Advanced DI workstation with a wide-range of applications designed to enhance the post production of film & broadcast projects. It offers one-step, faster than real-time 2D & stereoscopic 3D DCI Mastering and real-time decoding / debayering of full-quality, RAW RED files. It also offers on-line, film data editing, format conversion and a host of capturing, conforming, effects, audio and color-correction features:

• Capture every video format up to 4K
• Support of more than 100 file formats such as DPX, TIFF, BPM, Avid DNxHD, MXF, QuickTime, WMV, MPEG1/2, R3D (RED RAW) etc…
• Place formats into the multi-format timeline without preprocessing
• Sophisticated conforming and editing
• Real-time effects for all video formats up to 4K
• Real-time versioning into different formats
• Open platform for easy workflow integration
• Color corrections using real-time primaries
• Sophisticated secondary color-correction
• 3D-LUT real-time color management over DVI and HD-SDI output
• One-step Digital Cinema Package (DCP) generation from Digital Source Master (DSM)
• JPEG2000 encoding in almost double real-time in 12 bit X'Y'Z'
• Faster than real-time TIFF 16 bit X’Y’Z’ generation (for DCDM)
• Automatic wrapping into MXF files (encrypted & non-encrypted)
• Encode and encrypt a 120-min. movie to a Digital Cinema Package (DCP) specified by DCI faster than 1.5 hours
• Superior signal-to-noise ratio for excellent video results
• 12 bit X'Y'Z'
• Support of constant and maximum quality VBR
• DCI bit-rates up to 250 Mbit/sec
• Archive quality in 500 Mbit/sec
• Sophisticated conforming capabilities for your Digital Source Master (DSM) directly in CLIPSTER
• DCI wizard will easily guide you through the DCI Mastering steps
• Definition of DCI reels with all required information directly and clearly arranged in the CLIPSTER timeline
• Flexible entry into the DCI process at any stage
• Support of all leading DCI play-out servers
• Generation of the Composition Playlist (CPL) to define the final play order of the DCI reels
• Automatic creation of Key Delivery Messages (KDM) for cinema servers
• Future-proof DCI hardware for more features like subtitling and stereoscopic DCP

CLIPSTER 3G KEY FEATURES

Time-Line / Time-Code / EDL

• Multiple video tracks and video formats
• Full editing features
• EDL for exchange and conforming
• Comparison between offline and online version
• Burn-In for customizable text, time-code, keycode and frame numbers
• Time stretching
• Time-code or frame readout
• Finalizing: creation of new clips from the project in different formats
• Timeline archiving function

Effects

• Format conversion in real time
• Zooming (up/down scaling) in real time with multiple scaling algorithms
• Panning in real time
• Rotation and flip/flop
• Scaler and EDL-control for color correction systems
• Real-time cropping
• Primary color correction in real time
• Secondary color correction with shapes
• 3D look-up tables for color management
• Dissolves and SMPTE wipes in real time, also between different formats
• Color space conversion in real time (YUV <-> RGB <-> X'Y'Z')
• Key framing for effects
• Open FX plug-in interface

Spycer

• Automatic metadata extraction of clips in watch folders
• Search function with several search parameters
• Search in local drives or in the whole network
• Defragmentation of volumes or file sequences
• Renaming function for image sequences
• Metadata and DPX header editing
• Support of more than 100 graphic file formats

I/O tool

• Manual capturing
• Interval capturing for time-lapse video
• Log and capture via RS-422
• Batch capturing and autoconform (EDL)
• Capture list creation from an EDL, logging or importing Excel files
• VTR emulation mode
• 3:2 pull-down creation and removal
• Recording directly on the NTFS Windows file system
• Multi-format recording on a single partition

Audio

• Audio sampling frequency: 48 kHz
• Sample rate conversion and time-stretching
• Unlimited audio tracks for editing
• Sample and frame-based editing
• Supports WAV, AIFF and QuickTime

 

VIDEO FORMATS

SD

525i/59.94	720 x 486 (D1)	960 x 486 (D5)
625i/25	720 x 576 (D1)	960 x 576 (D5)
625i/24	720 x 576 (Slow PAL)

HD

1280 x 720p	23.98/24/25/29.97/30/50/59.94/60
1366 x 768p	50/59.94/60/90/120
1920 x 1035i	29.97/30
1920 x 1080i	23.98/24/25/29.97/30
1920 x 1080psF	23.98/24/25/29.97/30
1920 x 1080p	23.98/24/25/29.97/30/50/59.94/60

HSDL

2048 x 1556psF	14.99/15/19.98/20
4096 x 3112psF	5

2K

2048 x 1080psF	23.98/24
2048 x 1080p	23.98/24
2048 x 1556psF	23.98/24/25/30
2048 x 1556p	23.98/24/25/30

4K

4096 x 3112

4096 x 2160

3860 x 2400

4096 x 1716

DCI

1998 x 1080psF	23.98/24
2048 x 858psF	23.98/24
3996 x 2160
4096 x 1716

 

EDITING

Software

• Capturing, Editing, Processing, Conforming, Versioning and managing tools
• DCI Mastering tools for generating encrypted DCP (Digital Cinema Packages)
• Any resolution from SD to 4K
• Video formats in 8/10/12/16bit
• Export to WMV, QuickTime, MXF and JPEG2000
• Support of more than 100 graphic formats
• Intuitive GUI

Hardware

• 8 GB RAM
• Quadcore CPU's
• Networking with up to 1000 Base-T (gigabit ethernet)
• DVD writer
• 9 x 12" (A4 regular) graphic tablet with pen, wireless mouse and keyboard
• Internal RAID-5 video/audio storage, e.g. 1100/2300/4800 GB
• 20 video interfaces