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May 7, 2008
IRIDAS Brings Stereo Tools to SpeedGrade
DualStream Now Standard in All Finishing Applications
Introduced as an optional module for SpeedGrade in
2007, IRIDAS will now offer its DualStream stereo
technology standard with the 2008 releases of SpeedGrade
HD, SpeedGrade XR, and SpeedGrade DI. SpeedGrade with
DualStream provides full stereoscopic functionality
allowing colorists to apply inter-ocular adjustments,
primary and secondaries grading, reframing, mask
animation, and more - all in a real-time stereo viewing
environment.
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April 8, 2008
IRIDAS to Introduce SpeedGrade XR at NAB 2008
New Application for Digital Cinema RAW Workflows
IRIDAS has announced the release of SpeedGrade XR and
will introduce the new application at NAB April 14 - 17.
Designed as a companion product for RAW camera
workflows, SpeedGrade XR features IRIDAS' new RealTime
RAW 2.0 technology providing superb image quality for
review, grading and finishing of unrendered RAW formats
at any resolution. DualStream, for playback and color
correction of stereo content, is included standard.
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release
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about SpeedGrade XR
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March 28, 2008
IRIDAS and Partners to Present End-to-End
RAW Workflow at NAB 2008
IRIDAS, an industry leader in integrative filmmaking
technologies will join a group of pioneering companies
at NAB 2008 to present the "End-to-End Digital Workflow,"
demonstrating start-of-the-art RAW pipeline tools for
production, post, and finishing.
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the press release
> Schedule a Demo
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March 28, 2008
IRIDAS Adds Real-Time RAW Support for
DALSA Camera
4K Playback, Grading, and Conform of
RAW Footage in SpeedGrade
"I have to say that SpeedGrade's new RAW support is
huge for us at DALSA, and it’s huge for filmmakers, in
that it empowers them to look at the best digital
imaging possible on set. It makes the process so easy
it’s scary! Not only can a cinematographer view shots
immediately without rendering, but staying in RAW means
that each 4K frame is just 16 MB. Combining this with
the ability to apply creative looks non-destructively
makes for a super efficient workflow."
Rob Hummel
President
DALSA Digital Cinema.
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February 6, 2008
SpeedGrade DI Scores a Hat Trick to Start
2008
IRIDAS Helping Filmmakers Win at the Festivals
and the Box Office
SpeedGrade DI has started the New Year in style with a
trio of successes for films completed with IRIDAS'
high-end film finishing application. "Captain Abu Raed,"
written and directed by Amin Matalqa, won the World
Cinema Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and
Rachid Hami's "Choisir d’aimer" was awarded the Prix du
Public at the Festival of Angers. During the same month,
U2 3D, which also debuted at Sundance, has been pushing
the boundaries of what we think film can be, while it
sets per-theater attendance records.
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January 31, 2008
Amazing Digital Studios is First in
France to Install SpeedGrade DI
Debut Project, "Choisir d’aimer," Takes Prize
at Festival of Angers
Amazing Digital Studios, one of the top French digital
postproduction facilities, has selected SpeedGrade DI as
the finishing system for their 2K/4K pipeline. The
facility threw a real challenge at SpeedGrade for its
first project in December 2007. That project was the
film "Choisir d’aimer," by director Rachid Hami, which
was awarded the Prix du Public at this month’s Festival
of Angers.
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January 21, 2008
SpeedGrade DI Goes to Sundance
Captain Abu Raed by Amin Matalqa Debuts at Festival
Captain Abu Raed, the first feature film entry from
Jordan, will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on
January 23, 2008. Written and directed by Amin Matalqa,
Captain Abu Raed was shot on the ARRI D20 and finished
with SpeedGrade DI.
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the press release
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December 21, 2007
IRIDAS Releases SpeedGrade OnSet 2007
Extended Integration Offers Options for
Any Production Pipeline
The new version of IRIDAS' look creation application
adds live controls for the Cine-tal display, support for
the Tangent BK200 trackball panel, a new FrameCycler
launch button for instant playback of sequences with
grading applied, and greatly enhanced secondary grading
tools. Combined with the ability to output both
SpeedGrade .Look files and third-party LUTs, SpeedGrade
OnSet 2007 offers a complete solution for developing and
communicating creative looks.
"With SpeedGrade OnSet, grading becomes a part of
the design process during production."
Reinier van Brummelen
Cinematographer
DP on Peter Greenaway's
Nightwatching.
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the press release
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December 20, 2007
XDT Announces FrameCycler DDS Offer for
Australia and New Zeeland
Significant Savings on Turnkey
Review System
XDT has announced a special year-end offer on XENON
Nitro Z4 workstations certified for the FrameCycler DDS.
Customers purchasing a Nitro E4 workstation and
FrameCycler DDS 2K software by January 31, 2008 will
receive over two thousand dollars in savings. This offer
provides users with a turnkey solution for film
resolution dailies and client review – at a
significantly reduced cost.
"XDT in conjunction with its sister hardware company
XENON Systems has consistently provided high-end
platforms in Australia & New Zealand to run IRIDAS
applications with guaranteed throughput for 2K. Focusing
solely on film and VFX pipelines, XDT offer highly
specialized integration and support for the Windows, Mac
and Linux platforms.”
Patrick Palmer
COO, IRIDAS
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December 18, 2007
Rainmaker Adds More FrameCycler to the
Pipeline
Leading Visual Effects and Animation House
Relies on IRIDAS for Review
"We like the XML support in FrameCycler, as it
allows for seamless integration into our pipeline.
FrameCycler allows basic compositing operations (A over
B...etc) along with the advanced timeline options. Our
tools generate dynamic XML playlists which incorporate
all of these features to create a very robust
multi-element playback solution."
Martin Kumor
Head of
Production Technology
Rainmaker Entertainment, Vancouver
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December 12, 2007
BOXX and IRIDAS Announce Special Year-End
Offer
FrameCycler DDS 2007 on Optimized BOXX RTX
Workstations
BOXX Technologies and IRIDAS have announced a year-end
promotion on RTX series workstations certified for the
FrameCycler 2007 line of postproduction playback
applications.
Customers purchasing these specially configured RTX
series workstations and FrameCycler DDS 2K software by
January 31, 2008 will save over two thousand dollars.
This provides postproduction artists and facilities with
significant savings on tested solutions with guaranteed
performance for dailies at resolutions up to 2K.
Read the full announcement
See offer page on BOXX web site
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December 6, 2007
IRIDAS and CineForm Announce
Full RAW and RGB Workflow Solution
Strategic Cooperation Offers Compressed
Workflow Up to 4K
IRIDAS and CineForm, Inc. have established a strategic
cooperation to advance high-quality compressed workflow
technologies for movie acquisition and postproduction.
IRIDAS has incorporated support for the CineForm RAW and
CineForm Intermediate file formats into all its
products, including FrameCycler, the industry standard
for postproduction playback since 2001, and SpeedGrade,
the company's non-destructive color correction
application family.
CineForm has integrated the SpeedGrade .Look file format
in the CineForm metadata architecture. For filmmakers,
this means substantially leaner production and
postproduction workflows with non-destructive grading
embedded as metadata.
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November 6, 2007
Duckling Installs FrameCycler with
DualStream for Stereoscopic Review
"You don't choose stereo, stereo chooses you"
"We use FrameCycler Professional for Mac here on our
artists' workstations. We use SequencePublisher on a
Windows machine to prepare shots for daily review
session with our FrameCycler DDS system. All of our
FrameCyclers are equipped with DualStream for automatic
stereo playback."
Craig Clarke
VFX Supervisor
Duckling, Copenhagen
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Release
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FrameCycler 2007
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October 24, 2007
TFS Installs FrameCycler DDS for 2K
Theater
France's Digital Acquisition Pioneer Selects
IRIDAS
"With the growing need for working in 2K we realized
that a suitable screening facility was a must.
FrameCycler DDS solves several problems for us here: it
allows us to view material immediately at 2K and saves
us the time and resources we would otherwise need for
processing and compressing content."
Danys Bruyere
Deputy Managing
Director of Operations and Technologies
TFS, France
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September 6, 2007
IRIDAS to Unveil SpeedGrade OnSet 2007 at IBC
Live Controls for Cine-tal Display and New
FrameCycler Integration
The new version of IRIDAS' look creation application
adds live controls for the Cine-tal display, support for
the Tangent BK200 trackball panel, and a new FrameCycler
launch button for instant playback of sequences with
grading applied. Combined with the ability to output
.Look files and third-party LUTs, such as Filmlight LUTs
and LUTher tables, SpeedGrade OnSet offers a complete
solution for developing, and communicating creative
looks at any stage in the filmmaking process.
IRIDAS will unveil SpeedGrade OnSet 2007 at the Cine-tal
booth (7.940c) at IBC this week.
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August 31, 2007
IRIDAS Releases SpeedGrade DI
2007
See
New Version of Grading and Film Finishing Application at
IBC
"For me the best thing
about SpeedGrade DI is the scope it offers for designing
creative looks. I can simulate film lab processes like
bleach bypass or Technicolor 2-Strip using FX shaders in
realtime.
3D LUTs can be used as a basis for looks so that
I can, for instance, grade video footage using a
Kodak print film's response curve. This flexibility
sets SpeedGrade apart - and all my looks can be saved as
.Look files for archiving and use on other projects."
Laurens Orij, VFX
supervisor
Crabsalad, Amsterdam
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Learn more about
SpeedGrade DI
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August 29, 2007
IRIDAS Adds RAW Support for
WEISSCAM
See Real-Time RAW
Playback at IBC
"WEISSCAM is a
leader, not just in high-speed
cameras, but in digital cinematography workflows.
A tool is only as good as the workflow it fits into.
We're delighted to be able to expand the options of
WEISSCAM users with real-time RAW support in FrameCycler
and SpeedGrade."
Lin Kayser
IRIDAS CEO and founder
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August 28, 2007
IRIDAS Announces Support for
Tangent Control Panels
See Hardware Integration with
SpeedGrade Applications at IBC
Support has been added across the
IRIDAS product line for the Tangent CP200 control panel
series favored by colorists and postproduction artists
around the world. Filmmakers can now use the Tangent
CP200 BK trackball panels with SpeedGrade OnSet, and the
full line of Tangent's 200 modular panels with
SpeedGrade HD and SpeedGrade DI.
Visitors to IBC 2007 can see the Tangent panels at work
with SpeedGrade DI at Ciprico (booth 7.907) and with
SpeedGrade OnSet at Cine-tal (booth 7.940c).
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August 23, 2007
Eyeon Announces Fusion Support for SpeedGrade .Look
Format
IRIDAS Color Pipeline
Extended to Award-Winning Compositing Application
Eyeon Software Inc. announces that it
has added support for the IRIDAS .Look file format in
its award-winning Fusion 5.2 compositing application.
Visual effects artists can now load non-destructive
looks created with the SpeedGrade applications in
Fusion, ensuring color accuracy when assembling
composites and an unbroken color pipeline from
production to film finishing.
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August 16, 2007
IRIDAS DualStream Goes Mainstream at
Threshold and 3ality
Stereoscopic Playback for Review and Color Grading in
Postproduction
"With SpeedGrade DI and DualStream I can finally work
with all of the components of a stereo movie in the same
workspace. Color grading all of the stereo elements and
being able to see content in real-time the way the
audience will see it is crucial. With this technology, I
can now do all of my film finishing in stereo."
Price Pethel
director of
postproduction, 3ality Digital Systems
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July 12th 2007
FrameCycler VenueSystem Goes Slow Dancing
IRIDAS Provides Playback and Color Correction
for New David Michalek Art InstallationSlow Dancing
is collage of hyper slow motion sequences showcasing
elite dancers from around the world.
FrameCycler VenueSystem is providing uncompressed
playback and
SpeedGrade was used for color correction on the
project.
"I am a perfectionist when it comes to color and
image.
I did a shoot-out using the same sequence and projector
to compare uncompressed frames, using FrameCycler
VenueSystem, and
state-of-the art encoding of the
same data. As the size of the projected image grew, it
was clear that the uncompressed HD image had more
texture, more detail, and
more life to it. The point is that the IRIDAS approach
allows me to hold onto my data."
David Michalek
Artist, Creator of
Slow Dancing
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June 28, 2007
IRIDAS Extends RAW Support to
ARRI D20 Camera
Real-Time Playback at 3K ResolutionIRIDAS announced
support today for real-time
de-Bayering of ARRI D20 digital camera footage. The ARRI
RAW file format, which offers 3K resolution and
12-bit color depth, can be played directly in
FrameCycler and SpeedGrade.
Since RAW files are one third the size of
uncompressed RGB formats, this means substantially lower
storage requirements and will save filmmakers the time
that would otherwise be required to render RAW footage
before it can be viewed.
"The new IRIDAS RAW playback capability is the
link that has been missing until now. Now
we have a seamless solution for working with the D20 RAW
data in its native format."
Achim Oehler
D20 Project Manager
ARRI
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June 13, 2007
IRIDAS Extends
DualStream Stereoscopic Technology across Product
LineIRIDAS today announced
availability of its DualStream stereoscopic
technology as an optional module for all current
FrameCycler products as well as SpeedGrade DI and
SpeedGrade HD. Rather than having to purchase a
separate application, FrameCycler artists can now
include stereoscopic content within their regular
review and approval workflow. The SpeedGrade
applications are the world's first stereoscopic
color correction systems.
"FrameCycler with DualStream proved to be an
indispensable tool for us as it allowed our artists to
regularly flip their work in progress as well as
allowing us to view our shots in stereo during dailies.
Without DualStream, we would have
had to migrate to a far more expensive soft-
and hardware mix."
Peter Skovsbo
Producer,
Dinosaur Alive
Damn.FX, Montreal
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