashback transition, Duotone filter and Ghost Motion Filter
• Auto-save functions have been enhanced to automatically save incremental backups at preset time periods. No more hours of lost work due to corrupted project files!
• Unique Enhance Lighting Filter lets you add “fill light” to an image with a dark foreground, without burning out the highlights

• PhotoImpact™ UFO files can be directly inserted in the timeline, maintaining all objects and alpha channel
• VideoStudio™ Integration allows you to directly import your existing projects from VideoStudio
• Multi-threaded rendering allows users to see improved performance from Hyper-Threading CPUs
• Real-time audio preview lets you immediately preview an audio clip on the timeline while adjusting parameters, including Dolby Digital 5.1 steering