Digital Vision Unveils Film Master v4.0 with 4k Real-time Capabilities
Digital Vision is showcasing the latest version of its Film Master grading and finishing system, v3.6, and giving post-production professionals their first look at Film Master 4.0 with real-time 4k capabilities and a new render accelerator, Turbine.
Film Master v3.6, currently available, features extended support for QuickTime, MXF and AAF with the ability to natively grade DNxHD, IMX50, P2 and XDCAM media, a revised control surface with a lower profile and faster response times, and enhanced support for the ASC CDL.
Visitors to Digital Vision’s NAB booth will also see a sneak peek of Film Master v4.0 featuring support for 4k real-time capabilities. The upcoming release benefits from significant processing improvements, optimisations and grid processing developments that enable new performance benchmarks in file-based finishing. Key features include:
4k real-time color grading directly from open SAN storage – With Film Master v4.0 facilities will be able to begin editing, conforming, grading, and finishing 4k material instantly, without any ingest delays, saving time and storage costs. Direct SAN grading will also simplify data management by reducing the number of project copies in the facility, and enable users to offload tasks such as conform, dust busting, versioning and titling to the back room, keeping high-end grading theatres available for client sessions.
A full floating point pipeline for high dynamic range grading and image processing – Unlike 8-bit or 10-bit processing which can produce crushing and banding in low-detail areas of the color space, Film Master v4.0’s floating point processing will not clip, crush, or generate banding when performing extreme grading or lighting changes. This feature is particularly important for projects that include VFX treatments as it ensures all of the detail in the rendered file is available in the grade. Floating point processing will also enable Film Master users to incorporate high dynamic range sources with log and linear material for true color resolution independent workflows.
Film Master v4.0 is planned for availability in Q4 2008. Top Japanese post facility Moonbeams is beta testing Film Master 4k support on the DVS 4k Clipster platform.
To enable Film Master 4.0 4k real-time capabilities, Digital Vision also previewed Turbine, a new high performance render accelerator for all Digital Vision software. With Turbine, facilities can assign as many Intel CPU cores as are necessary to a project – scalable from eight cores to 480 and beyond. This support delivers more that twice the performance of a Baselight 8 or Autodesk Incinerator in a form factor that is less than 10 rack. The performance boost enables real-time 4k grain reduction and other DVO image processing as well as the ability to run multiple 2k or HD projects in faster than real time. Turbine is expected to ship in Q4 2008.
Source: BroadcastBuyer
