Canopus/Grass Valley

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.

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

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.

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

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.