How many NLEs these days use a USB dongle licensing system? It's still an option for Avid Media Composer, but for what other packages? Just Edius. In some ways, this feels like an old‑school product. No doubt its time will come, but Edius is aimed squarely at the here‑and‑now of broadcast editing, and I suspect Grass Valley don't see the need to include it at this stage.

There's also none of the 3D Stereoscopic editing malarkey. There are no particularly fancy claims made on behalf of Edius – it's still a 32‑bit application and will run on your older Windows XP platform, but it will also happily run under Vista or Windows 7 64‑bit. In software development, that's a long time, so we should expect this to be a big update. This is the first major release for two years, the first iteration of v5 hailing back to 2008. With the patronage of Grass Valley, it's been steadily carving itself a niche as a reliable, solid and quick‑cutting NLE with excellent format support. Edius is seven years old, and version 6 has just been released. In 2005, Canopus got swallowed up by Grass Valley, but Edius survived.

They hailed it as the Next Big Thing in editing, but the old cynics amongst us - noticing that Edius was Canopus's replacement for their previous Next Big Thing (Storm Edit) - smiled our cynical smile and assumed it would be gone before too long. This is odd, since it's backed by the might of broadcast giants Grass Valley, and has been around for donkey's years.Įdius was introduced in 2003 by Canopus, then something of an upstart company in the world of professional video. Many professional editors have scarcely even heard of it, still fewer actually used it. OK, so it's another video editing package and you might think there's nothing remarkable about that, but actually it's something of a dark horse. Can version 6 bring it the popularity it deserves?Įdius is an interesting programme in many ways. Grass Valley's Edius has always been a capable and versatile NLE.

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