Today’s demanding environments require your editing system to be able to keep up with your creativity, without slowing you down. With simultaneous playback of four video streams (compressed or uncompressed), six graphics streams and up to four channels of 3D DVE, VelocityQ offers true real-time power. Eight of these video and graphics streams, in any combination, can be transitioned, layered and composited in real-time, with additional streams usable as wipe borders and DVE masks. This is true, instant, full-quality real-time performance — not just real-time previews, and not just in basic effect combinations.

Whether you need VelocityQ’s extensive real-time layering performance for intricate projects such as commercials, promos, intros, interstitials, or “near-to-air” applications, or you simply want the ultimate in editing performance, VelocityQ delivers. Whether your goal is increased return on investment, more time to explore your creativity, or going home earlier, VelocityQ will give you the performance and productivity gains to help you get there faster.

VelocityQ harnesses this power into an intuitive, flexible and customizable interface that makes even the most complex editing tasks easy. The comprehensive feature set includes a broad range of trimming and editing tools, with powerful features such as 3- and 4-point editing, batch re-digitizing, mixable compressed and uncompressed video, the unique EyeCon View timeline tool, and real-time filters including color correction and variable speed changes. Customizable interface options and a choice of control paradigms make VelocityQ easily adaptable to your preferred editing style.

VelocityQ is equally adept whether used on its own, or as part of a complete Integrated Content Environment. VelocityQ is ideal as a comprehensive, independent non-linear editing solution, while easy interoperability with other post production tools and Leitch’s NEXIO™ server family enables it to be an integral part of a streamlined workflow for producing, storing, processing, transmitting and managing content. With VelocityQ, you’ll get the ideal combination of real-time power, quality, productivity, flexibility, reliability, and ease of use, with the features and workflow you need to make the most of your editing sessions.

With VelocityQ, you'll get the ideal combination of real-time power, quality, productivity, flexibility, reliability, and ease of use, with the features and workflow you need to make the most of your editing sessions.

Outstanding Hardware Technology
To build an exceptional NLE with guaranteed real-time performance, you have to start with a solid foundation. VelocityQ is powered by the Quattrus™ hardware platform, developed with the hardware expertise that won us an Emmy® Award in 2000 for Outstanding Achievement in Television Technology.

Building on the features of the acclaimed Reality® hardware, Quattrus features real-time playback of four video streams and six graphics streams. The optional Q3DX2™ dual-DVE and Q3DX4™ quad-DVE daughtercards add two and four channels, respectively, of simultaneous real-time 3D DVE effects. A live video stream (from a camera or deck) can also be combined with these disk-based streams, effectively forming a fifth real-time "motion video" stream!

Amazingly compact, the Quattrus hardware combines all of this real time power with mixable compressed and uncompressed video, flexible professional video I/O, keying, real-time effects processing, multi-channel audio mixing, video alpha channel support, and an integrated Ultra160 SCSI-3 disk controller, all on a single PCI card that requires just one IRQ.

VelocityQ provides comprehensive professional input and output choices for easy integration into any post production environment. Analog composite, Y/C, and component video are standard on the Quattrus hardware, as are balanced and un-balanced analog audio. SDI and digital audio I/O are available as an option, while DV ingest and print-to-tape are supported via your host computer's built-in IEEE-1394 port or OHCI-compliant IEEE-1394 interface card.

VelocityQ also gives you a choice of video storage architectures. The Quattrus hardware includes a dedicated integrated Ultra160 SCSI-3 disk controller supporting up to 15 drives, saving you the expense of purchasing a separate mass storage controller. For those wishing to use a different type of controller or networked storage, VelocityQ also provides the flexibility of using separate system storage controllers over the PCI bus, enabling the use of storage area networks. Multiple VelocityQ systems can be combined with a SAN to form a powerful collaborative editing environment with a common centralized storage pool. The shared storage serves as a central repository for media assets, providing easy access and availability, and enabling multiple editors to access the same raw footage simultaneously.

Intuitive, Flexible and Customizable Interface



VelocityQ uses the same robust software interface as our award-winning VelocityHD format-flexible HD/SD NLE. VelocityQ's customizable interface includes a wide range of features that increase productivity, enhance the editing interface and workflow, and make it easy for users to quickly become proficient with VelocityQ's extensive feature set.

VelocityQ’s timeline interface is both powerful and flexible, with features including independent variable track scaling, mute and solo of video and audio tracks, real-time support for video files with alpha channel, multiple timeline support, and multi-clip editing, enabling edits and effects to be applied to multiple clips simultaneously. VelocityQ also uses our Interactive Editing paradigm, which enables editing and effects application without stopping timeline playback. Captured clips and other media are easily organized into one or more tabbed customizable galleries. Media can be played, searched and managed right within the galleries.

VelocityQ lets you work the way you want to. With user-definable hotkeys, selectable A/X/B and single-track timeline modes and flexible window layouts, VelocityQ can easily adapt to the editing style you prefer. User profiles allow multiple users easy access to their preferred configuration settings. Editing can be done directly on the timeline or through the Trim Window, which provides easy 3- and 4-point edit modes including insert, overlay, slip, slide and fit-to-fill. Standard and Overwrite editing styles can be mode-toggled or performed “per edit” using hotkey modifiers. The Trim Window offers a choice between three-window (in/out/preview) and two-window (source/record) trimming styles, letting you work the way you’re most comfortable. Drag-and-drop-style mouse-based controls, fully configurable keyboard controls and optional external hardware controllers let you choose your favorite control method and style of editing. Whether you’re new to non-linear editing, or upgrading to VelocityQ from a previous system, you’ll find getting up to speed with VelocityQ an easy transition with a very short learning curve.

Multi-Camera Editing Made Easy
With VelocityQ’s integrated, full-quality multi-camera editing mode, captured sequences from up to four cameras can be “sliced and diced” interactively as they are viewed simultaneously in real-time, directly from the timeline. Sequences can even be switched while playing faster than real-time, enabling multi-cam edits to be performed in a fraction of the time of the actual sequence. Multi-camera edits can be refined before applying them back to the timeline with cuts or transitions. For “live” multi-camera applications, VelocityQ can be combined with dedicated ingest stations on a storage area network (SAN), and multi-camera editing performed in real-time as the live feeds are being recorded. Editing a multi-camera shoot has never been easier or faster! Click here for more details of this revolutionary "Live Non-Linear Multi-Camera Editing" capability, which combines the efficiency and immediacy of a live switcher with the non-destructive editing flexibility of an NLE.

Interactive Editing
VelocityQ features our Interactive Editing paradigm. Edits (including adding, deleting, moving and trimming clips) and real-time effects can be applied while the timeline plays back, providing immediate in-context feedback while editing and refining effects.

Instant Transitions and Effects
VelocityQ includes hundreds of predefined and customizable transitions and effects. Transitions can be applied between clips on any video track for editing flexibility, while the Advanced Keyframer provides spline-based adjustments for each effect parameter, delivering maximum control. Optional Q3DX2 and Q3DX4 modules add multiple channels of real-time 3D DVE, masks and “garbage mattes,” keying, blur and more. 3D effects such as rotation, perspective and warp can be applied to graphics as well as video. The Q3DX2 adds two channels of DVE, while the quad-channel Q3DX4 enables four simultaneous real-time 3D effects. All of these effects, plus variable speed changes, reverse, color correction, pixel effects, transparency and more can be combined simultaneously in real-time with transitions and rolling and crawling titles, providing maximum creative flexibility. Effects can be clip-based or applied to entire tracks. VelocityQ’s real-time power provides full-quality interactive feedback on the video monitor while setting up transitions and effects, allowing exceptional precision and easy experimentation. If you ever do need to render, Render Bank™ technology remembers previously rendered segments, eliminating re-rendering.

Comprehensive Color Control
Color correction is an essential part of any editor’s toolkit. Whether you need to match coloration between clips, correct color balance issues caused by mixed or inconsistent lighting, or change the visual tone to give your video a completely different look and feel, VelocityQ has the tools for the task. In addition to real-time proc amp controls, VelocityQ features keyframeable CPU-based color correction including three-way color wheels, curves, color matching, secondary color correction and automatic white and black re-balance.

Easy Visual Reference with EyeCon View™
In addition to flexible picon viewing options on timeline clips, VelocityQ features the unique EyeCon View timeline reference. EyeCon View continuously displays the picons and clip timecode of all visible layers based on the current playhead position, providing constant visual reference for all layers on the timeline while scrubbing and aligning clips, and making it easy to precisely align specific frames across layers. Audio EyeCons display a close-up view of the audio waveform at the playhead’s current frame, making it easy to precisely align clips relative to audio events.

Flexible Format Support
VelocityQ supports both uncompressed and variable-rate compressed video, letting you choose your preferred balance between video quality and storage requirements, with the flexibility to mix compressed and uncompressed footage in the same timeline. In addition to its own uncompressed and compressed formats, VelocityQ also offers direct timeline support for DV media from many tapeless recording devices and Panasonic’s P2 media-less, memory-based products.

Flexible Capturing With Precision Quality Control
Capturing footage is accurate and flexible, with methods ranging from quick capture to frame-accurate batch capture. Proc amp controls, color correction, and an integrated waveform monitor and vectorscope display help keep your video levels within spec and allow you to easily fine-tune both incoming and captured video. Batch recapture allows footage to be captured at offline compression rates and later replaced with higher quality footage for output.

Advanced Audio
Audio is an essential element of most productions, and VelocityQ includes a wide array of flexible features for advanced audio support. Audio control nodes can be created on-the-fly during playback using on-screen sliders or the optional FAD-5000 hardware audio controller, while digital and analog audio scrub make working with audio easy and precise. Voice-overs can be added directly in the timeline while playing back existing audio and video for reference. For additional effects and filters, clip-based DirectShow filters are supported, and real-time .VST audio plug-ins can be applied to entire tracks (with automation) or busses. VelocityQ also features quick editing tools for easily creating both automatic and customized fades and cross-fades, including audio SuperNodes for applying user-defined audio curves non-destructively.

Flexible Output Formats & Web Streaming
VelocityQ lets you easily create output directly from the timeline for any popular distribution format — video tape, CD-ROM, DVD or the web. Web formats including RealNetworks® RealVideo® , Microsoft® Windows Media™ 9 and QuickTime™, as well as Ligos™ GoMotion™-powered MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 formats for CD-ROM and DVD authoring, can be output directly from the timeline in real time. In addition to creating on-demand web files, VelocityQ can also stream to the web live from the timeline. Live video from a camera or deck can be combined in real time with titles, transitions, and previously captured clips, and streamed live for exceptional webcasting flexibility.

Easy Collaborative File Interchange
VelocityQ makes interchange between networked editors in a collaborative environment easy, with automatic detection and collection of new media files. The “Detect ‘n Collect” feature automatically detects new media files in user-specified directories — such as network shares or a common media pool on a SAN — and collects them into the current project’s Galleries.

Extensive Interoperability
Interoperability features such as EDL, OMF and AAF import and export make it easy to interchange projects and media files with other editing systems and post production tools for collaborative work. Plus, our uniquely flexible Virtual Tape File System™ (VTFS™) provides seamless and transparent integration and file interchange with graphics, animation, and compositing systems. Each frame of video on the dedicated media drive is simultaneously available in over a dozen popular image file formats, including TGA, BMP and TIF. Animation sequences can be rendered directly to the VTFS and then easily accessed for playback and editing.

Advanced Compositing With DFX+™
Included with VelocityQ is eyeon Software’s DFX+ for advanced compositing and image processing. DFX+ features the same speed, workflow, and productivity as the acclaimed Digital Fusion™, while taking a modular approach to advanced tools, allowing you to choose just the toolset you need. With a powerful flow-based process, comprehensive tools and many high-end plug-ins available, complex compositions and designs can be achieved with ease. Direct timeline integration with the Velocity software makes it easy for users to harness the power of DFX+. DFX+ effects such as glows, defocusing and warps can be applied to clips from the Velocity timeline, and entire timeline regions can be sent to DFX+ for processing. DFX+ features broad format support of over 20 professional image and 3D file formats, plus features including the Text+ advanced character generator, format and aspect ratio conversion, powerful spline controls to animate any tool, and polygonal effects masks that can be animated to apply effects to user-definable regions. DFX+ can be expanded via optional modules to include advanced features such as tracking, advanced keying, film import, 3D depth tools, network rendering, vector paint, particles and more.

Bundled Tools Enhance System Capabilities
VelocityQ is fully compatible with a wide range of third-party software, and applications for DVD authoring, audio processing and titling are bundled. Plus, VelocityQ includes Q-Tools™ , a suite of standalone utilities that let you customize your workflow for specific applications by allowing individual functions such as capture, playback, and logging to be used independently. Ulead DVD Workshop™ 2 SE lets you author DVD-compliant MPEG-2 files, created directly from the VelocityQ timeline, into a DVD with menus, buttons, chapters, and advanced functionality. Inscriber TitleMotion™ provides a sophisticated interface for titling and character generation, while Sony Media Software’s Sound Forge Studio™ provides a wide range of digital audio editing tools.


Harris Options

 

FAD-5000 motorized external audio fader controller provides an easy, tactile interface to VelocityQ and Velocity’s audio mixing capabilities.		JOG-5000 External hardware jog/shuttle controller provides tactile precision control for scrubbing, trimming, editing and deck control.
	The optional VelocityQ color-coded custom keyboard makes it even easier to take advantage of VelocityQ's extensive array of hotkeys and keyboard shortcuts.		VelocityQ Server Interchange Option enables bi-directional push/pull interchange of media files with Leitch’s NEXIO server system (export to Leitch servers in server-native file formats is an inherent feature of VelocityQ).
BOB-5400 Rackmountable breakout box consolidates all video and audio connections for a truly professional installation, and includes a built-in RS-232 to RS-422 adapter for RS-422 device control. (Included with some models of VelocityQ.)			The digital I/O card make it easy to add SDI and digital audio capabilities to your system.

Flexible Configurations to Meet Your Needs
For customers preferring to build their own host systems or have their reseller configure a system, VelocityQ is available as a boardset-and-software bundle for installation into a Microsoft® XP Professional workstation. For those customers building their own systems, required system specifications are as follows:
 

• Intel Pentium-4 2.8 GHz processor or higher, or dual Xeon processors (Click here for a list of tested compatible motherboards)

• 1GB RAM

• 300 Watt system power supply.

• One unobstructed full-length 64-bit bus mastering PCI slot (or a 32-bit slot that will accomodate a 64-bit board). Additional slot required for digital I/O card.

• At least 500MB of available system hard drive space for drivers and software plus additional space for audio storage.

• 1280x1024 24-bit color display (minimum) (Click here for a list of tested compatible VGA Cards)

• Microsoft Windows XP Professional

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or greater.

• Dedicated system/boot drive.

• Dedicated hard drive for audio/graphics/project files recommended.

• Dedicated SCSI video hard drive array [striped 10,000 RPM drives are sufficient to achieve simultaneous playback of four streams of compressed video (2:1 compression or more; 10MBytes/sec or less per stream); striped 15,000RPM drives are required to take advantage of multiple streams of uncompressed video]

• CD-ROM drive, standard keyboard and mouse.

• NTSC or PAL video monitor.