EDIUS SP for HDV is the most advanced prosumer nonlinear editing solution in its class. Boasting hardware editing acceleration and high-quality video input and output circuitry, EDIUS SP for HDV interfaces with professional and consumer video equipment, including HDV, DV, BetaCam SP and all consumer analog formats, with optional native editing support available for DVCPRO 50 and DVCPRO HD.

Designed to seamlessly integrate into existing studio environments, EDIUS SP for HDV features complete support for Betacam SP with component video and balanced audio input/output as well as frame-accurate RS-422 VTR control and external reference sync input connections.

EDIUS SP for HDV Key Hardware Benefits:-

* Compatible with popular Windows® NLE applications that support OHCI, including Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Xpress® DV, Vegas® and more

Complete HDV Input/Output
While editing HDV, the ability for editors to view their compositions accurately is critical, only a HD monitor can faithfully display HDV output modes, including 1080i. EDIUS SP for HDV includes specialized HDV hardware featuring component HD video output for high-quality, realtime monitor preview of 1080i HDV.

Additionally, the HD component output module's audio processing ensures that audio playback is in perfect sync with video output.

EDIUS SP for HDV includes capture utilities for Sony's HDR-FX1 camera, which provides direct capture support from the HDR-FX1, as well as export-to-tape functions for edited sequences. EDIUS SP for HDV also supports full device control options for the HDR-FX1.

Realtime Multi-format Analog Capture
Using EDIUS SP for HDV's extensive analog inputs, editors can, in realtime, convert and capture video to Canopus's high-quality codecs, including lossless, uncompressed and DV25, as well as the optionally-available DVCPRO 50 codec.

High-quality Video Equipment Connectivity and Synchronization
EDIUS SP for HDV's expansive inputs and outputs provide connectivity to a broad range of analog and digital video equipment. Featuring component analog video I/O, balanced audio I/O, component HD video output and an external reference sync input, EDIUS SP for HDV can integrate into any existing studio environment.

Adjust and Enhance NTSC Analog Video
EDIUS SP for HDV employs advanced image enhancement technology to adjust and filter analog source video prior to capture. Adjustment features include l uminance, chroma and hue color controls, as well as 3D Y/C separation and 3D noise reduction filtering on NTSC analog video input.

Onboard Canopus Hardware DV Codec with ADVC Functionality
EDIUS SP for HDV features Canopus 's proprietary DV codec chip, also found at the core of Canopus 's acclaimed line of ADVC products. This DV codec chip provides the best picture quality preservation and audio/video synchronization during analog-to-DV and DV-to-analog conversion.

The DV codec chip greatly increases EDIUS realtime editing capabilities by providing constant, realtime DV output from the timeline, without impacting on system performance or limiting the number of realtime video tracks.

EDIUS SP for HDV is also the first nonlinear editing system to feature full ADVC functionality. Available from both EDIUS Pro and any other Windows-based NLE application that supports OHCI, EDIUS SP for HDV provides realtime bidirectional analog/DV conversion and capture. This feature is also available independently of any editing application to provide direct analog/DV deck video transfer. EDIUS SP for HDV also features AV/C-RS-422 control conversion, to provide control of analog VTRs from within any NLE application, as though they were a DV device.

Migrate DV content to enhanced HDV/HD in realtime
EDIUS SP for HDV is ready to move existing standard definition video to the world of HD. With one simple setting, EDIUS SP for HDV edits DV content in HD resolution, while providing output to HDTV monitors using the onboard HD component output. EDIUS SP for HDV provides 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.

Realtime HDV Editing
When it comes to realtime editing of HDV and other MPEG formats, Canopus's leadership in advanced video codec technologies becomes clear.

EDIUS Pro supports editing of true native HDV MPEG-2 transport streams in realtime. For increased realtime performance and the highest image quality for editing, HDV footage can be captured using the Canopus HQ (1080/60i, 50i, 720/30p, 25p) codec. The Canopus HQ Codec is a proprietary video compression algorithm developed by Canopus, for high-quality HD resolution video editing. The HQ codec supports the HDV resolutions employed by Sony and JVC, 1440 x 1080 and 1280 x 720 respectively, with intra-field coding as opposed to inter-frame coding featured with HDV. This provides high-quality, frame-accurate editing of footage, while maintaining the image quality at 4:2:2 chroma sub-sampling, compared to HDV's 4:2:0 sub-sampling.

Realtime, multi-track, mixed HDV / MPEG editing with other formats is a capability that is only found in EDIUS Pro.
 

Let EDIUS NX for HDV take you to the world of High Definition video production. With its seamless realtime workflow using any mix of HD and SD video formats, editors can work with unlimited video, audio and effects layers, while always previewing projects in high-quality, full resolution High Definition and Standard Definition video.

The move to high definition video production impacts computing power requirements and realtime editing performance, proportionally . Although HDV and HD video can be edited on today's systems with a basic OHCI FireWire interface, the realtime editing performance is strictly limited, and lacks any true full resolution video output for preview.

The EDIUS NX for HDV solution features advanced hardware that provides editors with video acquisition and output capabilities, including high-quality, full resolution component HD / SD video output as well as hardware-accelerated line scaling and video overlay, for the ultimate realtime HD / SD editing, effects and compositing performance.

Broad Video Equipment Connectivity and I/O
EDIUS NX for HDV's inputs and outputs provide connectivity to a broad range of analog and digital video equipment, including HDV, DVCPRO HD**, DVCPRO 50**, DV and S-VHS decks, as well as broadcast HD / SD monitors*. Connections include 4-pin FireWire, S-Video, composite, unbalanced stereo audio I/O and component HD / SD video output*.

Complete HDV Editing
While editing HDV, the ability to view compositions accurately is critical and only a HD monitor can faithfully display HDV output modes, including 1080i. EDIUS NX for HDV's Expansion Kit option features component HD video output for full-quality, full-resolution, realtime monitor output of 1080i HD video. Additionally, the Expansion Kit module features stereo RCA unbalanced audio output connectors and incorporates audio processing circuitry to ensure perfect audio and video synchronization during playback.

EDIUS NX for HDV includes capture support for HDV cameras and decks, including Sony's HDR-FX1 camera. When used with the Expansion Kit, or any IEEE 1394 OHCI FireWire controller, EDIUS NX for HDV provides direct capture support from HDV devices, such as Sony's HDR-FX1, either using the native HDV MPEG-2 transport stream format or Canopus's proprietary HQ codec.

EDIUS NX for HDV also includes an export-to-tape utility for edited sequences, and supports full device control options for Sony and JVC HDV devices.

Hardware-based Video Overlay for HD and SD Editing
Unlike OHCI-based editing systems, EDIUS NX for HDV processes video overlay using hardware. Video overlay data is written to the graphics card using Direct Memory Access (DMA). This means a lesser load is placed on the CPU during editing and realtime playback, and results in better realtime performance using the same CPU.

Hardware-based Line Scaling for HD Component Output
When using EDIUS NX for HDV with the Expansion Kit, hardware-based line scaling is used to convert the native 1440x1080 resolution of HDV and HQ to 1920x1080, for full-resolution HD component output. With other editing systems, line scaling is handled by the CPU, which adds additional load and ultimately restricts realtime editing performance.

Onboard Canopus Hardware DV Codec
EDIUS NX for HDV features an onboard hardware DV codec, which provides high-quality video streams on demand with unmatched flexibility. Software-based DV rendering with OHCI hardware utilizes valuable CPU power, thus limiting the realtime effects and multi-track capabilities available to the editor. EDIUS NX for HDV relieves the CPU from handling the processor-intensive task of rendering a DV output stream.

EDIUS NX for HDV's proprietary hardware and device control driver design allows frame-accurate capture and output to DV devices, not achievable using OHCI cards. EDIUS NX for HDV's circuitry stabilizes the DV signal for smooth control while the device control driver is designed and customized to control many different types of DV device. Frame-accurate control means EDIUS NX for HDV can output video back to an exact location on DV tape, for perfect insert recording.

When working with DV, EDIUS NX for HDV hardware handles the digital video data and PCM audio data for each video frame as one data block. The consistent data block handling at every stage of EDIUS NX for HDV's processing (including the ring buffer on the main memory, the data buffer on the board memory, and the codec module on the board) ensures video and audio stay in sync throughout the capturing, editing and output process.

Realtime High-quality Analog Capture and Output
EDIUS NX for HDV's analog inputs can capture video to Canopus's high-quality codecs, including DV, lossless, uncompressed, and DVCPRO 50**.

EDIUS NX for HDV's analog outputs always provide high-quality uncompressed YUV 4:2:2 video while editing or designing in EDIUS Pro 3, Adobe® Premiere® Pro, Adobe After Effects® and Adobe Photoshop®.

Realtime Bidirectional Analog / DV Conversion and Capture
EDIUS NX for HDV hardware can perform bidirectional conversion between analog and DV, from within any Windows-based NLE that supports OHCI. This means that applications such as Avid® Xpress® DV, Vegas® and Adobe® Premiere® Pro can capture and output DV using EDIUS NX for HDV's analog video I/O. EDIUS NX for HDV features the same technology found in Canopus's highly-acclaimed series of ADVC products, offering the very best in picture quality preservation and A/V synchronization.

This feature is available for systems where either an IEEE 1394 OHCI FireWire controller or the EDIUS NX for HDV Expansion Kit is present.

Advanced Analog Video Input Enhancement Technology
EDIUS NX for HDV features onboard analog filtering technology to improve the quality of analog footage during capture. Digital 3D Y/C Separation separates the Y/C (S-Video) signal to RGB using chronological information between signals. Digital 3D Noise Reduction eliminates noise from the analog video signal by detecting noise based on the characteristics of the video being input. Other filtering options include 2D Y and 2D C Noise Reduction, Black/White Gain Adjust and both Horizontal and Vertical Outline Enhancement.

The 2D Y and C noise reduction filters reduce noise based on either the Y input signal or C input signal. Black Gain Adjust raises the gain level within the black range of the Y input signal, making black colors clearer, with more contrast. The White Gain filter lowers the gain level in the white range of the Y input signal, darkening white colors, with more contrast.

The Horizontal Outline Enhancement filter adds an edge to the Y input signal, to emphasize horizontal edges, while the Vertical Outline filter detects vertical edges from the Y input signal and emphasizes them.

EDIUS NX for HDV Hardware Plug-ins for Adobe
EDIUS NX for HDV hardware can also be used from within several popular Adobe applications. The Adobe Premiere Pro plug-in supports both version 1.0 and 1.5 and provides video capture and output via the EDIUS NX for HDV board. The After Effects (v6.5) and Photoshop (v7 and CS) plug-ins allow users to preview their compositions directly on a video monitor in full, uncompressed 4:2:2 YUV quality, a feature that is especially important when applying color treatments.

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Technical Specifications

Video Formats (Capture)

Video Formats (Output)

Analog Videot

Digital Video Input/Output

Analog Video Input/Outputt

Analog Audio Input/Output

* Requires the EDIUS NX for HDV Expansion Kit
** Available with the Canopus Codec Option Pack