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The first full-featured media compositor designed for Windows NT

Think broadcast graphics and you automatically think Chyron. Now the leader in professional video graphics brings you Concerto. The first compositor complete with all the professional quality features you need to thrive in today's complex creative environment.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED WITHOUT LEAVING YOUR DESK

Concerto is the only stand-alone compositor that gives you unsurpassed breadth and depth in both compositing and special effects. Now digital artists in corporate video, post production, film and broadcast can unleash their full creative repertoire without paying front-row prices.

You'll unify your creative process by combining multiple layers of video, keys, and graphics in one single effect. Concerto delivers all this, plus tracking, stabilization, various transforms, shapes, and a wide variety of effects.

COMPOSITING WITHIN WINDOWS NT PROVIDES USER INTEROPERABILITY WHILE INCREASING FLEXIBILITY

Concerto features an easy-to-use, automatic image proxy system that lets you work with smaller images, then input in full-resolution. This translation happens automatically, giving you more power and speed than you thought possible. And Concerto is a multi-threaded application that is specifically written to take advantage of multi-processor systems, so you can orchestrate several concurrent tasks in one exquisite performance.

AN INTERFACE SO REFINED, IT THINKS THE WAY YOU DO

Concerto's highly refined interface is based on an "editing" timeline that subdivides into video, audio, storyboard and interpolation graph segments. A set of timeline events can be collapsed and grouped together - even linked from another timeline - making it easier than ever to manage complex projects.

FINELY TUNED TO HARMONIZE WITH THE WORLD'S MOST POPULAR SOLUTIONS

Concerto allows you to easily migrate from the workstation to desktop environment without interrupting your workflow. You'll leverage Concerto's advanced modular architecture to use a variety of third party AdobeTM Premier and Razor plug-ins, plus new plug-ins that create "virtual links" between popular 3D modeling software and other production tools. And all this means you'll work with the latest technology while protecting your current investment against obsolescence.

FEATURES AND BENEFITS

Timeline based Interface

  • Allows for an editing paradigm in setting up clips, effects, composites and other features.
  • It also supports the grouping and collapsing of items on the timeline, making complex projects manageable.
Superior Proxy System

  • This easy to use system automatically integrates high resolution projects on moderately configured workstations.
  • Once your composite is setup with proxies, the system will render in full resolution without user intervention.
Advanced Architecture

  • Concerto is resolution independent and offers unlimited layers of audio and video.
  • Concerto supports full multi-threading and multiple CPU's so you can orchestrate several concurrent tasks in one exquisite performance.
Versatile plug-in support for Audio & Video

  • Means easy access to dynamic effects. You can use a variety of third party AdobeTM Premier 3.2 and Razor plug-ins.
Adjusters & Effects

  • Concerto effects include tracking and stabilization, transform, shapes, keyers and high quality matte tools.
  • Full support of object transformations with rotate, flip, perspective, warp and scaling are provided along with a sophisticated color correction module.
Plug-in's

  • Concerto supports a versatile plug-in architecture with third party plug-ins for: Final EffectsTM, Ad EffectsTM, UltimatteTM, BorrisEffectsTM, and Multimedia EffectsTM, WAVES Power PackTM, Hollywood FXTM, Spice RackTM, RazorTM as well as our own native effects.
Accurate Spline Motion Path

  • Concerto's spline interpolation system ensures that key points are interpolated correctly to make their keyed position by the right frame.
  • Creates mixed shape objects consisting of b-splines, lines, cardinal splines, and Bezier. It facilitates accurate and flexible automated rotoscoping. The assignment of tracking point to shape points is a powerful feature for creating automattes.
Integrated Touch-Up Paint System

  • Paint is integrated into the system so you can paint directly on to your video clips. Brushes include noise, air, chalk, watercolor, smudge, clone and recolor.
Input/Output Formats

  • Concerto imports and exports all leading files formats: AVI, FLC, FLI, TIFF, TARGA, PICT GIF, ICO, JPEG, native Photoshop (PSD), SGI RGB, WAVEFRONT RLA, WAV Audio Files, Alias/Wavefront®, Chyron®, Imagestor, and Liberty files, IFL, and YUV files.
External video device support

  • Audio and Video capture support with logging.
  • Current video output support for Matrox DigiSuite®, Truevision®, Intergraph®, and View Graphics® systems.
Minimum System Requirements

  • 200 mhz Pentium® processor(s)or greater
  • Microsoft® Windows 95 or Windows NT 3.51 or later operating system
  • 64MB RAM or larger hard disk
  • 4 MB video card
  • 4-8 GB hard disk space
Learn more about how Concerto can help you turn broadcast-level video editing into a stellar performance. Call Chyron today at 408-982-8544.