User manual GRASS VALLEY EDIUS FOR DSLR POST APPLICATION NOTE

[. . . ] the ability to shoot video with the larger sensor of a DSlR gives the filmmaker an amazing shallow depth of field, which visually equates to the cinematic look of 35mm film. thousands of filmmakers worldwide, from consumers, to prosumers, to professionals, have taken the potential of the DSlR to create impressive images and amazing movies. Another benefit of using a big DSlR sensor is the ability to work with less light. However, it appeared as though companies like canon and nikon didn't plan on the popularity of DSlR cameras for use in professional and broadcast videos. [. . . ] Unfortunately, this can take a significant amount of time depending on how much footage you have, the conversion process itself, and the speed of your computer--with a major effect on your time schedule. in a time of intel i7 quad core cpUs and fast hard drives, managing HD footage should not be a big problem. With the majority of nles, trying to play a timeline in real time which has a clip from a canon 5D Mark ii (H. 264, 1920x1080 25p) mixing with a clip from a Sony eX1/eX3 (MpeG-2, 1920x1080 25p) is nearly impossible. Some nles scale down the output, or require a very powerful graphics card to calculate the HD image. it's the same when your timeline is 1080 25p and you try to add your client's 720 25p footage or WMV-compressed 640x480 footage for picture-in-picture. What's worse is when you try to render out your final project, with no render farm available and when you're on deadline. Some people say that the best way to work with DSlR footage is to convert everything into another codec. With eDiUS 6, you can easily handle multiple formats, frame rates, and codecs all on the same timeline without any problems. that's why eDiUS's slogan is "edit Anything" eDiUS has everything i need to edit every type of footage that i like to work with. it doesn't need to convert anything to play in real time on the timeline. 1 www. grassvalley. com EDIUS for DSLr PoSt Importing DSLR Files Into EDIUS i have two choices for organizing my footage. First is to copy all my footage from the camera into a folder on my hard drive. if i've done a good job shooting, there are no problems with the filenames. the second and easier way is to open the camera's file drive with the eDiUS source browser and add/transfer the audio, video, and still image files into the eDiUS bin and the project folder at the same time. of course i choose a timeline format for my project ahead of time, but even if i have non-conforming footage, eDiUS can handle it on the timeline without conversion. With eDiUS, i can choose nearly every frame speed that i might need, from 15p to 50p in resolutions up to 4k in every aspect ratio i could possibly imagine. editing with eDiUS 6 gives me: · the fastest way to bring the footage into my project, without any time wasted on format conversion · the ability to bring different formats onto one timeline · Real-time editing with native footage from any DSlR on the market · Mixed formats on the timeline allowing me to bring in footage from a Sony XDcAM eX/HD, or any other type of camera · everything shown in full raster 1920x1080 resolution in real time, all the time · no rendering for effects like blur, color correction, transitions, fade-ins and outs, time remaps, and slow-motion or speed-up · With the masking tool, the ability to create effects that i only thought i could do in specialty software like After effects, but in real time For a example, here's a project with footage with different frame rates: this project is set with a 1920x1080 25p timeline. When i import clips into eDiUS, i can include 1280x720 50p clips as well, without any worry. i can drag-and-drop any clip from the bin to the timeline, regardless of its format. Although it's on a 25p timeline, my 10-second 50p clip will play in its native length of 10 seconds at 25p. if i want to change the playback frame rate to 2X slow-motion, that's easy as well. i simply right mouse-click on the 50p clip within the bin and select "properties. [. . . ] the amount of time i save in not having to convert formats just to place clips on the timeline and the ability to work with the native DSlR files until the final render out (including burning to a DVD or Blu-ray Disc directly from the timeline) is the reason i can work so quickly and efficiently for my clients. Biography My name is Stefan czech and i run Stefan czech Filmproduktion with 3-5 freelancers in langen, Germany. At times, i work alone as a freelance cameraman and as an editor--mostly both--with 90% of my work being timecritical--shooting two hours of footage on location for 6-10 hours, with the 3-6 minute edited footage having to be uploaded to Youtube in HD that same night!i shoot with two canon 5D Mark ii DSlRs because of the large range of lenses available. eDiUS 6 gives me the ability to work with the native file footage from the DSlR without any conversion, so i save a lot of time in post. SALES Local and regional sales contacts can be found by visiting www. grassvalley. com/sales SUPPort Local and regional support contacts can be found by visiting www. grassvalley. com/support © Copyright 2010 Technicolor USA, Inc. [. . . ]