You can pass and edit multiplexed (encoded) Dolby AC3 audio and you can network via STRATUS for workflow and play-out to air. Stepping up from EDIUS Pro to Elite yields only a few more tricks, and they are very specific to the professional broadcast setting. But its vibe can seem stodgy to those born on the right side of the digital divide. For example, today’s EDIUS can still pass an EDL around, notably to Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve color grader. Ironically, in light of the Canopus DNA as a video card maker, EDIUS is building its bridge to the future by friending external hardware makers: Matrox (long a card-resident graphics slinger), Blackmagic Design (the Han Solo of the video business) and, just recently, AJA (ironically located in Grass Valley, CA).ĮDIUS still retains flavors of the linear and hardware workflows of the past. Just be sure to check that the proxy parade has fully passed in the Background Jobs pane. But don’t make it a liquid lunch because when you come back, EDIUS will be ready to cut cameras as quick as you want. The workaround is to ask EDIUS to build proxy clips-which will drop frames-and go have lunch while it does them. If you try to edit very high-res multi-cam (say, four or five 4K sources), EDIUS will grind slower than Treebeard the Ent on Thorazine on all but the most hot-rodded hardware.

Similarly, EDIUS has one of the most straightforward multi-cam interfaces around, likely another outflow of the Grass Valley switcher birthright. In a duel between EDIUS and Lightworks for which boasts the least complicated pro-level NLE, it’d be hard to pick a winner. The simplicity of the interface is another plus for EDIUS. When they say “Edit Anything,” they mean it. EDIUS excels at scaling, sizing and cropping. There have never been more different video formats than right now. When integrated with Grass Valley’s STRATUS media management tools, EDIUS probably offers the fastest inter-format editing solution around. It is at home in broadcast and high-end post-production environments. In 2002, Grass Valley Group was bought by Thomson Multimedia of France (later to be renamed Technicolor) in 2005 Thomson acquired Canopus, bringing a non-linear editor to the grand Grass hardware heritage.

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