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Running EDIUS on a MacSteve leeflang

August 2011

Apple’s free utility Boot Camp allows you to install Windows just as if you were installing it normally on any PC. When running Windows via Boot Camp, you will have regular access to all hardware and software, such as the Grass Valley™ EDIUS®

nonlinear editing software.

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Running EDiuS on a Mac

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Windows Installation 1

EDIUS Installation 9

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Windows Installationin oS X, open Boot camp Assistant:

From the Finder go to Applications > Utilities and click Boot camp Assistant.

click continue on the introduction screen.

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Windows Installation (cont.)

Select what you want to do.

Most likely you will choose: create or remove a Windows partition

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Windows Installation (cont.)now you have to decide how much space you want to allocate to Windows.

eDiUS, with all its third-party appli-cations, requires 6 GB of hard disk space for installation.

Depending on how much free disk space you have available, it is a good idea to have between 20 and 32 GB for the Windows partition.

(You can choose a second disk specifically for Windows.)

to change the allocated space for the Windows partition, click the small divider between Mac oS X and Windows, and drag it to the left. the amount you dedicate to Windows will be displayed and updated in GB.

the partition process does not take long. When it is done, you will notice a new disc on your desktop.

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When Windows has finished installing, after you have set up your Administrator account, eject the Windows DVD from your drive.

this is done by selecting the DVD drive, right-clicking and selecting eject. the eject key on your Mac keyboard may not work yet, since it does not have the required drivers for windows.

the next step is to insert your Windows DVD in the DVD drive.

click Start installation.

Windows installation will start.

You will get a screen asking where you want to install Windows.

Make sure that you select the newly created partition.

click the Drive options button.

click Format and once it is done, click oK.

now you can click next.

Windows will now install.

Windows will restart itself at least once during the installation. it might occasionally happen that when Windows restarts itself, you end up in oS X instead of Windows. if so, you should then restart your Mac and this time hold down the option key as your Mac starts.

You will see a few drive icons to choose from. Double click the Windows icon.

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put your oS X DVD in the drive.

You will be prompted to install or Run program.

click the Run setup.exe button.

(You might get a screen prompting you to restart. if this happens, restart your Mac and run the setup again.)

now you will get the Welcome to the Boot camp installer screen. click next.

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Accept the license agreement and click next.

Make sure Apple Software Update for Windows is selected, and click install.

the Boot camp installer will install a chipset and other drivers.

let the installer complete the instal-lation and then restart.

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When Windows starts this time, you will see a new icon in the System tray: the Boot camp software.

click it and a pop-up menu will appear.

Select Boot camp control panel.

in the first tab—Startup Disk—you can select which operating System you want to boot into by default.

Select the one you want.

You can always choose to boot to the other oS by holding down the option key while your Mac starts. it is also possible to select the default oS you want to boot into in Mac oS X. Just select the Startup Disk option in your System preferences.

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in the Keyboard tab select the keyboard and select Use F1-F12 keys to control software features. this is needed to control functions in eDiUS.

You have now set up Windows and are ready to install eDiUS.

Note:

lion oS X:

if you have purchased lion oS X via the AppStore you need to create a Boot camp DVD.

Download Boot camp 4.0 from the oS X lion interface.

Go to the Boot camp Assistant: Application folder >Utilities >Boot camp Assistant and run it.

click on continue and in the next window, select to download “Windows Support Software for this Mac” or Boot camp 4.0, which is around 650 MB. At the end, it will give the option to burn the file to DVD.

So instead of using the oS X DVD shown earlier, you should insert the created Boot camp DVD so that the drivers for Windows can be installed.

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put the eDiUS 6 DVD in the drive. Run Setup from the eDiUS DVD . You should see a Flash screen from which to run it—if not, browse the DVD and run setup from the DVD.

Accept the license agreement and click next.

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enter your name, company name, and the supplied serial number

next specify a folder, or accept the default location to install eDiUS.

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Quicktime installation: leave it selected—eDiUS uses Quicktime components for some operations.

the eDiUS installer will run and it will install the necessary software. let the setup complete.

if you have Grass Valley hardware installed, such as HDSpARK™ pro, StoRM™ 3G, or StoRM 3G elite, you will see a notification to install the drivers.

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once the setup is finished, eDiUS will ask you to restart the pc. Do so.

After the restart is complete and you are back in Windows, insert the dongle in a USB port.

Windows will install drivers for it.

Go to: www.grassvalley.com and click the login button. if you have a Grass Valley User Account, add eDiUS 6 to your registered prod-ucts. if you do not have a Grass Valley User Account, then create one and register eDiUS 6.

After registering eDiUS 6, down-load the eDiUS 6.03 update (Size: 353 MB), and the latest versions of third-party software VitaScene and newblue.



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once the download of the 6.03 update is complete, unzip it and run the setup.

eDiUS will ask you to reboot at the completion of the installation.

After the restart, install VitaScene, newblue (the ones which you have downloaded), and from the bonus DVD, izotope and Mercalli.

now you are ready to enjoy eDiUS 6 and eDit AnYtHinG!


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