#CANOPUS EDIUS 5 UPGRADE#
Previously you had to upgrade to the Broadcast version of Edius to get your hands on formats such as XDCAM and Thomson’s own Infinity JPEG 2000 for its Infinity digital cinema camcorder. Even on two screens, the reliance on pop-out windows seems outdated.Īs you’d expect, Edius includes support for a huge range of formats. The pop-up window system is workable but we prefer Final Cut and Premiere’s intergrated effects panels.Įdius’s interface has improved a lot since its first release, but it still feels cramped on a single screen. This Video Layout Tool can now keyframe pan and zoom effects.
Transforms - like all effects and transitions in Edius 5 - are created and manipulated using a pop-up window. VitaScene also has one of the worst on-screen interfaces we’ve seen in many years. None of these are great collections, and together they’re a bit of a mess, with different interfaces and overlapping lists of effects making them fiddly to use. Everything else is provided through some bundled collections: the effects collections ProDAD VitaScene, NewBlueFX Motion Effects, Art Effects and Filter Effects, iZotope VST audio plug-ins, and the ProDAD Mercalli stabilisation filter.
Edius’s own effects tools are limited to transform, opacity and some basic colour correction. The transitions do all of the usual tricks from simple dissolves to cheesy 3D explosions, and the performance is excellent - we didn’t see any performance drop using them on our test Dell workstation (which has two quad-core Xeon processors, a triple drive RAID system and an AMD ATI FireGL V7600 graphics card), even with HD footage. The old Xplode set of effects and transitions has been ditched in favour an extensive set of transitions that have been developed in-house, and some bought-in effects.
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