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Bill Ravens · June 3rd, 2008, 10:27 AM

go to the Grass Valley/Edius forum. there's links there to some good tutorials.

I have edius on my Dell Inspiron laptop as well as on my custom built workstation. It works well on both, altho' I had to upgrade my video card to a Quadro FX1500 to get edius display to work well on my workstation. Stick with nVidia. Any of their cards are better than ATi. Avid will "require" nVidia.

IMHO, Edius is a nice application that needs further development, much like vegas was back in version 3, altho' still a bit primitive. Avid has been around since film cutting became digitized...over 30 years, I think. It is a very evolved and developed NLE with a lot of capability and depth, especially if you work with real film. Edius' cuts editting is somewaht primitive compared to Avid. If you can wish for a cuts/edit tool, Avid probably has it. To get the full understanding of editting on Avid, I had to go to film school. It was an invaluable learning experience to learn avid. If you could find a professional avid editor show you the ropes, you'll learn MUCH faster.

And, for me, film school is entirely Mac based, while my home studio is entirely PC based. Using an external drive formatted in HFS+, together with MACDRIVE on my home system, allows complete portability within AVID, Mac or PC based.

June 3rd, 2008, 10:27 AM	#12
Bill Ravens Inner Circle Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: santa fe, nm Posts: 2,863 Images: 10	go to the Grass Valley/Edius forum. there's links there to some good tutorials. I have edius on my Dell Inspiron laptop as well as on my custom built workstation. It works well on both, altho' I had to upgrade my video card to a Quadro FX1500 to get edius display to work well on my workstation. Stick with nVidia. Any of their cards are better than ATi. Avid will "require" nVidia. IMHO, Edius is a nice application that needs further development, much like vegas was back in version 3, altho' still a bit primitive. Avid has been around since film cutting became digitized...over 30 years, I think. It is a very evolved and developed NLE with a lot of capability and depth, especially if you work with real film. Edius' cuts editting is somewaht primitive compared to Avid. If you can wish for a cuts/edit tool, Avid probably has it. To get the full understanding of editting on Avid, I had to go to film school. It was an invaluable learning experience to learn avid. If you could find a professional avid editor show you the ropes, you'll learn MUCH faster. And, for me, film school is entirely Mac based, while my home studio is entirely PC based. Using an external drive formatted in HFS+, together with MACDRIVE on my home system, allows complete portability within AVID, Mac or PC based. __________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~CHALCHIHUITL (fix it in post) PRODUCTIONS~~~~~~~~~~~ XDCAM EX--JVC HD110-----PC Based Avid Media Composer/Edius Broadcast/Vegas Pro--CINEFORM Last edited by Bill Ravens; June 3rd, 2008 at 11:10 AM.