Full specs & system requirements
SpecificationsReal-time analogue, DV and HDV editing system with Canopus Edius Pro SP
How much?
Complete turnkey system from In-deep, £6,545 (inc VAT)
Edius SP alone, £2,400
Features
Edius SP for HDV PCI bus card; Edius SP for HDV HD component output card; inputs for component video, S-video, composite video and ref video and for balanced and unbalanced analogue stereo audio; outputs for component video (x2), S-video out, composite video out, plus XLR balanced stereo audio (x2) and unbalanced analogue stereo audio; four-pin FireWire for DV and HDV input and output; nine-pin D-Sub RS-422A device control; can capture as Canopus DV, YUY2 (uncompressed), Canopus lossless, HDV/Canopus HQ, Canopus HD; can output DV, HDV, Canopus HD
Software supplied with Edius SP bundle
Canopus Edius Pro 3 editor; Ulead DVD Workshop 2 SE for authoring; Sony Acid Music Studio for audio. In-deep also bundles Nero 6 for burning files and disc images to the system’s three burners simultaneously
System requirements for Canopus Edius SP
3.0GHz processor or faster (Intel Xeon 3.2GHz dual processors recommended); 1GByte RAM; one free PCI 64-bit/66MHz slot (rev. 2.2); one free PCI 32-bit/33MHz slot (rev. 2.2); 800MByte free hard drive space; ATA100/5400rpm hard disk or faster recommended (Ultra SCSI 160 or better said to be required when playing two streams or more while reading uncompressed files); graphics card with hardware-based DirectDraw overlay and 32-bit colour display at a 1024x768 resolution; Windows XP (Service Pack 1 or later); DirectX 9.0; soundcard; DVD-ROM drive to access sample content
System specification
Windows XP Professional; two Intel Xeon 3.2GHz processors (800FSB S604 1MByte Cache active); 2GByte Corsair DDR RAM (2x 1GByte sticks); Supermicro twin Xeon motherboard (X6Da8-G); Inno 3D nVidia GeForce 6600 PCI Express graphics card with 256MByte DDR and DVI output; Sata Raid controller; 120GByte Hitachi ATA system drive; three Hitachi 250GByte Sata drives (T7K250) for media; three Sony multi-format Dual Layer DVD burners; floppy-disk drive; Cooler Master CM Stacker case with Supermicro 650W PSU; Edius keyboard. System warranty – three years' collect-and-return
Also included in price but not tested for this review
Creative three-speaker sound system (Inspire SBS 350); two Iiyama ProLite E485S 19in LCD monitors (three-year swap-out warranty)
Also used for the review
Liteon LitePanel 150 TFT monitor; Sony HDR-FX1 HDV camcorder
In-deep, 0870 350 2450; http://www.in-deep.co.uk
Canopus, http://www.canopus-uk.com
