TIGIBCFS08

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This is the resource page for IBC 2008 which manufacturer/vendors can use to advise TIG subscribers on what to see in Amsterdam. Please submit your entry to the TIG admin rob [at] colorist.org using the TIGNABFS08 as an example, thank you.

--Rob Lingelbach 23:35, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

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AATON @ IBC Booth 6-A18

At IBC 2008, AATON and FILMLIGHT will introduce the "AatonK" digital film recorder, establishing a new standard of performance in the field of very high definition imagers.

• yet unreached 72% MTF@2K and 45% @4K on both color internegative and

positive films.

• half pixel frame-to-frame registration allows for sequential recording of

easier-to-reunite RGB frames on b&w separation film.

• x2.6 faster than upgraded 2K laser machines (x5 faster than the current

ones), and 15% (1.85:1) to 40% (Scope) faster than (future) upgraded 4K laser.

• CCD-reflex servo-loop ensuring a color calibration consistency

which has no equal in a networked recorder farm.

Discover the 'AatonK' digital film recorder on the Aaton (6.A18) and Filmlight (7.A11) booths. http://www.aaton.com/products/post/aatonk/

da Vinci (stand 7.C31 http://www.davsys.com) introduces solutions at IBC that address the full spectrum of colour finishing

da Vinci systems will continue to show the impact of their new technology innovation, C.O.R.E (Cuda™ Optimized Resolve® Engine) by introducing more colour finishing products based on this high-performance platform at IBC booth 7.C31.

• Resolve “R” Series marches on

Since being launched earlier this year, the Resolve R-series has grown into markets throughout the world with its superior colour mastering and finishing toolset and unparalleled performance. Coupled with industry standard GUI and control panels, the Resolve establishes the benchmark in Digital Intermediate colour Grading across feature films, television and commercials.

• Breakneck Speed

Experience the power of the world’s fastest colour grading system with the R700, the world’s fastest colour enhancement system. The R700 reflects everything that da Vinci is famous for – horsepower and features – but cranked up and vibrating with lightning-fast power and speed. The R4K, first shown at NAB 2008, is a true real time 4K interactive colour grading solution. The R4K’s power, speed and intuitive interface enable colourists to exercise their full creative capacity while showing their clients pristine images in real time. Visit da Vinci and witness the ease of producing 4K finishes on a da Vinci R4K. Stereoscopic 3D has become an industry buzz and da Vinci, in conjunction with its largest customers, has developed the ultimate in-context colour grading solution, the R3D. Using the power of our C.O.R.E. technology, we enable colourists to exercise their maximum creativity while grading for the next generation of stereoscopic visual experience.

• You’ve always dreamed…

da Vinci equipment has always been the benchmark for colour enhancement and finishing. Associated with the leading studios and post-production companies around the world, da Vinci is the system to aspire to as the cornerstone of any facility. At IBC, we are introducing a new entry level system – the R100 – that will provide an affordable colour grading solution for post houses that want to step up to the next workflow level. Designed with a full featured toolset, the R100 provides the best price/performance of any colour grading system. R100 will allow a wider range of facilities to enter into the world of da Vinci. It also is fully scalable to any of da Vinci’s high-end solutions. The R100 will excite your clients and expand your business potential.

• Impresario Control Environment

The focal point of any suite is the artist and the control surface used to create beautiful pictures. da Vinci invented the most widely used interface that has become the industry standard for colour grading and finishing. Thousands of creatives throughout the world are familiar with our control panels, which are based around joyballs and other discreet controls. da Vinci has launched Impresario, the next generation of artist/system interaction. Ergonomically sensitive with a robust industrial design, Impresario simplifies and personalizes the process of Colour and image processing and enhancement. Available as an option to any Resolve system, Impresario will take da Vinci colourists to the next level of creativity.

• Revival Digital Film Restoration System

New Version 5.4 along with our G2 dual quad core hardware will be demonstrated at our booth. New features include BrightClip support which minimizes traditional disk storage fragmentation and provides superior disk recording and playback by eliminating the need for disk optimization and delivering unprecedented stability and predictability when using BrightDrives. Multiple clip import and export will speed up the setup process. More file types may be converted with Revival for processing. A new "Regenerate" ROI control provides a high quality repair on frames with complex damage.

Come by our stand 7.C31 at IBC and test drive your dream machine.

MTI Film @ IBC - Hall 7, Stand J39 (Bright Systems Booth) http://www.mtifilm.com

Joint Demonstration with Bright Systems will Feature a Complete DI & Film Restoration Workflow

At the International Broadcast Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam, MTI Film will conduct a joint demonstration with Bright Systems showcasing a complete, leading edge workflow for digital film and DI restoration. The demonstration will feature CORRECT V7, the just released version of MTI Film’s award-winning digital film restoration and finishing solution now celebrating its 16th year, when linked to a Brightdrive, Bright Systems’ powerful media recording system, providing real-time, shared access to digital media assets. Highlighted features will include CORRECT V7’s unprecedented dust-busting capabilities for film and DI.

This will mark the first time that CORRECT V7 will be demonstrated in Europe. The joint demonstration will be held at the Bright Systems booth, in Hall 7, Stand 7.J39.

MTI Film is now offering CORRECT V7 customized packages, with specialized toolsets designed for specific applications and the skill level of individual users. Packages will be available specifically tailored to digital intermediate work and to television post production. Two packages will be available for film restoration operations, an “Artists” package offering basic tools for new and less experienced users focused on routine tasks, and an “Experts” package with a full set of tools for senior artists engaged in the most complex and creative restoration assignments.

Following IBC, MTI Film will make evaluation licenses of CORRECT V7 available to qualified buyers through its international network of resellers.

Additionally, and importantly… Dailies….

Faster than real-time, Concurrent workflow—Optimize your Telecine investment, free colorists from time consuming clerical duties and create deliverables with ease. Demo’s for Control Dailies with Convey and its Auto-DVD and DNxHD Modules are also available for interested prospects.

Appointments are now being scheduled for all of the above mentioned. Please call or email NOW to book your demo time. Things are filling up. Don’t miss it this year.

chris.gregory@mtifilm.com

www.mtifilm.com 1-323-465-6478 x201

Cintel http://www.cintel.co.uk IBC Stand 7.B18

At IBC 2008 on stand 7.B18 Cintel International will be showing a number of exciting new features for its range of film scanners and image enhancement tools. Cintel will be showing a new, faster 4K workflow utilising a dataMill film scanner and DVS’ Clipster running at 5fps (frames per second). This very high rate of 4K data is transferred using the HSDL interface which is widely recognised as the most cost effective and efficient method of data transfer. Cintel Business Development Manager Simon Clark said “There are a number of fast 4K scanning speeds being suggested but we are able to achieve a sustained five frames per second without the need for expensive, and almost proprietary, interfaces or any specialised equipment”.

Cintel will also be showing, for the first time in Europe, the "X-Speed" Digital servo system for the Millennium family of film scanners. This in-field upgrade consists of hardware and software to provide vertical and horizontal stability that exceeds that of any other constant motion film transport. The X-Speed system is now standard on all new MillenniumHD and dataMill machines. The X-Speed System will also allow a new faster Pin Registration speed. X-Speed is available as an upgrade to Millennium, MillenniumII, MillenniumHD and dataMill machines.

Millennium HD and dataMill are the only film scanners capable of real time SD and HD, fast (15fps) 2K and 4K data with film gauges 8/S8/MAX8mm, 16/S16mm, 35/S35mm, 65/70mm. A number of new features for the diTTo will be shown at IBC. diTTo, the fastest pin registration scanner available, will have the ability to simultaneously provide either SD or HD output to coincide with the 2K or 4K scans. This new feature will allow "video" output for offline editing, for example, at the same time as the master 2K or 4K scans. diTTo now also supports Bright Systems BrightClip' intelligent data recording technology. A number of new diTTo software features including Waveform, Histogram and Vectorscope Monitoring and an improved user interface will also be shown.

Cintel will also be showing new imageMill enhancements. imageMill GRACE and GRACE_SR (which gives real time recursive correction in addition to spatial correction in only a single frame of delay) now includes a revised “Detail” control which has been developed in conjunction with a leading London Post House to provide a natural, yet very powerful, aperture correction effect. imageMill STEADY - the only real time image stabiliser with full post production quality will also be on display at IBC.

To book a demo on any products please contact sales@cintel.co.uk

See you in Amsterdam!

Digital Vision Hall 7 Stand C29 http://www.digitalvision.se

Come and celebrate 20 years of picture quality excellence with Digital Vision at IBC 2008

On Saturday night 13th of September we will be celebrating our 20th Birthday, please join us for a drink on our stand 7.C29 from 5.45!

Click here http://mail.digitalvision.se/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://digitalvision.createsend1.com/t/1/l/vjus/yuhditjr/www.digitalvision.se/news/IBC2008Freeticket.htm to get a free IBC ticket. To join us on our Saturday night party please RSVP to ulrika.liiv@digitalvision.se

If you can't make that time please visit our stand throughout the show where you can see:

Our Emmy winning PHAME(TM) algorithms, which form the basis of the entire Digital Vision product range, will be on show in the latest version of the Film Master grading system as well as in various new features that will be announced at the show.

Film Master version 4.0

• The ultimate solution for broadcast mastering including further support of AAF effects, AAF export and XML ingest for many forms of metadata.
• DVO effects implemented on the GPU including ZOM (rescaler), Defocus, Aperture and Alias - all available real-time all the time.
• Full floating point pipeline with native Open EXR support for the highest quality VFX and CGI mastering.
• Windows 64 bit release for added performance at 4k and beyond.
• Enhanced support for Stereoscopic mastering with tools to allow you to easily grade left, right or both eyes with the ability to see both side by side and stereoscopic views on two different monitors.

DVO Tracker - An entirely automatic tracker This revolutionary new technology is completely automatic and needs no human intervention. Just select your region of interest and our legendary DVO technology does the rest.

Phoenix - The perfect solution for restoration, re-mastering and repurposing Phoenix will be shown in conjunction with Turbine to demonstrate how restoration and remastering of large archived can be performed faster than real-time.

New features included in Phoenix are DVO Deflicker & DVO Inverse TC. There are also performance and quality improvements to the existing tools including a 10 times speed enhancement of DVO Fix tool and an improved image quality for DVO Deinterlace.

Turbine a High-performance Render Accelerator With Turbine, facilities can assign as many CPU cores as are necessary to a project and it will enable 4k real-time capabilities and allow facilities to run multiple 2k or HD tasks in faster than real time. This support delivers eight times more processing power than any other high-end finishing system available, in half of the rack space and requiring less power.

DVNR The DVNR continues to provide best in class telecine image enhancement and real-time restoration tools that have been proven invaluable on thousands of commercials, features and television programmes.

New options on the DVNR allow color correction and restoration to be combined with the image enhancing pre-processor allowing realtime repurposing of archives for BluRay, HD Transmission and Digital Cinema.

Private appointments with our demo-artists at IBC can be booked through estelle.holland@digitalvision.se or +44 (0)20 7734 8282

We look forward to seeing you at IBC!

FilmLight http://www.filmlight.ltd.uk IBC Stand 7.A11

Annual drinks on the stand – Saturday 13th September 5.30pm – 8pm

At IBC we will demonstrate…

• Parallel GPU – Baselight8 Parallel GPU is the fastest grading system available today. Already demonstrated to be capable of twice the processing capability of its nearest competitor, its self-contained parallel storage system can also provide three streams of real-time 4K at the same time. Baselight8 Parallel GPU can play 4K, display 4K, grade 40+ layers of 4K, and record 4K to disc, all simultaneously in real-time, without proxies, without post rendering, and without needing an additional dual-stream 4K SAN to complete the solution.

• Parallel GPU for Commercials Grading – The Baselight8 Parallel GPU system is also recommended for high-profile SD|HD commercials grading. The brute force of this system can be used to grade commercials rapidly, interactively and with no delays. FilmLight has developed features specifically aimed at commercials grading, including an intelligent auto-conform system, versioning, scratch pads, and an efficient collaborative workflow between VFX and editorial systems such as Avid.

Parallel GPU will be available for all Baselight systems in October 2008.

• SAN or Cloud Connectivity – All Baselight systems ship with generous quantities of local storage, but they can equally work with SAN or NAS shared storage systems. With the release of FilmLight’s Cloud Connectivity technology (standard on all Baselight systems), the Baselight local storage also doubles up as a shared storage solution. As well as better utilising Baselight’s local storage, Cloud Connectivity enables Baselight systems to use each other’s local storage as their own, or for third party systems (e.g. Autodesk Flame|Smoke, Pixel Farm PF Clean) to read and write to Baselight in the background.

At IBC, FilmLight will show both a Baselight grading off a SAN as well as two Baselight systems working collaboratively in a Cloud network.

• Restoration Workflow with Baselight & PFClean – Recent collaboration between The Pixel Farm and FilmLight has allowed both companies to develop an efficient metadata based film restoration workflow, with Baselight and PFClean. Using FilmLight’s Cloud Connectivity, archive film can be scanned into Baselight and images can be tagged for restoration; PFClean can then find and read tagged images off the Baselight storage and put the result back on Baselight in the background. The final restored film can then be graded and sent to film or data, for output or archiving.

• Editing Workflow with Baselight & Avid® – With the release of a Linux DNxHD codec and a Linux Unity client, Baselight and Avid products can now share data without copying or moving content off Avid storage. FilmLight will demonstrate this workflow at IBC, showing a project moving from offline to online and grading, to final deliverable.

• RED Camera Support – RED have released the OSX version of the RED codec; the Linux version is due in a few weeks. This will allow Baselight (in the next maintenance software release) to support RED camera content (R3D files) natively. At IBC we will show a version of Baselight grading RED R3D files.

• 3D Stereoscopic Grading – Baselight’s multi-stream 2K and 4K architecture is ideally suited to 3D stereoscopic grading, where two timelines are graded in parallel simultaneously. At IBC we’ll show the latest version of Stereoscopic grading on Baselight.

• NEW 2K|4K Ultra High Resolution Film Recorder – FilmLight has formed a strategic partnership with Aaton, to create a revolution in film recording. The AatonK is a brand new multi-format film recorder that uses a revolutionary lens and imaging system to offer a much faster and significantly higher resolution recording compared to the latest laser recorders.


• Northlight2 8K Film Scanner – Many facilities are upgrading from Northlight1 to Northlight2, and with several more buying their first film scanner, Northlight2 is becoming the preferred choice for the very best 4K film scanning.

We will also combine the Northlight2 with the Aaton K to offer highly attractive scanner/recorder bundles, providing the highest resolution scanning and recording capability with the speed increase provided at the recording end—where it really matters.

• 4K Workflow – With the Northlight2 scanner and the Aaton K recorder, anyone will be able to see the benefits in image quality of a true 4K workflow. Only FilmLight can provide a cost-effective and well integrated end-to-end 4K workflow; double over sampling for scanning; multiple 4K streams for grading; true 4K MTF for recording; accurate film emulation, and scalable and affordable high bandwidth, high capacity shared storage.

• Baselight Spirit Control – FilmLight will have a Baselight on the Thomson stand (7.F31) controlling a Spirit HD Datacine. Available now, Spirit control software can be configured with any Baselight system.

• Truelight On-Set – In conjunction with Sony and Codex, Filmlight will show a workflow between a Sony F23 digital camera, a Codex disc recorder, and a FilmLight Truelight On-Set box. Truelight On-Set allows DOPs to accurately view content going from a camera to a recorder, or played back from a recorder, with 3D LUTs and CDL colour modifications. The defined look for that shot (a combination of 3D LUT and CDL settings) can be logged or embedded against the timecode of the shot, and then exported as a CDL list in an XML, EDL, or ALE file.

• Truelight Unlimited – At NAB, we announced that we were opening up Truelight to become a much more facility-wide calibration system, supporting third-party probes and third-party hardware boxes. At IBC we’ll show the latest developments in Truelight Unlimited, demonstrating how simple it is to calibrate every display in your facility, rather than just the hero compositing or DI grading suites.

CELCO @ IBC 2008; Stand 7F41

http://www.celco.com

CELCO is showcasing two new film recorders at IBC 2008, both of which are immediately available.

Firestorm 4K – new low-cost, high-speed, high-resolution digital film recorder. The Firestorm 4K is ideal for HD, 2K, and 4K acquired productions, digital intermediates (DI), digital trailers, tape-to-film transfers, archive-to-film, and digital film restoration. The Firestorm 4K comes as a complete system which includes the film recorder, host computer, driver software and 2000’ film magazines, and offers improved sharpness and speed.

CineSafe 4K Digital Archive Recorder – digital image data archiving

The new CineSafe 4K has been specifically designed to output color separations on to black and white film stocks at the highest speed and resolution. The CineSafe 4K offers a solution for digital image data archiving with its ability to image to fine grain black and white color separation, intermediate and high contrast stocks. It can image a high resolution 4K frame in 2 seconds.

Both the Firestorm 4K and the CineSafe 4K are powered by CELCO’s new Linux host computer and film recorder driver software, making it easy to integrate into production workflows.

In addition, both film recorders also have CELCO’s FilmOut Pro Advanced Film Recording Software. FilmOut Pro is an intuitive Graphical User Interface that controls the film recorder and includes imaging tools such as sharpening, degrain, image formatting, resizing and color management functions. A unique feature is the interactive A/B image comparison slider that allows the user to view images before and after different image processing tools have been applied. FilmOut Pro also includes FinalView, a viewing tool that displays the final image and its exact position on film.

For additional information or to arrange a meeting at IBC, please contact Mike Constantine at +1.909.481.4648 or michael@celco.com

XDT Pty Ltd @ IBC, Stand 7H20 (Cinetal stand) http://www.xdt.com.au

XDT, in conjunction with Iridas, will be showcasing stereoscopic 2K uncomressed review over standard Gigabit ethernet from XDT's new catapult™ system.

catapult™ provides the fastest point-to-point frame transfers, and is capable of delivering the same local throughput performance of its storage arrays out to connected systems utilizing standard networking infrastructure.

catapult™ is an integrated hardware and software solution. The hardware consists of a 3RU, enterprise grade server that delivers a maximum data rate of more than 1,000 Megabytes per second read or write via a local RAID5 protected array (up to 11TB capacity). This hardware platform is then exposed onto the LAN or Switched Fabric with XDT’s catapult™ software component.

XDT’s cross-platform slingshot™ client provides an intuitive interface to transferring frame data to and from catapult™. Point-to-point data rates of 600 Megabytes per second are achievable over 6 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. XDT’s flipstream™ application, also cross-platform, enables customers with uncompressed film frames to review them from any standard workstation accessing a network attached catapult™ system. This is in contrast to the currently used method, which requires frames to be transferred to locally attached storage on a dedicated review system.

Saving hours of network transfers, catapult™ systems are capable of playing back two concurrent, uncompressed 2K (10-bit dpx log 1.85:1) streams over only 4 Gigabit Ethernet connections allowing for a highly cost-effective way to review stereoscopic material. For additional information or to arrange a meeting at IBC, please contact Erik Otto at ++61 3 9549 1122 or erik@xdt.com.au

Quantel @IBC Stand 7.A21 http://www.quantel.com

TIG members would be very welcome to the Quantel stand where there will be lots on show:

Latest version of the award winning Pablo colour grading system including the first European showing of the award winning Neo panel. soft-Sam – a new option for stand-alone Pablo, iQ and eQ which allows third party applications to work directly with Quantel systems without the need to copy and move media. Support for the Red camera on eQ, iQ and Pablo.

Also at IBC 2007, Quantel introduced the worlds first Stereoscopic colour grading system. In the last twelve months Stereo has become the hot topic in our industry. Come by the IBC2008 booth and see the next big thing in stereoscopic 3D, together with our partners, 3ality Digital.

Mark Horton Dip Mgmt BA MBA Strategic Marketing Manager - Post and Broadcast Quantel Mark.Horton@Quantel.Com

Film Systems @ IBC Booth 5.A14

Film Systems manufacture a number of products for the film and data post production environment. We will be demonstrating:

• Grain and Noise Reduction. The Aurora is an inexpensive grain reduction device which uses simple but effective non-recursive filters and “Gore” image processing to reduce grain and noise. Aperture correction with Coring allows sharpening of image detail without enhancing the grain. The Aurora processes in real time SD, HD, and 2K Data @15FPS using HSDL. It may be controlled scene to scene by either Da Vinci or Pandora color correction systems. Alternately control can be from a web interface via Ethernet.

• Safe Title/Area Reticule generator. The Star provides fixed and variable cursors outlining safe action and title limits to SD and HD video images. Alternatively it can show 4x3 or user selectable cursors on 16x9 images or conversely 16:9 on 4x3. Area outside the cursors can be any level of transparency or completely blanked. Star also generates simple slates and idents using it’s built in text generator. Controlled from front panel or via Ethernet web interface.

Also from Film systems: Let Final Cut Pro control you telecine with Corona.

• Telecine protocol convertor Corona in its base configuration provides an interface between most telecines* and any device that talks Sony remote protocol. This allows products such as FCP or DVS Clipster etc, to control telecines* directly minimizing the need for extra equipment and transfer passes.

• Corona D/S provides dual sync editing directly from a telecine* to VTRs locked to different frame rates i.e. 23.98 and 29.94. Also logs Keycode.

• Corona CP as Corona DS plus interfaces to Tangent CP200 control panels allowing control of most telecine parameters.

• Nova multi-format Film Scanner. An inexpensive solution for SD, HD and 2K Data (HSDL) film scanning. Great image stability is attributed to the S16mm, S35mm RTS gates with control from “Meta Speed” digital servo. Options include; Super 8, 8mm film gates and optical sound. Low noise is due to a custom phosphor CRT combined with “Bright Eyes” light collection devices. Included in the Nova is the FGR, film grain reducer and "Clear View" a device that reduces aliasing and flicker in vertical detail by oversampling the source image. Controlled by Corona CP, Da Vinci or Pandora color correctors.

For more information about Film Systems products visit, www.filmsys.com or email david.catt@filmsys.com

*Supported telecines; Nova, Spirit Classic, Spirit 2K, Spirit 4K and Millennium.

--Rob Lingelbach 20:39, 4 September 2008 (UTC)