Conclusion

CANOPUS EDIUS 4 REVIEW

Conclusion

Having now used Edius for a few weeks, I am very impressed with what it can do and have parked up Premiere Pro and Aspect HD for now. The main reason for switching is that it can get realtime on the fly conversion to the Canopus HQ and the keyframable colour correction and slow motion in real time is perfect for our underwater footage.

Procoder Express is very good and so is the m2t Speed Encoder and it has some features & effects that are definitely better than Premiere Pro. By the time they get this great NLE to version 5 or 6 it could quite easily end up being king of the NLE for the PC world. Look out Adobe & Avid.....

Edius 4 has many more features that I have not covered such as multi camera editing, so I would suggest you go to the Canopus Website to read some more. If you have never played with Edius I would suggest you go and download the 30 day trail and give it a go. If you can manage to get some open water underwater footage, suck in some HDV and convert it on the fly to the the Canopus HQ codec, add colour correction with some slow motion then encode out some m2t files. Then do the same with Premiere Pro and Aspect HD and compare. Let me know what you think.

You will probably be a bit confused at the start with the layout of Edius, but it does not take long to get the hang of. You can go here and watch some video clips on how to drive Edius.

You can also go to these sites to find some great tips and information on Edius:

Thanks to Thomson Grass Valley in Australia for sending over Edius 4 to try out and getting me hooked, and if you are after a copy give them a call or go the the Canopus web site to find a dealer near you.

Thomson Grass Valley
austnzsales@thomson.net
Unit 4, 310 Ferntree Gully Road
Notting Hill, VIC, 3168 Australia
Telephone: Sales: 1 300 721 497 (Toll Free Australia only)

Happy Editing.......

Paul Wags 2006

www.hdvunderwater.com & HERE to contact us

CANOPUS EDIUS 4 REVIEW

by Paul Wags www.hdvunderwater.com