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Powerful Realtime DV Editing, And Ready for HD When You Are!
You may have heard that you can get realtime editing performance today, with a reasonably powerful PC and “realtime” editing software. While this is true, just how much realtime performance you get and whether that performance will meet your workflow needs are still critical questions.
As you add complexity to your video projects, incorporating multiple layers of video with keyers such as Picture-in-Picture, more demanding transitions, numerous effects and several filters, realtime preview and playback performance can diminish.
Moreover, software-based NLEs do not provide a means of constant realtime output to a video monitor – a vital component in the serious editor’s workflow.
Canopus believes that for professional applications, you need end-to-end realtime performance. EDIUS NX
PCI/PCI-X offers the best possible realtime analog and DV editing experience from start to finish.
The onboard DV codec chip built into the EDIUS NX PCI/PCI-X baseboard delivers exceptionally high quality analog and digital video input with specialized audio/video synchronization technology, filtering analog input during the capture process to clean up footage as much as possible. Since EDIUS NX
PCI-PCI-X does not feature hardware effects chipsets, the included EDIUS Pro 3 software scales up realtime effects performance automatically when you add more power to your CPU.
Furthermore, EDIUS NX PCI/PCI-X gives you realtime, full quality, full frame rate analog and DV output, which allows you to preview your work in progress on the type of display on which it will ultimately be seen — a video display.
Most importantly, while EDIUS NX PCI/PCI-X is an excellent choice for high-quality SD editing, it’s also ready for HD when you are. If you plan to work with HD formats in the future, such as HDV, but don’t want to limit your options with a conventional SD-only system, get EDIUS NX now and add the HD Expansion Kit for EDIUS NX (sold separately) at any time.
EDIUS NX PCI/PCI-X Key Features:
- Realtime mixed format editing of DV, MPEG-2, uncompressed and lossless SD
video with EDIUS Pro 3 editing software
- Realtime, render-free output to DV and analog devices, directly from the
timeline
- Realtime aspect ratio conversion and output, including 16:9-4:3
- Realtime frame rate conversion and output, including NTSC-PAL
- Realtime effects, keyers, transitions and titles
- High-quality proprietary software codecs, including the award-winning
Canopus HQ codec
- High-quality analog and digital inputs/outputs for DV, S-Video, composite
video and unbalanced audio
- Hardware-based video overlay design for accelerated SD editing
- Filtering and noise reduction technology for analog input
- Bidirectional analog/DV conversion from any Windows NLE when used with IEEE
1394 OHCI or the HD Expansion Kit (sold separately)
- Direct-to-DVD timeline export
- Optional video I/O modules are available for XDCAM, DVCPRO 50 and P2*
- Future-proof codec and performance scalability
- Capture/video output plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro** and video output
plug-ins for Adobe After Effects and Adobe Photoshop
- PCI Express version available
- 3-year limited warranty on hardware; 90-day limited warranty on software
*If working with equipment designed for DVCPRO 50, P2 support requires both the P2 Option and the Canopus Codec Option Pack
** The Adobe Premiere Pro v1.5 plug-in for EDIUS NX is a free download for
registered EDIUS NX owners.
EDIUS NX PCI/PCI-X Package Contents:
- EDIUS NX 64-bit PCI bus card
- 1 x FireWire cable (4-pin – 4-pin)
- 1 x 4-pin internal audio connector cable
- 2 x 3.5mm minijack to RCA audio cable
- 2 x S-Video to composite conversion cable
- EDIUS NX installation manual
- EDIUS Pro 3 installation CD-ROM*
- EDIUS Pro 3 user manual
- EDIUS Pro 3 reference manual
- Sample footage DVD-ROM
EDIUS NX PCI/PCI-X Technical Specifications:
- Video Formats (Capture)
- Canopus DV - 720x480/59.94i (NTSC), 720x576/50i (PAL)
- YUY2 (Uncompressed) - 720x486/59.94i (NTSC), 720x576/50i (PAL)
- Canopus Lossless - 720x486/59.94i (NTSC), 720x576/50i (PAL)
- Canopus HQ - 720x480/59.94i (NTSC), 720x576/50i (PAL)
- Video Formats (Output)
- DV/DVCAM - 720x480/59.94i (NTSC), 720x576/50i (PAL)
- S-Video, composite - 720x480/59.94i (NTSC), 720x576/50i (PAL)
- Digital Video Input/Output
- Analog Video Input/Output
- 1 x S-Video and composite combined (7-pin miniDIN) input
- 1 x S-Video and composite combined (7-pin miniDIN) output
- Analog Audio Input/Output
- 1 x stereo (3.5mm, unbalanced) input
- 1 x stereo (3.5mm, unbalanced) output
EDIUS NX PCI/PCI-X Minimum System Requirements:
- Intel® Pentium® 4 2.4GHz processor or faster
- 512MB RAM
- One free PCI-X 64-bit or 32-bit/66MHz slot (rev. 2.2)*
- 800MB free disk space
- ATA100/7200rpm or faster hard disk, capable of sustaining at least 10MB/sec data transfer
- Graphics card with hardware-based DirectDraw overlay and 32-bit color display at a 1024x768 resolution
- Windows® XP Home or Windows® XP Professional (Service Pack 1 or later)
- DirectX 9.0 or later
- Soundcard
- DVD-ROM reader to access sample content
* Although the EDIUS NX board has a PCI-X 64-bit form factor, it can be used in a 32-bit PCI slot for editing in SD resolution only.
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