Grass Valley had decided to offer a free 30 day trial of Edius Pro VERSION 4, its latest realtime, multiformat video editing software.
Some of the new features are:
Up to 8 cameras and realtime monitor preview, as well as a master channel preview that displays all eight cameras. It offers users the fell of a live switcher but in a nle environment.
Nested timeline editing, allowing users to work on sections of a productions as separate timelines, and then nest them inot a master project
Windows media support (It is not clear if this will allow for vc-1 encoding at HD levels.
The Edius speed encoder for HDV video output is included
Parameter based keyframe support for frame by frame color corrections
According to the company anyone who purchased EDIUS pro 3 or EDIUS Broadcast beginning april 1, 2006 is entitled to the free upgrade to version 4
http://www.canopus.com/canopus/press/whatshot.php
Sharyn
And, as a recent convert to and puchaser of Edius Pro4, it's a nice nle. It does all I want, and has the nice feature that graphics imprt/export doesn't change quantising, so you get it all as-is. Now, I'm waiting for the Broadcast version that should deal with HDCAM, DVCProHD, P2 etc.
Got my Edius broadcast system (3) two weeks ago, bit of a struggle but I'm getting on with it. Like the sound manipulation and appearance just about to link up my component DVCAM and beta players and next week I hope XDCAM.
What is really good about it is that I can just take the stuff off a DVD straight onto the timeline for editing, did it yesterday, 40 mins of MPEG2 taken off in about 3 mins, title changed to English remade the DVD in 25 mins. Billed, paid, done.
I can see really getting to like it, unlike that horrid Apple thing that my colleage likes so much.
The E4 trial has been available for over a month now.
I would strongly suggest that potential purchasers read their way through the Canopus Edius 4 forum before plonking down the cash. Particularly the sticky thread called Gotchas.
HI Mark
can you post a link to the forum you are referencing?
If you are aware of significant issues, feel free to post them and get a discussion going
Sharyn
Try here for a user`s view:
http://www.ediustips.com/
He has identified several of the issues and gotchas for both new users and those upgradering from v3.
Note that the trial version is currently at v4.0 whereas an update to 4.01 is available to registered users who have bought the product. Attention is drawn to these diffeences on this Tips site.
Interesting points raised. Since we are not EDIUS users our selves, I wonder what comments
the dvdoctor forum edius have? is anyone else using 4.01??
THANKS
SHARYN
I'm on 4.01 and haven't found a problem yet.
I'm on 4.01 and haven't found a problem yet.
You will, don't worry!
Though perhaps the issues are fewer for those coming anew to the program at version 4 than for those who have upgraded from previous versions. Nevertheless there are some genuine bona-fide bugs that can confuse, frustrate and infuriate.
It's definitely worth reading through the Edius Tips website referred to above before getting stuck into some serious work.
Sharyn, I and many others have hashed over Edius 4.x to death on the forums at
http://forum.canopus.com/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=EDIUS4
I've been exploring this 4.0 trial for a couple of weeks and I'm very impressed. Ok it's short on some features and there are some bugs in the trial version but I will probably buy it regardless purely for it's nice HDV editing plus points, though I may wait for the version that works with the Canopus hardware that Canopus says is due out this month.
For HDV editing I see two huge advantages over Premiere Pro 2.0.
Firstly Edius 4 opens my projects fast regardless of the number of clips also does not require that dreadful time taking rendering of peak files for audio waveforms and the huge ".cfa" files that Pro does when importing a clip.
Secondly, when you make a transport stream file in Edius 4 so as to export finished HDV project back to tape, the Speed Encoder asks you where you want to store it so you can re-use this file, (sensible_ whereas PPro actuallyt "hides" this file and deletes it without asking, on closing the export dialogue (ridiculous!).
Oh, and Edius 4 "Speed encoder" only takes half the time or less to make this file than PPro which seemingly takes for ever.
So it looks like Edius 4 for me!