InSync's Speed Razor 4 provides the editing and compositing solution for the video professional. Whether you’re editing for TV or corporate in-house training, compositing special effects rich ads and animations or doing straight cuts for long form documentaries, making music videos or multimedia games, Speed Razor gives you the high end tools you need for creating broadcast video from your desktop.

With features that include D1 quality output and full field rendering with no project length limits, flexible effect compositing tools, and real-time audio mixing Speed Razor lets you combine video, audio, animation, stills, and graphics in a single project - for creating images not possible in other editing applications. Optimized to work with leading hardware technology, Speed Razor forms the heart of an professional editing suite that provides the same quality video as a system costing up to 10 times more.

Speed Razor 4.0 S was built for high-speed, high-quality editing and compositing. It delivers dramatically fast processing speed for video effects. The interface is streamlined, clean, and fully multi-threaded for fluid editing. Editing tasks have extensive keyboard and mouse shortcuts, allowing editors to work quickly and accurately through all phases of a project.

In addition to its robust video editing features, Speed Razor delivers realtime audio mixing for up to 20 tracks at CD or DAT quality stereo output, with left, right, front and rear speaker pan. As a creative tool, artists can make use of unlimited video layers for compositing and over 100 adjustable video effects and transitions, with the Inscriber/CG professional character generator bundled at no extra cost!

Speed Razor is the first video editing and compositing software developed for Windows NT. Its true Windows NT 32 bit design and open architecture make it a stable, high powered video editing solution at the core of a nonlinear editing system. Speed Razor provides direct support for high-end video capture boards and other hardware, bypassing 2GB video file limitations common in other editing applications as it assures highest possible quality video output. Leading software effect plug-ins are supported.

Whether you are editing long form video or film, or creating short videos with multi-layered effects, in:sync Speed Razor provides a digital video editing and compositing solution for video projects of any length, complexity, and output level - at an unbeatable price point.

Speed Razor 4's key features:

Direct video file format support for video capture hardware:

Matrox DigiSuite AVI, Truevision Targa DVM, DPS Perception PVD. No 2GB video file limitation or need to make movie.

Dramatically fast processing speed for software render video effects

Redesigned interface: reduced need to open, close or move windows while editing

SMPTE Time Code (VITC, LTC & CONTROL TRACK)

The ability to play straight cut edits in real-time.

Anti-aliasing and interpolation of audio. Built in limiter and gain control.

The ability to edit full screen, 60 fields per second (NTSC) or 50 fields per second (PAL), broadcast quality video

Special audio controls: ability to interpolate and anti-alias audio; built in audio limit and gain control. Realtime stereo audio mixing previews and Razor Reality sound, in-sync's three dimentional sound feature. Plus ACU-sy nc for syncing audio.

RS-422 Deck control, Speed Razor can control a single deck for batch capturing and printing to tape.

Ability to move through timeline and trim with quick keystrokes

Character generators: Inscriber/CG professional character generator bundled, Speed Razor Titles effect for window burn-in and compositing video and text using any TrueType font

A fully anti-aliased and field rendered motion path generator

An infinite number of video tracks

Preview effects over time on VGA screen or external monitor

Digital video effects which can be applied to multiple tracks simultaneously

Transitions which can be applied between multiple tracks the ability to easily see and edit multiple layers of effects

The ability to apply effects which change over time to a clip and to see a preview of effects as the effects parameters are changing

Audio scrubbing & VU meters

The ability to field render effects and transitions

Scalable parameters and advanced node control: Bezier curve adjustments for effects

The ability to handle large image sizes (Up to 4000x4000 pixels) and long image sequences

Edit decision list output and input (CMX-3600)

Project version manager/automatic saving feature

Auto-editing and virtual editing

Dynamic adjustment of volume using a volume fader rather than nodes.

Storyboard library which is filterable and sortable

File formats supported: .PVD (Perception Required), .DVM (Targa 2000/1000 Required), .ANI (DPS PAR Required).BMP, .WAV, .TGA, .SGI, .RAW, .AVI, .DIB.

Software plug-in support for Ultimatte, Inscriber, Boris Effects, Spice Rack, Hollywood FX, Satori Paint and more.

Speed Razor Effects

3D DVE - The 3D DVE treats the clip image like a plane in space which can be resized and rotated on its X (horizontal), Y (vertical) and Z (depth) axes. 3D DVE is useful in spinning, flipping, and moving images off and onto the screen, and creating such effects as video (or other picture) screens within the larger clip image, It can also be used in a variety of ways as a transition. You can place an image within an image using 3D DVE and bend the inside, outside or both images. To do this, see the related tutorial below. 3D DVE can also be used with titles, to tilt or fade them in perspective, as in the movie "Star Wars."The 3D DVE effect lets you scale as you rotate an image. It also lets you source multiple effects to one clip. 3D DVE interpolates and anti-aliases the image as it field renders, to avoid jags where edges meet. It is also useful for subtly correcting skewed images

Add RGB - The Add RGB effect lets you superimpose one image over another. It is specifically designed for adding special effects such as explosions, fire, lightning, fireworks, etc to video images that have been shot against a black background.

Alpha Channels Effects - The Alpha channel is a great tool for animators and others who need to do special effects by combining multiple layers. It can be used for creating unusual borders (such as a periscope, etc), and as a masking technique. It may be helpful to remember that an alpha channel can be thought of as a transparency mask.

The alpha channel is an invisible 4th channel of grayscale. In an alpha channel the black areas will be completely transparent while white areas will be completely opaque. Since black's values are 0/0/0 in RGB color, it reads as transparent. Shades of gray in between will become increasingly transparent as they get closer to black.

An alpha channel is the last 8 bits of a 32 bit image, usually found on a Targa (.TGA) formatted graphic. 32 bit Targa files are created by 3D animation packages such as 3D Studio and by paint packages. There are examples of .TGA images with Alpha channels found on the Speed Razor CD ROM in the Images>Borders directory.

Draw Arrow - You can draw white arrows on a clip in Razor, positioning the X and Y coordinates, length, angle and thickness of the arrow line, and adjusting them to change over time. This is a useful feature which can be used with highlighting an area of a clip or in simply giving directions in a clip.

Black and White Transition - This transition adjusts the grayscale values of a bitmap image (.BMP file) to create a crossfade. For Black to White you must select a bitmap image. You can choose from the more than 100 bitmaps which come with Speed Razor, or you can create your own. See Speed Razor Bitmaps at the end of this chapter for more information.

Black and White Effect - The Black and White effect turns a clip into a grayscale image. When you place this effect it appears on the timeline, taking the clip above it as a source. It has no parameters and is applied constantly for its duration.

Blur - Blur effects soften the image you are working with. There are three types of Blur effects: Fast blur, Circle blur, and Gaussian blur. All can be adjusted over time, and used to fade in or out of a scene. Blurs can be used to create textured effects, blurred text or drop shadows. They can also be applied to feather the edges of text to increase its sense of roundness.

Border - The Border effect lets you add borders around a video, animation, bitmap or other image. You can control the height, width, colors, and transparency of borders around clip frames. Since borders can be adjusted over time, this effect may also serve as a transition, giving an interesting segue between clips.

Brightness - The brightness effect allows you to alter the brightness of a clip over time. This can be used a fade to white or black if you want to control the speed or consistency of the fade (i.e. an oscillating fade.) It is also useful in compensating over and underexposed passages in your video.

Chroma key - Chroma keying (or color difference keying) lets you to pick up a color in the source image and key out that color. You can alter the chroma key color, and its threshold and blend, over time. You can even apply multiple keys to key out different color values in a single image.

Clock Wipe - The Clock Wipe transition lets you create a widening angle that sweeps in a 360 degree radius, similar to a radar screen, revealing the output source clip 'behind' the input clip. The angle can move clockwise, or counter clockwise, and can start in any spot on the screen, so it can be used for an fanlike transition. Both 'hands' of the clock can move as it gradually opens, and you can also adjust the blend from a crisp, no blend shift to a diffuse transformation.

Color Correction - This effect lets you alter color values in a clip by increasing or decreasing the balance of the colors. Similar to digital still photographic color correction, you can adjust the balance of the three main color channels in RGB color: Red - Cyan, Green - Magenta, Blue - Yellow.

Color Correction is a significant tool for adjusting color distortion when you have a continuous shot going between natural and artificial light. You can compensate for the difference in light temperature between the two light sources, and keep a natural sense of color throughout. Color Correction is also good for creating mood, or color ambience in a scene.

Adjust Contrast - Adjust Contrast lets you alter contrast in a clip over time. Increasing the contrast sharpens and enhances a light/dark quality in the image. Reducing contrast dims the image toward more neutral colors or gray tones. When combined with the Black and White effect, you can create those stylish film noir effects you've always dreamed about. Adjust Contrast and Brightness gives you the added advantage of being able to adjust both image contrast and brightness at the same time, while adjusting image midpoint.

Crop Image - The Crop Image effect is like having a resizable black frame which you can lay over an image, adjust and move around to highlight certain areas. You can adjust the crop size (its height and width), and move the cropping 'frame' either with the Graph tool or by parameter graphs in its dialog.Crop Image is similar to the Border effect in that you can 'frame' out part of the image, but allows you freedom to focus on a specific area of the clip image. It is a powerful transition when applied over time, as a barn door, reveal, or border transition.

Displace - The displace effects exchange color pixels between two source images to create a third image. These effects are useful when combining a video clip with a grayscale .BMP. You can also give the effect of a distorted movement by applying a displacement over time on a still image.

Dissolve - Dissolve is a type of cross fade in which an image is faded depending on its brightness (luminance levels). Dissolve performs a grainy, coarse cross fade, as though the input source image is being eaten away by the output image.

Emboss emboss effect - The Emboss effect lets you give the appearance of embossing one image over another, or creating raised text on an image. You can adjust the light position, light strength, and ambient qualities, and bump height.

Fade - The fade effects allow you to fade a clip to and from black and white. When you apply a fade the clip fades evenly over the time of the effect. For example, "fade from black" evenly fades a clip from black to its original color and brightness.

Fast and Slow Motion - Speed Razor lets you slow down or speed up a selected video or audio clip, creating a slow or fast motion effect.

Freeze Frame effect - Freeze Frame lets you hold a frame of a clip over the length of the effect. When you apply this effect to a clip, it freezes the frame corresponding to the start of the effect, for the length of the effect. In other words, if you want to hold a frame for 10 seconds, drag the effect so it starts at the frame you wish to hold and then stretch it for 10 seconds. The Freeze Frame effect has no parameters

Adjust Gamma - Adjust Gamma lets you match the brightness and quality of the preview on your computer monitor with the external monitor's. The computer monitor generally appears darker than the external monitor. You can adjust the gamma of a clip, which can be used to brighten or darken the image

Glass Texture - Glass Texture allows you to superimpose one image over another to create a third image that resembles the two images refracted through glass. Similar in many respects to the Emboss effect, Glass Texture parameters allow you to adjust light position, strength, and quality, and the bump height on the image. Like Emboss, this is a useful effect for creating unusual titles.

Glow & Glow Alpha Channel - Glow lets you simulate or enhance a neon effect to a clip by feathering all edges of the image. An edge is where two colors meet. This effect is particularly when working with an object or figure against a one color background, where the edges are clear, i.e. with a color keyed image.

Invert effect - he Invert effect allows you to invert each of the image's color channels independently. You can reverse the red, green, blue, and alpha channels. The inversion is complete and constant over the course of the effect.

Iris - The Iris transition simulates a camera iris opening. Create a circular or oval boundary for the output source clip, which can expand, contract, or remain constant over time. You can use Iris equally as an effect. The iris edge may be blended or sharp, and the position, radius and angle of its opening or closing can be set in the dialog.

Looping - Looping lets you repeat a given number of frames for the effect's duration. Repeated frames are taken from the beginning of the effect, and are repeated throughout. You can repeat as many frames as the size of your clip will allow.

Luminance Fade - The Luminance Fade transition uses light and dark values of the input or output clips to bridge the two clips. You have options for emphasizing the brightness or darkness of the cross fade. You can hold the lightest or darkest values of the input source until last, and decide whether input or output source luminance values will underscore the transition's light.

Matte - This effect allows you to apply a matte to a clip. A matte, like a matte around a picture, can be any grayscale image or series of images (also known as a traveling matte) which allow certain areas of a background image to show through.

Page Curl - Pagecurl curls the input image away, revealing the output image. You can adjust the angle, width, brightness, and position of the curl.

Pixelate - The Pixelate effect allows you to alter a clip's pixelation over time. Like most Razor effects it can be used as a transition. Its dialog box provides a choice of pixel sizes from 1 to 1000 pizels.

Raindrop - The Raindrop and Ripple effects are related. In Raindrop waves emanate from a center point (the way a raindrop causes waves), while Ripple lets you work with waves in a linear way. In Raindrop you can adjust the X and Y coordinates of a center raindrop point, in addition to the wave height, wave length or frequency, ripple phase or movement, and angle. The eccentricity of a raindrop is its oval quality; increasing eccentricity makes circular waves more elliptical.

Repeat Fields - The Repeat Field effects allow you to repeat an odd field into an even field or vice versa. When you change a clip's speed or freeze a clip, in order to avoid jaggy or fuzzy jumping caused by the time change on the screen's reading of the fields, the Repeat Field effect correct this motion. There is no dialog box for these effects. To apply one, drag it onto the timeline directly beneath the clip you wish to adjust.

Reverse Frame - Reverse Frame allows you to run a clip backwards. When rendering this effect Razor plays the reverse frame order of the clip, from the end of the effect area to the start. It has no dialog box, though other effects can be applied to reversed frames.

Ripple Image - The Ripple and Raindrop effects are related. Ripple Image creates linear waves across the image while in Raindrop these waves emanate from a center point (the way a raindrop causes waves). In Ripple you can adjust the wave height, wave length or frequency, ripple phase or movement, and angle.

Scale Video - The Scale Video effect allows you to enlarge and reduce the size of the clip two dimensionally. You can use this to distort a clip vertically and horizontally, or restored distorted images to a more viewable format. It is also used for placing more than one clip on the screen at once. You can divide the screen and play multiple clips or several versions of a single clip (regular speed, close up, slow motion...) However, when presenting more than one clip at a time Razor must render each clip separately as a full clip.

Set Channel Values - Set Channel Value effect allows you to alter the red, green, blue and alpha channel values of a video clip. You can make subtle adjustments of image color and transparency or opacity of the color and apply them over time.

Strobing - Often used for stereoscopic effects, Strobing lets you alternate video input between 2 sources. It alternates the number of frames specified from source 1 with the number from source 2 over the duration of the effect. You can choose as many frames as contained in each clip.

Titles - In Razor you can create a wide variety of titles and text effects using the Titles, Subtitles, and Titles - Control Character effects individually or in combination with other effects. Text can appear in any True Type Windows font, and varied in size, style, and color - including gradient color or video fill. Some of the effects you can create with titles in Razor include, scrolling and crawling text from any direction, changing text size over time, and zooming in or out over time as in Star Wars. Text can be made to blur, glow, or fade. It can be rounded as well as given texture. Text can also be made to appear bumped on an embossed surface.

Transparency - This lets you adjust the transparency of a clip, an effect, or a transition. You can choose the source of the effect and then adjust its transparency using the graph. You can use this effect to fade in a clip from black, or any background color you choose.

Trobing - You can create a syncopated, "stutter," or mechanical movement with the Trobing effect, which holds and plays frames at intervals set in the Trobing dialog box. I.e. playing every fourth frame for four frames, or every fifth frame for five frames, etc.

Turn Red/Green/Blue - The Turn RGB effects let you quickly turn an image to red, green or blue. Like the Black and White (grayscale) effect, these effects have no parameters, and the change is constant.

Twist Image - The Twist effect allows you to twist one video clip over another. It is a good tool for doing melting and psychedelic effects. You can use Twist as a transition by twisting into or out of an image. The position, strength, radius, contraction and phase of a twist can be set in its dialog box.

Wipe - This common transition 'wipes' the input source clip with the output source, and can be created in a wide variety of ways. You can adjust the wipe angle, X and Y rotation centers and blend. We have also included a number of preset wipes to give you an idea of what kind of wipes are possible.

Plugins

Speed Razor Batch Capture

• RS422 Deck Control
• SMPTE Time Code
• Frame Accurate
• Batch Recapture

Batch capturing is a great time saver. You tell Speed Razor the in and out points of the footage you wish to capture and name the file in which you wish to store each sequence. Speed Razor will then capture all of the video for you by controlling your deck to find the appropriate in points and then stopping the capture when you get to the end point. Razor does this by controlling any RS-422 compatible tape deck. The deck is connected to your computer's COM port via a special cable which you can buy from in:sync or from other companies.

Speed Razor even lets you capture your source footage at low resoultion and then recapture only the footage you used on the timeline at a high resolution. The entire process is automatic. When you finish editing your project you simply tell Razor to update the capture list, it trims down the capture list to match what's on the timeline. You set a new data rate and then recapture the footage.