Canopus Announces EDIUS 1.5
July 22, 2003
San Jose, CA - Canopus Corporation announced EDIUS 1.5, an upgrade to the company's new nonlinear editing application, will be available in September.
New features include improved bin folder structure and search capabilities for
enhanced clip organization and management; real-time support of 32-bit
uncompressed video with alpha channel support allowing editors to insert
clips made using applications such as Cool3D directly onto the video track
and play back in real-time; enhanced timeline management features, including
batch delete, which lets users select multiple clips on the timeline and
delete them at once; and the ability to relink missing clips to the project
for easier updating, the manufacturer describes.
EDIUS supports the company's DVRex RT and DVStorm lines of editing
solutions and delivers productivity and flexibility by offering unlimited video and audio tracks, unlimited graphics and title
layers, the ability to transition between multiple video tracks, voiceover
recording, 3- and 4-point editing, multi-format conversion capabilities and real-time output.
EDIUS offers 27 real-time video filters, including White/Black Balance, Color Balance, High Quality Blur and Region. In addition, there are realtime Chroma Key and Luma Key capabilities for use in compositing. EDIUS also features a fully customizable 2D/3D Picture-in-Picture effect. All effects in EDIUS are
adjustable and may be combined to produce hundreds of customizable
effects.
The program includes Xplode for EDIUS and EDIUS FX, Canopus's advanced real- time 2D and 3D video effects engines, with more than 40 transition groups to choose from, each with customizable options and numerous presets.
EDIUS addresses output quality and multipl e format export issues with technology featured in Canopus's conversion software package ProCoder.
ProCoder LE - EDIUS Edition lets users rapidly export to MPEG-1, MPEG-2, QuickTime RealVideo and Windows Media formats, in addition to Canopus's own DV AVI format.
This upgrade will be available early September 2003. Video professionals
have until August 31, 2003 to save $300 by purchasing EDIUS for the special
introductory price of $299. Registered users can then upgrade to version 1.5
in September through a free download from the Canopus Web site. The
suggested retail price of EDIUS is $599.
Canopus is offering EDIUS bundled with the company's Spectra WF17 dual-monitor graphics card for $399 (offer ends August 31, 2003), featuring the Nvidia GeForce4 MX 460 graphics processor with 64MB of DDR SDRAM running at 550MHz.
For more information, visit
www.canopus.com
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