Grass Valley offers EDIUS upgrade at special rate

San Francisco, California — Grass Valley has announced that, as part of a special competitive upgrade promotion, users of Apple’s Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere and Avid’s Media Composer, can now upgrade to EDIUS 6 nonlinear editing programme for just USD 399, 50 per cent off the regular price.

With the new promotion, which is only available through the end of this year, users upgrading can enjoy all of the real-time signal processing and multi-format support (on the same timeline) of the EDIUS system’s suite of professional tools.

While many current users believe Apple is apparently moving away from the professional video industry with FCP X, Grass Valley continues to add the features and functionality that professionals need most. For example, the latest version of EDIUS (version 6.05, distributed free of charge to registered version 6.0 users from the Grass Valley driver download page), brings new video file formats and hardware-assisted H.264 encoding, This latest update also supports both 50p & 60p file import, allowing for a smoother workflow within EDIUS 6.

For users of Intel’s Second Generation Core Processor, EDIUS has extended support for Quick Sync Video Hardware H.264 video encoding of MP4 files to complement the AVCHD acceleration introduced in EDIUS 6 version 6.02. Users will be able to enjoy faster than real-time encoding of videos for iPhone, Play Station Portable, as well as H.264/AVC videos up to 1920x1080p50/60.