I’m building a video editing workstation and decided to upgrade my Canopus EDIUS 4 to version 5. While looking for info on the upgrade pricing, I found Grass Valley’s Firecoder Blu. It’s supposed to encode Blu-ray specced H.264 from HD source at speeds up to 2x real-time. That’s 48 frames per second which is far better than the 12-15 frames per second I get with a brand spanking new Intel Core i7 920.