At a special media event last week, Grass Valley exhibited its growing line of ProAV products. We’ve already covered the Turbo and Indigo in rAVe, but here is a bit of info about MediaEdge and Edius.

While tempting to bill it as a digital signage system, MediaEdge is actually a robust video distribution system. What’s interesting about this is that it has enough of a database to be used as a stand-alone distribution and VOD system wherever you need to install enterprise video, but it’s also designed as a VAR product for those who can value-add applications. A simple use is that at a prison, it delivers video and video on demand for prisoners who are continuing their educations. So it handles scheduling and specific distribution points. A more elaborate install is at a video store in Asia, where a store customer can swipe the bar code off a DVD box onto a kiosk then the system plays a trailer of that movie.

 The Edius system lets people edit video — including any mix of different formats — and ready it for broadcast pretty much on the fly and without having to wait for rendering.