Liberty is a comprehensive paint, animation and compositing software package for Windows NT/2000/XP as well as SGI Workstations. It is used globally in hundreds of major broadcast and post-production facilities, and has been a standard graphics design package for over a decade.

Seamless Integration
Liberty has been architected to integrate seamlessly into broadcast and post-production environments, in which an application's asset management features and I/O capabilities are as important as its tool set.

Liberty has been designed as a broadcast graphics tool by and for broadcast graphic designers. General-purpose paint applications were originally intended for print and web applications, and are cumbersome in a Broadcast environment. Liberty fits right in.

Plugin Support
Additionally, Liberty V8 features support for Photoshop 5.5 filters and After Effects plug-ins. It features dozens of paint, mask, image adjustment, and text tools, and an unmatched I/O feature set.

Turnkey Options
You may purchase Liberty as a standalone application and install it on your own PC. We also offer the Liberty Reality Studio, a complete turnkey solution packaging LibertyRS software with options for an integrated DDR, a video card for realtime show and video captures, and an LCD tablet input device.

General Features

32 or 64-Bit RGBA
Up to 8,000 x 8,000 pixel resolution
Seamless paint and animation environments
Unlimited layer graphic compositing
Paint and effects on canvas, layers or masks
Paint and effect 2D/3D warp layers
Real-time warp and filter previews
Multi-layer file management
Import/export paint layers as Photoshop layer formats
Unlimited undo/redo (user configurable)
Separate undo for canvas, temp and mask
Undo picture browser
Grid, safe title, panning and magnification tools, plus full-screen canvas view
Supports Photoshop plug-ins
Multi-channel rotoscoping with layers
Fast, automated VTR/DDR rotoscoping tools
Multi-step rotoscope undo
Extensive file importing/exporting
Simple cross-platform connectivity
Comprehensive video board, DDR, disk array support
Record, edit, save, recall, and playback macros
Multiple image and mask buffers
User configurable environment
64-Bit configurable color range display
Pressure sensitive tablet support including erasure pens

Paint Tools

Automatic alpha channel
Over/under painting
Full color palette and alpha channel control
Multiple color space modes (HSV, HSL, RGB, CMYK, color mixer)
Scaleable solid, air, program, & custom brushes
Up to 80 on-line custom brushes (over 300 supplied)
Paint modes including blur, burn, dodge, clone, paste, duplicate, pick, smear, reveal (color, hue, tint and luminance), warp, saturate, de-saturate, dust and emboss
Fold, jitter, noise, fractal and pressure brush modes
Single and radiate line paint
Overlay mode (onion-skinning)

Mask Tools

Automatic alpha channel
Mask tools based on alpha, chroma, color component, color difference, field- difference, grids, hue, luminance and safe areas
Create geometric, text and gradated shapes
Adjust mask tools including blur, clamp, contour, median and shrink
Paint mask tools
Add, subtract and invert mask modes

Image Tools

Comprehensive color/image correction tools with full channel control
Comprehensive image processing tools include blur, edge filter, directional blur, field extraction, edge detect, mosaic, noise, posterize, reveal, ripple, sharpen, tint, bump map & despeckle
Powerful user-defined convolution filters
Adjustable natural texture pattern generator and noise tool
Sphere tool that allows mapping of images onto spheres
Support of After Effect plug-ins in Liberty NT/2000 (includes Boris FX, DFT Composite Suite, DigiEffects, Knoll Light Factory, Panopticum Pan Lens Pro II, Sapphire Effects, Tinder Box I and II & Ultimatte Chroma Keying
Paste modes including shadow, color, distort, extrude, emboss and tile
3D paste and warp corners
Two separate morphing tools
NTSC/PAL color clipping tool
Support of MetaCreations Final Effects imaging plug-ins on the SGI platform
Support of Photoshop plug-ins in Liberty NT/2000 (includes Kai PowerTools from MetaCreations, TypeCaster, Paint Alchemy, Terrazzo from Xaos Tools and Aged Film from DigiEffects)
Blue/Green-screen keyer

Text & Shape Tools

Vector based text outlines available from more than 1300 Bitstream fonts
TrueType and Adobe Type 1 font support
Full editing of size, kerning, leading, alignment and 3D transformations
International accents and characters
International font support
Fully editable polygon and spline tools
Save/recall text, curve and shape files

Animation Features

Unlimited animation layers with single pass rendering
Intuitive color-coded layering time-line
Full spatial and temporal control of motion paths, 3D paste/warp parameters and transparency using dynamic keyframes
Linear or spline speed curves
Wide variety of layer types, including images, filmstrips, masks, film masks, macros, cel & color cycling, morphs, plug-ins, reference, troupe, switcher effects, vector text, and write-ons
Support of MetaCreations Final Effects imaging plug-ins on the SGI platform
Support of Photoshop plug-ins in Liberty NT/2000 (includes Kai PowerTools from MetaCreations, TypeCaster, Paint Alchemy, Terrazzo from Xaos Tools and Aged Film from DigiEffects)
Audio import from Movie files (scratch track)
Support of After Effect plug-ins in Liberty NT/2000 (include Boris FX, DFT Composite Suite DigiEffects, Knoll Light Factory, Panopticum Pan Lens Pro II, Sapphire Effects, Tinder Box I and II & Ultimatte Chroma keying
Seamless integration of paint and effect tools
Motion tracking and image stabilization
High resolution panning backgrounds
Automatic render to VTR, DDR or hard disk
Wireframe, outline, render or movie file previewing
Create templates for repetitive animation
Import 3D image files
Background rendering of animations with easy menu-based set-up and render using multiple processors

Input / Output

Resolution independent for video, film, multimedia, web or print
Support of SGI O2 analog and digital video, SGI Impact digital video and Octane digital video, with real-time paint show and live video grab capabilities
Support of DDRs, including DPS Reality, Aprisa, Accom Abekas Diskus, Sierra Design Labs Quickframe and DVS Pronto Video, via Ethernet or SCSI
Support for Ciprico, DataDirect and Eurologic disk arrays, with real-time video streaming I/O
Automatic Chyron iNFiNiT! & Imagestor! File transfers
Automatic updating of Chyron Imagestor! Database Keyword information
Interface to Chyron Aprisa Still Store
V-LAN support for VTR control
Support of Wacom's Intuos, UD and SD series pressure Sensitive tablets, including eraser pen
Extensive file support including Alias, Aurora.sim Aurora 280, Cineon, DPX, GIF, Chyron iNFiNiT!, Chyron Imagestor!, JPEG, PICT, Photoshop, Pixar, Prisms, QuickTime, RLA, Scitex, SGI.rgb, SGI.mv, Softimage, Targa, TDI, TIFF, Vertigo, YUV, Quantel, AVI & PNG
Import/export of OMF (Open Media Framework) clips
Import/export of Photoshop files with layers
3:2 Pulldown for film/video conversion
Two types of de-interlacing filters
Generate clips for real-time playback on the Chyron iNFiNiT!
Multiple channel output recording
Animation logging
Read Artstar disks
Read files from DP-MAX systems

General Requirements and Support

CPU: Runs on Intel based Windows NT / 2000 / XP systems.
RAM: Minimum 128 MB RAM recommended for SD video work. Minimum 512 MB RAM recommended for HD video or film work.
Disk Space: The installation takes under 400 MB, but you will probably want much more than that for storage of images and clips (min 9 GB).
Graphics: Requires Open GL graphics support, and display settings set for "TrueColor" (1280 x 1024 screen resolution recommended). Ask us for recommended graphics accelerator cards.
Tablets: Wacom tablets, including Cintiq, Intuos and UD Series tablets.
Fonts: TrueType fonts, as well as Liberty's native font format.
Record and Playback: Quicktime and AVI (using the Quicktime library (3.0 or above); makes use of any movie codecs installed on the system).

Video I/O Solutions

SD Paint: Both Chyron's Digital pcCodi board and Bluefish444's Deep Blue I|O provide single frame grab and show, and real-time (live) show of Liberty's Paint Canvas (show of fill and key)
HD Paint: Chyron's HD Duet provides single frame show, and real-time (live) show of Liberty's Paint Canvas (show of fill and key)
Advanced SD Animation: Full support of Chyrons's Aprisa DDR, including clip browse, playback, render, and frame-by-frame grab (clips contain both fill and key). Liberty can run on the Aprisa system (see required graphics support above), or it can access Aprisa systems remotely (via Ethernet). (see http://www.chyrongraphics.com).
Basic SD Animation: The DPS Reality board streams video on and off of a disk array (for example, a Medea disk array (http://www.medeacorp.com). Liberty then accesses these clips as RGBA Targa (TGA) sequences, for frame-by-frame grab and render.
SD Still Store: Full support of Chyron's Aprisa Still Store, including browse, recall, and save of RGBA stills and database information, and browse, grab and show of the frame buffers. Liberty can run on the Aprisa system (see required graphics support above), or it can access Aprisa systems remotely (via Ethernet). (see http://www.chyrongraphics.com).
FTP Interfaces: Chyron iNFiNiT! and ImageStor!, including browse, recall, save, and Chyron Motion File output. (see http://www.chyrongraphics.com).
Other DDRs: Liberty supports a variety of other DDRs, including:
Accom (WSD, Xtreme, 2Xtreme), via SCSI or Ethernet
Sierra Design Labs, via SCSI or Ethernet
Pronto Video, via SCSI or Ethernet
Abekas Diskus, via Ethernet
Image/Clip File Formats

Common Graphics Formats: GIF (stills and animation), JPEG, Photoshop Layers (PSD), PICT, PNG, SGI RGB/RGBA, Targa (TGA), TIFF, Windows BMP/DIB, Liberty IM
Movie Files: Quicktime, AVI, and SGI Movie (SGI Movie on IRIX only)
3D Software Image Renders: Alias (picture and matte), Softimage (PIC and tag), Vertigo, Wavefront (RLA/RLB)
Specialized Film/Post: Kodak Cineon, SMPTE DPX, PDI, Pixar, Prisms
Video Hardware: Avid OMF, Chyron iNFiNiT! RGBA, Chyron ImageStor! stills, Chyron Motion Files, Raw YUV (stills and clips)
Legacy hardware: Quantel VPB, Aurora sim, Aurora 200 series (including 280), DP/Max (DP/Max is read only), Scitex CT2T (Scitex is write only), and Quantel MO import (using software from Aurora Borealis)

Not vista compatible.

Program full tested and 100% working.

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