Liquid
Edition Forums
- Go here if you want to see what liquid users are asking and saying
about Liquid Edition. IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION - like "WHERE DID MY
SEQUENCE DISAPPEAR TO when my machine hiccupped?? or
WHY IS THIS NOT WORKING?? or HOW DO I DO
THIS ?? - these are the places to go - especially the Pinnacle or Cow
forums. Most of the forums require that you have a log in name
before posting questions or answers. Be sure to use the SEARCH feature as
your question has probably already been answered.
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Avid Liquid |
Became active in November 2005 when Avid purchased Pinnacle. It is
probably the most active forum for Avid Liquid Edition. - covers the gamete
of Liquid - probably the best way to solve or research an issue.
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Creative Cow |
The whole cow forum covers a ton of video related products - Click on the
first Cow (say moo as you click and the site will load faster), then choose
the Avid Liquid forum Not as active as the Avid Liquid Forum mentioned
above.
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Planet Liquid |
Started in 2006 by Joe Figura and supplemented by Dave Stone, there is a
forum here as well as good help on Liquid. Starting in 2007, many free
tutorials began showing up. Also a link to buying various products, limited
- but now under revision in early 2007.
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Edition Planet |
Sponsored by DVCreators.Net - Not as active as
Pinnacle forum - in fact - I don't know if anyone goes here anymore.
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Pinnacle Liquid Edition Board
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This board was quite active until November2005 and has a bunch of great
answers - if they are still there. I haven't visited there for a
long time - but check it out if you would like. |
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Other
Forums - not about Liquid - but you may find these
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VideoHelp |
Used to be called DVDHelp - tons of info on making DVD's with a 1/2 ton of
different products - also buying info on lots of DVD / Video products. |
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DV.com
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Cameras and Sound and more - join and choose Communities, then Forums - lots
of discussions on |
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DVDHelp.US |
This DVD and video info just does not seem to end. How much time do you have
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WrigleyVideo |
This is a Premier site - lots of tutorials on 6.1,6.5 and Pro. Good
discussions on editing techniques can be found. Why would someone go here
once you started using Liquid ?. Mainly for good editing techniques
plus it is always nice to see what Premiere is or isn't doing. There is a
downloadable tutorial section that is excellent. Whatever can be done in
Premiere can be done in Liquid - easier and better ! (Not always true
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FastForwardClub |
A bunch of video forums - big one on wedding and on general
videography. |
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DigitalMediaNet |
Lots of video forums-not many Liquid users hanging around here. |
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PC Mechanic |
Need help with that computer not working right - you might find the answer
here |
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User Sites - These are sites maintained by Liquid users with
helpful links and information about Liquid and related products <
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Link to Avid User Group Sites |
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4EverGroup |
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The 4EVER Group is dedicated to providing resources,
educational materials and services to all facets of the event
video industry. By offering quality products and services, by
hosting educational events and by bringing the industry together
as one support network, The 4EVER Group will help advance and
promote the entire event video industry. |
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WEVA (Wedding Event Videographers) |
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Harold Linke's web site |
Severa freel Plugin Filters for adding Old Time Cinema look, Logo
Removal, and adding a timecode to an existing video.You'll need
VirtualDub for these programs. |
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Ulti-Media
Productions |
You can spend some time here going through Andy Stevens' Editon Tips and
Tricks and a ton of other pages. High speed connection a good thing to
have in negotiating this site ! And maybe some sunglasses and good set
of speakers. |
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Visual Appeal |
Lots of links and info from fellow Liquidian Allen Pilgrim |
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Buying Sites - in the mood to spend money
? We linked so seldom to the following sites that they may or may not
work right. Buying sites seem to change often - but here are a few
links and see how they work for you. Let's us know if there is any
other new sites that become interesting. <<top>
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B&H |
Not the absolute cheapest, but reasonable, reliable, honest and
knowledgeable. Many will recommend that going here will save you headaches.
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ZZounds |
Great for sound gear - including mics and mixers - not much video gear |
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Markertek |
Variety of video gear - cables, zoom controls, fur windscreens, small
monitors |
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G&G Technologies |
Alternative
to B&H - heard good things but no recommendations plus or minus |
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Safe Harbor |
Safe Harbor has been a leading supplier of digital video, animation,
graphics and multimedia tools. Low, competitive prices, a 30-day money-back
guarantee on select video capture cards, and great customer service. |
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Videoguys.com |
Great
place to learn more about video editing products. They have reviews and good
prices on products. They have the hottest selling video products. They
even have some forums that may answer a few questions - or let you post a
problem or two. |
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SuperMeidaStore |
Ritek Ridata G04 4X 4.7GB DVD-R White
Printable 100 pack - print right on the DVD - $ .41/DVD
Ritek Ridata G05 8X DVD-R white inkjet hub
printable 100 pack $ .47 /DVD |
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www.meritline.com
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Ritek DVD-R disks |
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DVD Amaray-style box (plastic cases) by
DiscMaker |
You have to buy 100 at a time and pay $12 shipping - but if you are doing
any production of DVD's at all this is a beautiful DVD case 42 cents each
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has a push-button locking tray hub for easy disc release, and clamps for
multi-page booklets. And here is a
WORD template that you can print out a
label cover that fits inside these cases - Layout with photos and text as
desired (including on the spine) and print away. Then trim to fit the
case. Any decent paper works, but photo paper is outstanding. |
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Other Sites of Interest
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Colorado Film and Video Associartion |
Members meet monthly at smoozers - a great way to meet people in the film
and video field right here in Colorado. |
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Online Magazines related to Video Editing |
A lot about editing and products |
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Motion Backgrounds - aka Jumpbacks
and HFX Effects |
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DECLIC Video |
Visit this site for some FREE Hollywood Effects |
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Digital Juice Jumpbacks |
Jumpbacks are moving backgrounds that make your finished product look
professional. Beware - they are not cheap - but affordable - about $99
a volume. By the way, did you know that you can make your own
Jumpbacks using Liquid ? Or See Bluff
Titler below ! |
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Digital Hotcakes |
Same as above, Maybe a little better priced that Digital Juice - you get a
few more jumpbacks in each volume. Did you read that
you can make your own jumpbacks right in Edition. Also Tony Terrana's
tutorial "Dive into Liquid" shows you how. |
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Media Mixers |
Same as above - but more reasonably priced ($9 - $39) (This is where I get
my jumpbacks !) |
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Bluff Titler |
This $40 product lets you create your own jumpbacks - plus lots lots more. |
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Liquid Edition itself |
There's lots of ways of making jumpbacks. Coming
soon - a short tutorial on creating them in Liquid. |
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DVD Authoring Products
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SureThing |
Printing on DVD's is fashionable and you don't
run the risks of a label fowling up someone's DVD player. Printers that
print to "ink jet printable" DVD's include the Epson R200 ($90 or less)
and R300 (more $$). However, the print program that comes with the
Epson is basic (ok - but basic) - so if you are looking for some hot
labeling software, look into
SureThing...it is
so much better you will be amazed Link to buying ink jet printable DVD's (Ritek's
recommended) -
www.meritline.com.
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DVD-Lab by
MediaChance |
A DVD authoring package, there are 2
packages - standard and Pro. There are 30-day fully functional trials
available. You can start with the standard version and then upgrade later
for the difference between the two ($99 and $199 respectively). Recommended
by several on the Liquid Board
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Nero |
Nero is not an authoring package but a
disc burning package. You still require an authoring package to create the
DVD structure for Nero to burn. Also recommended
in the Liquid Board
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Nero Ultra Edition |
Nero Ultra Edition includes authoring and other
cool features in addition to burning. burns well and has a bunch of side
apps that do all kinds of cool stuff. Main problem with Nero is finding them
all. Just when you think you may know what all it does you stumble into
something fairly new. Dnload version for $80. |
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Useful Complimentary Products
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Discreet Combustion |
(cheaper than After FX and 10 times the power) |
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Audio |
You can download a graphically represented multiband equalizer from
here for free. There are also some other neat free VST plugins here. |
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Martin & Ziegler |
Computer Editing Desks -
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VideoRedo |
Well after Margarita number 6 and alot of web searching, i ran across this
little MPEG video "editor" called VideoRedo... I thought what the heck, lets
try it. So I fire this thing up, import my two hours of video, and within 20
minutes I have all of the crap gone and individual music videos present and
stored on my server, with no rendering. (Read
entire thread) |
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Videomatica
- FREEWARE |
A relational database for labeling and cataloguing miniDV tapes. |
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Blender 3d - FREEWARE |
For 2D/3D stills and animations - This is a full-fledged
application on the order of Maya or Lightwave but free. It doesn't have all
of the bells and whistles of Maya but it has most of them and more are
being added all the time. It's under continual development and new features
get added almost monthly. |
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The GIMP - FREEWARE |
For image manipulation it's hard to beat
The GIMP. Most of
PhotoShop but also at that great price: Free. |
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ImageMagick - FREEWARE |
A robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an
image in many image
formats (over 90 major formats) including popular formats like TIFF,
JPEG, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and GIF. You can also resize, rotate,
sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image or image sequence
and save your completed work in the same or differing image format. Image
processing operations are available from the command line. |
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Bluff Titler |
This $40 product is getting great reviews. Create spectacular 3D text
animations. jumpbacks, typewriter effect, and much more. Visit the site and you will be amazed at
the power of this cheap little program. |
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Camtassia Studio and Snagit |
Want to capture screens and windows as avi's, scrolling windows as a bitmap,
making a training avi from screen captures with added audio and graphics -
this $200 product is you ticket. |
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Windows
Media Encoder 9 - FREEWARE |
This Free program from Microsoft also allows you to capture screens, as well
as create streaming audio and video. |
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Photo Impact - (cheap but powerful option from PhotoShop) |
This $89 program is a highly recommended option to Adobe's $595 Photoshop.
Hear what Andy Steven from the
Pinnacle Message Board says about -
"... I only wish the use of PhotoImpact was more wide spread. IMHO,
it's the greatest graphic program available, bar none. Excellent for video
titling as well with it's ability to save objects in libraries for future
use and extreme advantage.I have client's who forward me work in PSD file
format and it does an excellent job with those as well...Simply a great
program!"
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Virtual Dub - FREEWARE |
Looking for an old time video filter to change the looks of your current
video ? VirtualDub is a freeware video capture / processing utility
for 32-bit Windows platforms written by Avery Lee. It lacks the editing
power of a general-purpose editor such as Liquid, but is streamlined
for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities
for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with
third-party video
filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files,
although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images |
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Harold Linke's web site |
Severa freel Plugin Filters for adding Old Time Cinema look, Logo
Removal, and adding a timecode to an existing video.You'll need
VirtualDub for these programs. |
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Studio 9
Studio 9 PLUS |
The "entry level" video editing program, you can often pick this up for $30
when on sale - and the the extra's (Smartsound, old time movie filter,
capability to open MPG (mpeg2 program streams) files, lots of video and
motion backgrounds, etc. make this a good complimentary product. |
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Video Explosion by Nova |
Here is $89 complimentary product that to many is even a better deal than
Studio 9 because of the amount of extra's that comes with the
package.. |
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MUSIC and SOUND
EFFECTS <<top> |
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Look first in Liquid's sub folders installed on your computer. And if
you have purchased any other video programs, they too may have a bunch of
royalty free music and sound effects. After that...... |
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Public Domain Music |
Here's a good tip from Mike Shaw - Music and lyrics written by an
American author and published in 1922 or earlier are in the Public Domain in
the United States. No one can claim ownership of a song in the public
domain, therefore public domain songs may be used by everyone. |
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SoundFX |
Free Music |
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SimplyTheBest |
Lots of sounds here - and they are free..... |
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SmartSound |
Need royalty-free music (and that is what you need if you want to sell
anything to the public) - SmartSounds are a great way of adding dynamic
music to your production.
The full SonicFire Pro is $499 allows
you to mix and match all kinds of sounds. You get 7 CD's of music sets
(10-15 songs on each) with the $499 price - and each additional CD set is
$99 for 44khz or $50 for 22khz (which is plenty adequate in our opinion.).
For just two music CD's along with the software you will shell out $299. If you have QuickTracks
(Adobe Premiere you can upgrade to the big enchilada
for $99 - but you get just the program. Additional music
CD's costs more. And if you have Studio 8 or 9, you can upgrade to
SonicFire Pro with 2 CD's for $249.
Probably the better deal is for $149 to get Sonicfire
Pro 3.2 —
Digital Creators' Edition — A download-only version of Sonicfire Pro
which includes 8 44k music tracks.
Not cheap but affordable and good. Don't buy the cheaper non-royalty-free music ($29 stuff) made
for Movie Maestro for home video enthusiasts and educators if you intend to
sell you finished product.
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Stock 20 |
$7 songs - you can listen 4 you buy. Haven't tried it - but it might work |
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Band in a Box |
Also from Mike Shaw - BIAB is excellent for creating music from scratch,
with a proper 'middle eight', your choice of instruments and styles (from
thousands available). Your music means the copyright is yours, and the BIAB
performance is also yours - so you claim the royalties. $90 - Mike
says BIAB isn't good for everything - it tends to be biassed towards 'Dance
music', but neverthless, I have used it to re-create classic stuff (Bach, eg)
on Church organs, orchestras and so on. |
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Fresh Music |
Purchase royalty free music - 5 CD's for $99 |
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The Music Bakery |
Check out this site as an alternative to SmartSound. You can just buy the
music individually or in CD's - probably not as flexible and you can still
use SoncFire Pro with the music - no recommendation one way or the other.
Personally most of us have SonicFire. |
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Digital Juice
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Not only jumnpbacks, but music too |
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Killer Tracks |
If you find you must use music created by others that is licensed, it is
much easier and cheaper to get a blanket license from
Killer
tracks which will contain any music you can think of and it is
professional quality audio. We've had this discussion before here on these
forums. Killer tracks is BMG which owns most of the rights to music.
This tip from Stephen Noe. |
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Freeplay |
Be sure to read the license - free only for non-commercial personal use,
educational non-commercial, and ASCAP member use. So it is not really very
free at all. But for personal use only it is fine. Lot's of cautions on this
one from many postings - so check it out carefully. |
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Other Music Sites |
Posting from Pinnancle User Group Site - has several sites to get music -
and NOT get music from - but as always - read the fine print before buying
or using in anything that you sell. |
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Sony Sound Effects |
This
library includes about 1000, high quality WAV files. $16
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Video Explosion |
This lower end video editing program (forerunner of Vegas) has quite a
library of sounds as well as background video |
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Studio 9
Studio 9 PLUS |
This Pinnacle product also gives you quite a bit of sounds and backgrounds -
even includes Quicktracks plugin. You can sometimes find this $99 product
for $50 at software stores. And the new Studio 9 |
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LIQUID 5.5
UPDATES, PATCHES, and FIXES |
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Having trouble getting to the right pages of Pinnacle Support to update your
5.5 version ? It's actually very simple. Go to the
Pinnacle Site, click Support at the
top, then
choose
Liquid Edition under Advanced Editing (or Liquid Edition Pro under
Advanced Editing), and then choose the version of Liquid you are using under
Software Updates and Drivers. |
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ColorCorrectorFilter |
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Free Training Sites |
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The BBC (England videographers know them well) is offering free
On-line Training |
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DV Camera Shooting Guides
DV Lighting Safety Course
DV Usage Guides
Introduction to Video Production
Post Production
Pre-production
Rigorous Recces
Television Glossary |
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COPYWRITE and
You - Do it Right |
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My Voice, My Choice -
Some basic copyright caveats by Douglas
Spotted Eagle in Digital Video Editing Online spells out the do's and don'ts
of using copyrighted music in video work. Well worth reading. And
something you need to know if you are thinking about charging anyone.
(if above link does not work - try this. |
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