Avid Cinema
Discover how much fun movie
Features
Easy to use
• Provides ready-to-use storyboard templates
with suggested camera shots and editing tips
• Requires no video editing experience
• Lets you import video, add text, record live
voice-over, and add transitions with a simple
click of the mouse
Versatile
• Includes more than 20 storyboards for home,
school, and business projects
• Allows you to incorporate video, QuickTime
movies, digital images, sound, voice, and
other media into your movies
• Accepts input from a variety of sources,
including a VCR, a camcorder, the Internet,
audio and photo CDs, and a microphone
• Lets you save movies to videotape or as
QuickTime files optimized for presentations,
World Wide Web sites, or Internet exchange
Sophisticated
• Provides Motion JPEG compression and
decompression, so you can view and edit mov-
ies frame by frame just as professionals do
• Adds impact to your movies with more than
two dozen special effects, including popular
transitions such as gradual fade or clockwipe
• Supports multiple audio tracks, so you can
integrate music from audio CDs and add
your own voice-overs
• Lets you type in titles or scrolling credits
With Avid Cinema you can pro-
making can be with Avid Cinema!
This complete hardware and soft-
ware solution from Apple lets you
create professional-looking movies
right on your Macintosh computer—
easily and inexpensively.
Avid Cinema is designed espe-
cially for people with no prior video
editing experience. It guides you
through making your own movies
in four easy steps.
First, design your own movie by
using the storyboard templates pro-
vided for home, school, and business
projects. Each template suggests
camera shots as well as filming and
editing tips to help create an interest-
ing and exciting movie.
Second, shoot your video and
bring it into your Macintosh com-
puter. Third, use Avid Cinema’s
editing features to combine your
video clips, create interesting transi-
tions between clips, and add titles
and credits. Finally, record your
finished movie on videotape, or save
it as a QuickTime movie for use in
multimedia presentations or on a
World Wide Web site.
duce a high-quality videotape with the
click of a button, then hand out copies
to classmates, friends, or customers.
Produce movies of birthday parties,
weddings, graduations, reunions,
recitals, sporting events, award cer-
emonies, and other important occa-
sions. Or create video presentations
for association or professional group
meetings.
Schools can use Avid Cinema to
publish video yearbooks or to cap-
ture highlights of sports, music, and
arts events. Students can use it to
design attention-getting multimedia
reports, and teachers to create
virtual field trips.
Avid Cinema can help businesses
produce sales presentations and train-
ing tapes quickly and easily. These
important materials can be up to
date at all times, because it’s easy to
make new tapes whenever informa-
tion changes.
Avid Cinema: It’s never been so
easy—or so much fun—to edit and pub-
lish movies for home, school, or work.
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Avid Cinema software
Technical Specifications
• Four integrated functions
— Storyboard
Avid Cinema card
— Bring video in
Video specifications — Edit movie
• 30-frames-per-second (fps) Motion JPEG — Send movie out
compression/decompression at 320 by 240 pixels • Storyboard-driven interface
• Vertical and horizontal interpolation and filtering for • Multiple media input formats
high-quality output of up to 640 by 480 pixels — Camcorder
• NTSC or PAL output in composite or S-video format — VCR
Ordering Information
Environmental requirements — QuickTime movies
• Operating temperature: 50° to 104° F (10° to 40° C) — Digital pictures (PICT files)
Avid Cinema
• Storage temperature: –40° to 116° F (–40° to 47° C) — Voice input from a microphone
Order No. M4561LL/A
• Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing — Audio CDs
• Avid Cinema card
• Maximum altitude: 10,000 ft. (3,048 m) • More than two dozen special effects
• Avid Cinema software
• Multiple movie output formats
• Two triple-head composite video cables Size and weight — VHS tape
• One S-video cable • Height: 7 in. (17.7 cm) — QuickTime movie optimized to incorporate into
• Y-adapter cable for providing two-channel • Width: 4 in. (10.1 cm) presentation software programs
audio from your Macintosh Performa to a VCR • Weight: 0.3 lb. (0.14 kg) — QuickTime movie optimized to send across the
• Getting Started manual
System requirements Internet or publish on a World Wide Web site
• User’s guide
• One of the following systems: — QuickTime movie optimized to save on a double-
Related Products — A PowerPC processor–based Apple Macintosh speed CD-ROM drive
Apple Video System Performa or Power Macintosh computer with a PCI — QuickTime movie optimized to save on a
Order No. M2894LL/D expansion slot (such as the 5400 or 6400 series) and quadruple-speed CD-ROM drive
the Apple Video System — Avid Cinema format optimized to export into a
Apple TV/FM Radio System third-party application for continued editing
Order No. M4586LL/A — An Apple Power Macintosh computer with built-in
composite or S-video input and a PCI expansion slot
Apple Presentation System (such as the 7500, 7600, or 8500 series) Storage Requirements
Order No. M2895LL/A • 24MB of RAM Final Disk space required
Apple MPEG Media System • Macintosh system software version 7.5.3 or later movie to edit (approximate)
Order No. M4243LL/A (system software version 7.5.3 included)
5 min. 225MB
• QuickTime 2.5 or later software (QuickTime 2.5
Product specifications are subject to change. 10 min. 450MB
included)
Check with your Apple reseller for the most 15 min. 675MB
• 1GB hard disk
current information about product specifica- 20 min. 900MB
• One available PCI expansion slot
tions and configurations. 25 min. 1.1GB
30 min. 1.35GB

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