Grass Valley EDIUS Pro
NLE Software for Editing DV, HDV, HD |
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EDIUS 4.6 Now Available (Upgrade Free from EDIUS 4.x) |
| What's new in EDIUS 4.6 |
Grass Valley EDIUS v4.6 has been released and delivers best-in-class editing workflow for all mainstream non-tape based formats. New Features include:
- Enhanced Infinity workflow *
- Support for Sony’s XDCAM EX *
- GXF MPEG Long-GOP support *
- MPEG Long-GOP consolidate
- Faster MPEG Exporters (using Speed Encoder technology)
- EDIUS Broadcast version required
* EDIUS Broadcast version required
FREE Upgrade Now Available for
All Registered EDIUS 4.x Users. Click Here to Register |
Grass Valley EDIUS® Pro video editing software from Grass Valley provides professionals with advanced realtime, mixed format SD/HD editing, compositing, chroma keying, titling and timeline output capabilities. Featuring the revolutionary Grass Valley® HQ Codec, now enhanced to include alpha channel support, EDIUS Pro offers the highest image quality and performance available today in any SD/HD editing solution. Unrivaled video transcoding technology performs realtime conversion between different HD and SD resolutions, aspect ratios and frame rates. Delivering realtime playback and output of sequences, effects, keyers, transitions and titles, EDIUS Pro can export projects to any format or medium required, including DVD-Video, directly from the timeline.
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Now you can quickly and easily edit a sequence using up to
eight different sources. Simply activate the Multicam Editing Mode, import
your source “cameras” and start playback. View up to eight sources
simultaneously in you Master Channel output window. Switching between
cameras is as easy as pressing the number keys on your keyboard.
Once your editing is completed, you can choose to
keep all the footage on the timeline with original tracks intact,
including the unused sections, or you can automatically condense the
timeline into a single track, retaining only the trimmed clips.
Editors already using EDIUS know that its
unsurpassed realtime editing power offers exceptional responsiveness and
faster task completion. The addition of Nested Sequences expands this
power exponentially.
With EDIUS Pro version 4, you can create
projects within projects, complete with all of the realtime effects,
keyers, transitions and titling features already available in EDIUS Pro.
Combine your sequences together for the final edit. Sequences can be
handled like standard clips on the timeline, allowing you to apply any
number of filters and effects.
This new feature, when combined with the realtime
multi-format, multi-frame rate editing capabilities that EDIUS Pro
delivers, gives you limitless editing potential.
All color correction filters with
EDIUS Pro version 4 feature keyframe controls for every property within
each filter. In addition, genuine keyframe curve manipulation has been
added to provide the highest level of precision.
At first glance, EDIUS Pro version 4 may not
appear to be different, but take a closer look. EDIUS Pro version 4 now
features the traditional “File, Edit, View…” menu system. You can still
reposition the various application panels as before, but managing these
panels is now easier.
EDIUS Pro version 4 can display all video and audio
effects as visually recognizable icons; effectively making them behave in
much the same way as would any media clip within the Bin.
Other new
features include the ability to change the color of the EDIUS interface,
zoom into the Waveform and Vectorscope displays and add 4:3 or 14:9 safe
area markers when editing 16:9 projects.
Now when you choose the trim function, EDIUS Pro
version 4 provides a more user-friendly interface for precision editing
than ever before, offering all the features upon which you have come to
rely in previous versions, and more. With the new Trim window, you can
quickly adjust In and Out points simultaneously, and use the mini timeline
to easily identify points of overlap.
If you need to work with individual
audio channels, whether two, four or eight, EDIUS Pro version 4 can
automatically map individual channels to appropriate audio tracks within
the timeline, complete with a separate waveform display for each
channel.
Panning controls have also been enhanced, with
logical left and right panning defaults.
Previously available as an option, EDIUS Speed
Encoder for HDV is included in EDIUS Pro version 4, as well as in EDIUS
Broadcast. It boosts the speed of HDV MPEG-2 export, by not only taking
advantage of dual CPU system configurations, but also of the new Dual Core
processor technology featured with newer Intel® and AMD® CPUs. This
optimization dramatically reduces the time needed to encode native HDV
MPEG-2 transport streams from the EDIUS Pro timeline. [more...]
Use EDIUS Pro version 4 or EDIUS Broadcast to seamlessly
edit and combine native Windows Media footage, including WMVHD, with any
other supported format, without rendering or pre-processing
footage
EDIUS Pro version 4 includes AC-3 audio decoding,
enabling clips that feature Dolby Digital audio to be imported. This is a
particularly useful feature for importing DVD-based material, as well as
video footage shot with JVC® Everio G Series cameras.
The
Grass Valley HQ codec has been enhanced once again, now supporting alpha
channel information within the video data. This means that you can avoid
using storage-consuming formats such as uncompressed HD or still image
sequences when compositing and layering video.
To provide
project compatibility across the entire range of EDIUS solutions, EDIUS
Pro version 4 will accommodate the creation of full frame sized HD
projects. |
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Minimum System Requirements |
- Intel® Pentium® 4 3.0GHz CPU or faster (Intel Xeon® 2.8GHz dual processors recommended for HD/HDV editing, Hyper-Threading supported)
- 512MB RAM (1GB RAM recommended)
- 800MB free disk space for the application
- Windows® XP Home or Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 2 or later)
- DirectX 9.0 or later
- Graphics card with hardware-based DirectDraw overlay and 32-bit color display at a 1024x768 resolution (128MB of graphics memory is required when editing in HD resolution)
- ATA100/5400rpm or faster hard disk recommended (Ultra SCSI 160 or better is required for playing two or more uncompressed video streams simultaneously)
- One free USB port (1.1 or higher) for software protection key
- Soundcard
Note: External video decks/cameras may require either a free IEEE 1394 FireWire port or USB 2.0 port for connectivity. |
| Key Features: |
- Realtime, mixed format HD/SD editing, including DV, HDV, HD, MPEG-2 and uncompressed SD video
- Fast, flexible user interface, including unlimited video, audio, title and graphics tracks
- Realtime editing and conversion of different HD/SD aspect ratios, such as 16:9 and 4:3
- Realtime editing and conversion of different frame rates, such as 60i, 50i and 24p
- Realtime editing and conversion of different resolutions, such as 1440x1080, 1280x720 and 720x480
- Realtime HD/SD effects, keyers, transitions and titles
- Realtime, render-free DV output directly from the timeline
- Multicam editing of up to eight different sources simultaneously
- Nested timeline sequences
- High-speed HDV timeline export, built for Dual Core CPU technology
- High-quality, multi-format video exporting with ProCoder Express for EDIUS
- Direct-to-DVD timeline export
- Inscriber® TitleMotion™ Pro for EDIUS*
* Included with EDIUS Pro software when purchased separately, as well as the EDIUS NX with HD Expansion Kit NLE system; not included with the EDIUS Pro software bundled with EDIUS DVX or EDIUS NX NLE systems. |
EDIUS Review by Michael Grotticelli
(Editors Guild Magazine)
Also see EDIUS Broadcast version |
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10 reasons why you should consider Edius
- Stability, Stability, Stability.
EDIUS has hoards of users who have never experienced a crash, or can’t remember the last time it did fall over.
- Real Time Ability
Even without extra hardware EDIUS way surpasses the real time abilities of any other editing program on the market. Does seven layers of DV at full resolution through the FireWire sound good? Now that’s on a Laptop! five layers of HD at full resolution on an edit system costing less than £ 3,000? Look no further than EDIUS Turnkey with an NX Express card.
- Format Support
DV and HDV in all flavours and sizes. AVCHD editing from a new range of Sony and Panasonic Hard Drive camcorders. EDIUS Broadcast version adds fully featured P2 and XDCAM HD support even including proxy editing. You can rip the audio off a CD or the video off a DVD straight into your project. Projects can mix SD and HD, even PAL and NTSC.
- Price
Even with the most impressive feature set, EDIUS is still the most price compatible professional editing solution, try and compare EDIUS price to popular editing solutions from e.g. Avid Xpress Pro or every Final Cut Pro.
- Hardware Support
Add an NX Express or SP card to EDIUS to get stunning full resolution SD and HD output in real time. Check colour corrections and composites without the need to render. Low resolution or screen based previews won’t even tell you if your glorious HD shots are in focus so the HD component output is essential for reliable monitoring.
NX adds analogue ins and outs as well as hardware acceleration for Mpeg 2 and 4 rendering. SP and SDI cards add VTR control and even more input and output options. Because the same manufacturer has developed the hardware and the software, integration is seamless and reliability not compromised.
- Out and Out Speed
Everyday editing tasks can be achieved quickly and easily, with an interface that can be tuned to match a short-cuts the editor is used to. This can dramatically decrease the time taken to learn it. Buttons can be added, moved or removed depending on how much the editor wants to use shortcuts. Nothing on the market is this configurable. Edit the way you want to. Produce a DVD with Menus and Dolby audio straight from the timeline. Use the new batch encoder to output to 10 different files for 10 different uses. Press go and EDIUS will render them one by one with no additional input.
- Integration
With AAF and EDL import and export EDIUS will swap sequences with Pro Tools or After Effects. For £120 you could add a BEHRINGER B-CONTROL BCF2000 FADER for 8 channel motorised audio automation.
- Creative Graphics
The supplied Title Motion Pro is capable of 3D animated titles and has hundreds of templates to get you started. You can import as many stills as you want in what ever format you want and crop or zoom in using the versatile layout filter.
- Future Development.
With new formats arriving like buses – wait ages and then 3 turn up – EDIUS with it’s research and development based in Japan, where most of the cameras come from, consistently has support for new formats before it’s competitors. JPEG 2000, ADVCHD, HDV@ 50p
- Try before you buy.
There is a 30 day free trial of Edius 4.5 that is not watermarked, so try it for yourself.
Click Here To Request EDIUS Pro 30 Days Trial Version
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| Package Contents: |
- EDIUS Pro installation CD-ROM
- TitleMotion Pro installation CD-ROM
- Bonus utilities CD-ROM
- Sample content DVD-ROM
- USB security dongle
- EDIUS installation guide
- EDIUS hardware setting guide
- EDIUS user guide
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