IKEA is bringing its corporate history together in a series of videos and, as befits a highly design conscious company, it has chosen the Thomson Grass Valley EDIUS editing platform for the task. Sven-Gunnar Lennartsson, Swedish video editor, created a special end of year gift for the company’s staff worldwide: a DVD charting the history of the company from 1926 to 1986.

“There was a lot of material available,” said Lennartsson, “but of course it was in all sorts of formats. The solution lay in the EDIUS nonlinear video editor, which allows you to mix any combination of formats on a single timeline. “EDIUS was perfect,” said Lennartsson. “We did not have to think about what the original material was, and we could decide the output format later.”

It was not just the ease of integrating a wide variety of content that made EDIUS attractive for the project. Lennartsson liked the speed and power of the editor, and the fact that it is easy to build the complete workflow around EDIUS, from TitleMotion Pro for sophisticated graphics to ProCoder 3 for uncompromised file conversion at the DVD authoring stage.

Clive Collier is a writer/producer/director based in Brighton, UK. Clive has a background in camera work, animation and editing and took it upon himself to tackle an entire documentary on one of his favourite musicians, Lisa Gerrard, famous for her haunting soundtrack to the movie blockbuster 'Gladiator'.

"I'd just come from the advertising industry", says Clive "where I had first-hand knowledge of how creativity by committee just kills too much creative rawness. I knew I had the skills and I knew the technology was available to do this".

Made over the course of a year, the film 'Sanctuary' enabled Clive to enlist the help of such industry luminaries as Michael Mann, Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott to paint a visually stunning portrait of a reclusive artist who shares some of her deepest and most creative and emotional insights on all aspects of her life and career.

Choosing the nonlinear editing solution that best fits your workflow can be a daunting task. Here are 10 reasons why Grass Valley EDIUS from Thomson, may be the right choice for you. 

• Realtime Performance
• Format Support
• Simply More Codecs
• Out-and-Out Speed – Import, Edit, and Export
• Hardware/Software Solutions to Match Any Workflow
• Storage and Systems Integration with Grass Valley Solutions
• Ease of Use within a Flexible, Portable Interface
• Sharing Creativity
• The Best and Easiest Multicam Editing in the Industry
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Where to Buy?

The Thomson Grass Valley ADVC family of Advanced Digital Video Converter products offers extreme versatility and professional features spanning all markets. However, many people just don’t realize how many problems the ADVC and related products can solve. Here are 10 practical examples:

• Capture Video Without A Capture Card
• Easy capture of AVCHD videos (HDMI) on laptop and lower-end systems 
• Make A DV Editor/Deck Work In An SDI Environment
• Make An HDV Editor/Deck Work In An HD-SDI Environment
• Get An Extra Input For Thomson Grass Valley Indigo
• Go The Distance - Analog To Digital, Digital To Analog, Or Lower Bandwidth
• Convert Between Analog Signal Types
• Distribution Amplifier/Decoder Alternative 
• Preview Output On Location
• Add HD-SDI and HDMI Input To Thomson Grass Valley TURBO And MEDIAEDGE

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Where to Buy?

The Indigo™ AV Mixer is a new class of high quality, multi-format audio/video mixer. Combining features normally found in video production switchers, AV presentation mixers, and audio mixers, it is a powerful, cost-effective, and easy-to-operate platform for live-presentation environments.

The Turbo™ iDDR is a VTR replacement device that leverages the digital storage, networking, and media-management capabilities of our Emmy® award-winning Profile® video servers. A cost-effective, compact digital recording, editing, and playback device, it is designed for immediate productivity and will reshape the way you look at your professional-video infrastructure investments.

Experience for yourself the power of Indigo™ integrated control of Turbo™ clip playback.

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