Importing footage

The source browser

You connect the camera or plug in the card and it will appear in the list, with a series of thumbnails of your clips.  Choose the ones you want and select "add and transfer to bin".  The footage is copied off your card and straight into the EDIUS project folder.  It could not be easier.

Apart from adding support for some new formats, like Canon XF, the source browser now replaces the disc capture utility as a way of getting footage off of audio CDs or video DVDs.  The picture here shows the different titles on a DVD (it is actually our own EDIUS 5 tutorial DVD).  Just choose one and add and transfer to bin.

Also new is the ability to take footage off of a Blu-ray video disc.  Now you can get footage back from a Blu-ray disc for re-editing inside of EDIUS!

New metadata panel

The project window has a new "metadata" panel below the main project bin so you can see extra information about your clips easily.

New Project display

...And in addition to the usual views of clips there is a new way of seeing clips in the bin - a simple thumbnail with no clutter of information around it.

You may also notice in this screen that one of the thumbnails shows as a waveform and has 30% written on it.  What does this mean? This means that the "wave form cache", the little file EDIUS creates to show you the levels of the sound on the timeline, is being created and is 30% of the way through.  The big changes with EDIUS 6 is that it does this in the background when the clip is loaded, so you never have to wait for it.  If you add a clip to the timeline and the waveform cache has not been made EDIUS just carries on working and displays it as soon as it is finished.  A great little time saver.

Copy clips to project folder

Another nice new option in all the import dialogue boxes - you can choose to copy the media you are importing (video, still, music etc..) into the EDIUS project folder - so you keep all the clips you are using in one place.