Thomson 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 Thomson Grass Valley EDIUS Pro NLE software, EDIUS Broadcast also provides additional support for industry-standard equipment and formats:

• Thomson 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

Thomson Grass Valley EDIUS Broadcast: Key Features

• Realtime, mixed format HD/SD editing, including DV, HDV, HD, MPEG-2 (program / elementary) and uncompressed SD video
• Complete support for Infinity JPEG 2000, DVCPRO 50, DVCPRO HD, P2, VariCam, XDCAM and XDCAM EX 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 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 and authoring
• Inscriber® TitleMotion™ Pro for EDIUS

Thomson Grass Valley EDIUS Broadcast: Specifications

Package Contents:

• EDIUS Broadcast Upgrade installation DVD-ROM
• TitleMotion Pro installation CD-ROM
• 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
• DVD-ROM drive for software installation
• Windows® XP Home or Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 2 or later)
• DirectX 9.0 or later
• Graphics card with 128MB of graphics memory, support for PixelShader Model 2.0 (i.e. DX9-based) or hardware-based DirectDraw overlay, and 32-bit color display at a 1024x768 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