Canopus announces line of turnkey computer editing stations

by News Editor
Published on Aug 11, 2002 12:00 AM



The Canopus RES series© (Realtime Editing Station) come in three flavours. The RES-100 is powered by dual AMD Athlon MP 1800+ processors, a DVStormSE with StormBay breakout box (with IEEE 1394, S-Video and composite input/output), Windows XP Professional, 512 MB of DDR memory, a 40 GB system drive and a 160 GB disk array (for more than 10 hours of storage), an Nvidia GeForce4 video card and a Pioneer DVD-R drive. It retails for $4999.

The RES-300 is powered by dual AMD Athlon MP 1900+ processors with 1 GB of DDR memory. As with the RES-100, the RES-300 includes a DVStormSE with StormBay breakout box, Windows XP Professional, a 40 GB system drive and a 160 GB disk array (for more than 10 hours of storage), an Nvidia GeForce4 video card and a Pioneer DVD recorder. It retails for $6999.

Finally the high-end system, the RES-500 is based on the award-winning Canopus DVRex RT Professional and boasts dual AMD Athlon MP 2000+ processors, 1 GB of DDR memory, a 40 GB hard drive and a 240 GB disk array (for more than 15 hours of storage), an Nvidia GeForce4 video card and a Pioneer DVD-R drive. RES-500 also includes a 19" professional breakout box that provides multiple inputs and outputs (IEEE 1394, XLR, S-Video, composite and component). Yours for $9999.

Each of the packages comes complete with Adobe Premiere 6.0 nonlinear editing software, Adobe After Effects 5.5 - the industry's leading compositing software, Canopus Storm Edit realtime editing application, Canopus SoftMPG encoder for high-quality MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 encoding, Canopus Video Out Plug-in for After Effects, Canopus Xplode Professional 3D transitions package, Canopus Photo Album Plug-in, Sonic Foundry's ACID Style audio software for a quick and easy way to produce custom music, and Ulead DVD Workshop SE for DVD authoring.

You can check it all out at www.canopus.com.