NAB 2010: DVS CLIPSTER® Features Extended Support of RAW Formats
With CLIPSTER®, DVS showcases its DCI Mastering capabilities: The award-winning DI workstation is now equipped with an even more robust feature set, including 3D subtitling and extended support of RAW formats.
DVS will present CLIPSTER’s new feature set at NAB 2010. (Photo: DVS)
Hanover/Las Vegas. At booth SL3305, DVS will present CLIPSTER’s brand-new features to visitors at NAB 2010 in Las Vegas. The DVS flagship product is now equipped with an even more robust feature set.
In addition to DPX, Cineon®, TGA and TIFF, the sophisticated DI workstation supports more than 100 other graphic formats for project use. CLIPSTER® also handles formats such as JPEG2000, QuickTime®, Windows Media®, MXF, MPEG 1/2, Panasonic DVCPRO®, AVC-Intra, Sony XDCAM®and Avid DNxHD®.
CLIPSTERs digital acquisition package eliminates the burden of working with multiple RAW data formats: The award-winning DI workstation lets users combine RAW data from RED®, ARRI D-20 and D-21 and Phantom cameras on a single timeline and decodes, demosaics and supports all formats in real-time. CLIPSTER® now also supports material originating from Silicon Imaging’s SI-2K camera. All of CLIPSTER’s real-time effects can be used up to <dfn>4K, also for RAW deliverables</dfn>. While generating digital deliverables in high-speed, the DI workstation conforms RAW files and provides sophisticated burn-in features and many deliverable formats.
CLIPSTER® supports mezzanine formats in JPEG2000 RGB 500 Mbit, such as IMF, when generating multimedia deliverables for devices like IPTV, DVD, Blu-ray, mobile phones, web applications or game consoles. As a file-based library, the mezzanine format produces a digital master from which multiple output formats can be created. CLIPSTER® transcodes the required output version from the IMF.
Post production houses will substantially benefit from CLIPSTER’s latest DCI capabilities: In addition to creating 3D Digital Cinema Packages in real-time, the DI workstation now provides 4K hardware accelerated DCI Mastering and 3D subtitling. While processing 3D DCI projects, CLIPSTER® merges left eye and right eye image data and creates a stereoscopic video track in the timeline which can be edited as regular video material. A full set of real-time stereoscopic workflows enables users to effortlessly handle 3D material.
Bernhard Reitz, Head of Product Management at DVS: “CLIPSTER® is designed to fit into any DI environment and easily meets the demands of future-proof workflows. Aside from pioneering new mezzanine distribution formats as IMF, DVS is strongly positioned in the 3D arena: Our clients will considerably profit from the integration of 3D subtitling.”
About DVS: DVS is a leading manufacturer of high-quality hardware and software for the digital film and video post production, broadcast, presentation and event markets. DVS applications span the areas of R&D, production of popular TV series and Hollywood blockbusters, and enable 4K films for Digital Cinema. With 25 years of experience in the professional video industry, DVS has cultivated a “passion for perfection,” and continues to develop revolutionary systems for customized, flexible, high-performance workflows. DVS was the first company in the world to make real-time 4K processing possible. CLIPSTER®, DVS’s flagship product, has won several prestigious awards, including the Hollywood Post Alliance’s Engineering Excellence Award. At the BANFF World Television Festival, DVS was honored with the 2009 Deluxe Outstanding Technical Achievement Award. Headquartered in Hanover (Germany) and Los Angeles (USA), DVS also has branch offices in Miami (USA), Paris (France), and Singapore. www.dvs.de
