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A leader in advanced codec technology, Canopus is an engineering-driven company that continues to develop all technology on which its products are based, in-house.


Canopus, now a part of the Thomson/Grass Valley group, offers a complete line of video capture and editing solutions to customers in 55 countries, through its headquarters in Kobe, Japan and sales offices in Australia, China, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the USA.

   NLE Software for Editing DV, HDV, HD

Edius NLE software

EDIUS nonlinear editing software is designed for any broadcast and postproduction environments, especially those with newer, tapeless forms of video recording and storage. Perfect for file-based workflows, EDIUS software offers real-time, multi-track, mixed-format editing, compositing, chroma keying, titling, and timeline output capabilities.

EDIUS 5 is the most powerful version yet of the acclaimed non-linear video editing software application from Canopus, and now adds support for 32 & 64bit versions of Vista. Freeing video editors from the limitations of conventional editing systems, EDIUS 5 provides a seamless realtime workflow supporting all video acquisition formats with realtime, multi-track, mixed format HD/SD editing, compositing, chroma keying, titling and timeline output capabilities. EDIUS 5 provides editors with realtime, mixed format HD/SD editing including HD, HDV, DV, MPEG-2, lossless and uncompressed SD video.

EDIUS  is ready to move existing standard definition video to the world of HD. For example, with one simple setting, EDIUS  edits DV content in HD resolution, providing the highest quality realtime up-res conversion from standard definition to high definition video, and all project titles, graphics and effects are performed in HD resolution. Ensuring a painless transition to the world of HD, editors can edit and output newly-created HDV content to hard disks or DVD-R drives without requiring an HDV camera or deck.

Edius 5 includes support for all the higher-end video equipment and formats, previously only available in EDIUS Broadcast, such as Panasonic DVCPRO® 50, DVCPRO HD, DVCPRO P2, AVC-Intra and VariCam®, Sony XDCAM®/EX, GFCAM, AVCHD, JPEG2000and Windows Media®.

Which EDIUS System is Right for You?

Every EDIUS System is designed to help streamline your workflow, so you can focus your energy on creativity. All EDIUS Systems include EDIUS NLE Software to provide extraordinary flexibility for mixed format editing and multiple format output, as well as ultimate scalability for unparalleled realtime performance. What are the differences between EDIUS Systems? It’s all about what you want to put into your video productions and how you want them to come out...

 

Feature comparison

DV I/O check check check check check check
HDV I/O check check Multi-I/O Processor* Multi-I/O Processor*
Analogue S-Video/
composite video
check check check check Multi-I/O Processor* Multi-I/O Processor*
SD component input check Multi-I/O Processor* Multi-I/O Processor*
SD component output check check Multi-I/O Processor* Multi-I/O Processor*
HD component output check check Multi-I/O Processor* Multi-I/O Processor*
Un-balanced audio I/O check check check check Multi-I/O Processor* Multi-I/O Processor*
Balanced audio I/O check Multi-I/O Processor* Multi-I/O Processor*
SD-SDI I/O check check
HD-SDI I/O check
SD uncompressed/
lossless capture
check check check check check check
HD resolution capture check check check check
RS-422 device control
& Video Ref In  
check check check
Analogue input signal cleaning/enhancement check check check Multi-I/O Processor* Multi-I/O Processor*
Bi-directional analogue/DV conversion from any Windows NLE software check check
Native HDV editing check check check check check check
DV editing hardware acceleration check check check check
EDIUS NLE Software EDIUS Pro 4.5 EDIUS 5 EDIUS 5 EDIUS 5 EDIUS 5 EDIUS 5
Inscriber TitleMotion Pro check check check check
Capture/video output plug-in for Adobe® Premiere® Pro check check check check
Video-out plug-ins Adobe After Effects®, Adobe Photoshop® Adobe After Effects®, Adobe Photoshop® Adobe After Effects®, Adobe Photoshop® Adobe After Effects®, Adobe Photoshop® After Effects, Photoshop, Newtek Lightwave 3D After Effects, Photoshop, Newtek Lightwave 3D

HDBX1000 Multi-I/O Processor
* Multi-I/O Processor: This feature is available when the system also has the HDBX1000 Multi I/O Processor unit connected.
** SD Module: This feature is available with the EDIUS NX SD Component Output option.

 


ITEM PRICE (ex VAT)
EDIUS Neo software

EDIUS Neo offers native editing of various formats including AVCHD, HDV, DV, Windows Media and QuickTime, and provides a seamless realtime workflow, supporting the mixing of all formats within the same timeline. Also features real-time multi-track, mixed SD/HD editing, compositing, chromakeying, titling & DVD output facilities. Windows Vista compliant.

129.00
EDIUS Neo XL (bundled with ACEDVIO card) 320.00
EDIUS Pro 5

EDIUS 5 offers an unparalleled support of formats including the newer file-based formats JPEG 2000, XDCAM and XDCAM EX, P2 (DVCPRO and AVC-Intra), AVCCAM, AVC-HD and GFCAM. It now Windows VISTA whilst retaining it's class-leading real-time, mixed format support - even on the same timeline. The software offers numerous speed and functionality improvements from earlier versions and includes an impressive bundle of 3rd party software applications

510.00
EDIUS HD Spark inc Edius 5 615.00
EDIUS HD Storm inc Edius 5 830.00
EDIUS HD Storm Plus inc Edius 5 & Storm Bay (analogue I/O) 1,025.00
EDIUS HD Thunder inc EDIUS 5 (with HD-SDI & HDMI I/O) 1,649.00
Firecoder Blu - hardware media transcoder MPEG/AVCHD 410.00
Procoder 3 - software media transcoder 330.00
Imaginate  2 - rostrum software for animated moves on large graphics files 125.00
Full Systems & other Canopus products - please enquire for specific pricing phone or email

What we're about . . .      ZEN is not a traditional Audio-Visual dealer who started selling computers, nor is it a computer shop that also sells video editing systems. You won't get any salesmen giving you the "hard-sell" when you call, just straightforward advice and information - which for some callers is the knowledge that they don't need to buy whatever it is they thought they needed! Above all you'll be dealing with someone with a wide range of experience and knowledge of both PCs and video production. We're not the biggest, nor necessarily the cheapest, but we are one of the longest established computer/video specialists in the UK.

Company history . . .      ZEN was started in the 1980s by Martin Kay, then working for ITV at Granada's Manchester studios, who built his first 6502-based computer in 1979 from an Ohio Scientific kit, bought in the USA whilst working as a Sound Recordist on a film shoot for World In Action. With the advent of the Amiga, which could be gen-locked to a video source, Martin started writing a variety of video-related software. This included subtitling & tele-prompting, ident clocks, scoring software for sports & gameshows, and specialist software to mimic other computer displays for use in TV film dramas like Cracker, Prime Suspect and A Touch of Frost. Martin left Granada in 1993 to concentrate on his computer-video activities with ZEN, following a natural path into non-linear editing systems, now the main focus of the business, although he still maintains an active interest in video production.

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