Fresh DV Video Interview Uncovers CineForm' 2K/4K Online Mac Workflow At NAB, Fresh DV spent some time with David Taylor to explore the 2K/4K CineForm RAW workflow plus CineForm's powerful Active Metadata™ architecture for applying creative color intent to a project during editing. The interview focuses on CineForm's Mac workflow. So you think Final Cut can't do 4K? Watch the video - it's educational and worth a watch. Fresh DV Video Interview....
(The CineForm interview link is underneath the video window. Also, halfway through the interview there is a commercial, so don't miss the second half!). Also, listen to David Newman's NAB podcast answering "Who / What is CineForm"?
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Enhances and Simplifies Your Post-Production Workflow.... 
"Normalize” myriad camera, tape, and file formats into CineForm AVI or MOV files as your new digital master Remove telecine (24p from 60i), de-interlacing, spatial resampling, plus many more pre-processing features
Up to 4K spatial
resolution, 12-bit precision, plus 4:2:2, 4:4:4:4, and Raw chroma
formats Converted files are Windows and Mac compatible: Premiere Pro, After Effects, Vegas, Final Cut Pro, Motion, etc. -
Post-production is always "online"
meaning you edit the CineForm master files – no proxy files or
conforming CineForm files are visually equivalent to using uncompressed files – but smaller.
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|  |  | Aspect HD delivers a real-time, online editing workflow for HDV within Adobe Premiere Pro on Windows.
5/1/08: v5.30 Build 115 is available. Recommended update |  | Prospect HD / 2K / 4K deliver a real-time, 10-bit / 12-bit, online workflow for Film and Broadcast post-production with Adobe Premiere Pro on Windows. Now includes the CineForm Mac codec for cross-platform and cross-applications compatibility.
5/1/08: v3.30 Build 164 is now available. Recommended update |  | NEO HDV / HD / 4K supports resolutions from up to 4K, and is compatible with virtually all Windows video/film applications, but without the real-time engine in Aspect HD and Prospect HD. Neo HD/2K include the CineForm Mac codec for cross-platform and cross-applications compatibility.
5/1/08: v3.30 Build 164 is now available. Recommended update | | NEO Player | NEO Player is a free universal decoder for Windows or MacOS. Neo Player installs the CineForm decoder to plays all CineForm formats including CineForm 444 and CineForm RAW. It includes Premiere Pro and After Effects importers (Windows) and never expires.5/1/08: Windows v3.30 Build 164 is now available.
2/1/08: MacOS v1.40 Build 47 is now available.
Recommended update | Some Recent Quotes/Articles |  Why CineForm Rules Supreme.... We wouldn't normally lead with such a tagline as we try to exude a bit of humility, but our customer Richard Leadbetter (writer, technologist, developer, and principal at Digital Foundry) strokes our ego with his blog describing the high visual fidelity of CineForm Intermediate:
"...Impressive eh? ... It's all the more impressive considering the chosen subject matter ... CineForm copes easily with any eventuality. No other codec I've tested can."
- Sep 12, 2007 http://insidethedigitalfoundry.blogspot.com |  |  |  |  |  |
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May 1: Significant updates are now available for all CineForm Windows products that include new Active Metadata controls for CineForm RAW, improved AVCHD support, and more
Aspect-Prospect Page
Neo Page
Apr 10: CineForm announces post-production software support for the 10-bit JPEG2000 recording mode of the Grass Valley Infinity camera
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Mar 26: CineForm enters production with Prospect 4K, offering the industry's first online 4K post-production workflow.
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Prospect 4K product page
Mar 26: CineForm releases beta 4K Raw file converters that support Dalsa Origin and Phantom HD/65 cameras
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Read Tech Note....
Mar 14: With StreamPix3 from Norpix plus CineForm's Neo 4K or Prospect 2K, you can record 12-bit CineForm RAW files to your laptop drive or USB memory stick in real time at 1920 x 1080 x 30 fps
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Streampix 3 Brochure.... Customer Showcase 
Writer / Director Jim Long has completed his award- winning documentary Treasure of the Copper Scroll using Prospect HD with Adobe Premiere Pro. Copper Scroll examines one of the many treasures found near the site where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947. Read more.... 
Director Dave Faires and archaeologist filmmaker Michael Arbuthnot used JVC HD cameras and CineForm's Prospect HD to create their documentary Mysterious Origins of La Jolla's Sunken City. Read more about this fascinating underwater exploration.
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