The latest news about IRIDAS http://www.iridas.com/news http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 7 Apr 2008 16:55:00 +0100 7 May 2008 16:55:00 +0100 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. 7 May 2008 16:55:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20080507.html At the 2008 FMX Festival in Stuttgart, Germany, Claudia Meglin will talk about Captain Abu Raed, which won the Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival. 7 May 2008 16:53:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/events If you missed us at NAB 2008, here are some images from the show floor. Highlights included demonstrations of our DualStream stereoscopic technology, workflow integration with partners at the booth and around the show, and - of course - the debut of SpeedGrade XR with its universal RAW support. 7 May 2008 16:50:00 +0100 http://www.iridasmagazine.com/2008/nab 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. 8 Apr 2008 16:00:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20080408.html IRIDAS, an industry leader in integrative filmmaking technologies will join a group of pioneering companies at NAB 2008 to present "End-to-End Digital Workflow," demonstrating start-of-the-art RAW pipeline tools for production, post, and finishing. 1 Apr 2008 22:20:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20080401.html 4K Playback, Grading, and Conform of RAW Footage in SpeedGrade. 28 Mar 2008 22:50:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20080328.html IRIDAS COO Patrick Palmer was part of a prestigious panel of speakers at the HPA Technology Retreat in Palm Springs, California on February 20, 2008. The headline event this year was a stereo "super session" which included leaders in all areas of the movie industry from production to distribution. Patrick Palmer spoke about IRIDAS' experience with stereoscopic technologies, how the challenges of stereo postproduction are being met, and argued that stereo will soon become a part of the filmmaking mainstream. 28 Feb 2008 16:20:00 +0100 http://www.iridasmagazine.com/2008/hpa 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. 6 Feb 2008 14:20:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20080206.html 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. 31 Jan 2008 15:30:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20080131.html "I always wanted to make movies. The silver screen could be an outlet where my imagination would be manifested with shapes, colors, people, and music. Oh, what a feeling that would be! - Amin Matalqa" 31 Jan 2008 15:30:00 +0100 http://spotlight.iridas.com/200801 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. 21 Jan 2008 16:20:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20080121.html 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. 21 Dec 2007 23:45:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20071220.html 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. 20 Dec 2007 15:00:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/news/index.html#xdt Leading Visual Effects and Animation House Relies on IRIDAS for Review 18 Dec 2007 15:00:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20071218.html FrameCycler DDS 2007 on Optimized BOXX RTX Workstations 12 Dec 2007 23:55:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20071212.html Strategic Cooperation Offers Compressed Workflow Up to 4K 6 Dec 2007 16:00:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20071206.html Real-Time De-Bayering with FrameCycler and SpeedGrade 20 Nov 2007 16:00:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20071120.html Imagica Presents Digital Production Workflow with Viper, Cine-tal, and IRIDAS 11 Nov 2007 16:25:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20071114.html "You don't choose stereo, stereo chooses you." 06 Nov 2007 22:15:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20071106.html France's Digital Acquisition Pioneer Selects IRIDAS for Review. 24 Oct 2007 21:30:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20071024.html SpeedGrade will be there at both ends of the pipeline in the first Matrix 07 event presented by DVE and Band Pro at the Deutsches Museum in Munich on September 27. 24 Sept 2007 15:30:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20070924.html Live Controls for Cine-tal Display and New FrameCycler Integration 6 Sept 2007 22:00:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20070906.html See New Version of Grading and Film Finishing Application at IBC 31 August 2007 15:00:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20070831.html See Real-Time RAW Playback at IBC 29 August 2007 15:00:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20070829.html 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. 28 August 2007 15:00:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20070828.html IRIDAS' Color Pipeline Extended to Award-Winning Compositing Application Thu, 23 August 2007 15:00:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20070823.html Stereoscopic Playback for Review and Color Grading in Postproduction Thu, 16 August 2007 15:00:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20070816.html Store and Play SpeedGrade .Looks with S.Two Digital Film Recorders Thu, 26 July 2007 16:15:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20070726.html IRIDAS' DualStream stereoscopic technology has been used in production work, scientific research, and presentation settings since 2002. In 2007 IRIDAS began to offer DualStream as an available option for of its real-time playback applications, including SpeedGrade DI. Visitors to Digital Day 2007 will be able to don stereo glasses and experience stereoscopic color grading in action. Tue, 24 July 2007 16:50:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20070724.html IRIDAS Provides Playback and Color Correction for New David Michalek Art Installation - Slow 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. Thu, 12 July 2007 22:20:00 +0100 http://spotlight.iridas.com/200707 IRIDAS 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. Thu, 28 June 2007 22:00:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20070628.html Learn more about digital production techniques and the tools that make them work at the Abel Cine Tech (booth 22) at Cine Gear 2007, June 22-23 in Los Angeles. See SpeedGrade OnSet with the new Phantom 65 large format digital camera. Wed, 13 June 2007 23:00:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/news/events.html IRIDAS 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. Wed, 13 June 2007 23:00:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20070613.html SpeedGrade DI was used in the end to end workflow of the visually stunning feature film The Rebel. IRIDAS Customer Spotlight, May 2007 Tue, 5 June 2007 23:00:00 +0100 http://spotlight.iridas.com/200705 Digital workflows work - and are already being used in countless projects around the world. Visit the Fletcher Chicago booth (412) at the HD Expo on June 7 to see a proven digital production workflow first-hand. Cine-tal will be there demonstrating the Cinemage Intelligent Display, which provides reference grade monitoring - including pre-visualization of color grading with SpeedGrade OnSet. Tue, 31 May 2007 15:00:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/news/events.html "SpeedGrade HD offers a feature set and flexibility that can't be met at this price point by any of the other solutions we considered. It gives us everything we need in one film finishing system and for a new facility like ours to be able to offer color grading in-house is huge." - Jacob Rosenberg, Bandito Brothers, Los Angeles Thu, 17 May 2007 22:00:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20070517.html Along with demonstrations of the Phantom camera, participants will have the opportunity to learn about the production workflow tools including SpeedGrade OnSet and FrameCycler. Thu, 17 May 2007 21:30:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/news/events.html "FrameCycler has been our Swiss army knife for viewing frame-based materials. We have been really pleased with all of the features and great product support. I highly recommend FrameCycler 2007 for anyone who works with frames or film-based file formats and needs to deal with log or linear color space issues." - Richard Keats, Systems Manager SPIN, Toronto Tue, 15 May 2007 15:00:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20070515.html IRIDAS has released SpeedGrade HD 2007, a Quicktime- and AVI-based film finishing application that runs on Mac OS X and Windows workstations. Thu, 10 May 2007 13:00:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20070502.html IRIDAS had more products, and was featured in more booths than in any previous show. They were often three and four deep at the Cine-tal booth where colorist James Norman put SpeedGrade HD and SpeedGrade DI through their paces on our Mac Pro running Mac OS X. It was packed at the Silicon Imaging/CineForm booth where visitors could see the in-camera integration of SpeedGrade OnSet. Perhaps the most buzz, however, came from the ARRI booth, where SpeedGrade DDS, announced at a press conference on Monday, was presented to large and appreciative audiences. Sun, 6 May 2007 22:00:00 +0100 http://www.iridas.com/news/events.html IRIDAS, Silicon Imaging and Cine-Tal demonstrated a SpeedGrade OnSet workflow at the CML party on Tuesday evening. Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:00:00 +0100 Vision Research hosted a joint panel discussion on Tuesday, talking about the challenges of high speed imaging and how an uncompressed RAW workflow can help with bandwith and increase color fidelity. IRIDAS announced that that it has now achieved 35fps playback of 4K RAW material, using its new real time Bayer interpolation. RealTime RAW functionality will be included with all 2007 FrameCycler products as well as SpeedGrade DI 2007 and SpeedGrade HD 2007. Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:00:00 +0100 Colorspace Inc. shows SpeedGrade DI together with their Icon direct-to-disk field recorder. (booth SU9926). Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:00:00 +0100 In a joint press conference on Monday, ARRI and IRIDAS announced that SpeedGrade DDS, a color grading application specifically targeted for digital dailies grading, will be part of the ARRISCAN digital dailies production bundle. SpeedGrade DDS will provide ARRISCAN customers with the data logging, sound syncing and color grading tools that are essential for fast turnaround times in digital dailies workflows. (ARRI booth C10017). Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:00:00 +0100 The latest universal binary version of SpeedGrade HD is shown at the Cine-Tal booth running on a dual core Mac Pro workstation under Mac OS X (C5008). Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:00:00 +0100 Taking advantage of the new Real-Time Bayer interpolation available in all IRIDAS applications, Abel Cine Tech is using SpeedGrade OnSet with footage from the Vision Research Phantom 65 camera. (booth C7328). Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:00:00 +0100 Silicon Imaging (booth SL7826) shows it's unique Speedgrade integration with the SI 2K camera. A touch-screen enabled version of SpeedGrade OnSet gives the DP the option of changing the look of his movie interactively, with live feedback on the monitor. All color information is recorded as metadata in IRIDAS .Look files and is stored along with the CineFormRAW footage for non-destructive processing later in the pipeline. A function in SpeedGrade allows the SI camera to pull a live key from a greenscreen and replace it with a background image. http://www.siliconimaging.com/DigitalCinema/News/PR_04_12_07_Iridas.html Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:00:00 +0100 Live Interaction between Cine-Tal Display and SpeedGrade OnSet The IRIDAS and Cine-Tal integration is complete! Filmmakers can now grab frames from the live SDI stream in the Cinemage monitor, grade it, and apply the new SpeedGrade .Look right in the display. See it at Cine-Tal (booth C5008). Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:00:00 +0100 IRIDAS, who introduced the first commercial application for uncompressed playback on this date in 2001, has announced the release of FrameCycler Professional 2007 and FrameCycler Digital Daily System 2007. Both applications are available on the Mac, Windows, and Linux platforms. The new versions offer a more intuitive interface and numerous functionality enhancements. http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20070404.html Wed, 4 Apr 2007 22:00:00 +0100 IRIDAS will bring the complete 2007 product portfolio to NAB, April 16 - 19, 2007, at the Las Vegas Convention Center. New releases include the FrameCycler 2007 applications and SpeedGrade HD. A new application, SpeedGrade DDS, will also debut at the show. IRIDAS is the only vendor to offer uncompressed playback and color grading software on Mac, Windows, and Linux. The Mac versions are now all Universal Binary and will run natively on both Intel and PowerPC Macs. In addition, IRIDAS now offers its proven DualStream stereoscopic technology as an option for all applications. http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20070403.html Tue, 3 Apr 2007 22:00:00 +0100 IRIDAS and Vision Research announced today that support for the Cine RAW file format will be included in all current IRIDAS applications. With the industry's first GPU-based Bayer interpolation technology, RAW footage can now be displayed and played back in real-time without requiring file conversion, providing a significant savings in time and storage requirements. http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20070327.html Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:30:00 +0100 Service Pack 1 for SpeedGrade OnSet 2006 includes a new matrix control allowing filmmakers to shift the color space they are working in so that it matches the sensor characteristics of various digital cameras. It adds up to a more accurate representation of the final output against which artists can develop their creative looks. With this update, SpeedGrade OnSet 2006 is now a Universal Binary application providing improved performance on Intel Macs. http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20070301.html Thu, 1 Mar 2007 14:30:00 +0100 Martin Weisz brings SpeedGrade to the desert. Read the February IRIDAS Customer Spotlight. http://spotlight.iridas.com/200702 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:30:00 +0100 Schedule an in-depth demo of our latest products. http://www.iridas.com/news/events.html Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0100 Cutting Edge Post House adds IRIDAS to the Pipeline. http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20070206.html Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:00:00 +0100 IRIDAS announced today that FrameCycler Professional 2006 is included with each seat of NUKE v4.6, the newest version of the high-end compositing software recently released by D2 Software. With this integration, NUKE artists can launch FrameCycler Professional 2006 from within NUKE to review composites in real-time right on their desktop. The bundle is available for Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. http://www.iridas.com/press/pr/20070123.html Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:51:56 +0100 We have updated our "About IRIDAS" pages with new information about IRIDAS and it's history http://www.iridas.com/company Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:42:46 +0100