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The new Video Editor boasts a completely re-engineered rendering engine to deliver dramatic performance gains. It also incorporates technologies like SmartRender previously only found in turnkey solutions. Video Editor represents a significant advancement in desktop digital video editing.

SmartRender technology renders only project changes, eliminating the need to re-render whole projects and enabling fast previewing.

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Drop unrendered Video Paint and CG Infinity files into the timeline for time-saving and seamless integration.

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Batch rendering of multiple project files saves hours of production time.

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"Partial save and resume" allows partial project rendering, saving and then resume rendering, eliminating re-rendering.

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Automatic hardware acceleration detection offers faster thumbnail display. Support for Microsoft's ActiveMovieTM, Direct DrawTM, and Direct 3DTM further boosts performance.

"Ripple" editing automatically repositions timeline elements after clip insertion or movement.

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New 3D transitions for high impact video projects.

Overlay key options include blue screen, add, subtract, difference, multiple, color, chroma, luma and alpha key or image/video mattes.

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Data rate analysis window allows on-the-fly keyframe addition and removal, letting users adjust the quality and compactness of compressed video.

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Multiple keyframes with user-defined attributes provide unlimited creative options for video output in color clips, transition effect clips, video filter options, moving paths and overlay options.

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Four preview modes: Instant, Best, Optimal and ActiveMovie provide flexible preview options.

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Explorer-style Production Library provides drag-and-drop access to transitions, video filters, audio filters, effects, moving paths, project clips and custom libraries.

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Project creation wizard and templates simplify and speed up project setup. Save project settings as templates for future use. More
Intelligent direction finding and spot position control provide greater transition control.
Built-in waveform monitor and vectorscope allow color calibration of digitized video.
“Freeze Frame” offers convenient freezing of start or end frames in video clips.
Rolling credits feature allows import of ASCII text into Video Editor to create smooth, anti-aliased scrolling titles with shadow, outline and other effects.
Check video quality prior to rendering with compressed video preview.
Background rendering allows users to minimize Video Editor during project file rendering.
Project autosave and project recovery from autosaved versions.
Personalize and save screen layout settings for future use.
Non-linear, non-destructive editing on 99 video & audio overlay tracks.
Mapping of graphics, text or video to 3D spheres or cylinders.
Distortion, rotation, perspective, and flying controls in moving paths.
Point-to-point parameter copying between moving paths.
Variable and reverse video motion.
"Proxy Mode" for faster editing.
Over 50 drag and drop filter effects.
Support for Ulead Image Sequence (.UIS) files and MPEG-1 file formats offer extra compatibility.