Grass valley edius 6 editing software

This is a robust, top-of-the-line mobile workstation with more horsepower than most desktop units. Grass Valley promotes EDIUS 6 around the ability to throw nearly any codec or format at it and being immediately ready to edit — in real-time without the need to render. My system natively supported a wide range of the professional acquisition codecs, including the newly added Canon XF MPEG2 codec. Possibly even more important — you can also drag-and-drop Canon H. A lot of manufacturers claim native support, but in actual practice, transcode the media to another format upon ingest; or at the very least, rewrap the file container to a different type of file.

EDIUS 6 does neither. Simply edit straight from the media files or copy them to your local storage and access the media directly from the native folder and file structure of that format. Other than the time it takes to copy the files, the media is immediately accessible to EDIUS 6 and ready to edit. This difference becomes critical in time-sensitive workflows, like broadcast news. The EDIUS 6 user interface sports four color bars in the timeline to indicate CPU stress: blue no rendering , green rendered , orange may or may not need rendering and red needs rendering.

When you edit a sequence, EDIUS 6 estimates where rendering is needed, so a lot of the timeline is highlighted with an orange bar. It is only when you actually play the timeline that EDIUS 6 updates this estimate with accurate information. Unfortunately, this may mean you have to play the sequence at least once all the way through. In a typical timeline consisting of some mixed-format media, color-correction, transitions and a few titles, the required rendering was very minimal.

You can set project settings to this size and work in a native 2K project, but bear in mind that all sequences within a given project must use the same frame size. Changing the project settings resets all sequences to this new size if this is an existing project. And the list of awesome features keeps going. You can add them later, but it takes some searching through the manual to find out how. However, something as simple as an error message to give a helpful hint could be useful.

As with any professional software, patience and keeping the user manual nearby helps you sort out most problems. I have been using Edius for about three years now and came from Avid Liquid. That said, the biggest advantage I found is the real time work flow. For some reason the reviewer forgot to emphasize this. I tried the other video editing market leaders and nothing came close to Edius.

I credit my fast, accurate and easy results to this application. Sign in Join. Sign in. Forgot your password? Create an account. Sign up. Password recovery. The built-in effects interface is pretty weak in my opinion. I'm not sure why, but plug-in effects filters are divided into two folders—System Preset Video Filters and Video Filters. There aren't a lot of choices, and each time you click on an effect to open and modify it, a separate window opens for each filter you click on.

In short, no single effects control panel as in other editors. I feel that the interface could benefit from a modern overhaul. There also seems to be some incompatibility between the interface itself and the graphics card. For instance, when you grab a window to drag and resize the docked panels, there's redraw problem.

The windows stutter and glitch as you drag the mouse. It's fine again when you are done. I also tried to run Edius 6 under Parallels on my Mac Pro. That's a definite no-go.

The software works, but it's very slow to react. As a point of comparison, I ran that same experiment with Vegas Pro and it actually performs pretty well under virtualization. Edius 6 users are loyal Windows editors, of course, so performance with media on a modern PC is the biggest selling point and that's one where the application really excels.

Few NLEs handle media well when it exceeds HD sizes, so to see uncompressed 2K files playing smoothly on a laptop is pretty impressive. Likewise, performance with the Canon H. On the other hand, if you just want to drag-and-drop the files into an editor and quickly bang out a sequence for the fastest possible turnaround time, Edius 6 is hard to beat.

Edius 6 might be light on glitz, but it delivers when fast, nuts-and-bolts editing is the primary concern. Oliver Peters is an independent post-production consultant, specializing in editing, color-grading and project management. He is also a contributing editor to DV magazine. He may be contacted at oliverpeters oliverpeters. TV Tech. Categories Products. The latest product and technology information.

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