One of the highlights of NAB every year is the Post|Production World sessions produced by FMC Training. It is considered to be the world’s leading training event for production AND post professionals including editors, producers, directors, graphic artists, cinematographers, motion graphics designers and new media specialists.
This year, for the first time, it will include a session on Grass Valley’s EDIUS 6.5 – 3D Workflow. This session, presented by Al Caudullo of 3DGuy Productions, will highlight a case studydone by Caudullo on location at the Eagle Festival in Ugli in Western Mongolia. Armed with a small crew of 3D professionals and an intern from Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand, Caudullo was able to capture and edit 3D footage from two Panasonic AG3DA1s, equipped with Nano Flash 3Ds and a couple of Go Pro Hero 3D cameras all using an EDIUS 3D Beta software version on a Toshiba Qosmio laptop.
Additional footage shot by Caudullo and his team will be shown from the US, Moscow, underwater footage from the Similan Islands, as well as footage from Trails of a Legend, a 3D documentary. Trails of a Legend is scheduled to be previewed at next month’s Festival de Cannes.
This new version of EDIUS is poised to take the editing world by storm. With its lightning fast workflow and comprehensive codec solutions, EDIUS will be the new post production front line.
Grass Valley is also making its renowned intermediate codec technology freely available to other applications. As well as the PC-based HQ/HQX codecs, a QuickTime version of Grass Valley’s HQ and 10-bit HQX codec (for Windows and Mac platforms), will be available for free download.
The new EDIUS software boasts a comprehensive 3D workflow, complete with 3D stereoscopic editing tools and new 3D support across its editing peripherals. The full family of 3D-compatible Grass Valley editing peripherals-such as the STORM 3G 3D and STORM 3G Elite 3D accelerator cards (with stereoscopic 3D I/O through a single 3G SDI source and/or dual 3G SDI signals)-are now all supported from the EDIUS timeline. EDIUS software and hardware supports all of the most common stereoscopic modes-including the Side-by-Side, Top & Bottom and Line-by-Line display methods.
EDIUS 6.5 also incorporates a new Flash exporter, many improvements to the Layouter tool, native image stabilization, built-in Loudness Meter and closed caption/audio bit stream (Dolby-E, AC-3) pass-through support.
A special systemized EDIUS version, based on EDIUS 6.5, will take full advantage of the proxy files created and stored on the Grass Valley K2 Summit 3G server, enabling users to develop even tighter integration with the Grass Valley STRATUS media workflow application framework.
With a simple software upgrade, every Grass Valley K2 Summit production client and K2 Solo HD/SD server can now be used as a 3D production server for 3D recording or replay, a 2X or 3X Super Slo-Mo recording device, or as a server for recording from 2-6 simultaneous camera angles with at least one channel for playback. The systemized EDIUS version will allow users to directly access the K2 contents and edit it while recording, and also directly output back to K2 for playback.
By: Al Caudullo
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Hi Al, what are the bit rates of these codecs:?
“Grass Valley is also making its renowned intermediate codec technology freely available to other applications. As well as the PC-based HQ/HQX codecs, a QuickTime version of Grass Valley’s HQ and 10-bit HQX codec”
Thanks,
CR.