Attention: Avid Liquid & Xpress users, Grass Valley offering a 50% off list price competative upgrade to EDIUS, for owners/users of Avid Liquid & Xpress.

Details 

• Users must provide proof of ownership of Avid Liquid or Xpress in the form of a valid serial number or photocopy of the program installation disk.
• Promotion is effective from April 15 until June 30, 2008.

Engineered by Canopus, Grass Valley EDIUS Pro software offers the highest image quality and performance available today in any SD/HD video editing solution. Featuring the revolutionary Canopus® HQ Codec, Grass Valley EDIUS Pro provides professionals with advanced realtime, mixed format SD/HD editing, compositing, chroma keying, titling and timeline output capabilities. Unrivaled video transcoding technology performs realtime conversion between different HD and SD resolutions, aspect ratios and frame rates. Delivering realtime playback and DV output of all effects, keyers, transitions and titles, Grass Valley EDIUS Pro can export projects to any format or medium required, including DVD-Video, directly from the timeline.

Exceptional Mixed-Format Editing
Featuring unrivaled real-time video transcoding technology, EDIUS Pro performs conversion between different HD and SD resolutions, aspect ratios and frame rates - in real-time. Edit 1080i on a 4:3 standard definition timeline, use NTSC together with PAL or combine them all into a 720/24p project without wasting a single moment on conversion or rendering. EDIUS Pro also features real-time playback and DV output of all effects, keyers, transitions and titles, and can export projects to any format or medium required including DVD-Video.

Unsurpassed Image Quality and Performance
EDIUS Pro features the revolutionary Canopus HQ Codec. Designed with Scalable Technology, this innovative codec offers the highest image quality and performance available today in any HD editing platform. The Canopus HQ Codec not only provides superior Luma and Chroma sampling of HD video, but also features an adjustable bitrate for increased video quality when capturing and encoding on high-performance systems.

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 conversion of different HD/SD aspect ratios, frame rates and resolutions
• Realtime HD/SD effects, keyers, transitions and titles
• Multicam Editing Mode
• Nested Timeline Sequences
• Render-free DV output directly from the timeline, as well as direct-to-DVD timeline export
• High-speed HDV timeline export, built for Dual Core CPU technology
  
• Inscriber® TitleMotion™ Pro for Canopus and ProCoder® Express for EDIUS

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

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 .

Service and Support:

• 90-day limited warranty
• Access to the Canopus Registered Users Web site at www.canopus.com when you register your product in an active Canopus User Account.