Edius 6.5 is every JVC TD1 owner's dream! I put together two tiny projects tonight since I downloaded the trial: one with JVC TD1 60i clips and one with Panasonic Z10000 24p clips. Here's the report I gave over in the Panny thread:
Oh, my! I just tried Edius 6.5 with the Panasonic clips I shot the other day at 24p. I don't see any significant difference between playing these clips in 3D vs 2D from the timeline. I did the same test (as with JVC clips):
Added several Panny clips, 3D at 24p. Fades, dissolves, titles, stereoscopic corrections, color corrections on each one. Edius seems to hesitate the first time through when I play a title with a clip, then it's smooth from then on out. This is MVC clips playing at about the same level of smoothness as regular 2D AVCHD footage. As a matter of fact, the footage is identical. It's just that the other day Edius 6 was seeing those clips as 2D only (since it was the 2D only version). This is remarkable!!!
Here's the system I'm using:
Intel i7 2600k, stock clocked.
16 GB Ripjaws Z XMP RAM
120 GB system drive (OCZ Vertex Plus)
2x 1TB 7200rpm Video Drives in RAID0
nVidia 460 1 GB video card, stock clocked
This is my secondary system, not the faster i7 3930 rig with all SSDs for video editing.
Everyone doing 3D editing should consider giving Edius 6.5 a try. I'll probably be playing with it all night.
I'll report if I encounter any strangeness.
My JVC results were pretty much the same, except for taking a little longer to render 60i to 24p.
Here's another part of what happened tonight:
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I put Edius 6.5 on my everyday system just for grins: Core i5 750, 8GB RAM, 500 GB system HDD, 2x 1.5 TB video HDDs in RAID0, nVidia GeForce 450 1 GB. This system plays an MVC clip fairly cleanly, even with a stereoscopic filter applied, but it stutters through two such clips and a dissolve. It's still probably better than Vegas 11 trying to play through a similar part of its timeline on my most powerful computer. But a Core i7 is much, much smoother, nearly perfect. I rendered a Canopus HQX Fine 10bit dual stream file, which I then imported into the Core i7 2600k system. Once there, Vegas 11 rendered the Panasonic Z10k 24p project to a Blu-ray 3D iso file in about 1.5x real time. I suspect it would be close to real time on my Core i7 3930 system.
So, given a powerful Core i7 system (and a middle of the road GeForce card), Edius 6.5 looks like a killer 3D editor. I've taken the workflow from raw JVC and Panasonic MVC clips to a Blu-ray 3D disc. The JVC clips, of course, require more rendering, since they start out as 60i. The Panasonic project, which is native 24p, goes faster.
Spectacular!
I was hoping the Grass Valley engineers would speed up playback of MVC clips in the final version, but they've exceeded my expectations by leaps and bounds. Of course, there may be surprises ahead (when does that not happen?), but I'm delighted with Edius right now. Perhaps they'll even add support for Blu-ray 3D burning in the next version. But since I have Vegas, it's not an issue for me.