Digital Intermediate
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[edit] CHROME Imaging
CHROME Imaging Matrix System
Based in Geneva, Switzerland, CHROME Imaging is a developer of high-end systems for film and HD postproduction. CHROME Imaging provides systems ranging from capture to processing, restoration and archiving of digital media designed to meet the demanding requirements of the Digital Cinema revolution. All products are based on a groundbreaking media-oriented architecture designed and developed to sustain the versatility of the film and broadcast workflows.
[edit] Crystal Vision
CRYSTAL VISION CoCo HD - Space-saving HD/SD colour corrector and legaliser. Allows whole picture adjustments in both the YUV and RGB colour spaces, with wide range of tools to adjust level, gain and gamma. Sophisticated legalisation with advanced correction for gamut errors in which the colour is legalised by desaturating it without changing its hue. Dedicated 1U control panel available. [2]
[edit] Cinevation AS
First real time film recorder to Negative, Interpositive, and Print with Sound and Subtitles.
See web site [3] for specs.
[edit] ASSIMILATE
ASSIMILATE SCRATCH - Digital intermediate work flow with basic editing, primary grading and de-scratch. Decodes Cobalt 3D camera [4]
[edit] QUANTEL
QUANTEL iQ - Now featuring QColor Excel - 'the new concept in colour correction' - EIGER on-board too. New AAF Avid offline to online tools [5]
[edit] AUTODESK
AUTODESK LUSTRE 2008 - Digital colour grading system [6]
AUTODESK LUSTRE HD - HDTV colour grading system [7]
AUTODESK INCINERATOR 2007 - Digital colour grading system [8]
[edit] DIGITAL VISION
NAB 2007 ENTRY - At NAB 2007 in booth SL3205, Digital Vision, a leading developer of advanced digital media applications specialising in film and video, will unveil and ship new product versions and pricing options, and showcase new compliance and collaboration capabilities for its image restoration, data conforming, and colour grading systems.
DCI-Compliance for Full Digital Vision Product Line
At NAB, visitors to Digital Vision’s booth will see that all of the company’s products now support Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) specifications. The latest version of the award-winning DVNR image processing workstation supports 2048x1080 at 23.98Hz, 24Hz and 25Hz, and the Nucoda Film Master DI colour grading system provides 12 bit per component monitoring from the timeline and XYZ colourspace export to the DCI TIFF file format. Digital Vision’s compliance demonstrates the company’s leadership in helping its customers to address increasing demand for D-Cinema masters along with HD video and other growing digital delivery formats.
Advancing Tapeless Mastering – Support for Avid DNxHD encoded media
To further advance tapeless mastering for broadcast programming, Digital Vision is collaborating with Avid Technology to build support for Avid DNxHD® decoding/encoding into the Film Master DI colour grading system. As a first step, Digital Vision has obtained permission from Avid to redistribute an Avid DNxHD codec (the first company to do so under Avid’s new Avid DNxHD codec licensing program). This codec will be integrated into the Film Master system to directly access Avid DNxHD encoded media.
Film Master v3.5 Unveiled – and Shipping
At NAB, Digital Vision will give users their first look at Version 3.5 of the Film Master system, which will also ship at that time. The newest version includes a range of features, performance improvements and workflow enhancements, including;
·A new keyer with edge control and de-speckle filter, for cleaner keys
·C-Mode list event order with optional handles and colour correction Revert capability
·New features for the control panel including tint and pan / scan control from trackballs, automatic undo / redo memory and improved control sensitivity for all analogue controls.
·Significantly improved processing performance for Digital Vision Optics, a unique toolset that enables users to manage grain/dust within the Film Master interface. New anti-Alias and De-field filters are included along with real-time display of Dust detection.
·An interface update that includes interactive feedback on pre-emptive background processing of shots and frames
·The ability to recursively filter and import media from a folder hierarchy, for automatic list building without an EDL. 12 bit DPX and QuickTime formats are supported for i/o.
·Intuitive auto and proximity based key-frame creation and adjustment enhancements to Film Master’s dynamic animation
·The ability to perform scene detection faster than realtime and as a background task
·Support for the DVS Centaurus video card including 2k HSDL 15fps i/o; and for 10 bit RGB 444 SDI output monitoring. Audio i/o is now available through either the Bluefish444 Lust or DVS Centaurus video cards, capturing multiple audio channels along with video to Broadcast Wave files.
Enhanced DVO Restoration Suite
Digital Vision has enhanced its Digital Vision Optics tools, which cater to a wide range of restoration and re-mastering tasks. DVO Dust now enables uses to individually correct auto-detected defects. DVO Fix now provides flexible area selection of larger and more complex defects associated with degraded film such as blotches and staining and physical damage.
Also at NAB, the DVNR 2k system will be available with Time-Based Licensing, enabling facilities to match their expenditure on functionality to project needs.
Simon Cuff, Digital Vision’s President and Chief Operating Officer, said, “Facilities, studios, producers and networks alike face tremendous challenges to deliver everything from iPod-ready compressed files, SD and HD video masters, 2k and 4k data, DCI-compliant JPEG 2000 files, to film-outs. The need for efficient, productive workflows is greater than ever, and our responsibility is to enable those new workflows. The innovations we’re bringing to NAB are in technology and new features, but they’re also in pricing models, collaboration tools, performance, and standards compliance – whatever our customers need to produce high quality results efficiently and economically.”
DIGITAL VISION FILM MASTER - NUCODA badged SD to 4K end-to-end film and commercials finishing solution equipped with Valhall Control Panels. v3 is out [9]
DIGITAL VISION COLOUR TIMER Resolution-independent real-time primary colour correction, which includes Nucoda’s Data Conform technology [10]
DIGITAL VISION FILM CUTTER SD to 4K video and data conform, edit and review solution featuring Nucoda's Data Conform technology, also Data Dailies [11]
[edit] IRIDAS
IRIDAS SPEEDGRADE HD 2007 - A Quicktime-based film finishing application that runs on Mac OS X and Windows workstations [12]
IRIDAS SPEEDGRADE - Real time 2k non-destructive colour correction. Encourages colour correction further up the production chain [13]
IRIDAS FRAMECYCLER - 2k playback either from RAM or from disk. Will play uncompressed 2kx1536 Cineon files direct from disk [14]
[edit] DA VINCI
NAB 2007 Entry - New Products Being Featured at NAB2007:
At NAB2007, da Vinci will feature its new Resolve® Conform Station, a time-saving, resource-maximizing solution for digital intermediate workflows. da Vinci's Conform Station takes the conforming, proxy generating, and QC processes out of the expensive DI suite. Now, with the Resolve Conform Station, these processes can be done in a far less expensive environment, at a fully integrated parallel workstation. For DI facilities working in high-resolution projects, the Resolve Conform Station can quickly generate lower resolution (proxy) files of unsurpassed quality using da Vinci's exclusive Transformer™ technology.
Also new for 2007, da Vinci will introduce its Telecine Pre-Programmer, a low-cost device used to control a telecine's transport and color parameters, and ideally suited for a dailies environment. The Telecine Pre-Programmer answers the call for a low-cost solution by leveraging the telecine's own color capabilities. And with further workflow advantage, it includes a complete telecine edit package.[15]
DA VINCI RESOLVE FX - Streamlined for network-based VFX production and can be upgraded as needs evolve. Acceleration from PowerPlant [16]
DA VINCI RESOLVE DI - Optimised for DI includes renderfarm, connected via Ethernet for real-time processing of 2k images. PowerPlant hardware [17]
DA VINCI 2K PLUS - Adds true gamma curve adjustment. v3.9 release includes enhanced PowerVectors, improved Defocus, and real-time vfx [18]
DA VINCI 2K Elite Series - 2K Ruby includes two PowerTiers, each of which adds 2 independent image-processing channels for colour processing [19]
DA VINCI RESOLVE RT - Integrates a da vinci wide-bandwidth fabric to achieve real-time 2k processing, or 3k at 12fps and 4k at 6fps [20]
DA VINCI NUCLEAS - End-to-end DI product suite for use by digital film, short-form data, and data/HD rushes facilities [21]
[edit] PANDORA
PANDORA PiXi - Modular colour correction providing real-time processing up to and over 8192 lines [22]
[edit] GRASS VALLEY
GRASS VALLEY SPIRIT 2K - Industry standard for high-res film transfers. 2k six sector colour processor [23]
GRASS VALLEY SPIRIT 4K - Starting to be seen in numbers (relatively). Can output 2k in real-time and uses a Kodak sub-system [24]
GRASS VALLEY SHADOW TELECINE - Low cost (relatively) device aimed at TV production in SD/HD [25]
GRASS VALLEY SPECTER FS - The hub for grading with up-to-the-minute networking [26]
[edit] CELCO
CELCO FURY/FIRESTORM - Motion picture digital film recorders [27]
[edit] FILMLIGHT
FILMLIGHT BASELIGHT - Fast, creative non-linear grading system for commercials, television and film. Baselight delivers performance that seeks to exceed anything else in the marketplace. [28]
FILMLIGHT TRUELIGHT - Pre-eminent colour management system for production and post-production. Truelight is one of the world’s only complete film colour management system for pre-visualising film images on electronic display devices.[29]
FILMLIGHT NORTHLIGHT - The highest quality pin-registered film scanner for digital mastering. The Northlight scanner is engineered to meet the exceptional demands of feature-length digital film mastering.[30]
[edit] CINTEL
NAB 2007 Entry - Cintel will be showing their range of film scanning solutions at NAB 2007, along with a number of other exciting developments. Come and see us at our new stand in the South Hall, location SL2820.
With the dataMill-2K/4K dual purpose scanner/telecine, post-production houses can now upgrade to real time SD/HD telecine transfers within their existing workflow, and at the same time offer 2K and 4K data ingest at speeds of up to 15fps as they build their digital intermediate (DI) facilities. dataMill is the only data film scanner capable of scanning 8/S8mm, 16/S16mm, 35/S35mm and 65/70mm film.
The new Millennium-HD telecine system configuration means that SD/HD transfers are now more affordable than ever, and with a wide range of upgrade paths and maintenance options available customers can be assured that we will support their business for many years to come.
For customers requiring a dedicated film scanner, the Cintel diTTo offers pin-registered film scanning to Super 2K and 4K files in a low-cost, compact and stylish package. At NAB we will be launching the new 16mm/S16mm gate, allowing scanning of the vast majority of film used in DI processing. Working with our customers at Nordisk Film (Stockholm) and Instituto Luce (Rome) we’ve also enhanced the film handling abilities of the 35mm gate to deal with less than perfect film. Since its launch last year, over 10 units have been delivered to facilities across the world, consistently producing accurate scans in demanding environments ranging from DI to archival and restoration.
We will also be demonstrating the D/SCO dust and scratch concealment option which allows the user a controllable amount of optical correction at the scanner itself and works with all film emulsions including black and white stock.
The Cintel imageMill image processing platform, now in service at some 40 facilities worldwide running the GRACE and STEADY applications will be shown. STEADY allows real time SD and HD sub-pixel image stabilisation of either film or video acquired images. 2K and 4K data can be stabilised at up to 15fps via HSDL. Grace is a true, multi-standard grain reduction tool, enabling users to get the best from their images by providing any degree of grain removal to acquire the desired look. imageMill can work at resolutions from SD through HD to 2K and 4K data, regardless of film gauge and image format, running tape-to-tape or disc-to-disc.
CINTEL DITTO - New data-centric scanner with the 'boutique effects house' market in mind who currently send their scanning work elsewhere [31]
CINTEL IMAGEMILL - Image processing platform which initially runs the Grace grain reduction tool. Full-bandwidth 14-bit processing [32]
CINTEL DSX - Scanner which includes the Oliver dust and scratch reduction systems [33]
CINTEL DATAMILL - Capable of SD and HD log outputs, Super 8, 16, 35, 65/70mm. 2k data at 15fps and 4k at 4fps. £300K! [34]
CINTEL MILLENNIUM II - Telecine designed to evolve with business. Based upon technology developed by ITK [35]
[edit] EDIFIS
EDIFIS THE FINALISER - Integrated disk storage and colour grading with in-built conforming and rendering abilities [36]
[edit] APPLE
APPLE FINALTOUCH HD/2K - Cheap and effective MAC-based colour grading tool which seamlessly integrates with Apple's FCP. Now owned by Apple [37]
[edit] ARRI
ARRI ARRI SCAN - ARRI Scan is still the company's only scanning device but works up to 6k [38]
[edit] IMAGICA
IMAGICA IMAGER XE/HSX - Can process 2k scans in 4-sec and 4k in 8-sec. IMAGER HSX scans 35mm motion picture film to 4K/2K (4096/2048 x 3112/1556 [39]
IMAGICA IMAGICA HD - Film recorder using the JVC 2k D-ILA reflective LCD [40]
[edit] KINOTON
KINOTON FILMREADER - Digital scanning system based on CCD line technology. 35mm or 16mm scanned at around 7fps [41]
[edit] DVS
NAB 2007 ENTRY - From April 16th to 19th, 2007 the NAB attendees will be presented with sensational news at the DVS booth SL2608: the German-based company focuses on 4K in real time, on DCI mastering with JPEG2000 and Spycer® for Linux.
All renown DVS products will be showcased with their new feature sets at the DVS booth SL2608. The turnkey systems CLIPSTER®, Pronto2K.2/ProntoHD.2, DVS-SAN, as well as Spycer® are equipped with high-resolution film sequences for product demos. The OEM boards are available with a new SDK. Interested customers can determine on location how the boards ”made in Germany“ optimize the systems of other manufacturers.
A new feature set in the DI workstation CLIPSTER® now allows the customer to accomplish zoom & pan, cropping as well as primary color correction in 4K - in real time. Furthermore, the DVS flagship is able to perform DCI mastering: JPEG2000 is the defined codec that CLIPSTER® can finalize and play out in real time. Playlists are also specified in the Digital Cinema: they can be created in the timeline of CLIPSTER®. The newest CLIPSTER® generation will be introduced at the exhibition in Las Vegas. The NAB visitors will come to know the latest news and features at the show.
DVS also unveils Spycer®, the innovative data manager, in a Linux version at NAB 2007. The graphical user interface (GUI) enables the support of over 100 different formats.
The central storage DVS-SAN achieves a higher performance via new RAID controllers. The storage system offers additional functional extensions through its integrated proxy servers, that generate among others MPEG preview proxies and proxies for offline editing.
All OEM boards are provided with a new SDK that allows the assignment of independent I/O links as separate audio and video streams. Centaurus II now performs conversion into the X’Y’Z’ color space and enables scaling. The new JPEG2000 board allows uncompressed output as well as decompression of material from JPEG2000 for Digital Cinema. These processes for SD, HD and 2K happen in real time. The data is available as RGB, YUV or X’Y’Z’ material in MXF or JP2 files.
The software and hardware manufacturer DVS is based in Hanover, Germany and Los Angeles, USA achieved sustained success in 2006. DVS presented another milestone in its software development: the innovative data manager Spycer® was announced “Pick of Show award from IBC 2006“. In the same year a new line of disk recorders came to market: Pronto2K.2 and ProntoHD.2 enable real-time multi-resolution capture and play-out combined with full conforming. Besides its turnkey solutions, DVS also focuses on its successful OEM-business. The successor of the popular Centaurus® board, Centaurus II, is available since late 2006. The special highlight of Centaurus II: along with CLIPSTER® it easily manages 4K. With this the German company strengthens its role as a leading-edge pioneer in the 4K field.
Post production houses both large and small worldwide and the broadcast industry, too, have DVS products in daily operation. R&D departments also use DVS systems for their development work of multimedia applications. Moreover, DVS has teamed up with ARRI, Kodak, FujiTV, Imagica and The Mill. The company has a large OEM customer base as well: numerous leaders in the industry integrate DVS’ powerful video I/O boards into their own products, thus enhancing their performance.
DVS CLIPSTER - Now promoted to full DI status after a number of high profile wins. New is SPYCER content management system [42]
