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As is discussed in detail in both
the Technology portion of our website and in our White Papers,
CineForm has optimized our CineForm Intermediate™ technologies
for the rigorous visual quality and real-time performance demands of a Professional post-production
environment. Our unprecedented performance is
easily demonstrable by simply using our products. But what
can be more difficult to evaluate casually is the resulting video
quality of a completed project that uses CineForm Intermediate
versus other editing formats. The bottom line is that whether
you demand a 12-bit, 10-bit, or an 8-bit workflow, you'll achieve the
best-quality results using CineForm Intermediate.
We have performed four distinct 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).
We'll mention up-front that we
performed these analyses on our premises using our employees, but
in what we believe is a fair and identical set of test conditions for all
codecs being tested. Within each analysis, we have details
on the procedures and test methodology used.
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