Grass Valley EDIUS Workgroup 9 Upgrade for EDIUS Workgroup 8 (Download)

Grass Valley EDIUS Workgroup 9 Upgrade for EDIUS Workgroup 8 (Download) is the fastest and most versatile nonlinear editing software available for news broadcaster and other professional applications. EDIUS Workgroup 9 gives you real-time editing of multiple formats and frame rates all on the same timeline. That means you can edit faster… and make the time to be more creative. EDIUS Workgroup 9 is designed to let you organize and edit mixed files and formats efficiently to get it on the air fast, and you can use it as a standalone user in the field or within network-connected production infrastructures. EDIUS Workgroup 9 is a native 64-bit application for Windows operating systems, and takes advantage of system memory for intensive media operations such as layering, stereoscopic 3D, multicam, and multi-track 4K editing.

EDIUS External Links
• EDIUS Tutorials
• Podcast
• Trial version and downloads

More Formats, Better Workflows
EDIUS Workgroup 9 includes native support for all commonly used file formats, including Sony XDCAM, Panasonic P2, Canon XF and EOS movie and RED formats. For post-production work you can use Grass Valley’s high performance intermediate 10-bit codec, HQX, or the Avid DNxHD codec. Where EDIUS Workgroup 9 really shines, however, is with its fast and comprehensive implementation of newer file formats, for example Sony XAVC (Intra/Long GOP)/XAVC S, Panasonic AVC-Ultra, Canon XF-AVC and various Log/RAW files. With EDIUS Workgroup 9, you’ll always be able to edit, whatever format comes your way.

Grass Valley designs and manufactures high quality desktop I/O hardware for
EDIUS Workgroup 9:
• STORM 3G Elite: 3G-SDI I/O + HDMI I/O+ analog I/O + RS-422 control
• STORM 3G: 3G-SDI I/O + HDMI output + RS-422 control
• STORM Mobile: HDMI I/O + analog I/O
• STORM Pro: HD-SDI I/O + HDMI output

In addition EDIUS Workgroup 9 supports I/O hardware from the following third-party vendors:

• Blackmagic Design
– PCI Express: Intensity Pro 4K, DeckLink SDI 4K, DeckLink Studio 4K,
DeckLink 4K Extreme, DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G

• AJA Video Systems
– KONA 5, Io 4K Plus, KONA 4, KONA 3G, KONA LHi, KONA Io 4K

For even more power and creative control during editing, EDIUS Workgroup 9 supports a number of third-party software plug-ins for additional video and audio effects, keying, stabilization and multicam syncing. A list of third-party titling software and effects plug-ins is available on our website.

64-bit & 4K HDR
Designed as a native 64-bit application for Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, EDIUS Workgroup 9 takes full advantage of up to 512 GB system memory (for Windows 8.1/10 Enterprise and Pro) or up to 192 GB (for Windows 7 Ultimate, Enterprise, and Professional) for super-intensive media operations, especially layering, 3D, multicam and multitrack 4K editing. EDIUS Workgroup 9 is optimized for Intel’s Quick Sync Video, a feature of all current Core processors (Core i7, Core i5 and Core i3) and especially useful for video editing because it significantly accelerates MPEG-2 and H.264 encoding. EDIUS Workgroup 9 has been further enhanced to use Intel Quick Sync Video for H.264 decoding to give you super-smooth H.264 playback, including 4K.

Draft Preview Mode
Select a lower resolution preview (8-bit, half resolution down to one sixteenth resolution) to make it easier to work with CPU-intensive formats, for example4K/UHD, as well as complex filters and effects. Also improves performance on lower spec PCs.

Powerful Proxy Mode Editing
GV STRATUS incorporates the power and speed of low-resolution proxy editing with EDIUS XS, but with all of the functionality and creative tools of
EDIUS Workgroup 9. When editing is completed, the project file is auto-conformed by the GV STRATUS Render Engine workstation computer for final
processing and output. Proxy mode editing is also available for systems not connected to GV STRATUS, by using the optional EDIUS XRE conform
engine.

Field Editing
The combination of EDIUS Workgroup 9 and GV STRATUS brings the full resources of the newsroom to the field. Both applications employ an
extremely efficient proxy workflow, and because of EDIUS’s versatile timeline, you can mix low-res media from the newsroom with hi-res media from the field and send back a project to the newsroom with instructions to GV STRATUS to replace the low-res media automatically. EDIUS also has a “hi-res proxy” mode — when EDIUS sends back a project it will compress the hi-res clip part to a slightly smaller file (such as to H.264 12 Mb/s) so that it can be sent back faster. The file is smaller but still in HD resolution, and is good enough quality to be played on air for breaking news. The original clip can be sent later so that it can be stripped in for additional editing if required.

EDIUS 9.40 New Features

• New format support including Sony Venice Raw, Panasonic P2 8K, and faster Canon Cinema Raw Light performance.

• EDIUS 9.40 now supports for Apple ProRes export and ProRes Raw import. It’s nice to see that Grass Valley worked in conjunction with Apple to implement ProRes in EDIUS, as it was already available on Adobe (on Windows) for a few months.

• New multi-cam function with sync options (incl. the announcement of soon to come audio sync).

• The mask motion tracker has been optimized for better results.

• HDR-SDR conversion now with soft-clip tone mapping.

• An improved high-speed H.265 software decoder for improved performances when working with HEVC clips.

• Now possible to export in H.264/H.265 codec as a MOV file.

• H.264/H.265 CPU acceleration if you are working with the latest processors from Intel – like the i7-9700K or i9-9900K – that have QuickSync technology.

EDIUS Workgroup 9 vs. EDIUS Pro 9

EDIUS Workgroup 9 builds on the features of EDIUS Pro 9, offering the same toolset but adding the following features aimed at broadcasters:

• Loudness meter/Loudness auto adjust

• Draft preview mode

• Watch folder support

• Generic MXF exporter

• K2 GXF exporter

• System SDK support

• Edit growing files

• Dolby E pass-through

• ANC data (captioning) pass-through

• Audio monitoring mode

• DNxHD codec support

• Support for Dolby Plus/Professional license option

• Connect to external storage via FTP

• Support for GV STRATUS Connect option

• Support for K2 Connect option

EDIUS Workgroup Features:

• Native editing for HDR material

• Export in HDR for broadcasting and web distribution

• Ability to mix SDR and HDR material in the same project and output results in eithercolor space

• Native end-to-end support for HDR contents from professional and consumer camcordersfrom major camera manufacturers, and also for HDR video from drones and smartphones

• Workflow updates, such as Canon EOS C200 "Cinema RAW Light" decoding, still raw file decoding, and improvement of the user interface

• Third-party hardware support update

• Third-party hardware 60/50p output support

• Mync (media management software) bundled with EDIUS 9 Workflow implements a powerful, new Meta Smart Search function

• Includes free download of NewBlue Titler Pro 5 for EDIUS

Other Key Features

• Interoperability with GV STRATUS (requires GV STRATUS Connect option) (Launch from GV STRATUS settings orindependently / Export different formats to different destinations within the GV STRATUS environment

• K2 Clip/K2 Program import/export (requires K2 Connect option) (K2 Clip capture / Capture and edit a growing file on K2 / K2 4K CMF import - beta)

• Support for Blackmagic Design/AJA hardware (preview only) and EDL or AAF import/export with Grass Valley HQX with DaVinci Resolve

• Edit media files with different resolutions — 24 x 24 to 4K x 2K

• Real-time conversion of frame rates on the same timeline

• Unlimited video, audio, title and graphics tracks

• Support for the latest file formats — Sony XAVC (Intra/Long GOP)/XAVC S, Panasonic AVC-Ultra/AVC-Intra 422, AVC-Intra LT/LT 2K and Canon XF-AVC (import only), Sony RAW, Canon Cinema RAW/Cinema RAW Light, RED RAW, ProRes (Import only), DNxHD/HR, still image RAW

• Support for the latest color space for Log and RAW files — HLG/PQ, S-Log, Canon Log, V-Log/V-Log L, J-Log1, F-Log and LUT (.cube) file import

• Work natively with many different video formats, such as Sony XDCAM, Panasonic P2, Ikegami GF, Canon XF format, and EOS movie format

• Fast AVCHD editing (up to 3+ streams in real time)

• Multicam editing of up to 16 different sources simultaneously, with video output support

• Improved MPEG encoder speed and quality

• Improved H.264/AVC decoder and encoder (for fast encoding of 4K XAVC)

• Accelerated 4K H.264 playback

• Optimized for Intel Core i architecture

• New GUI design for faster workflows

• 64-bit native processing with maximum memory access for streamlined real-time editing

• Proxy mode workflow for legacy computers

• Supports Intel Quick Sync Video for fast H.264 export (for Blu-ray disc burning)

• Fast handling of large quantities of still image files (JPG, TGA, DPX, Cinema DNG and others)

• OFX support for Magic Bullet and Sapphire plug-ins

• Ability to save a current project as a template in order to re-use preferred track settings, screen layout, etc.

• Primary color correction (RGB) LOG file support

• Primary color correction (RGB)

• 3-way color correction (YUV)

• Motion tracking

• High quality slow-motion (optical flow)

• Draft preview mode

• Built-in loudness meter with auto adjustments

• Various synthetic video filters such as masks and keyers

• Built-in image stabilization

• Direct to Blu-ray disc and DVD timeline export

• Project import/export as EDL, AAF, FCP 7 XML (import only)

• Dolby consumer license included as standard, which is applicable to corporate and consumer use of Dolby audio. For use in broadcast applications, the DolbyProfessional/Plus license is available as an option for EDIUS Workgroup

• The K2 Connect option (purchased separately) supports K2 servers and storage, and an improved 4K workflow — the ability to edit growing 4K files and to be able to export 4K CMF files back to the K2 server

• H.265/HEVC decoding support

• Support for high-resolution displays