Features
Version 4 of Grass Valley EDIUS incorporates a number of significant
and highly requested new features into the powerful realtime NLE
software engineered by Canopus.
EDIUS Pro features a new-look interface application-wide. This new
design is the result of a combination of market research, and the
continuing work being done to fully integrate EDIUS with the Grass
Valley product line, all with the same look and feel. The new look also
offers you a glimpse of the future of Grass Valley EDIUS software.
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 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.
When you're jumping from EDIUS system to EDIUS system, you probably
want to take your own customized interface and application settings
with you. Now you can! The new User Profile feature allows you to save
out and import:
- Window layouts
- Application settings, including timeline and render settings
- Customizable settings, such as GUI buttons and keyboard shortcuts
- Plug-in settings
User Profiles (saved as .EUP files) can be created and imported at any
time. In addition, you can also export and import customized project
settings (as an .EPP file).
With EDIUS Pro version 4, you can now create DVD titles with simple
menus and chapter navigation, using built-in menu button and background
artwork. The new 'Print to DVD' function offers a choice of constant or
variable bitrate video encoding, and Dolby® Digital AC-3, PCM Wave or
MPEG Layer II audio encoding.
EDIUS Pro timeline trimming functions can now be performed within a
new, specialized view in the Monitor window. With a refined set of
keyboard shortcuts and GUI buttons, you can easily perform ripple,
slip, slide, and rolling edits with precision.
The new Time Remap feature allows you to set multiple, keyframed speed
adjustments to a clip, without affecting its duration on the timeline.
Through Time Remap, it’s possible for you to speed up and then slow
down a clip’s playback, and then speed it up again if you wish – all in
realtime, with perfectly smooth results.
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.
EDIUS Pro version 4 provides capture, edit, and export support for new
HDV formats from Sony and JVC. With this version, you can work with
Sony 1080/24p, 1080/25p, and 1080/30p and JVC 720/60p and 720/50p.
EDIUS Pro can also import AVCHD MPEG-4 material, which you can either
edit natively or convert to the Canopus HQ format for increased
realtime productivity.
With EDIUS version 4, you can also import and export Advanced Authoring
Format (AAF) files from Digidesign® Pro Tools® and Adobe® After
Effects®, and various forms of Edit Decision List (EDL) files from a
number of other NLE packages.
Exporting your finished projects gets a boost with EDIUS Pro version 4.
You can now use the Batch Export feature to not only queue up export
jobs for multiple sequences within your project, but you can also
assign multiple target formats for your project. Once set, you can
leave EDIUS to encode away, one file at a time.
In yet another example of the new workflow flexibility offered in EDIUS
Pro version 4, you can now create your own custom export targets based
off the inbuilt exporters included with EDIUS. This means that you can
have an exporter specifically create for a certain type of medium you
want to deliver your work out on, and reuse that specialized exporter
again in the future.
Segment Encoding ('Smart Rendering') makes its debut in EDIUS Pro
version 4. Supporting standard definition (480i, 576i) and 1080i MPEG-2
content, Segment Encoding reduces the time taken to export your project
to the same format and bitrate, by simply encoding the edited and
modified sections of any source MPEG-2 clips that match the target
MPEG-2 format (e.g. frame rate, resolution, bitrate).
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 and encoding, enabling
clips that feature Dolby Digital audio to be imported to the timeline.
This is a particularly useful feature for importing DVD-based material,
as well as video footage shot with JVC Everio G Series cameras, and for
exporting DVD-compatible streams with smaller audio file sizes.
When using the PCM WAVE exporter option within EDIUS Pro, the file
created will now contain BWF TimeReference metadata, compatible with
any third-party applications that support BWF audio files.
The Canopus 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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