Grass Valley ships EDIUS 6.5 with cross-platform codec and 3D editing features

Grass Valley has begun shipping the latest version of its EDIUS multiformat nonlinear editing software for Windows. EDIUS Pro 6.5 now includes a comprehensive 3D editing workflow and cross-platform codec support. Grass Valley is making its renowned intermediate codec technology freely available to other third-party applications. In addition to the PC-based HQ/HQX codecs, a QuickTime version of Grass Valley's HQ and 10-bit HQX codec (for Windows and Mac OS X platforms), is now available as a free download. EDIUS Pro 6.5 also 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 and STORM 3G Elite editing hardware (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 Pro 6.5 also incorporates 10-bit color correction, a new Flash exporter, several improvements to the Layouter tool, native image stabilization, a built-in loudness meter, and closed-caption pass-through support. The new EDIUS Pro 6.5 software is now shipping for a list price of $699 US, existing users can upgrade to the new version for $299 US. A 30-day free trial of EDIUS Pro 6.5 is also available. [source]