Nucoda - Digital Vision

Nucoda
GRADING | FINISHING
REV 2014.2 R1
www.digitalvision.tv
Core Features
Overview
We understand that our customers need more than just leading
toolsets to create sophisticated look enhancements, but more
importantly our solutions need to work with multiple camera and
file formats, allow collaborative workflows, and deliver finished
content for different viewing platforms including stereoscopic 3D.
Full 64 bit native applications
Make use of all available system memory and cope with
the biggest images, including 4K.
Multi-layer timeline
Multi monitor support with different resolution
configurations makes working on complex timelines a
breeze.
Lay out and process your material in a natural and
flexible way, with multiple video and audio tracks.
Timeline and shot bookmarks allow for better
organisation and retrieval of information. Easily add
different versions of shots to the same timeline.
Effect save and recall
Import and Conform
I2 Rendering Engine
Support for a massive number of image sequences as
well as standard list formats like EDL and CUT Lists.
Automatically extract metadata and conform sequences.
Library
Nucoda interface
Full support for multiple monitors
Nucoda Look
Save and recall effects using notes, from single effects
to complicated multi-layered effects. Create a library of
notes and apply to any segment on any timeline in any
project.
Unobtrusive background rendering ensures you always
have the best results available without interruption.
Any project can be rendered on any Nucoda platform.
GPU acceleration
Nucoda
Nucoda Look is an entry level grading solution based on the industry
leading Digital Vision image science technology and Nucoda colour tools.
It is ideally suited for use as a pre-grade assist station, either in the facility
or on-set. When used as a preparation station for the Nucoda, it can be
used to ingest or conform video or film content directly onto the timeline
ready for editing and pre-processing. It is also an excellent post grade
deliverables system.
Nucoda is the premium colour grading and finishing solution for feature
films, commercials and broadcast applications. It combines a creative
tool set, and a very tight integration with the Avid workflow including full
support for Interplay.
A powerful library for managing all imported and
referenced material with sorting, searching and
sophisticated metadata handling. Automatic library folder
creation and item naming options on file import based on
user configurable metadata extraction.
A realtime Master layer accelerates rendering on Pan &
Scan and Colour Correction work. Multiple formats can
be used and delivered from the same timeline. Globally
apply final crops or resizes.
Interoperability
Support for AJA Kona 3G, Kona 4 and
DVS Atomix HDMI
Setting new standards in the highest quality, Nucoda is now a fully featured
ACES grading system, featuring HDR grading and and real time EXR file
support. With an industry leading colour toolset used by clients such as
Walden Media and Pixar Animation Studios, Nucoda creates complex
looks and visual styles for animation, 2k/4k and S3D stereoscopic.
RAW Camera Support
With over 20 years of image science culminating in the Digital Vision
Optics (DVO) suite of enhancement tools, Nucoda ensures the highest
quality imagery available.
World class interoperability with third-party systems
supporting industry standard formats like Avid DNxHD,
AAF, MXF and Apple ProRes. Read and write Avid
DNxHD formats, MXF and Quicktime formats.
Layer based tools
Every tool can have extremely powerful isolation and
routing functionality. Isolation can be matte based, userdefined shape based or undertaken via sophisticated
keyer functionality. Layers can be selectively cached
to streamline operations and greatly enhance user
interactivity.
PAL, NTSC and HD formats,2K ,4K, UHDTV
Stereo, HDMI
Sony F65 RAW
ARRI Alexa RAW
ARRI D-21RAW
RED RAW - EPIC HDRx Blending support
Silicon Imaging SI-2k
Phantom CINE
Included with Nucoda is DVO Classic, a selection of image enhancement
tools. DVO Grain - DVO Aperture - DVO ReGrain - DVO Brickwall
Nucoda- Project setup
Today’s post production environment
has seen an explosion in the number of
cameras, file formats and distribution
channels required for many jobs.
These new formats also need to
coexist and stay compatible with older
formats and assets, which can result
in much greater project complexity
and data management headaches
for the production. ACES solves this
problem by delivering a single post
production workflow that keeps all
production assets at their maximum
possible quality and providing the full
benefit of High Dynamic Range (HDR)
production pipelines.
Precision Control Panel
The Precision control surface includes three ergonomic and functional control panels that can
be arranged to suit the needs of any colourist. Using a combination of traditional trackballs
with rings and high-quality knobs and buttons, operators can move quickly to complete the
work in the shortest time possible. Full Precision Brochure
Download the Precision brochure from digitalvision.se
Tangent Element Support
ACES ODT Selection
Download the ACES Whitepaper at digitalvision.se
Full mappable support for the Element Panel from Tangent.
Nucoda comes with ACES support and a full HDR grading capability, including a rich toolset
for dealing with colour critical workflows such as HDR capture from ARRI and RED cameras.
Flexible Workflows; Easy Integration
Nucoda offers the widest range of creative tools, built into the most flexible non nonlinear
workflow for digital film or video post production. From ingest, editing, picture enhancement,
colour correction, compositing and visual effects, to multi-delivery for any delivery format from
HD to 3D.
Ingest using an EDL, AAF or cut list, then conform data directly from a SAN, or capture from
tape. Support for a wide range of file
formats such as EXR, DPX, R3D, Arri,
Sony F65, Quicktime and MXF means
you can bypass copying and transcoding
completely. Comprehensive conforming
tools prepare your timeline with cuts,
transitions and varispeed commands.
Or use the powerful automated scene
detector to quickly analyse your reels in
the background.
Timeline overview
Full support for the new ACES colour
space which includes support and real
time playback of the new SMPTE ACES
EXR file format.
Expansive, High-end Colour Tools
Lionel Kopp, Senior Colourist
at Film Factory
“It was all about the color palette
and choosing visuals that we
wanted in the story. If you have
to worry about how the pipeline is
going to work, that takes time away
from what is important. Nucoda
has freed us from those concerns.
That is why we started with one,
and now have three.”
Nucoda creative and corrective colour tools
combine a traditional approach to grading with
the power and flexibility of digital technology.
Select the colour tool that suits the task best; from
Printer Lights through Colour Curves to Brightness
Regions.
With the unlimited multi-layer timeline you can
combine capabilities, using different isolation
layer tools including the new ‘I-Keyer’ to produce
complex looks quickly. Achieve dynamic grades
and Keyer animation of effects parameters, and
manipulate and track individual shapes on a
individual transform or per-point basis, to refine
that look over the whole shot.
List Management
With Nucoda you can view all the events in a composition as thumbnails, as a contact sheet
list view in either source or record order, giving direct access to any track, playhead, or event.
From here any part of a grade or its dynamics can be copied to the current shot.
Easily-accessible Memories speed the workflow, offering different ways to store and recall, all
or part of your grades and dynamics from shot to shot. Notes enable you to save unlimited
numbers of these snapshots in folders so that you can assemble libraries of looks and access
them in any project. A QuickNotes feature give you direct access for up to eight Notes from
the control panel with a single key press.
The DI Suite
Access to the Industry standard
DVO image processing toolset*
With over 20 years of research and development the company’s integrated
DVO image processing software tools have become one of the most revered
toolsets in the post production industry. Known for presenting the best image
manipulation tools for restoration, enhancement and format conversion,
they are only available on the Nucoda and Phoenix platforms.
You can view, render and exchange Nucoda projects in all Digital Vision software applications,
releasing the system for further client work. Add a Nucoda Look preparation workstation,
sharing the same SAN, and you have a truly collaborative suite.
Add our unique Digital Vision Optics (DVO) tools to the assist stations to off-load preparation
tasks such as grain management or dust busting.
Industry standard DVO image processing
tools for film, video and digital media
DVO
DVO
DVO
DVO
DVO
DVO Clarity
DVO Grain
DVO Regrain
DVO RegrainRGB
DVO Alias
DVO Sharpen
DVO Brickwall
DVO Aperture
DVO Steady
DVO Flicker
DVO Twister
DVO De-Interlace
DVO Upscale
DVO Line Sync
DVO Cross Colour
DVO Dropout
DVO Fix
DVO Dropout + Fix
DVO Noise
DVO Aperture
DVO Chroma
DVO Alias
DVO Brickwall
DVO Dust
DVO Scratch
DVO Fix
DVO Dust + Fix
DVO Print Align
DVO Steady
DVO Steady II
DVO Warp
DVO Flicker
DVO Chroma
DVO Clarity
DVO Grain
DVO Regrain
DVO Alias
DVO Sharpen
DVO Brickwall
DVO Aperture
Camera
Image courtesy of NASA
Convert
Video
Restore
S3D Colour & Align Tool
Jet Omeshebi, Colourist at Deluxe142
“The way that the colourist works is changing with the advanced technology that
grading systems provides. Using the Nucoda we’re increasingly adding vfx such as
lens flares and sky replacements as part of the grading process where previously
these would have been completed in the online/fx suites. Integrating these tools as
part of the grade enables us to seamlessly blend these elements into the rest of the
programme.”
DVO Flicker - Image courtesy of Incendio
* Not all tools are available for all products, please see the product matrix for details
Enhance
Nucoda product options
and overview
Software
Multi Track Timeline
Conform
Background Scene Detection
EDL handling
Video I/O SD/HD 444
2K / 4K / UHDTV
SD / HD
RAW Camera Support
Advanced Codec Support
DVO Camera
DVO Video
DVO Conversion
DVO Enhance
DVO Restore
Input FX Layer
Single CC & FX Tools
Base Layer
Multi Colour Tool Layers
Master Layer
LUT Export
Pan & Scan
Notes & Composition Notes
Event View
Precision Panel Support2
Tangent Panel Support2
Vallhal Panel Support
Stereoscopic (DVO Stereo Fix)
ACES Colourspace
Avid Interplay Support
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Video IO
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Optional extra
64 Bit Windows
Fast Binary project storage
Auto Backup project with history restore
Cache and Proxy drives assignable per project
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2 Panel Support does not include the panels - they are seperate purchase items
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Trim, add and remove edit, ripple
Multiple tracks for easy versioning and comparisons
Fast and accurate background scene detection
Apply and work with dissolves transparently during
the grading process.
Shared project and GUI structure of main Nucoda
finishing solutions for collaborative workflow
Conforming, editing & finishing, with unlimited video
and audio tracks
High speed foreground and background rendering
and export
Audio support (sync check against picture) import of
WAV and MXF audio.
Easy to do sanity check against original material in
virtually any format.
Timeline thumbnails
Specialist clip scrubbing functionality
Specialist restoration clip and frame review options
Adjustment segments allow for any tools to be
applied locally or globally
Automated cache generation and ability to specify
multiple cache nodes on a per layer basis.
Apply effects and tools to entire image, or use
mattes, shapes, keys to apply processing to isolated
areas of the material.
Manual and automatic tracking (Shape and
Deformation)
Manual and automatic keyframing
Track naming
Sophisticated conform ability with EDL processing
Import AVID Locators from EDL
Coloured, annotated markers on clip and timeline can be exported to spreadsheet, EDL.
Save complex Notes for re-use in other compositions
and projects
Recall/Append notes on a per layer basis including
keyframes
External Colour Panel
(Video, Refine & Finish)
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Monitoring (Atomix, Kona 3G/Kona4)
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SD PAL/NTSC
HD 1080 and 720 P and I Formats
444 and 422
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UHDTV 3840x2160p
23.98 ,24, 25, 29.97, 30 FPS
4K 4096x2160p 23.98, 24
3G monitoring support
YUV 422 / YUV444 / RGB444 12 bit mon
File I/O
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Precision Colour Panel
Tangent Element Panel
Spport for Kona 3G, Kona4 DVS Atomix HDMI
VTR capture/layback (capture not supported on AJA)
422 Control
Support for embedded audio ingest and layoff
Source order layoff
SMPTE and CGR
Preview BVB, BBB.
4:4:4: Ingest & Layback
Remote control of Nucoda timeline
Video capture not supported on AJA
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Floating Point File I/O
OpenEXR with header T/C support
OpenEXR Compressed formats
ACES (SMPTE “ACES Image Container File Layout”)
export as an option in the EXR export menu
Audio Retime on export
BWAV File export 16/24 Bit / Poly, Stereo and Mono
8 / 10 /12 /16 bit DPX file
B & W Single channel DPX support
12 Bit DPX support
YUV colour space export.
CIN
TIF
SGI
TGA
JPG
PIC
EXR
PNG
Completely configurable Render Output Path with user
definable presets and Preset variables
Export with Source or Record timecode and as source
clips.
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Export with configurable text burn-in
Canon EOS MXF (XDCAM50)
Canon 5D/ 7D /C300
AVC Intra 100
DVCPro
Panasonic P2
Sony SR Master (SSTP MPEG-4) F65 MXF
Quicktime - Import and Export. (All types)
Export of Audio with Quicktime files
Export of MXF OP-Atom
Export of MXF OP1A
Import AAF - Including audio tracks.
Import Avid’s Multi-layer timeline.
Export AAF
Avid Interplay Support
MXF Import and export (OP1a)
Uncompressed MXF
RGB 4:4:4:Uncompressed MXF
DNxHD
XDCAM HD
DVCAM
Arri D-21 support
Arri Alexa RAW
RED - RAW support (REDGamma3 and REDColor3)
RED R3D - EPIC HDRx Blending support
Silicon Imaging SI-2k support
Phantom Camera support
Sony F65 (incl XML)
Colour Tools - Base Layer*
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Channel Mixer
Saturation
SOP (Slope Offset Power - CDL Data Export)
Printer Lights
RGBM Levels (including Auto level)
Lift Gamma Gain
Balance
Colour Curves (Differential Corrections)
Brightness Contrast
RGBM Curves
Brightness Regions
Soft Clip
HueCurvesRGBCurves
HLS Correction
Blur
Colour Tools - Master Layer*
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Balance
Channel Mixer
Gamma Matrix
HLS - incl Sat over Luma control
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Hue curves
Saturation
SOP (Slope Offset Power - CDL Data Export)
Printer Lights
Levels (including Auto level)
Lift Gamma Gain
Colour Curves
Brightness Contrast
RBG Curves
Brightness Regions
Soft Clip
Kelvin Tint
Effects - Including Isolation Tools*
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3:2 Pulldown
Auto 3:2 with broken cadence detect/remove
Blur
Channel Extract (RGB)
Channel Align
Convert
Fade Colour
Field Dominance Correction
Field remove
Field swap
Invert
Keyer (HLS / Luma / RGB / IKeyer)
Paint
Re-Flicker
Reinterlace
Retime
Composite tools
• Blend - Incl. Blending Modes
• Channel Combiner
• Over
Transition
• Dissolve
Generators
• Source generator
• Test Pattern
Effects Layers - Isolation tools*
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External Matte Support
Shapes (Circle, Square, Bezier, Auto Bezier)
Softness in/out and variable shape softness)
Auto tracking of shapes
Auto tracking by shape deformation
Point tracking
Point based stabilisation
HLS / Luma / RGB and IKeyer
Transform Tools
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Pan & Scan
Blanking
Rotation
Warp 9 - Nine point warper
Warp 4 - Four point warper
User Definable Mesh Warper
Lens Distort / undistort
Stereo Tools - DVO Stereo Fix*
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Anaglyph & Checkerboard comparison modes User
Dedicated L&R tracks
Mono tracks
Advance grade merging functionality
Track grouped grading
Floating window support
P & S - Interocular adjustment incl Rotation
DVO Stereo Fix Auto Colour & align Tool with
localised colour matching and auto deformation
Specialist Comparison Modes
Viewer Tools
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Plug-ins
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Diff Red
Diff
Diff multiply
Mono Checkerboard
Split screen
Dual screen
Blend
Anaglyph
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Checkerboard
Comparison Sources
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Playheads (ABC or D)
Notes
Tracks
Events (Phoenix Finish)
Source
Revert
List support
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AAF Import / export
CMX 3600 EDL import
Enhanced EDL (CDL, File path support)
AVID ALE Export - incl Audio
Support for standard CMX and enhanced characters
for tape name export
Export Locators as comments
OFX Compatible
Sapphire OFX
Beauty Box OFX
Colour Management
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Histogram
User definable Grids
User definable Frames
User definable Metadata overlay
R /G /B Channel isolation
Matte and Alpha view
User definable Masks
Source/Output/Selected
User definable HUD for frame burn-in
including graphic files.
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Full support for the ACES (SMPTE 2065) workflow.
(This version has been tagged 0.1 by the Academy)
ACES colour scaling option to support SMPTE ST
2065-1-2012
IDT support for non ACES images
Support for custom ODT and LUT’s
Nucoda ACES ODT Support
CMS Layer FX
LUT Export
1D & 3D LUT Support
The following DVO packages
make up the complete suite
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DVO Restore
DVO Enhance
DVO Convert
DVO Video
DVO Camera
*Refer to the product matrix
for availability
Digital Vision (UK)
11 Wardour Mews
London, W1F 8AN
United Kingdom
Tel:+44(0)20 7734 8282
Fax:+44(0)20 7292 6969
Digital Vision (US)
6464 Sunset Blvd
Suite 830
Hollywood
CA 90028USA
Tel:+1 818 769 8111
Fax:+1 818 769 1888
Digital Vision (SE)
Telefonvägen 30
126 26 Hägersten
Sweden
Tel:+46 (0)8 546 18200
Fax:+46 (0)8 546 18209
www.digitalvision.tv