EDIUS XRE | Grass Valley

EDIUS XRE

Conform Engine For EDIUS Workgroups

In a workgroup environment, editors need to be editing, not rendering. The Grass Valley™ EDIUS® XRE (eXternal Rendering Engine) gives users in a workgroup the freedom to spend their time editing their projects–not conforming their projects into final finished form. The Grass Valley EDIUS XRE server is a turnkey system that allows editors to request that a project created with EDIUS in either an Aurora or EDIUS Workgroup Storage environment to be rendered automatically on a separate dedicated workstation while they go on to the next job. There's no delay or tying up a valuable edit station while having to wait for that project to be rendered. Serving as a unique and powerful conform server, the EDIUS XRE accepts the various full-resolution project elements and, by selecting "XRE export" on the EDIUS timeline, immediately and automatically creates finished files in the background allowing editors to keep on editing.

Key Features

Comes as a complete turnkey system
Works in an EDIUS Workgroup Storage system or an Aurora Tapeless HD Production system
Multiple users may send jobs to the same EDIUS XRE
Multiple XRE units may be on the same shared environment
Jobs may be reprioritized to serve workgroup needs
Current job may be suspended or cancelled to allow higher priority jobs to be conformed
Optional FIRECODER Blu board for accelerated Blu-ray Disc encoding
Optional FIRECODER Intra board for accelerated AVC-Intra encoding
Optional Fibre channel ports or additional GigE port

Specifications

Video Formats

Canopus HQ
Canopus Lossless
Canopus DV
DVCPRO 50
DVCPRO HD
HDV
Ikegami GFCAM
Infinity JPEG 2000
Microsoft DV
MPEG-1
MPEG-2 program stream, elementary stream, transport stream (SD and HD)
P2 (SD and HD)
VariCam
QuickTime (including DV, DVCPRO HD)
XDCAM (SD and HD)
Uncompressed
Windows Media

Digital Input/Output

Standard definition: DV, DVCAM, Infinity, P2, XDCAM
High definition: HDV, Infinity, P2, XDCAM, Ikegami GFCAM
2 x FireWire (IEEE 1394a)

Device Control

DV/HDV AV/C control over FireWire (IEEE 1394a)

Additional Transcode Acceleration
Depends on choice of options. See individual data sheets for:

FIRECODER Blu
FIRECODER Intra

System Configuration

Operating System
- Windows XP Professional
Workstation: HP Z800
CPU:
- Intel Xeon 5550 2.66 GHz, 8 MB/1333 quad core
System Drive:
- 160 GB SATA
Memory: 3 GB
Storage:
- 500 GB of SATA (250 GB x 2, RAID 0) storage (6 hours of HQ (HD) @ 140 Mb/s, 33 hours of DV/HDV @ 25 Mb/s, 6 hours of uncompressed SD, 8 hours of DVCPRO HD)*
- 16x DVD±RW supermulti drive
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 512 MB

Service & Support
One-year limited warranty

Note: System Configuration is subject to change without notice. Monitors and other accessories not included with base system – available separately.

* Storage time capacity depends on compression method used, if any.

EDIUS XRE in the News

Grass Valley Makes Shared Storage for EDIUS Workgroups Affordable

March 2, 2010

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Ordering Information

EDIUS6-TK-BASE-Z8S
HP Z800 Single CPU Workstation for EDIUS 6 Turnkey

EDIUS6-TK-BASE-Z8D
HP Z800 Dual CPU Workstation for EDIUS 6 Turnkey

EDIUS6-TK-XRE
EDIUS 6 eXternal Rendering Engine Kit for EDIUS 6 Turnkey (BASE-Z8S or Z8D needed)