SpeedGrade XR - Universal Real-Time RAW Support

[Peace Villow]

SpeedGrade XR - The End-to-End RAW Workflow Solution
Introducing SpeedGrade XR, the newest addition to the SpeedGrade family of non-destructive color grading applications. SpeedGrade XR is designed as a companion application for RAW camera workflows and offers powerful review, grading, and finishing tools for all available RAW formats as well as AVI and QuickTime codecs. With SpeedGrade XR, the promise of end-to-end RAW digital cinema workflows are now realized: retain the full latitude of the camera's sensor data in a file which is just one third the size of an equivalent RGB format.

Supported File Formats:
ARRI D20/D21 .ari
The ARRI D20/D21 .ari format is fully supported in all IRIDAS applications starting 2007. For render quality processing, use IRIDAS 2008 series applications which incorporate Real-Time RAW 2.0.

ARRI D20/D21 S.Two RAW (.dpx)
The ARRI D20/D21 RAW files recorded on an S.Two Digital Film Recorder (file extension .dpx) are fully supported in all IRIDAS 2008 applications.

Cineform (.avi/.mov)
All Cineform-compressed RAW files are fully supported in all IRIDAS applications starting 2007. For render quality processing, use IRIDAS 2008 series applications which incorporate Real-Time RAW 2.0.

DALSA Origin 4K RAW (.dpx)
DALSA Origina RAW files (extension .dpx) are fully supported in all IRIDAS 2008 series applications.

Phantom HD/4K (.cine)
All Phantom .cine files are supported starting 2007. If you have an older Phantom RAW file with the extension .cin, please enable the corresponding flag in the File Formats tab of your user settings, to enable compatibility with this format. For render quality processing, use IRIDAS 2008 series applications which incorporate Real-Time RAW 2.0.

REDCode RAW (.r3d)
Internal versions of IRIDAS 2008 series applications support REDCode RAW files directly. However since the format is not yet finalized by RED, REDCode format support will be released in a service pack later in 2008. .r3d files wrapped in Quicktime reference files, are supported on Mac OS X versions of SpeedGrade XR.

Silicon Imaging SI 2K/SI Mini (Cineform RAW .avi/.mov)
Cineform RAW files generated by the Silicon Imaging cameras are supported starting 2007. For render quality processing, use IRIDAS 2008 series applications which incorporate Real-Time RAW 2.0 and matrix and .Look metadata support.

Silicon Imaging SI 2K/SI Mini (Uncompressed .siv)
Uncompressed .siv files generated by the Silicon Imaging cameras are fully supported in all 2008 series applications.

Weisscam HS-1 RAW (.wcr)
Uncompressed Weisscam RAW files generated by the Weisscam HS-1 cameras are supported starting 2007. For render quality processing, use IRIDAS 2008 series applications which incorporate Real-Time RAW 2.0.

[Vladimir Eugene]

I'm looking forward to seeing your product in action

Vladimir Eugene

[Cüneyt Kaya]

REDCode RAW Quicktimes are supported on the Mac at resolutions up to 2K.

http://www.speedgrade.com/xr/


it seems they will support the proxies too

[Joel Kaye]

News: IRIDAS to Introduce SpeedGrade XR at NAB 2008

New Application for Digital Cinema RAW Workflows

(Munich, Germany--April 8, 2008) IRIDAS, the industry leader in RAW playback technologies, 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. The ability to stay in RAW for postproduction offers filmmakers considerable advantages: RAW files provide more image data than RGB formats, yet are just one third the size.

Along with realtime interpolation of RAW formats, SpeedGrade XR can play video formats (QuickTime and AVI) at HD, 2K, and 4K resolutions. The application offers powerful primary and secondary grading tools, refined conform capabilities, animated masks, pan & scan, and numerous FX shaders such as bleach bypass, Technicolor 3-Strip, and more for creating stylized looks. In addition, IRIDAS DualStream technology for realtime stereo playback and grading is now offered standard. For final output SpeedGrade XR renders to any standard video or file format.

"We are using SpeedGrade XR with DualStream for dailies and pre-grading on production for 'Dark Country,' a new stereo feature film," said Jim Hays, Digital Workflow Supervisor at Paradise FX. "When people see the 3D dailies they are blown away. With this system we can really see exactly what we are doing."

For most of the shooting, Paradise FX used the Silicon Imaging 2K camera recording in CineForm RAW. "With the SI camera we can apply SpeedGrade .Looks right in the viewfinder," explained Jim Hays, "it just makes sense to stay with the same system for our dailies." SpeedGrade's realtime RAW capabilities mean that CineForm RAW files can be loaded straight from the camera into SpeedGrade XR for review and pre-grading.

"The IRIDAS software has greatly changed the way we work with stereo," said Tim Thomas, president of Paradise FX. "We had been making do with other solutions for a few years but now we are able to work at five times the speed, which means quicker feedback, much more efficient post work, and a happy client."

"SpeedGrade XR provides the key for enabling RAW digital cinema workflows," said IRIDAS CEO, Lin Kayser. "Staying in RAW makes so much sense, but until recently it was only a theoretical possibility. Now filmmakers have a practical way of keeping the pipeline in RAW through production and post - all the way to final rendering."

IRIDAS is the only developer offering live deBayering of all available RAW formats. Currently the IRIDAS SpeedGrade and FrameCycler applications support ARRI D20 RAW, CineForm RAW (used by Silicon Imaging and others), DALSA 4K RAW, Phantom RAW, and WEISSCAM RAW. Support for additional RAW formats will be added as soon as these become available.

SpeedGrade XR runs on Max OS X and Windows XP and sells for $20,000 USD (US and Canada) or 15,000 EUR (international). Fully functional trial downloads will be available from the IRIDAS web site on May 1, 2008. Visitors to NAB can see SpeedGrade XR at the IRIDAS booth (SL10708) in the South Lower Hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center. To schedule a demo contact IRIDAS at at +49 89 330 35 142 or IRIDAS USA at +1 818 951-8927. For more information, please visit http://www.speedgrade.com/xr.

About IRIDAS
IRIDAS pioneered desktop film-resolution playback in 2001. Its FrameCycler products are now the industry standard for frame-based image review. In 2003 IRIDAS introduced the first non-destructive color correction application. Today SpeedGrade and FrameCycler provide the critical links in an end-to-end pipeline for uncompressed content and color metadata. IRIDAS' applications are used by filmmakers around the world and most major animation and postproduction houses. IRIDAS is an independent, privately held company headquartered in Munich, Germany. For more information, visit http://www.iridas.com.


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This certainly appears to blow away Assimilate's latest offering.

I still think someone like Speedgrade needs to do a much cheaper 1080P output only version that only supports REDcode just for RED DP's who need to color their own stuff and don't need to lay off to tape. Basically aren't competition to post houses.

[Cüneyt Kaya]

assimiliate is good in data management and as a conform tool+ you can CC.

so lets wait what irirdias can really do...

but sounds promising

[Sven Seynaeve]

This sounds really great.

[Cüneyt Kaya]

laguun will be happy

[laguun]

laguun will be happy

no news for us :)

they are only waiting for red to allow the use of redcode , iirc they support red since october 2007, as they do with almost any raw basing camera...
they started raw long before red was delivered, but you have to give lot of the credits of this to axel of magnamedia who also posts here: he was pushing these features

dark country made a good choice with speedgrade, its great to have stereo/3D and raw and on set monitoring and osx and win and linux support, and having mixed cineform/si/red/dpx uncompressed playback is certainly nice for them as they shoot with these different formats in 3D.

Also, iridas has nice 4, 8 and 10K playback systems.

[Cüneyt Kaya]

do you know something about the price?

and i knew that you and axel do some behind the scene things :)

[laguun]

assimiliate is good in data management and as a conform tool+ you can CC.

so lets wait what irirdias can really do...

but sounds promising

iridas speedgrade and scratch are both very good tools with a very similar toolset. same league, the "mid-class" systems.

iridas is -the- raw pioneer, they support nearly all raw cameras (and cineform) in their di/conform. They dont limit the features, even not in their 9.999 osx/win/linux product, they only price on the format (QT/prores/AVI, RAW, dpx, 2D/3D) and resolution (1080P and unlimited).