Edius Broadcast from Grass Valley
Grass Valley EDIUS Broadcast NLE Software
Grass Valley EDIUS Broadcast is designed to meet the requirements of higher-end broadcast and post-production environments, including support for newer, non-tape forms of video recording and storage.
Incorporating all of the realtime editing capabilities and features included with
Grass Valley EDIUS Pro NLE software, EDIUS Broadcast also provides additional support for industry-standard equipment and formats:
* Grass Valley™ Infinity™ JPEG 2000
* Panasonic DVCPRO® 50 and DVCPRO HD
* Panasonic DVCPRO P2
* Panasonic AVC-Intra*
* Panasonic VariCam®
* Sony XDCAM®
* Sony XDCAM EX
* Also requires the AVC-Intra plug-in for EDIUS Broadcast, available separately
NLE Systems: EDIUS Broadcast Software + Realtime Editing Hardware
Grass Valley EDIUS SP and Grass Valley EDIUS Edit Stations are NLE systems built around and include EDIUS Broadcast software, in addition to the hardware that characterizes each. EDIUS Broadcast software directly supports OHCI FireWire, providing video input/output. EDIUS Broadcast also supports the Canopus DVStorm series and DVRaptor RT2 series of editing hardware, which offer accelerated realtime DV editing and analog connectivity.
* Realtime, mixed format HD/SD editing, including DV, HDV, HD, MPEG-2 and uncompressed SD video
* Complete support for Infinity JPEG 2000, DVCPRO 50, DVCPRO HD, P2, VariCam and XDCAM cameras and decks
* 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 1440×1080, 1280×720 and 720×480
* 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 and authoring
* Inscriber® TitleMotion™ Pro for EDIUS
Package Contents:
* EDIUS Broadcast installation DVD-ROM
* TitleMotion Pro installation CD-ROM
* USB security dongle
* EDIUS installation guide
* EDIUS hardware setting guide
* EDIUS user guide
* EDIUS Broadcast user guide
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 1024×768 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
* One free USB port (1.1 or higher) port 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.
Written by Jonathan Holbrook
http://www.dvgear.com
DVGear's Manager of Operations is Jonathan Holbrook who is also the founder of award-winning production company, Tall Taurus Media. Holbrook is a recipient of the bronze Telly Award for a commercial produced for Catholic Comm. Services of Western Washington; Best Feature at the NW Projections Film Festival and Official Selection at the NY International Independent Film Festival for the film Customer 152. Being a multimedia producer himself, Holbrook has an advantage knowing what the DVGear clients are looking for and will be able to find the perfect fit for their needs. After all, creative minds think alike!
