Grass Valley EDIUS Desktop Edit Station – Cost-Effective Platform for Any Workflow
Designed for those working in DV and HDV formats, our EDIUS edit station makes transitioning between SD and HD workflows affordable for production facilities of any size. It's a perfect complement to other EDIUS edit stations or it can stand alone as a powerful-yet-affordable craft-editing system.

With optional HD and SD component outputs for editing playback and preview, the EDIUS system is a cost-effective platform that lets you put a workstation on the desk of every editor who needs one. It is configurable with one or two 20- or 24-inch LCD monitors and comes with a keyboard, mouse, and internal storage—everything an editor needs to get up and running in any workflow.

Format-Independent Craft Editing
The heart of the EDIUS platform, like that of each EDIUS edit station, is a combination of high-performance hardware and nonlinear editing software. This combination provides a true, real-time editing experience—one that's perfect for advanced craft editing involving multiple formats, layers, camera shots, and complex nested sequences.

With an EDIUS edit station, you can mix SD and HD assets in the same timeline, making it perfect for documentaries, commercials, interstitials, and other complex or long-form craft-editing projects, regardless of the source or output format.

EDIUS Desktop Edit Station: Key Features

• Edit any mix of SD and HD resolution video content together in real time
• Work with many different native video formats, including DV, HDV, AVCHD, uncompressed, and more
• New GPU-accelerated 3D transitions featuring unique native YUV 4:2:2 processing for improved image quality and performance
• Windows XP and Windows Vista support
• Fast, flexible user interface, including unlimited video, audio, title, and graphics tracks
• Real-time editing and conversion of different HD/SD aspect ratios, such as 16:9 and 4:3
• Real-time editing and conversion of different frame rates, such as 60i, 50i, and 24p
• Real-time editing and conversion of different resolutions, such as 1920x1080, 1440x1080, 1280x720, and 720x480
• Real-time HD/SD effects, keyers, transitions, and titles
• Real-time, render-free DV output directly from the timeline
• Multi-camera editing of up to eight different sources simultaneously
• Nested timeline sequences
• High-speed HDV timeline export, built for multi-core and multiple CPU technology
• High-quality, multi-format video exporting to Infinity™ JPEG 2000, MPEG-2, AVCHD, and AVC-Intra, and more
• Direct-to-DVD timeline export
• High value software bundle includes filters, effects, image stabilization, VST audio plug-ins, and DVD and Blu-ray authoring

EDIUS Desktop Edit Station: Specifications

• Workstation: HP xw8600
• CPU:
  
  • Dual 5130 2GHz, 4MB/1333 dual core
  • Optional upgrade to dual 5160 3GHz, 4MB/1333 dual core
• Memory: 2GB
• Storage:
  
  • 500GB of storage (250GB SATA x 2, RAID 0 - approx. six hours of HQ (HD) @ 140Mbps, 33 hours of DV/HDV @ 25Mbps, six hours of uncompressed SD, eight hours of DVCPRO HD)*
  • Optional upgrade to 1.5TB of storage
  • DVD±RW dual layer drive
• Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX1500 256MB with dual DVI output
• Connectivity: 8 x USB 2.0, 2 x FireWire (IEEE 1394a)

• Canopus HQ
• Canopus Lossless
• Canopus DV
• HDV
• DVCPRO 50
• DVCPRO HD
• Infinity JPEG 2000
• Microsoft DV
• MPEG-1
• MPEG-2 program stream, elementary stream, transport stream (SD and HD)
• P2 (SD and HD)
• AVC-Intra**
• VariCam
• QuickTime (including DV, DVCPRO HD)
• XDCAM (SD and HD)
• XDCAM EX
• AVCHD
• Uncompressed
• Windows Media

• Standard definition: NTSC 525i, PAL 625i
• Connectors:
  
  • 1 x S-Video (miniDIN)
  • Composite video via included adapter cable
  • 1 x unbalanced stereo audio (3.5mm stereo mini jack)

• Standard definition: NTSC 525i, PAL 625i
• High definition (component output only): 1080/60i, 1080/50i, 720/30p over 60i, 720/24p over 60i, 720/25p over 50i

• Connectors:
  
  • 1 x S-Video (miniDIN)
  • Composite video via included adapter cable
  • 1 x component Y, Pb, Pr (BNC x 3)
  • 1 x unbalanced stereo audio (3.5mm stereo mini jack)

• Standard definition: DV, DVCAM, Infinity, P2, XDCAM, DVCPRO 50
• High definition: HDV, Infinity, P2, XDCAM, DVCPRO HD, VariCam
• Connectors:
  
  • 2 x 6-pin FireWire (IEEE 1394a)

• DV/HDV AV/C control over FireWire (IEEE 1394a)

• Limited warranty
• Access to the Product-related Downloads section for EDIUS software, when you register your product in an active GV User Account

• How to Buy

• Included Hardware:
  HP xw8600 Workstation, keyboard, mouse and internal storage
  
  Note: LCD monitors are not included in the base package. They are available separately as an option.

• Included Software:
  EDIUS