Grass Valley adds 3D support to EDIUS and STORM

San Francisco, California — Grass Valley has unveiled a new 3D toolset for its EDIUS multi-format nonlinear editing software and has added 3D support for editing peripherals that provides users with a complete stereoscopic 3D postproduction workflow. The STORM 3G and STORM 3G Elite editing platforms —are both supported via the EDIUS timeline with stereoscopic 3D I/O through a single 3G SDI source and/or dual 3G SDI signals.

A 30-day preview version of EDIUS, that supports this 3D functionality will be available online as a free download for testing purposes.

The new 3D support includes: native support for 3D video clips captured with the most popular 3D cameras, easy clip pairing for synching left eye/right eye clips; 2D-to-3D conversion capability; and a array of tools right on the editing timeline that make 3D adjustments—to compensate for mistakes in shooting—fast (with no transcoding necessary) and easy. Also functions available in 2D are also supported in 3D, such as realtime color correction, keyer, transitions and multicam editing.

Included in the new 3D preview version are tools for importing, organizing, and adjusting 3D clips in the most efficient way. And it’s all done on the same EDIUS multi-format timeline that 2D projects employ, making the process as easy to complete in 3D as it is in 2D.