IMAGICA Technologies Corp., the
engineering solutions division company of IMAGICA Robot Holdings, Inc.,
announced today the introduction of O-gi, a brand new set of image quality
enhancement plug-ins for Autodesk® Inferno, Flame, Flint, Fire, and Smoke
systems. O-gi is a set of powerful noise reduction and clean-up filters
designed to help improve a range of image quality problems typically faced
by post production facilities.
"In our continued effort to develop products that simplify and automate
technical processes for our clients, we're very excited to introduce this
new set of plug-in tools," said Yasushi Mishima, President and CEO, IMAGICA
Technologies Corp. "O-gi is designed to address image quality augmentation
issues faced by post houses all around the globe. Like IMAGICA's Primatte
chromakey technology, we anticipate that the adoption of O-gi among post
facilities will be widespread."
O-gi plug-ins include filters to automate many routine image enhancement
tasks:
* O-gi: Video Signal Legalizer - Brings luminance/chroma levels smoothly
into conformance with video "legal" limits. With most video legalizers,
video signals that exceed legal video limits would be just chopped off
causing details to be lost and resulting in a degradation of the video
quality. This plug-in "soft clips" the illegal signal, maintaining the
original details. It is best used before generating final output.
* O-gi: Wrinkle Diminisher - Smoothes and beautifies skin imperfections.
By simplifying the sequential operations for beautifying skin, operators
are freed from more tedious techniques and rewarded with faster processing
times.
* O-gi: Mach Band Suppresser - Removes troublesome color banding in digital
cel animation, which often does not become visible until after DVD encoding
or is hidden by inferior monitors.
* O-gi: Video Noise Detector - Helps isolate sources of visual noise within
an image.
* O-gi: Edge Preserving Smoother - Eliminates "sparkle" and grain noise
while preserving edge details in the image. Most standard edge preserving
filters allow film grain noise to be blurred, but often require complicated
parameter adjustments to completely remove the noise. With this plug-in
image noise can be easily removed with simple parameter adjustments.
O-gi will be available to customers in July of 2008. Plug-ins for SD/HD
versions of Flint and Smoke systems will be priced at $5,000 US, while
plug-ins for 2K versions of Inferno, Fire, Flame and Smoke systems will
cost $8,000 US.
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