Grass Valley EDIUS Workgroup 8 | Collaborative Nonlinear Editing Software

EDIUS Workgroup 8 means more formats and more resolutions in real time for the ability to Edit Anything, Anywhere, whether as a standalone user in the field or within network connected production infrastructures. EDIUS Workgroup 8 is the perfect finishing tool for broadcast news, news magazine content and studio programs, as well as organizational, documentary and 4K theatrical productions.

With more creative options and real-time, no-render editing of all popular SD, HD and even 4K formats, EDIUS Workgroup 8 is THE most versatile and fastest nonlinear editing software available.

EDIUS Workgroup 8 from Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, gives you real-time editing of multiple formats and frame-rates all on the same timeline. That means you can edit faster… and make the time to be more creative.

EDIUS Workgroup 8 has optional modules to connect to the GV STRATUS video production & content management system and edit-in-place on a Grass Valley K2 SAN.
Together with GV STRATUS, EDIUS Workgroup 8 introduces powerful speed and flexibility for broadcast, post-production and multiplatfom environments.

News Production
The combination of EDIUS Workgroup 8’s fast and easy-to-use editing capabilities, together with GV STRATUS’s asset management features, allows multiple users to work simultaneously on the same story, sharing media and metadata for super-fast turnaround.

Not only can news organizations get their stories to air faster, but with GV STRATUS’s workflow engine and import/export features, stories can be sent to multiple delivery platforms, such as the web and mobile devices, as soon as they have been edited with EDIUS Workgroup 8.

At the touch of a button, EDIUS users can publish their finished edits to various destinations at once, be it playout servers, content management systems, social media and a digital library.

Post-production & Web Publishing
For film production, promo creation, documentaries and short- or long-form programming, the combination of EDIUS Workgroup 8 and GV STRATUS adds extra value. Efficient content management, workflow automation and storage optimization, including user permissions, are just a few of the features introduced by the tight integration of both applications.

Finished productions can be automatically uploaded to a webpage or video-on-demand location, again with a simple click of a button invoking workflow rules that automate the process of uploading media to a pre-set destination.

A producer or editor could even be working from their home office and access content via a wide area network connection to the production facility. This allows not only searching, streaming and viewing remote assets, but even remote editing with low-resolution proxy copies or transferring high-resolution media to local storage before editing, then conforming back to the shared K2 storage at the production facility for final review and packaging.

More Formats, Better Workflows
EDIUS Workgroup 8 includes native support for all commonly used file formats, including Sony XDCAM, Panasonic P2 and Canon XF and EOS movie formats. For post-production work
you can use Grass Valley’s high performance intermediate 10-bit codec, HQX, or the Avid DNxHD codec.

Where EDIUS Workgroup 8 really shines, however, is with its fast and comprehensive implementation of newer file formats, for example Sony XAVC (Intra/Long GOP)/XAVC S, Panasonic AVC-Ultra, and Canon XF-AVC. With EDIUS Workgroup 8, you’ll always be able to edit, whatever format comes your way.

Grass Valley designs and manufactures high quality desktop I/O hardware for EDIUS Workgroup 8:

• STORM 3G Elite: HD-SDI I/O + HDMI I/O+ analog I/O + RS-422 control
• STORM 3G: HD-SDI I/O + HDMI output + RS-422 control
• STORM Mobile: HDMI I/O + analog I/O
• STORM Pro: HD-SDI I/O + HDMI output

In addition EDIUS Workgroup 8 supports I/O hardware from the following third-party vendors:

• Blackmagic Design
  –– PCI Express: DeckLink SDI, Deck-Link Studio 2, DeckLink SDI 4K, DeckLink Studio 4K, DeckLink 4K Extreme
  –– USB 3.0: Intensity Shuttle, UtraStudio SDI, UltraStudio Pro
  –– Thunderbolt: Intensity Shuttle, Intensity Extreme, UltraStudio Mini Monitor/Recorder, UltraStudio Express, UltraStudio 4K
• Matrox
  –– MXO2 LE, MXO2 mini, MXO2, MXO2 Rack, Mojito MAX
• AJA Video Systems
  –– KONA 4, KONA 3G

Note: RS-422 control not supported with thirdparty hardware

For even more power and creative control during editing, EDIUS Workgroup 8 supports a number of third-party software plug-ins for additional video and audio effects, keying, stabilization and multicam syncing. A list of third-party titling software and effects plug-ins is available on our website.

64-bit & 4K
Designed as a native 64-bit application for Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10, EDIUS Pro 8 takes full advantage of up to 512 GB system memory (for Windows 8/8.1/10 Enterprise and Pro) or up to 192GB (for Windows 7 Ultimate, Enterprise, and Professional) for super-intensive media operations, especially layering, 3D, multicam and multitrack 4K editing.

EDIUS Workgroup 8 is optimized for Intel’s Quick Sync Video, a feature of all current Core processors (Core i7, Core i5 and Core i3) and especially useful for video editing because it significantly accelerates MPEG-2 and H.264 encoding.

EDIUS Workgroup 8 has been further enhanced to use Intel Quick Sync Video for H.264 decoding to give you super-smooth H.264 playback, including 4K.

Powerful Proxy Mode Editing
GV STRATUS incorporates the power and speed of low-resolution proxy editing with EDIUS XS, but with all of the functionality and creative tools of EDIUS Workgroup 8. When editing is completed, the project file is auto-conformed by the GV STRATUS Render Engine workstation computer for final processing and output. Proxy mode editing is also available for systems not connected to GV STRATUS, by using the optional EDIUS XRE conform engine.

EDIUS Workgroup 8 Integrated Components
EDIUS Workgroup 8 integrates with a number of Grass Valley components specifically designed to increase editing efficiency and overall operational workflows.

EDIUS XRE
EDIUS XRE (eXternal Rendering Engine) gives users in a workgroup the freedom to spend their time editing — not rendering or conforming — video projects.

EDIUS XRE is a networked, dedicated workstation that renders files in the background, instantly freeing up your EDIUS editing workstation — or workstations — to work on new projects.

Supplied as a complete turnkey system and connected via Ethernet and/or Fiber Channel*, EDIUS XRE performs the dual role of controller — assigning, managing and, where necessary, re-assigning rendering jobs — and render engine, supporting the extensive list of formats and codecs that has made EDIUS such a force in broadcast production.

Requesting a rendering job is as simple as selecting “Print to File” from the EDIUS workstation, the file format preset and the destination server. Once the instruction has been sent to the server, you are free to carry on with a new project, removing delays and unwanted bottlenecks.

Any workstation on the network can check job histories and the progress of current rendering jobs using the XRE Monitor software application supplied.

Using XRE Monitor, you can view, pause, restart, cancel and check the properties of any render in the job list.

XRE Monitor also has a management mode which allows network administrators to re-prioritize render jobs by moving them up or down the job list.

GV STRATUS
With the GV STRATUS Connect option, EDIUS Workgroup 8 can also use GV STRATUS video production & content management system to find content and drag-and-drop material from GV STRATUS to EDIUS Workgroup.

EDIUS Workgroup can edit from GV STRATUS storyboard sequences, or K2 program/playlist files. Metadata such as markers and keywords added during capture can be searched and displayed.

Edited pieces are sent to the K2 for playout. The timeline can be published as a K2 program (playlist), or as one file (K2 clip). As a clip, it can be used as an event in the GV STRATUS Playlist Editor. The file can be played out of the K2 after approximately seven seconds from when the start of message arrives. The file can be played out while the file transfer is still in progress.

There are also components such as an Assignment List plug-in to integrate GV STRATUS with NRCS systems via the MOS protocol. Leading newsroom systems are tightly integrated with GV STRATUS, increasing flexibility and speed within the newsroom.

EDIUS Workgroup 8/GV STRATUS users can:

• Open sequences from the GV STRATUS storyboard editor
• View and use annotations created by other users in the system
• Create a new project and timeline based on the NRCS story name. This allows users to quickly link text and video within a news rundown, reducing time-to-air and potential operational errors
• View NRCS scripts with production notes and characters-per-second reading rate
• Check real-time status of edited stories, whether still to be edited, awaiting approval or ready for air. This story status is passed by GV STRATUS to the NRCS, allowing news producers and directors to quickly check the readiness of their newscast

Finished stories are sent to the K2 for playout by opening the NRCS rundown view in EDIUS, selecting the assigned story name, and sending. The file can be played out of the K2 after approximately seven seconds. The file can be played out while the file transfer is still in progress.

* If EDIUS XRE is used in a K2 server configuration, Ethernet AND Fiber Channel are required. If EDIUS XRE is deployed in a simple network system, Fiber Channel is not necessary.

K2 Media Servers and Storage
EDIUS Workgroup 8 is a multilayer nonlinear editor with high-level effects capability and the fastest real-time system performance of any editor when integrated within a K2 infrastructure. With the K2 Connect option, it can access and edit-in-place media on a K2 SAN, and can publish finished materials to K2 for playout. EDIUS Workgroup users can:

• Connect directly to the K2 SAN and edit-in-place
• Edit growing files (files being recorded)
• Transfer selected files into local storage for editing
• Send finished pieces to K2 for playout as a rendered clip or K2 program file

Field Editing
The combination of EDIUS Workgroup 8 and GV STRATUS brings the full resources of the newsroom to the field. Both applications employ an extremely efficient proxy workflow, and because of EDIUS’s versatile timeline, you can mix low-res media from the newsroom with hi-res media from the field and send back a project to the newsroom with instructions to GV STRATUS to replace the low-res media automatically.

EDIUS also has a “hi-res proxy” mode — when EDIUS sends back a project it will compress the hi-res clip part to a slightly smaller file (such as to H.264 12 Mb/s) so that it can be sent back faster. The file is smaller but still in HD resolution, and is good enough quality to be played on air for breaking news. The original clip can be sent later so that it can be stripped in for additional editing if required.

This is just one of a number of enhancements that have been made to EDIUS as a result of customer feedback to ensure that it helps news organizations get their stories to air faster.

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