Grass Valley EDIUS Neo Software, Affordable Nonlinear Editing, Ideal for Education

Begin your journey into the world of standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) video editing today with Grass Valley EDIUS Neo. Built upon the same highly-acclaimed realtime mixed format editing technology featured with Grass Valley EDIUS Pro, EDIUS Neo offers native editing of various formats including AVCHD, HDV, DV, Windows Media and QuickTime, and provides a seamless realtime workflow, supporting the mixing of all formats within the same timeline.

Featuring a basic, entry-level range of tools and features, EDIUS Neo is perfect for the classroom environment, and still provides you with powerful nonlinear editing features that you will find in all Grass Valley EDIUS solutions, such as realtime, multi-track, mixed format HD/SD editing, chroma keying, titling and DVD authoring.

Once you're ready to expand your knowledge and capabilities further, you can upgrade to Grass Valley EDIUS Pro at any time. For a comparison of our EDIUS NLE Software solutions, visit the NLE Software page.

Exceptional Mixed-Format Editing
Featuring unrivaled realtime video transcoding technology, EDIUS Neo performs conversion between different HD and SD resolutions, aspect ratios and frame rates — all in realtime. 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 Neo also features realtime playback and DV output of all effects, keyers, transitions and titles.

Unsurpassed Image Quality and Performance
EDIUS Neo 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.

No Special Hardware Required
EDIUS Neo does not require any special hardware to work—it can run on a laptop as well as a workstation system, and can input/output video from any OHCI FireWire-compatible hardware.

EDIUS Neo Key Features

• Realtime, mixed format HD/SD editing, including DV, HDV, AVCHD, MPEG-2, Windows Media and QuickTime 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
• Nested timeline sequences
• High-speed HDV timeline export, built for Dual Core CPU technology
• Segment encoding (smart rendering) export for MPEG and HDV
• Direct-to-DVD timeline export with menus
• Quick Titler software, for realtime titling including rolls and crawls
• Upgrade to EDIUS Pro available*

EDIUS Neo Specifications

Package Contents:

• EDIUS Neo software installation DVD-ROM
• EDIUS Neo installation guide
• EDIUS Neo user guide

• Intel® Pentium® 4 3.0GHz CPU or faster (Intel Core 2 Duo 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® Vista (Ultimate, Enterprise, Business, Home Premium/Basic), Windows XP Home or Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 2 or later)
• DirectX 9.0 or later
• Graphics card with support for PixelShader Model 2.0 (i.e. DX9-based) or 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)
• Soundcard