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CineForm Intermediate™
is CineForm's affordable, real-time Digital
Intermediate software technology that underlies
all of our products. CineForm Intermediate
enables an online
workflow for HD and 2K projects that eliminates proxies
and conforming, and
offers:
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an acclaimed 10-bit digital intermediate Wavelet codec that maintains
visual quality that is indistinguishable
from source images even after 10 or more
generations of workflow processing. Quality
is so high that it preserves even difficult
grain structures from film scan sources.
The CineForm Intermediate codec has an AVI
wrapper compatible with virtually all
Windows video-related applications, and will
adopt additional wrapper formats in the
future.
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a real-time software-based editing engine that offers multi-stream performance
for SD, HDV, HD and 2K workflows
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unmatched affordability because our innovative software architecture eliminates the need for specialized
hardware while running efficiently on
Windows desktop PCs
More about
the CineForm Intermediate...
CineForm RAW™, announced in April 2006,
is an extension to CineForm Intermediate that
encodes raw sensor data for digital cinema
cameras that use large-format
Bayer sensors. Processing sensor data in
its raw form, prior to conversion to YUV or RGB
color spaces, offers many creative benefits to
the post-production workflow, including higher
dynamic range and more flexible color palette,
which results in a more cinematic look for
theatrical productions.
More about CineForm
RAW™...
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CineForm Intermediate and
CineForm RAW are optimized for the rigorous demands of an
online, multi-generation post-production workflow.
Although resulting visual quality at the completion of a project is
indistinguishable from source
images, we wanted to publish objective analysis about our image
quality based on signal-to-noise ratios. We have published
four separate
Quality Analyses:
Posted April 4, 2007:
Visual quality comparison of 12-bit CineForm 444 versus
HDCam SR in SQ-440 Mbps mode. The CineForm 444
codec is now available in CineForm's Prospect 2K.
Posted October 2005:
8-bit quality analysis of the 8-bit CineForm Intermediate
workflow using v2.3 of CineForm's 8-bit codec used in
Aspect HD and Connect HD. NOTE: This page
contains about 1MB worth of data, so depending on your
connection it will likely take longer to load than most web
pages.
Posted January 2005:
10-bit CineForm Intermediate workflow versus DVCPRO HD
Our 10-bit workflow is provided
through Prospect HD
for Adobe Premiere Pro. Prospect HD is intended for
Professional film and television productions that require 10-bit
precision throughout the post-production workflow.
Posted January 2005:
Original
quality analysis of
8-bit
CineForm Intermediate workflow versus "native" MPEG2 for HDV
source material
as provided
in both
Aspect HD
and Connect HD.
(NOTE: This analysis was performed using a much
earlier (v1.2) release of CineForm's 8-bit codec technology.
Many visual quality enhancements were made to CineForm's
8-bit codec after posting this original quality analysis.
These enhancement are present in the analysis posted (above)
in October 2005).
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