About Us

EDITWARE is dedicated to the design, development, manufacturing, and support of Edit Control Systems and Super Edit software. We are located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, in historic and beautiful Grass Valley, California (USA) about 40 miles northeast of Sacramento and 60 miles west of Lake Tahoe. [Map] Super Edit was originally written as a software package by Dave Bargen to run on CMX edit systems in the early 1980s. The software was put on its own Digital Equipment PDP hardware platform in time for the NAB Convention at Dallas in 1982. The company was named ISC (Interactive Systems). MTI (now part of the Image Group) in New York City got the first system that same summer. The products were the System 41m and 51m editing systems. ISC was later purchased by Grass Valley Group in 1985 as a compliment to their video production systems. The VPE Video Production Editor line was born with the VPE-141 and VPE-151.

Since that time, the VPE line grew and expanded to the VPE 300 Series (VPE-331, 341, and 351) and in April of 1999 -- Editware began shipping a major new product, the DPE-500 hybrid edit controller. Editware, formed as a spin-off of the Grass Valley Group in early 1996, and continues to sell and support the widely used VPE product family. The DPE product line enhanced the capabilities of the industry standard Super Edit and added non-linear speed and convenience with Super Edit NLE software (NLE). According to Bob Lefcovich, Editware’s VP of Sales and Customer Support, “DPE was the first edit system to be built from the ground up as a hybrid editor with absolutely no compromise in linear, on-line capabilities.” Now in it’s 8th major release for the VPE family Super Edit has the distinction of being the longest, continuously supported, upgraded, and enhanced editing software application of it's kind in broadcast television.