Edius vs. Raylight

[dvx_yaaaaaay]

Edius is SO much faster. Eff raylight.

 

[Barry_Green]

EDIUS is much faster. But Raylight lets you work with Premiere Pro or Vegas, so there's definitely room for both.

At the Los Angeles BootCamp on Saturday David demonstrated Vegas/Raylight, and I demo'ed EDIUS, and people kept asking which one they should get, and it's really a hard choice. I really, really like Vegas as an editor, but I really, really like the speed in EDIUS. I demo'ed four tracks of HD running in realtime off the card in EDIUS.

Then again, Raylight can use the "yellow" mode to get a high-speed preview...

 

[THoff]

Barry, are you still using Edius 3.x, or have you finally moved up to 4.x?

 

[Barry_Green]

No, still on 3.61. I keep drifting back to Vegas/Raylight because I know Vegas so much better...

 

[Kholi]

What computer was this on, Barry? Specs?

 

[Barry_Green]

Core 2 Duo laptop, 2.00GHz, 1 GB RAM. Edius 3.61 Broadcast. Editing straight from the card. I just showed this at the BootCamp on Saturday, I quickly roughed in 3 streams of 720 and 1080 (because it can handle both resolutions on the same timeline, converting in realtime) and it flew through three streams with transitions without skipping a beat.

It can probably handle 6 streams of 1080, I haven't really figured a reason to have six streams active but if I did, it could handle it.

 

[Kholi]

Dang Core 2 is where it's at.

 

[dusterdoo]

Barry - Is there a difference between Edius PRO and BROADCAST ? I believe PRO does not handle p2 support ? Does BROADCAST need a key/dongle? Thanks. . .

 

[THoff]

P2/MXF support is not included in Edius 4 Pro, you need the Broadcast version. Both versions require a USB dongle.

There is a fully functional downloadable trial version of Edius 4 Broadcast with P2/MXF support available.

Edit: Obviously the trial version doesn't need a dongle. It can be converted to a non-trial version by purchasing a dongle from Canopus/Grass Valley.

 

[dusterdoo]

Thanks so much - Ill give it a try.