An Outstanding Realtime Editing System for Analog, DV and HDV

EDIUS SP is the most advanced professional nonlinear editing system in its class. Boasting hardware-based editing acceleration and high-quality video input and output circuitry, EDIUS SP interfaces with professional and consumer video equipment including HDV, DV and all analog cameras and decks.

Overview

Like EDIUS NX with HD Expansion Kit, EDIUS SP incorporates EDIUS NLE software and offers true realtime editing and full quality, full resolution output of HD and SD material captured from HDV and DV decks. Additionally, EDIUS SP is designed to seamlessly integrate into existing studio environments, featuring support for professional video equipment, with component video and XLR balanced audio I/O, as well as frame-accurate RS-422 VTR control and external reference sync input connections.

A 19-inch 1U breakout box is also available as an option for EDIUS SP systems (sold separately).

Features

Realtime mixed format editing of HD, HDV, DV, MPEG-2, uncompressed SD and lossless video with EDIUS Broadcast editing software
Realtime HD/SD resolution conversion and output
Realtime aspect ratio conversion and output, including 16:9-4:3
Realtime frame rate conversion and output, including NTSC-PAL
Realtime HD/SD effects, keyers, transitions and titles
High-quality proprietary software codecs, including the award-winning Canopus HQ codec
Extensive analog and digital video equipment inputs/outputs, including RS-422 control and external reference sync input
VTR control via AV/C-RS-422 conversion*
Hardware-based video overlay design for accelerated HD/SD editing
Realtime, full resolution, full quality component HD and SD video output
Filtering and noise reduction technology for analog input
Bidirectional analog/DV conversion from any Windows NLE*
High-speed HDV timeline export, built for Dual Core CPU technology
Complete I/O support for DVCPRO 50, DVCPRO HD, P2, VariCam and XDCAM cameras and decks
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®
3-year limited warranty on hardware; 90-day limited warranty on software

Technical Specifications:

Package Contents:

EDIUS SP PCI bus card
EDIUS SP HD component output card
1 x FireWire cable (4-pin – 4-pin)
1 x Multi I/O cable
1 x 6-pin connector cable for HD component card
1 x 4-pin internal video connector cable
1 x 4-pin internal audio connector cable
EDIUS Pro 3 installation CD-ROM
EDIUS Broadcast update CD-ROM
EDIUS Broadcast USB dongle
EDIUS Pro user manual
EDIUS SP utilities CD-ROM
Sample footage DVD-ROM
Ulead DVD Workshop installation CD-ROM
Sony ACID Music Studio installation CD-ROM

EDIUS SP 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)
HDV/Canopus HQ - 1080/59.94i (NTSC), 1080/50i (PAL), 1080/30p (NTSC), 1080/25p (PAL), 1080/24p, 720/30p (NTSC), 720/25p (PAL), 720/24p, 720x480/60p (NTSC), 720x576/25p (PAL), 720x576/50p (PAL)
Canopus HD: 1280x1080/59.94i, 1280x1080/60i, 1280x1080/50i, 1280x720/59.94p, 1280x720/50p

Video Formats (Output)

DV/DVCAM - 720x480/59.94i (NTSC), 720x576/50i (PAL)
HDV - 1080/59.94i (NTSC), 1080/50i (PAL), 1080/30p (NTSC), 1080/25p (PAL), 1080/24p, 720/30p (NTSC), 720/25p (PAL), 720/24p, 720x480/60p (NTSC), 720x576/25p (PAL), 720x576/50p (PAL)
S-Video, composite - 720x480/59.94i (NTSC), 720x576/50i (PAL)
BNC component - 1080/59.94i (NTSC), 1080/50i (PAL), 720x480/59.94i (NTSC), 720x576/50i (PAL)

Digital Video Input/Output

1 x 4-pin FireWire

Analog Video Input

1 x component (BNC Y, Pb, Pr)
1 x S-Video (4-pin miniDIN)
1 x composite (BNC)
1 x Ref input (BNC)

Analog Video Output

2 x component (BNC Y, Pb, Pr)
1 x S-Video (4-pin miniDIN)
1 x composite (BNC)

Analog Audio Input

2 x XLR-3-31 female (1-gnd 2-hot 3-cold, balanced)
1 x stereo (RCA, unbalanced)

Analog Audio Output

2 x XLR-3-32 male (1-gnd 2-hot 3-cold, balanced)
2 x stereo (RCA) (unbalanced)

Device Control

9-pin D-sub RS-422A
IEEE 1394 FireWire

Minimum System Requirements:
EDIUS SP is capable of editing both SD and HD content in realtime. However, the system requirements for realtime HD editing are significantly higher than for SD editing. The PC components listed here assume realtime HD editing is a requirement.

Dual Intel® Xeon® 2.8GHz processors or faster
1GB RAM
One free PCI 64-bit/66MHz slot (rev. 2.2)*
One free PCI 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 20MB/sec data transfer. A RAID stripe set of two or more hard disk drives is required for multiple HD stream output
Graphics card with at least 128MB of video RAM and hardware-based DirectDraw overlay and 32-bit color display at a 1024x768 resolution
Windows® XP Home or Windows® XP Professional (Service Pack 2 or later)
DirectX 9.0 or later
One free USB (1.1 or higher) port for security key
Soundcard
DVD-ROM reader to access sample content

* The EDIUS SP baseboard can also be used in a 32-bit PCI slot for editing in SD resolution, however HD hardware acceleration and HD component output will be disabled.
Tested/Recommended Hardware
Canopus has successfully tested EDIUS SP with the following hardware:

Motherboard - Intel SE7505VB2 (64-bit PCI bus), uses the Intel E7505 chipset
PC Workstation - HP Workstation xw8200/CT, uses the Intel E7525 chipset

Accessories / Options

Adobe Premiere Pro