Avid Cinema

Features

Easy to use

• Provides ready-to-use storyboard templates with suggested camera shots and editing tips
• Requires no video editing experience
• Lets you import video, add text, record live voice-over, and add transitions with a simple click of the mouse

Versatile

• Includes more than 20 storyboards for home, school, and business projects
• Allows you to incorporate video, QuickTime movies, digital images, sound, voice, and other media into your movies
• Accepts input from a variety of sources, including a VCR, a camcorder, the Internet, audio and photo CDs, and a microphone
• Lets you save movies to videotape or as QuickTime files optimized for presentations, World Wide Web sites, or Internet exchange

Sophisticated

• Provides Motion JPEG compression and decompression, so you can view and edit mov-ies frame by frame just as professionals do
• Adds impact to your movies with more than two dozen special effects, including popular transitions such as gradual fade or clockwipe
• Supports multiple audio tracks, so you can integrate music from audio CDs and add your own voice-overs
• Lets you type in titles or scrolling credits

Description

Discover how much fun movie making can be with Avid Cinema!

This complete hardware and software solution from Apple lets you create professional-looking movies right on your Macintosh computer -- easily and inexpensively.

Avid Cinema is designed especially for people with no prior video editing experience. It guides you through making your own movies in four easy steps.

First, design your own movie by using the storyboard templates provided for home, school, and business projects. Each template suggests camera shots as well as filming and editing tips to help create an interesting and exciting movie.

Second, shoot your video and bring it into your Macintosh computer. Third, use Avid Cinema's editing features to combine your video clips, create interesting transitions between clips, and add titles and credits. Finally, record your finished movie on videotape, or save it as a QuickTime movie for use in multimedia presentations or on a World Wide Web site.

With Avid Cinema you can produce a high-quality videotape with the click of a button, then hand out copies to classmates, friends, or customers. Produce movies of birthday parties, weddings, graduations, reunions, recitals, sporting events, award ceremonies, and other important occasions. Or create video presentations for association or professional group meetings.

Schools can use Avid Cinema to publish video yearbooks or to capture highlights of sports, music, and arts events. Students can use it to design attention-getting multimedia reports, and teachers to create virtual field trips.

Avid Cinema can help businesses produce sales presentations and training tapes quickly and easily. These important materials can be up to date at all times, because it's easy to make new tapes whenever information changes.

Avid Cinema: It's never been so easy -- or so much fun -- to edit and pub-lish movies for home, school, or work.

Technical Specifications

Avid Cinema card

Video specifications

• 30-frames-per-second (fps) Motion JPEG compression/decompression at 320 by 240 pixels
• Vertical and horizontal interpolation and filtering for high-quality output of up to 640 by 480 pixels
• NTSC or PAL output in composite or S-video format

Environmental requirements

• Operating temperature: 50° to 104° F (10° to 40° C)
• Storage temperature: ­40° to 116° F (­40° to 47° C)
• Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
• Maximum altitude: 10,000 ft. (3,048 m)

Size and weight

• Height: 7 in. (17.7 cm)
• Width: 4 in. (10.1 cm)
• Weight: 0.3 lb. (0.14 kg)

System requirements

• One of the following systems:
  • A PowerPC processor­based Apple Macintosh Performa or Power Macintosh computer with a PCI expansion slot (such as the 5400 or 6400 series) and the Apple Video System
  • An Apple Power Macintosh computer with built-in composite or S-video input and a PCI expansion slot (such as the 7500, 7600, or 8500 series)
• 24MB of RAM
• Macintosh system software version 7.5.3 or later (system software version 7.5.3 included)
• QuickTime 2.5 or later software (QuickTime 2.5 included)
• 1GB hard disk
• One available PCI expansion slot

Avid Cinema software

• Four integrated functions
  • Storyboard
  • Bring video in
  • Edit movie
  • Send movie out
• Storyboard-driven interface
• Multiple media input formats
  • Camcorder
  • VCR
  • QuickTime movies
  • Digital pictures (PICT files)
  • Voice input from a microphone
  • Audio CDs
• More than two dozen special effects
• Multiple movie output formats
  • VHS tape
  • QuickTime movie optimized to incorporate into presentation software programs
  • QuickTime movie optimized to send across the Internet or publish on a World Wide Web site
  • QuickTime movie optimized to save on a double-speed CD-ROM drive
  • QuickTime movie optimized to save on a quadruple-speed CD-ROM drive
  • Avid Cinema format optimized to export into a third-party application for continued editing

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