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On Wednesday, November 9, Livestream begun fulfilling all orders for the Livestream Studio (portable) HD550 4K Edition and (rackmount) Livestream Studio HD51 4K Edition. The 4K Editions feature upgraded hardware all around, including Blackmagic Design DeckLink 4K cards, 8-core Intel i7 CPU (16 virtual threads), 64GB RAM, 2TB SSD drive, and Windows 10 system. The 4K editions feature 5 inputs and one output with full size HDMI and SDI connectors. The price for the Studio HD550 4K Edition is 9,999 USD and the price for the Studio HD51 4K Edition is 8,999 USD ex. VAT. Also available is Livestream Studio 4 software, with support for Facebook Live and the new Mevo camera, as well as 4K crop technology, allowing producers to turn any single 4K camera feed into a multi-camera shoot.

With version 8.3 of EDIUS Pro and EDIUS Workgroup, Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, is introducing a number of new features that will make video editing more productive and more creative. The new version brings high-quality slow motion, more DVD/Blu-ray burning options, and other new usability improvements to all EDIUS Pro and Workgroup 8 users.

"Our customers choose EDIUS because they know that it's a smart investment that will keep up with their needs as technology advances," said Steve Wise, director of product marketing, Grass Valley. "We are constantly adding features and improving performance in response to feedback from users, which means that the software never falls behind the needs of the market. And the permanent license structure is such that existing users have access to the incremental upgrades within a version at no additional charge."

Specific improvements for EDIUS Pro 8.3 and EDIUS Workgroup 8.3 include:

• High-quality slow motion using optical flow interpolation
• Bin now shows timecode information
• Many more "Burn-to-disc" options for DVD and Blu-ray
• More proxy resolution options
• GV Browser improvements
• GUI improvements
• F-Log (Fujifilm) color space

EDIUS 8 supports more formats and more resolutions in real time than its competitors, with more creative options and real-time, no-render editing of all popular SD, HD and even 4K formats. It is widely regarded as the most versatile and fastest nonlinear editing software available on the market today. EDIUS is available in two versions -- EDIUS Pro 8 is targeted at the professional production user, while EDIUS Workgroup 8 is aimed at editors working within a broadcast-based, collaborative editing environment that might require GV STRATUS or third-party MAM connectivity, or to edit-in-place on K2 server/storage.

In the past, YouTube added product features and made new video and audio formats available to everyone, from HD to 4K video, live streaming, 3D, 360-degree video, and spatial audio. And now it is adding support for High Dynamic Range (HDR) videos. Users can watch YouTube videos in HDR on supported devices, such as HDR TVs with the new Chromecast Ultra streaming device, and soon on all 2016 Samsung SUHD and UHD TVs. Any creator can now upload HDR videos to YouTube. As for authoring HDR content, Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve software, version 12.5.2 or newer, is currently the only software that exports files with (some) standards-compliant metadata out of the box.

To take advantage of this:

• Go to Project Settings.
• Under "Master Project Settings," choose DaVinci Resolve YRGB Color Managed as the Color Science.
• Go to the "Color Management" page.
• Choose either ST.2084 1000 or HLG-2020 as the Output Color Space.

This container and codec doesn't yet support all metadata. It specifies primaries, transfer characteristics, and matrix coefficients, but doesn't provide mastering display metadata.

Postium Korea announced a new HDR functionality of the professional 24" 4K LCD OBM-U240 monitor. The HDR function allows users to view both highlight and shadow details of the scene at the same time, in compliance with both SMPTE ST 2048 (PQ OETF) and Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG OETF) modes. The monitor also provides the means to compare both high-dynamic range and standard dynamic range images simultaneously. New monitors come with the function pre-installed, current customers can upgrade the monitor via a new firmware.

Two new in podcasts in the EDIUS Podcast series cover resetting application settings, and making project templates out of existing projects. Visit podcast.edius.net YouTube channel to watch the ongoing podcast series.