SpeedEDIT™ 2 From NewTek $995 USD
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Blazing-Fast Video Editor. World's Fastest Video Editor. SpeedEDIT gives you an easily-navigated interface that can provide greater storytelling flexibility.

NewTek SpeedEDIT™ 2 is a resolution-independent video editor designed to work quickly and efficiently on any video project, from high definition (HD) to standard definition (SD) to Web. SpeedEDIT streamlines the editing process by eliminating unnecessary steps. All editing functions are performed directly on native clips, avoiding the need to transcode or pre-trim content. SpeedEDIT 2 further accelerates the editing process by dynamically linking Storyboard and Timeline, providing the ability to perform many common functions in fewer steps. Ripple edits, clip replacement, segment repositioning, 3D video rotation, color correction, animated titles and image sequence playback are just a few of the everyday tasks that SpeedEDIT 2 performs faster than any other professional editor.

SpeedEDIT 2 works smoothly and natively with MPEG-2, AVI, QuickTime® and most popular video formats in both HD or SD. Enjoy real-time, full resolution on-screen HD previews with IEEE 1394 (FireWire®) output to camera or deck.

Any broadcast, DVD or Web production can benefit from the clean design, streamlined operation, and pristine output offered in SpeedEDIT 2.

Features:

HD Render presets

Whether your are rendering a High-Definition project in Windows Media HD, VC-1, Blu-ray or HD DVD, SpeedEDIT™ already has you covered.

VST Audio plug-in support

Virtual Studio Technology allows you to use hundreds of audio tools for sophisticated sweetening, and SpeedEDIT™ even provides dozen useful audio plug-ins.

Force I-Frames

SpeedEDIT lets you use project markers to determine the exact frame to begin each DVD chapter, for faster authoring.

Project Backup

Let the SpeedEDIT Project Backup Wizard quickly conform all your assests to another drive for easy transProt or archiving.

Resolution independence

It doesn't matter what you want to create, you can output in that resolution. Low-res web streams, standard def, or high def can all be created from the same project file by simply rendering out the desired size.

Edits in native formats

Don’t waste valuable time conforming or converting your clips. DVCPro HD, MPEG-2, M2t, QuickTime, AVI and most other formats are ready to use the moment you drag them into SpeedEDIT™.

Auto-insert fades into project

One keystroke. That’s all it takes to insert smooth fades into a selected region or your entire project. Keep building your story, without even thinking about the process behind it.

Process all clips in HD resolutions

Using Image Super-sampling, SpeedEDIT™ allows you to transparently scale standard-definition clips up to High-definition.

Overlapping clips auto-fade

Just stack clips as you need, and slide them to one side or another to shorten or lengthen the pace of the dissolve. It’s all about working visually.

Modify project WHILE it plays

Enjoy the flexibility of adding or deleting clips from your project -- WHILE it plays. That is flexible.

Global in/out adjustment

SpeedEDIT™ allows you to lasso a group of clips and with one gesture, shorten, lengthen, rotate or color-correct the entire region at once.

Clip roll-over previews in file bin

Quickly choose the shot you want from among numerous takes, and drag it straight to Timeline or Storyboard, without imProting or creating intermediaries or converting or…

Quick copy clips

Need another copy of the clip you’re working on? Hold down Ctrl key and drag a fresh copy, complete with all settings from the original.

Clip inherit

One of SpeedEDIT’s coolest features: If you have already edited, sized or positioned a clip, it can be effortlessly replaced with another by just holding down the Alt key while dragging the new clip on top. All of the already created properties are instantly applied to the new clip.

Local scrubbing

Left-clicking on the bottom of a Timeline clip pops up a thumbnail showing the frame. Holding the left button down and dragging horizontally will perform a ‘local scrub’ of just this clip. This is very handy when you are trying to find a clip or frame in a layer of elements.

Track selection

When active, clicking on any clip in the project causes the time bar to snap to that clip. This behavior can also be refined by having the time bar jump to the first, middle or last frame in the clip.

Fade handles on clips

Instead of invoking Clip Properties panel, grab the fade handle in the lower corners of a clip and drag it inward. This ramps transparency for video and volume for audio clips. Another SpeedEDIT™ workflow boost.

Audio waveform feedback

Any adjustment to audio levels are immediately visible in the clip’s timeline waveform, as you adjust. SpeedEDIT™ workflow is all about feedback now, not when you render.

Intelligent background rendering

HD and multi-layered SD projects may require more disk bandwidth than your laptop can provide. SpeedEDIT™ has dynamic background renders that keep your complex comps ready for playback as soon as possible. Make a small change, and Best that adjusted Protion re-draws for immediate feedback.

Real-time full resolution fielded on-screen rendering

We show real, fielded (or progressive) video on your monitor.

Undo/Redo

Load that project tonight, tomorrow or two years from now, and you can undo your steps back to the project’s first action (if that is how your preference is set).

User presets

Within SpeedEDIT™ is Tool Shed: your secret weapon. Any time you have carefully worked a clip fly-though, a color enhancement or gamma boost, that can be saved as a Tool Shed Preset. The next time it’s needed, there is no need to spend any time on it. Select the clip, choose the preset and click Done. You’re done.

Ctrl-drag a clip into a folder and it saves clip settings

This provides multiple benefits, such as music clips already marked to the beat of the music. These instances point back to the source clips, and take no disk space.

Classify clips by color

Use your own system to visually distinguish between audio narration, music clips and background efx; pinpoint problem areas from your last session; have the freedom in this session to mark something for later…and keep telling your story.

Cut to music (or narration)

With one click, markers can do some very helpful things to your project:

• trim all video clips to fit within markers for building a highlights reel to music or narration.
• razor clips or filters at every marker in the clip, for easy cutting of long takes.

Combine SD and HD clips on the timeline.

This is as big as the clips you'll be editing. Anything can be edited alongside or on top of anything else. Mixing your existing library into your new HD clips never gets in the way of the story, as there’s no converting or re-scaling to distract you.

Real-time up and down conversion

Edit a project in any resolution, from a 320x240 web stream to 2880x1920 max resolution and then render it out to any resolution, progressive or fielded, that you need. This also gives you the ability to output HD, SD and web-sized versions of the same project.

YUV rendering engine

Every imProtant compression format is YUV (MPEG, DV, HDV, DVCPro) so we talk directly to these without color conversions. This results in faster feedback with more accurate color.

Full resolution HD previews

High-Definition brings not just more pixels, but more clarity, detail and subtle coloration. Accurately monitor work as you progress without having to guess.

Real-time HD previews

No intermediaries. Drop an HD clip onto the timeline from a folder and it is ready to scrub and play. Avoid time wasted converting or rendering clips when you could be building your project. SpeedEDIT allows you to send your project back through the camera for HDV project playback on your broadcast monitor.

Output any frame-rate

Whether you are editing for output to Jumbotron, HD, DVD or broadcast, you can provide exactly what your client wants.

Output any resolution

Edit any clips you have, and focus on the pacing and storyline. When completed, you can render out to any resolution you need.

Output any aspect ratio

Regular television aspect or wide-screen support throughout the workflow from capture, to titling and output.

Input most formats

Pay no attention to clip formats, file types or file extensions, and put all your attention on building the project without any performance penalty for mixing different clips.

Output via FireWire

All cameras and decks now have FireWire, making it the simplest way to ingest or lay back video.

Tool Shed automation

Perfect a move or color-correction once. Then, with two clicks, recall it to apply to one or dozens of clips in the project.

CG Post™

CG Post™ allows animated titling in any aspect or resolution. Nearly 200 preset pages allow a quick starting point for fast set-up.

Fully multi-threaded

Push the pedal to the metal. SpeedEDIT™ takes advantage of the new dual-core and multi-processor systems, wringing maximum performance your hardware.

White Balance correction

Sometimes, when shooting quickly, you may not notice that going from full-sun to shade affected your shot, until you examine it later. SpeedEDIT™ lets you make both subtle and major warm/cool correction to your video.

Real-time 3-wheel color correction

While separate color and gamma controls for shadows, mid-tones and highlights has become the standard for color correction, SpeedEDIT™ lets you do this in real-time, with adjustable smoothing between bands for the most subtle corrections or changes. Make adjustments in the most relevant view for you: Color wheel, Waveform or Vectorscope.

4-band color selection

Pick a color. Any color. Now, modify just that color with saturation or hue. Do that three more times and you have the ability to fine-tune anything in the frame.

Simultaneous Storyboard and timeline views

Storyboards are one of the most effective means of story set-up, and are still sketched out to pitch, and then produce commercials, movies and documentaries. Most editing software gives minimal attention or power to any existing storyboard interface. Best SpeedEDIT™ uses storyboarding as a real-time, interactive process beside the timeline.

Dual Timeline views of the same project

Once you begin layering or refining audio, the timeline becomes the best place to work, and SpeedEDIT™ gives you simultaneous wide and close-up views of the project.

Real-time layering

With a PCI express graphics card, enjoy multiple HDV layers with titles in real-time.

3D control of position, size and rotation

When you need it, the visual positioning panel in SpeedEDIT™ is extremely fast. It gets faster and easier when you turn on Auto Keyframe, remembering every move you make.

Spline-based control of all properties and effects

Splines are just ways you connect 2 keyframes with a curve, but this allows very subtle control over audio levels, color corrections and playback speeds.

Real-time image sequence playback

If you have original footage or a LightWave animation as a Targa sequence, SpeedEDIT's intelligent use of meta-data will give you immediate clip playback, in full resolution. This also means while browsing, you can mouse over a Targa frame in a file folder, and get real-time playback of the sequence. Fast and easy.

Mixture of formats with no performance penalty

You will instead be focused on how to pace your story instead of analyzing and then converting clips in the middle of your day.

Real-time chroma and luma keying with spill suppression

Place talent shot in front of green screen in a new environment, or key out black Protions of a clip for video motion graphics.

Real-time high-quality scaling of graphics

This keeps details crisp and clean, whether you are sizing a video clip down as a picture-in-picture, or needing to size an SD clip up to fill an HD frame.

Real-time video and audio filters

All of these filters are real-time, and animatable.

3D audio positioning

With the ease of dragging a target point around a virtual room, you can pan and fade audio through space. You can even keyframe this while the clip is playing.