Edius Systems

EDIUS is one of the best programs to use on a laptop as it can handle a lot of clips and effects without rendering based purely on the power of the processor. Get an i7 or Sandybridge based laptop and you can even edit hard to use formats like AVCHD!  Because EDIUS uses a dongle you are allowed to install it on as many machine as you like - you can only use it on the one into which the dongle is plugged.  So you could have one copy of EDIUS, which you can use on the laptop when on the move and on the desktop when at home.

A typical laptop with a full copy EDIUS would be about £1,950 +VAT.

Our low cost system is £899 inc VAT for a tower case onto which you can add software and hardware. It even uses the new Intel Quicksync feature to make Blu-ray discs quickly! Our Sandybridge system (details below) has a quite case, 2 monitors, one of the fastest processors you can get and lots of hard drive space and RAM. However if you are on a limited budget, the low cost system will work quiet happily.

The "Sandybridge" chip is the latest type of processor from Intel. 

Fast Blu-ray encoding!

The Sandybridge processors have a special function called Intel QuickSync built in.  This is effectively an H264 encoding engine built-into the processor which does fast encoding into this format for either Blu-ray or MP4 files.  Without QuickSync and hour of video will take 4-5 hours to encode. With QuickSync an hour will take half an hour to encode!  This feature is only available if use EDIUS 6.02 or above and the right configuration of motherboard and processor. We have been testing the very latest motherboards and our current systems will support this encoding feature.

Why buy the Sandybridge?
..because it is the latest best processor from Intel and even has some extra processing abilities built in for H264 encoding which some programs may or may not take advantage of in the future!

A typical Sandybridge EDIUS system would be £1,971+VAT including 2 monitors and an HDSPARK.Click here to read more.

The Xeon system is the ultimate for power.  It has two physical processors, unlike the Sandybridge system which has one processor with many cores built-in.  The current Xeons can best be described as like two i7 processors in one computer.  Two processors do not mean twice as much power unfortunately as the software needs to be optimised for running on multiple processors.  EDIUS uses the full power as much as possible; on the whole we think a typical 2.66Ghz dual Xeon computer is about 30% faster than a 3.4Ghz Sandybridge processor.   It is possible to buy systems with a single Xeon processor but we do not sell these at DVC - if you want a single processor computer we would recommend you get an i7 or a Sandybridge.

Even though a Xeon system will have more power than a single processor Sandybridge the Sandybridge will export files to Blu-ray faster.  This is because EDIUS supports Intel Quicksync, which is a function only found on the Sandybridge processors.

Why buy the Xeon system?
..because you want the most powerful computer you can get.  Luckily we still have quiet cases and power supplies we use for Xeons so even though they are very powerful they do not make too much noise!

A typical Xeon EDIUS system would be £3,900+VAT including 2 monitors and an HDSPARK. There are cheaper Xeons (and more expensive ones) but if you want a system which is better than a Sandybridge then you need too look at the higher end 6 core Xeons we are using. Click here to read more.