Adobe and NVIDIA discuss professional video solutions at IBC 2013
Watch the video from Adobe’s Dave Helmly, Sr. Manager, Solutions Consulting Pro Video/Audio and NVIDIA’s Greg Estes, GM of Media and Entertainment Industry—live from IBC 2013. Dave and Greg share details of new GPU-accelerated features in Adobe Premiere® Pro CC, After Effects® CC and Adobe Anywhere, and powerful professional-grade NVIDIA GPUs like the new NVIDIA® Quadro® K6000 and Quadro K5100M.
Red Cinema Demonstrates GPU Support on Quadro K6000
During IBC, Red Digital Cinema released beta GPU support for REDCINE-X PRO, and both Red and NVIDIA demonstrated it with 6K RED Dragon RAW running on a Quadro K6000 providing de-bayering, color processing and scaling at over 24 fps, what had previously required a RED ROCKET. Learn more and download REDCINE-X PRO GPU beta
NVIDIA will demonstrate Quadro K6000 with REDCINE-X PRO at SMPTE 2013 Technical Conference & Exhibition October 21-24.
Canon Releases GPU-accelerated Cinema RAW Development Software 1.1
Canon released a CUDA-accelerated version of Cinema RAW Development (CRD) software for the Canon EOS C500 camera. NVIDIA GPUs are used to accelerate CRD’s de-bayering, gamma correction, and brightness and sharpness grading. GPU de-bayering runs 10X faster than on a CPU. The software is available for download from the EOS C500’s Drivers & Software section. Learn more
GPU-accelerated ARRIRAW Converter 3.0 open beta available
ARRI, the world’s largest manufacturer of professional motion picture equipment, has released an open beta of the NVIDIA GPU-accelerated ARRIRAW Converter 3.0. This solution helps convert ALEXA RAW camera data to common image formats for postproduction. Learn more
Using Cinema 4D with VMware Horizon View and NVIDIA GRID™
Hear motion and graphic designer Oliver Clements discuss how he uses NVIDIA GRID in a virtual environment. Watch the video
SGO wins International 3D Society Lumiere Award for Mistika
Mistika’s finishing and color-grading system and advancements in Stereo3D and UltraHD technology were recently rewarded with a Lumiere Technology Award. This honor is voted on by a professional awards committee where judges recommended Mistika for top tier due to its impact and innovation in the marketplace. Learn more
ASSIMILATE introduces SCRATCH Play, a free, professional media player
SCRATCH Play fully exploits NVIDIA® CUDA® to provide real-time playback of cinematic RAW files (Red Dragon, Sony F65, ARRI Alexa, etc.), DSLR RAW (Canon 5D, Nikon N600, etc.), web media (QuickTime, Windows Media and H.264), and still formats (TIFF, JPG, PNG, etc.). It includes media management with the CONstruct™ timeline and allows on-set creation of looks, CDLs, and LUTs. Learn more
Lightcraft announces Previzion Portable Series 3
The Previzion Portable Series 3 system delivers state-of-the-art performance for real-time rendering, production-quality keying, compositing, and color correction with Prevision, a leading on-set production application. It includes an NVIDIA® Quadro® K6000 GPU, a 21.5" 1920x1080 TFT LCD monitor, dual 8-core CPUs, 512 GB SSD, and a Merlin IP HD/SDI Capture Card with video breakout box. Preliminary tests show the Quadro K6000 to have 2X performance of a Quadro 6000 with up to 20 million polygons rendered in real time at any HD frame rate. Learn more
Marquise Technologies unveils Image Control Engine (ICE)
At IBC, Marquise introduced ICE, a universal player designed for real-time quality control review with any type of file (RAW data, Open EXR, TIFF, H265, etc.) or package (DCP, IMF, MXF, etc.), from SD to 4K resolution. Download brochure
Ross Video introduces GPU-accelerated FX engine for XPression
Ross’ XPression post-effects system uses NVIDIA GPUs to add features from popular compositing programs like motion blur, warps, custom drop shadows, light rays, and wipes. These can be applied to real-time 3D animation at the object or scene level for spectacular motion graphics. Learn More
Comprimato secures venture funding
Comprimato, the Czech Republic-based developer of real-time, NVIDIA® CUDA®-based JPEG2000 encode/decode software technology, received a venture capital investment from Credo Ventures and Y Soft. This will accelerate its growth and further boost its product development team to continue delivering best-in-class UHDTV/4K GPU compression solutions. Learn More
FxFactory Visual Effects optimized for NVIDIA GPUs
FxFactory vfx plugins for Final Cut Pro, Motion, Adobe Premiere® Pro, and After Effects® are designed for real-time rendering performance on NVIDIA GPUs. Learn more
Digital Film Tools accelerates zMatte v3.5
zMatte is a full-featured keyer born from Digital Film Tools’ experience in creating hundreds of successful blue and green screen composites. zMatte is now GPU accelerated, so users can get up to 3x the performance when using an NVIDIA GPU. Learn More
Fast JPEG codec from Fastvideo
Russia-based Fastvideo recently released a new JPEG codec for GPUs that takes advantage of NVIDIA® CUDA® to speed up image compression and decompression. Peak performance reaches 6 GB per second (and higher for images loaded into RAM). For instance, a full-color 4K image with a resolution of 3840 x 2160 can be compressed by 10 times in just 6 milliseconds on a GeForce® GTX™ TITAN. Learn more |