Designed for multi-core CPUs and motherboards with PCI Express slots, our groundbreaking EDIUS® NX HD Suite turns your desktop PC into a real-time, multi-format nonlinear editing system. The EDIUS NX HD Suite system can handle any mix of HD and SD video content; unlimited video, audio, title, and graphics layers; and any combination of real-time effects. It offers real-time, full-resolution, full-quality, component HD and SD video output; bi-directional analog/DV conversion using our ADVC® technology from within any Windows-based nonlinear editing software; and lets you edit HD video output from a timeline. Most important, the EDIUS NX HD Suite system can preview your work in progress in high quality and full resolution—in real time—on the type of video monitor on which it is intended to be displayed, including HD. Specifications Video Formats (Capture) Grass Valley DV—720x480/59.94i (NTSC), 720x576/50i (PAL) YUY2 (Uncompressed)—720x486/59.94i (NTSC), 720x576/50i (PAL) Grass Valley Lossless—720x486/59.94i (NTSC), 720x576/50i (PAL) HDV/Grass Valley HQ—1080/59.94i, 1080/50i, 1080/30p, 1080/25p, 1080/24p, 720/60p, 720/50p, 720/30p, 720/25p, 720/24p, 720x480/60p, 720x576/25p, 720x576/50p Video Formats (Output) DV/DVCAM—720x480/59.94i (NTSC), 720x576/50i (PAL) HDV—1080/59.94i, 1080/50i, 1080/30p, 1080/25p, 1080/24p, 720/60p, 720/50p, 720/30p, 720/25p, 720/24p, 720x480/60p, 720x576/25p, 720x576/50p S-video, composite—720x480/59.94i (NTSC), 720x576/50i (PAL) BNC component—1080/59.94i, 1080/50i, 720/30p, 720/25p, 720/24p over 30p, 720x480/59.94i (NTSC), 720x576/50i (PAL) Digital Video Input/Output 1 x 4-pin FireWire (IEEE 1394) 1 x 6-pin FireWire (IEEE 1394) Analog Video Input/Output 1 x S-video and composite combined (7-pin mini DIN) input 1 x S-video and composite combined (7-pin mini DIN) output 1 x component (BNC Y, Pb, Pr) output Analog Audio Input/Output 1 x stereo (3.5mm, unbalanced) input 1 x stereo (3.5mm, unbalanced) output 1 x stereo (RCA, unbalanced) output Minimum System Requirements CPU Intel or AMD 2.4 GHz or higher (Intel Pentium D Class 3.0 GHz or higher is recommended) SSE2 and SSE3 instruction set supported Bus Slots PCIe main board (NHX-E2): 1 PCI Express x1 (PCI Express Spec. Revision 1.0a) PCI HD component output board (HX-HD1): 1 PCI (32-bit / 33 MHz PCI ver 2.1) Memory 512 MB RAM (1 GB or more recommended for HD resolution editing) 800 MB or more space required for software installation Drive with ATA100/7,200 rpm or faster capable of sustaining at least 20 MB/s data transfer: Available hard disk space should be twice the size of the file to be edited A RAID stripe set of two or more hard disk drives is required for multiple HD stream output A graphics card with at least 256 MB of graphics memory (512 MB recommended) with support for Direct3D 9.0c or later, and PixelShader Model 3.0 or later is required (PixelShader Model 4.0 or later recommended)* Sound card with WDM driver support required DVD-ROM drive is required for software installation. For writing onto DVD or Blu-ray disc, a compatible drive is required. Free USB port (1.1 or higher) is required for security key Windows XP Home or Windows XP Professional (SP3 or later, 32-bit) Windows Vista (SP1 or later, 32-bit or 64-bit), including the following operating systems: Windows Vista Home Basic Windows Vista Home Premium Windows Vista Business Windows Vista Ultimate * Please check http://www.grassvalley.com/ for the latest information on compatible graphics cards for GPU effects. As a general guideline: For SD editing: 128 MB or larger required, 256 MB or larger recommended For HD editing: 256 MB or larger required, 512 MB or larger recommended Package Contents EDIUS NX (NHX-E2) PCI Express x1 bus card HD/SD component output PCI x1 bus card Optional EDIUS NX Bay* 1 x FireWire cable (4-pin–4-pin) 1 x board connection cable EDIUS software installation disc set (DVD-ROM) EDIUS bonus disk (DVD-ROM) EDIUS USB dongle EDIUS QuickStart guide Hardware setup manual