EDIUS 11 – Starting a New Era

EDIUS 11 marks the start of a new era in nonlinear editing. EDIUS 11 comes with a completely redesigned core engine along with a modular concept allowing even more performance for fully customizable workflows.

For almost two decades, EDIUS hallmark has been its stability, benchmark setting performance and creative tools. EDIUS is being used across the industry from broadcast facilities and newsgathering organizations up to government institutions, corporate productions, independent filmmakers, video creators and video enthusiasts.

EDIUS X’s new modular design enables Grass Valley to continuously update and enhance the EDIUS 11 feature set and workflow options. This allows to meet upcoming user demands and incorporate new technologies and web services into the software itself – such as machine learning during the ongoing development of EDIUS X. All EDIUS 10.x update releases will be available free of charge during the expected lifecycle of about two to three years.

Features of EDIUS 11

From the start, EDIUS X features exciting new modules and functions, including:

From the start, EDIUS 11 features exciting new modules and functions, including:

  • Background Rendering: EDIUS 11 will never ask you to interrupt your editing for a process to finish. This makes your workflow smooth, creative, and virtually unstoppable.
  • Background Export: The new background render engine is also great for exporting files. You will never have to pause working while exporting.
  • GV Job Monitor: EDIUS 11 keeps you informed regarding all background activities and lets you prioritize jobs as needed.
  • VST Plug-In Support: EDIUS 11 broadens the support for VST-plugins. This includes support for latency plug-ins along with a powerful WaveShell integration.
  • Motion Tracker with Chase Mode: EDIUS 11 allows you to easily attach a label, animation or video clip to your tracked object.
  • Motion Tracker with Anchor Mode: Have your picture automatically reframed with reference to the tracked object. This is great for aspect ratio conversions and virtual multicamera shots.
  • H.265 Export: EDIUS 11 speeds up export rendering time by leveraging NVIDIA GPU support. This is also available with the new Background Rendering options.
  • GUI Color: EDIUS 11 comes with a refined GUI in a slightly darker color. This makes editing even more comfortable with a cool new look.
  • Draft Mode: With EDIUS 11, EDIUS 11 Pro now also includes the Draft Preview Mode allowing realtime playback of as of many tracks as you like.
  • 8K Support: EDIUS 11 Workgroup allows project settings and also file export in up to 8K.
  • Optimized Performance: EDIUS 11 is all about performance and a futureproofed design. EDIUS 11 requires Windows 10 and makes optimal use of advanced technology. This includes hardware acceleration provided by Intel QuickSync as well as broad GPU support. The new modular design allows utilizing the potential of multicore CPUs more efficiently than ever before.
  • Optimized Audio Sync Performance: EDIUS 11 provides an even faster automatic audio sync function to align as many clips as your projects requires for a smooth multicam experience.
  • Native Support for the Latest Cameras and Codecs: EDIUS 11 supports the newest codecs and camera releases natively like no other NLE. There’s no need to transcode, so you can just edit!
  • Ongoing Continuous Development: EDIUS 11 will continue to expand and grow its toolset with even more creative possibilities. EDIUS 11 users will benefit from all EDIUS 11.x updates available for download free of charge throughout the entire lifecycle of EDIUS 11.

EDIUS 11 comes bundled with three great new modules for optimizing audio, title creation and video effects. All modules are especially customized to utilize EDIUS 11’s new core design benefits.

These are:

  • Audio Optimization: EDIUS 11 comes bundled with the exclusive EDIUS Editions of Acon Digital: Compress EE, DeNoise EE, DeVerberate EE and Limit EE. Those powerful and easy to apply audio filters work like a swiss army knife whenever an editor needs to work on correcting and optimizing audio and VA tracks.
  • Professional Titling: EDIUS 11 features the NewBlue Titler Pro 7 in a special EDIUS X customized version that includes an extended template package. This ensures maximal stability and performance. Titler Pro 7 offers new handling and design features for professional titling, animated graphics, rolling titles and lower-thirds.
  • Video Effects & Seamless Transitions: EDIUS 11 features the proDAD Vitascene V4 EDIUS Edition that includes over 100 seamless transitions. All presets can be customized and adapted to the user’s individual footage. The seamless transitions also work great on animating titles and graphics. Additionally, proDAD Vitascene V4 EDIUS Edition includes over 250 great filters and transitions of Vitascene 3 LE.

Outlook: EDIUS 11 Version 11.x Ongoing Development

With upcoming EDIUS 11.x releases Grass Valley will continuously update and enhance EDIUS 11 with new functions and workflow options with every free update during the software’s lifecycle of about two to three years. As EDIUS 11 is a milestone and the first release of the newest generation of Grass Valley’s NLE, users can expect not only new functions but also extended and all new workflow options. Planned free of charge updates will include:

These are:

  • Audio Optimization: EDIUS 11 comes bundled with the exclusive EDIUS Editions of Acon Digital: Compress EE, DeNoise EE, DeVerberate EE and Limit EE. Those powerful and easy to apply audio filters work like a swiss army knife whenever an editor needs to work on correcting and optimizing audio and VA tracks.
  • Professional Titling: EDIUS 11 features the NewBlue Titler Pro 7 in a special EDIUS X customized version that includes an extended template package. This ensures maximal stability and performance. Titler Pro 7 offers new handling and design features for professional titling, animated graphics, rolling titles and lower-thirds.
  • Video Effects & Seamless Transitions: EDIUS 11 features the proDAD Vitascene V4 EDIUS Edition that includes over 100 seamless transitions. All presets can be customized and adapted to the user’s individual footage. The seamless transitions also work great on animating titles and graphics. Additionally, proDAD Vitascene V4 EDIUS Edition includes over 250 great filters and transitions of Vitascene 3 LE.

The enhanced SDK will make EDIUS 11.x a perfect partner for complementing solutions allowing a tight and deep integration. This will also allow to include cloud services leveraging machine learning skills. Third Party solutions will also be able to communicate with EDIUS X via the new Rest-API allowing tailor-made applications and expand the possibilities even further. Cloud based machine learning skills might feature future tasks like audio-transcriptions or offer object recognition services combined with an automated metadata tagging and exchange with EDIUS, Mync and other compatible MAM systems through the new core EDIUS X datahub.

With EDIUS X, we invite you to be part of this journey. Find out how much your editing experience will benefit from EDIUS X and enjoy a new world of possibilities. At EDIUS.NET you find more in-depth information about EDIUS X, trial downloads, free tutorials, podcasts and authorized EDIUS dealers.