• Real-time, mixed-format, SD/HD editing, including DV, HDV, AVCHD, MPEG-2, Windows Media, and QuickTime video
• Fast, flexible user interface, including unlimited video, audio, title, and graphics tracks
• Real-time editing and conversion of different SD/HD aspect ratios, such as 16:9 and 4:3
• Real-time editing and conversion of different frame rates, such as 60i, 50i, and 24p
• Real-time editing and conversion of different resolutions, such as 1920x1080, 1440x1080, 1280x720, and 720x480
• Real-time SD/HD effects, keyers, transitions, and titles, including new GPUfx (GPU-accelerated transitions)
• Real-time, render-free DV output directly from the timeline
• Nested timeline sequences
• High-speed MPEG-2 and HDV import and export using multi-core and multiple CPU technology
• Segment encoding (smart rendering) export for MPEG-2 and HDV
• Direct to Blu-ray Disc and DVD timeline export with menus
• Quick Titler software, for real-time titling, including rolls and crawls
• AVCHD converter software for converting AVCHD clips to Canopus HQ codec
• Upgradeable to higher-end EDIUS software

Minimum System Requirements

• Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz CPU or faster (Intel Core 2 Duo processors recommended for HD/HDV editing; hyper-threading supported)
• 512 MB RAM (1 GB RAM recommended)
• 300 MB free disk space for the application
• DVD-ROM drive for software installation (Blu-ray Disc or DVD drive is required for Blu-ray Disc or DVD burning)
• Windows Vista (Ultimate, Enterprise, Business, Home Premium/Basic), Windows XP Home or Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 2 or later)
• DirectX 9.0c or later
• Graphics card with support for PixelShader Model 3.0 or later and 32-bit color display at a 1024x768 resolution (256 MB of graphics memory is required when editing in HD resolution)
• ATA100/7200 RPM or faster hard disk recommended RAID 0 is required for HD editing
• Sound card

Note: External video decks/cameras may require either an available FireWire (IEEE 1394) port or USB 2.0 port for connectivity.