Product specifications

Avid|DS 4.02 Release Notes • June 2001 2
New Features in Avid|DS 4.02
Quarter Resolution Real-time HD
The Avid|DS system now allows you to work in quarter resolution HD, which gives you the same real-time effects
that are available in the standard version of Avid|DS. You can do all your work in quarter resolution HD to view the
real-time effects, and then recapture the media at full resolution to add the finishing touches to your project.
A new option in the Sequence Preferences dialog box, called Enable Real-time Effects, lets you view real-time effects
in quarter working resolution mode.
To enable real-time effects in quarter working resolution mode
1.
From the File menu, choose Sequence Preferences.
The Sequence Preferences dialog box is displayed.
2.
In the Working Video Settings box, set the resolution to Quarter.
3.
Under Quarter resolution working mode, select the Enable real-time effects option.
Note: If you select the Enable real-time effects option when working in Quarter resolution mode, you will not be
able to play back full and half resolution media and caches.
You will also not be able to process Full and Half resolution media using Avid|DS RP when the process request is
sent from an HD quarter resolution sequence. To process your timeline, you must either recapture the full and/or
half resolution media in quarter resolution or deselect the Enable real-time effects option.
Resolutions Available
The following table shows the different resolutions available for the different tasks, as well as the limitations you may
have when working at quarter resolution.
Task Resolutions available Setting
Working resolution Full/Half/Quarter Select the appropriate working resolution from
the resolution icons on the Viewer toolbar.
Processing resolution Full/Half/Quarter Select the appropriate resolution in the
Processing Options dialog box.
Capture resolution Full/Half/Quarter Select the appropriate capture resolution on the
Input panel of the Media Input/Output layout.
"Output to File" resolution Full/Half/Quarter resolution,
however, the output is scaled
(in software) to the requested
resolution.
Select the appropriate output resolution from
the Output panel of the Media Input/Output
layout.
"Output to Tape" resolution
Full/Half/Quarter resolution,
however, the output is scaled
(in hardware) to Full resolution.
Select the appropriate output resolution from
the Output panel of the Media Input/Output
layout.