Products: CutFour HD 3.5

Professional real time HD live video mixing software

» Up to four live video input support + inputs for title overlay, video player, Image source and screen capture
» Video input interface supports Black Magic Design PCI-E capture cards (Decklink series and Intencity Pro). SDI / HDMI / component / S-video / composite video inputs (Depends which capture card model is used)
» Preview for all video input channels without external video monitors
» Video output interface supports Black Magic Design PCI-E capture card (Decklink series and Intencity Pro). Preview output via display adapter second port. VGA / DVI / HDMI interface (depends your display adapter card model).
» Web video streaming with any streaming software in the same desktop PC
» Images and titles over video with alpha channel support
» Program channel capture to AVI or MPEG2 format
» Four channel color corrector
» Picture in picture channels
» Advanced user interface
» Screen capture virtual input to capture Windows desktop area
» Still Image input channel

Easy to use mixing controls

» Several ways to control mixing: Swiching directly by clicking preview image window, using control panel (below) or using shortcuts

Four channel color correction

» Real Time color corrector to each video input channel. White balance, brightness, contrast and saturation control

CutFour HD features

» Supports up to four live inputs from four Black Magic capture cards (not included). 1920 25P/30P 50i/60i, 720 50P/60P, PAL 720x576, NTSC 720x480. One capture card / input channel required. New Decklink Duo SDI capture card with two video channels is also supported. USB3 based Ultra Studio and Intencity Shuttle are not supported.
» Up / down video input/output conversion. PAL/NTSC <-> Full HD. 720P -> PAL/NTSC
» Live video preview to display adapter second port. VGA / DVI / HDMI interface (depends your display adapter card model).
» Output to any web video streaming application in same the desktop PC
» Images and Titles over video with alpha channel support. You can use a third-party application to make titles or images. CutFour supports popular bitmap formats and TIFF and PNG formats with alpha channel control. You can do overlay titles with Adobe PhotoShop®, various title software.
» Full quality AVI or MPEG2 file capture. You can record program to motion JPEG or uncompressed YUV AVI files or 50 Mbit MPEG-2. DV-AVI supported in SD mode.
» Real time color correction for each live input video channel. White balance, brightness, contrast and saturation control.
» Picture in picture (PiP) , 7 channels with crop and soft edges. 1-2 simultanous PiP in HD mode depending CPU power
» Easy-to-use user-customized interface. Simple analog mixer style. Easy control with mouse or shortcuts. Preview to all video inputs. Scalable video windows for program and video inputs.
» AVI file inserts to program. You can insert AVI files to live program using direct cut or selected transition. Loop play support.
» Master audio plugin support. CutFour supports free Acon Digital Media Chainer® plugin. With Media Chainer® you can use any VST® plugin filter, for example VST® audio limiters or compressors.
» 2D transitions. 40 transition fades / wipe effects. Transition usage with control bar, Auto control via mouse and shorcuts. You can select your favorite transitions from Transition list to Transition panel.

Web video streaming with any video streaming software

» Support to Microsoft Expression Encoder ®, Windows Media Encoder 9 ®, Adobe® Flash Media Encoder ®, VLC, Real Media CutFour video/audio output can be used with any DirectShow-compatible application as a virtual DirectShow video input device.

Sport Slow motion option

» Easy to use RealTime 1-20 sec videobuffering for realtime 50% video slow motion replays
» When something interesting happens in playing field director stops videobuffering and can immediately replay video buffer with 50% slow motion
» Sport Slow Motion is option to CutFour that have to buy separately. Price: FREE! to end of February 2012 (Normally: 389€/459$ VAT excluded).

Minimum system requirements

» 2 - 5pcs Black Magic Design PCI-E capture cards. Decklink (PCI-e) series and Intencity PRO. Different card models can be mixed in same PC. Please check your mother board that it includes enough free PCI-e slots
» Black Magic Design PCI-E capture card for full quality video output. Decklink (PCI-e) series and Intencity PRO. Please check your mother board that it includes enough free PCI-e slots
» 4GB RAM
» Intel® Core i7 with turbo mode. NTSC mixing mode needs 15% more CPU power as PAL mode. Intel® Core i7 six core processor recommended to HD web video streaming and more simultanous effect processing.
» Windows 7 64bit
» Graphics card with hardware based DirectDraw overlay with 32-bit color. Two port display adapter is required to preview full screen video to projector.
» SATA 7200rpm or faster hard disk. Raid-0 or SSD configuration recommended.
» Soundcard
» Separate hardware audio mixer is highly recommended with CutFour

Whats new in CutFour HD 3.5 version?

- Transition animation FX feature added. See details from here
- Virtual output setup added with resolution and deinterlace adjustments
- Multiply files import to Title and Image bins
- Multiply files delete to Title, Image and Player bins
- Deinterlace setup added to full screen display output
- Large bin size selection to Title and Image bins
- Audio delay setup added to Other Settings menu
- Targa (TGA) file support added to title files
- DV input support in full HD mode (DV upscale to HD)
- Internal video sync engine improved
- Effects CPU usage reduced
- Swap fields function added to recorded AVI/MPEG2 files
- 16:9 tag added to standard resolution MPEG2 files in 16:9 mixing modes
- Plus several fixes and little improvements

Limitations

» With Intel Core i7 860 CPU you will get four channel video mixer with limited effects (with Turbo mode). PiP is limited to one quarter size PiP and simultanous color correction is limited.
» if you use Black Magic Design capture card to output program video, you can't use same capture card as video input device.
» No audio mixing. Audio capture from main Black Magic Design capture card audio input. Separate audio mixer is needed. Connect audio mixer audio output to one Black Magic Design capture card audio input. Master audio control is supported with Video player mixing.
» Latency time 6-7 frames between in/out. This is typical latency for digital video mixers.