Canopus EDIUS Pro 3 nonlinear editing software has transformed the way KRON 4 brings breaking news to air. Based in San Francisco, KRON 4 is an independent station with one of the largest news departments on the West Coast. As the station’s chief engineer, Craig Porter has overseen the implementation of EDIUS-based systems into the existing news production environment.

As the realtime nonlinear editing component of the BitCentral Précis® End-to-End Play-to-Air system, the streamlined interface and seamless integration of EDIUS Pro 3 software with Panasonic P2 and Sony HDV technology dramatically accelerates production workflow to help KRON 4 produce over eight hours of broadcast news each weekday.

For shooting the news, KRON 4 is using Panasonic AJ-SPX800 DVCPRO P2 and Sony HVRZ1U camcorders. Combined with EDIUS Pro 3, these camcorders provide KRON 4 staff with unparalleled productivity gains. With the Sony camcorder and EDIUS Pro 3 running on a laptop, KRON 4 staff has the flexibility to edit in the field and the power to get content to air promptly. EDIUS Pro 3 supports mixed format, realtime editing of a wide range of industry standard DV and HD file types including the Panasonic P2 MXF (Material eXchange Format) format, which gives editors direct access to footage from the Panasonic P2 card, eliminating the time-consuming task of capturing footage from tape. This immediate access to footage speeds up workflow and lets the professionals at KRON 4 go directly from shooting to editing.

According to Craig...

“The P2 camera with EDIUS Pro 3 is a dream. EDIUS Pro 3 works seamlessly with the P2 format, making the entire process — shooting, editing, and play-to-air — amazingly fast.”

EDIUS Pro 3 provides native editing and realtime processing of uncompressed SD, HD, HDV, DV, MPEG-2, and MPEG-1 formats. The editors at KRON 4 make extensive use of this ability to mix video content of multiple formats, working with unlimited video, audio and effects layers, while viewing constant, high-quality, realtime output to broadcast monitors at full resolution and frame rate.

“EDIUS Pro 3 just works. With EDIUS Pro 3 and our high-speed network, editing tasks can be handled on any PC in the building. And EDIUS doesn’t care what you put in the timeline - be it MPEG, HDV or SD. We don’t have to be concerned with differing formats or bother with transcoding - whatever we need to edit, EDIUS Pro lets us do it.”

In addition to the advantages that a mixed-format editing environment brings to the workflow, the streamlined feature set and user interface of EDIUS Pro 3 provides KRON 4 editors with a high-performance, highly efficient editing experience.  

“EDIUS Pro 3 has a well-organized interface and seamless workflow that users can learn quickly. It’s remarkable how quickly we can get individuals editing - even those without an editing background. I’ve had people up and running on EDIUS Pro 3 within two hours.”

For more information about the BitCentral Précis® End-to-End Play-to-Air System, contact BitCentral at (800) 214-2828 or visit www.bitcentral.com .