3D Stereoscopic & DCI Mastering with CLIPSTER®

Enter the 3rd dimension

CLIPSTER® enables you to generate DCI Masters with stereoscopic content. By following the DCI specification CLIPSTER® gives you the ability to create fast and secure stereoscopic 3D Digital Cinema Packages (DCP). CLIPSTER’s DCI Mastering Wizard lets you easily perform all steps of the stereoscopic DCI Mastering process including interleaving, encoding, encryption and wrapping into MXF files. With CLIPSTER’s unique hardware accelerator this process can be accomplished in real time.

 

3D conforming

Conforming 3D content is painless with CLIPSTER’s sophisticated conforming tool. Just drag and drop the left- and right-eye stream EDL into the timeline and the stereoscopic images are created. Stereo tracks can be edited as regular video tracks. Once both streams are synchronized, there’s no need to edit left and right eye separately. Play out and control both streams simultaneously over HD-SDI or DVI. A routing feature allows you to define where the left and right eye outputs should be. Control depth using two projectors or a special 3D panel.

 

Quality comes first

Quality parameters like picture depth are important in the creation of perfect 3D experiences. In anaglyph-emulation mode, the image depth can be controlled on one screen or directly in CLIPSTER® software - this eliminates the need to use tow projectors during the editing phase. With D-Cinema player emulation, you can easily control the quality and confidently view the intgrated subtitles of the final DCP. 

 

The stereoscopic DCI Mastering process

Two separate video streams – one for each eye – are merged together when mastering the 3D stereoscopic DCP. The final DCP is comprised of an interleaved stream having at first the picture for left eye and afterwards the right eye.  This follows the DCI specification. The frame rate of this stream must be 48 frames per second and encoded into JPEG2000 file sequences in X'Y'Z' color space.

  

  • Left and right eye are easily conformed into the timeline
  • Edit a stereo track as a normal video track
  • CLIPSTER® supports all major stereoscopic methods where two streams are needed (e.g. polarization, anaglyph red/green, anaglyph red/cyan, Infitec®, etc.)
  • Anaglyph-emulation mode checks the proper 3D picture depth
  • Two streams of uncompressed file sequences in DPX, TIFF, BMP, PNG, etc. can be merged togethter into one stereo track in the timeline
  • Hardware accelerated stereoscopic DCI Mastering encodes JPEG2000 X'Y'Z' files in high-speed
  • All stereoscopic DCI Mastering steps can be performed easily using CLIPSTER's DCI Mastering Wizard
  • Check the final 3D stereoscopic DCP using CLIPSTER's D-Cinema emulation including subtitling
  • DCI Mastering now includes support for supplemental DCPs - various DCPs in different languages can be generated easily