Users can add separate title tracks which are actually placed beneath V1, and also have the ability to add combined video/audio tracks to the video section. What might be unfamiliar to newcomers is the timeline, which while not new to EDIUS itself is slightly different from the most popular edit systems. We love the idea of switching between single and dual monitor edit layouts, and could identify virtually every icon’s function on first sight. That said, we soon felt the urge to scale back and remove some of the bits we don’t use very often and make our own slightly cleaner layout, a process we could easily accomplish. Buttons are placed logically and conveniently. Those familiar with Adobe’s Creative cloud will be more than familiar with all of this and indeed may even find the Grass Valley implementation a little less intrusive.Įditors new to EDIUS 8 will find themselves comfortable with its newly-refreshed interface from the moment they enter it, even though it can be customized through the roof.
The GV License manager will require you to check in about once every 60 days to verify this license.
New users are required to create an EDIUS account and then associate their registration key with it. For this article however, our testing was performed on a Windows 7 laptop with a Core i7-4600M and 16GB of RAM running a pre-release build of EDIUS 8.1 Pro. Workgroup, available for $1000, is designed for multiple-seat, overlapping environments with added support watch folders, advanced import/export/media management features, loudness meters and captioning. EDIUS Pro and Workgroup are the only options. The first item of note is the reduced tier system, a move that’s always welcome. The new version 8 release is snappy, stable and simply put, just plain enjoyable to use. We’re happy to report that this hasn’t changed. When we last visited EDIUS (v7, December 2013) we were incredibly impressed with its processing speed and the vast variety of codecs it supported.