Seems like Red will be the favorite color at NAB this year, even though the Red Digital Cinema company itself won’t be present on the show floor. Da Vinci Systems has announced Digital PowerHouse, a new system that provides direct native access to .R3D files for colorists who need to maximize their latitude when working with the original camera files. Colorists will be able to read raw Red files from shared storage, decoding, de-Bayering, color-grading, and recording to tape without rendering the footage. The new system will be on display at da Vinci’s NAB exhibit in booth SL3314.
That eliminates some of the kludginess from existing Red color workflows, including conversion of the footage to DPX files or avoidance of the complete de-Bayering process, which results in lower quality.
The Digital PowerHouse system will be shipped in three different configurations. A software-only version will be available to all Resolve and R-Series users with active support agreements. A single-server configuration is tuned to provide faster decoding on the R-200, R-250/250x, R-300 and R-350 systems. Finally, a dual-server configuration supports real-time performance on the R-4K, which is designed for 4K workflows. Colorists will be able to work at quality settings ranging from quarter resolution to 4096x2048 de-Bayered, depending on their hardware.
Digital PowerHouse also supports Resolve’s direct-to-SAN interface for simplified file management; real-time performance from da Vinci’s Transformer technology; direct conform from Red files using absolute or edge time-code; support for long reel names in Avid and Final Cut Pro EDLs; and file-format conversion from Red RAW to DPX and other unspecified formats.
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