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Please visit the Upgrades page to get more information on how to order either an upgrade or full version.
EDIUS Broadcast incorporates all the features and workflow of EDIUS Pro, but adds additional modules to allow you to capture, edit and output to the following formats:
- Grass Valley Infinity™ JPEG 2000
- Panasonic DVCPRO® 50
- Panasonic DVCPRO HD
- Panasonic VariCam®
- Panasonic P2
- Panasonic AVC-Intra*
- Sony XDCAM®
- Sony XDCAM EX
You can upgrade from EDIUS Pro to EDIUS Broadcast at any time.
Yes. EDIUS Pro (v3.6 and higher) features project presets for true 24p editing, compatible with the various 24p formats offered by leading camera manufacturers.
To edit in HD resolution, the full image size for each frame of video can be as high as 1440x1080, which is approximately four times the size of an SD resolution image. When editing in HDV, the system is required to decode the compressed stream (MPEG or Canopus HQ) and apply effects to the full size image. This process requires a fast CPU and also fast memory access speeds.
Yes. EDIUS Pro can be installed on laptops and lower-end PCs for HDV for editing, but the realtime editing features will be very limited — effects may need rendering for smooth playback and output. Depending on the system's graphics card performance, Xplode transitions may not work in HD resolution (requires a minimum of 128MB graphics memory).
Detailed steps on how to activate EDIUS from a separate PC are available from the main support section on the Web site.
The graphics card may not be adequate for editing in the particular format/resolution. HD resolution editing requires a minimum of 128MB graphics memory. For a list of compatible graphics cards for EDIUS Pro, check the compatible hardware listing or contact Technical Support at the nearest Canopus office.
A dual Pentium 4 Xeon 2.8GHz system can edit two to three layers of Canopus HQ HD clips in realtime. If using native MPEG-2 TS format HDV clips, typically only one layer can be edited in realtime. In addition to CPU speeds, realtime performance is also dependant on hard disk and memory specifications.
The Canopus HQ codec is an intra-field compression codec (which means that the compression is kept within each field), compared to the interframe coding of native MPEG-2 TS (which means that a certain number of frames are grouped together when compressing). Using MPEG-2 TS will allow for higher compression, but decoding the frame, as well as trimming the frame, will require more CPU power and additional processing of surrounding frames.
Editing in HQ provides faster, more responsive editing with increased realtime capabilities, while sustaining the original image quality.
Since the specification of the Canopus HQ codec incorporates the same resolution and luma sampling, with increased chroma sampling as compared to HDV, the image quality is sustained when converting native MPEG-2 TS data to Canopus HQ.
Yes. EDIUS Pro can edit in realtime any mix of NTSC, PAL, 1080/60i, 1080/50i, 1080/25p, 1080/30p and 720/30p clips on the same timeline, and output to the format selected when creating the project.
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