(Amsterdam-IBC, The Netherlands--September 11, 2009) Digital Vision, the premier supplier of picture enhancement systems for film and television post-production, is setting a new standard in grading by announcing the development of Film Master and Phoenix product line 2009 Update 1 – the premier colour grading and remastering solutions.
The company’s image scientists –the best in the industry – are developing upgrades to Film Master and Phoenix product line 2009, which was launched to great acclaim at NAB earlier this year. These new tools, which will ship by year's end, will introduce new features that significantly simplify the creative process as well as integrate support for third-party applications further enhancing the grading experience for colourists.
As part of these developments the company is announcing its support for Interplay, Avid’s popular production asset management system. This unique feature will enable editors to share entire timelines with colourists, round-tripping media between the edit and the grade. This workflow provides an extra level of automation and streamlines the grading process by enabling metadata transfer and versioning management.
Digital Vision’s new color isolation tool, which provides fast, accurate and precise colour isolation, will benefit users. The new six vector colour correction application allows manipulation of multiple colors in a single process. It allows six simultaneous color corrections without creating keys. The tool was designed with the sole goal of ease-of-use and setup speed. Amongst the many new advantages of this tool is the automatic pre-filtering of the key signal, which allows easy isolation of material that has heavy grain structure, noise or compression artefacts.
Another new powerful tool in the Film Master 2009 Update 1 arsenal is variable softness on the mask or secondaries. This allows colourists to carry out a pure vortex radius on both sides of a shape, softening the inside and the outside independently for each point.
Last year Digital Vision was the first to announce support for the RED One camera and the company has now moved rapidly to announce support for RED Rocket, a hardware accelerator card used to decode and debayer R3D media in real time. In addition this software release enables native support of many other digital camera formats including: Arri’s D-21, Vision Research’s Phantom and Silicon Imaging’s SI-2K, which was used on the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire.
Bruno Munger, Film Master Product Manager says, “We are extremely proud of Film Master 2009 and we look forward to the market’s positive reaction to these new features. Digital Vision is in a very strong position with an outstanding team of technologists and products that set the pace for grading for all applications including commercials, mastering and motion picture. IBC is the ideal platform to announce this new technology development, which again takes Digital Vision to a new level of technical achievement.”
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