I have a friend using finalcut for HD editing but looking for a realtime editing solution for chromakey and multi layer editing.
He saw an edius demo and told me it is full realtime even in HD (xdcam, P2)
yes, I do. Depending on your CPU power, it is a good performer. If however there will be overloaded areas on the timeline, a context menu via right click can let you render only overloaded areas, in most cases this will be the fades or transitions or a multi layer portion.
I'm only using a core 2 duo set up right now. Our other 3 edit suites using edius are EVEN using lower specs. but they edit HD material on an SD timeline.
for p2 editing 720 and 1080 in realtime is easy as pie with edius.
I was doing it for a couple of years on a core duo 2.16ghz laptop with 2 gigs of ram and xp. now, i've got a quadd core laptop with 6 gigs of ram and it screams.