Grass Valley EDIUS Pro NLE Software for Editing DV, HDV, HD
Whether you are working with standard definition or high definition video, Grass Valley EDIUS Pro NLE software frees you from the limitations of conventional editing systems. Providing a seamless realtime workflow supporting all video acquisition formats, including all DV and HDV cameras and decks, EDIUS Pro features realtime, multi-track, mixed format HD/SD editing, compositing, chroma keying, titling and timeline output capabilities.

If you need support for higher-end video equipment and formats such as Grass Valley™ Infinity™ JPEG 2000, Panasonic DVCPRO® 50, DVCPRO HD, DVCPRO P2, AVC-Intra*, VariCam®, and Sony XDCAM™, Grass Valley EDIUS Broadcast NLE software is the perfect match. EDIUS Pro software can be upgraded to EDIUS Broadcast at any time (see Options).

* Also requires the AVC-Intra plug-in for EDIUS Broadcast, available separately

Ready for HD When You Are
EDIUS Pro is ready to move existing standard definition video to the world of HD. EDIUS Pro can edit DV content in HD resolutions, providing automatic, realtime upscale conversion from standard definition to high definition video, and all project titles, graphics and effects are applied in HD resolution. Ensuring a painless transition to the world of HD, editors can edit and output HDV content to hard disks or DVD-R drives without requiring an HDV camera or deck.

Exceptional Mixed-Format Editing
Featuring unrivaled realtime video transcoding technology, EDIUS Pro performs conversion between different HD and SD resolutions, aspect ratios and frame rates — 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 Pro also features realtime 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.

NLE Systems: EDIUS Pro Software + Realtime Editing Hardware
EDIUS DVX and EDIUS NX Express are NLE Systems built around EDIUS Pro software. Both include EDIUS Pro, in addition to the hardware that characterizes each. EDIUS Pro software directly supports OHCI FireWire, providing video input/output. EDIUS Pro also supports the Canopus DVStorm series and DVRaptor RT2 series of editing hardware, which offer accelerated realtime DV editing and analog connectivity.

EDIUS Pro: 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 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, 60p, 50i, 50p and 24p
• Realtime editing and conversion of different resolutions, such as 1920x1080, 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*

* Not included with the EDIUS Pro software bundled with EDIUS DVX.

New Features included in Grass Valley EDIUS NLE Software Version 4
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.

Here are just some of the new features you will see with this release:

• New User Interface
• Multicam Editing Mode
• Nested Timeline Sequences
• Enhanced Color Correction Controls
• User Profiles and Project Preset Transfer
• Basic DVD Authoring
• New Trimming Modes
• Time Remapping
• Improved Audio Channel/Track Mapping
• Other Added/Improved Features

Note: The features shown here also include new additions from the v4.5 update, which is now shipping and available as a free download for owners of EDIUS version 4 software, from the Product-related Downloads section.

New User Interface

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 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 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.

Multicam Editing Mode
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.

Nested Timeline Sequences

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 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.

Enhanced Color Correction Controls

All color correction filters with EDIUS Pro 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.

User Profiles and Project Preset Transfer

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).

New Basic DVD Authoring

With EDIUS Pro 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.

New Trimming Modes

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.

Time Remapping

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.

Improved Audio Channel/Track Mapping

If you need to work with individual audio channels, whether two, four or eight, EDIUS Pro 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.

Other Added/Improved Features

Added Formats and Improved Operability
EDIUS Pro 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.

Batch Exporting and Custom Export Settings
Exporting your finished projects gets a boost with EDIUS Pro 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 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 for SD and 1080i MPEG-2
Segment Encoding ('Smart Rendering') makes its debut in EDIUS Pro 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).

EDIUS Speed Encoder for HDV
Previously available as an option, EDIUS Speed Encoder for HDV is included in EDIUS Pro 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...]

Windows Media® Import and Editing Support
Use EDIUS Pro 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.

Dolby Digital (AC-3) Audio Import/Export Support
EDIUS Pro 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.

Broadcast WAVE Format (BWF) Audio Export Support
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.

Alpha Support for the Canopus HQ codec
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.

1920 x 1080 (60i/50i) Project Preset
To provide project compatibility across the entire range of EDIUS solutions, EDIUS Pro 4 will accommodate the creation of full frame sized HD projects.

EDIUS Pro: Specifications

Package Contents:

• EDIUS software installation DVD-ROM
• TitleMotion Pro installation CD-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
• 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 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 Product-related Downloads section for EDIUS Pro, when you register your product in an active Canopus User Account