Cineform NEO HD-Inc. First Light

Cineform NEO HD-Including First Light - N2142

The industry's most flexible and highest quality HD editing workflow

With versions for both Windows and Mac, CineForm's Neo HD offers the industry's highest quality and most feature-rich online HD workflow, enhancing all Windows and Mac editing and effects applications.

Whether your project is designed for film, television, Blu-RAY, DVD, or Internet distribution, Neo HD delivers unmatched workflow efficiency, the industry's highest visual fidelity compression, and cross-platform compatibility unmatched by others.

With Neo HD you get:

• The Industry's Best Compression: CineForm's respected CineForm Intermediate compression format is designed for extremely high visual quality through post production. CineForm files are always 10 bits in precision and are visually equivalent to uncompressed sources - but they weigh in at about 15% of the file size.
• Cross-Platform compatibility: CineForm files are compatible on both Windows and Mac with your preferred software applications from Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Sony, and virtually any other DirectShow (AVI) or QuickTime (MOV) application. Create on one platform, share on the other, even with distributed editing workflows. CineForm provides a free decoder on both Win and Mac to easily share content.
• First Light^TM: cross-platform, non-destructive color processing application works in complement with your editing and effects software. First Light maintains color adjustments as Active Metadata^TM with your media - you never need to render, and consequently you never clip highlights. First Light color adjustments are immediately visible in any application that calls a CineForm file.
• HD Link/ReMaster: file conversion and image processing software converts most camera or file-based source formats into 10-bit CineForm Intermediate HD files while also performing valuable tasks such as telecine removal, deinterlacing, spatial resampling, and much more. Enables true 24p editing workflows from most HD sources. Neo HD on Mac also supports ProRes as a destination format.

NOTE: Some minor feature differences may exist between the Windows and Mac versions of Neo HD. Please verify features in the Trial download or Specifications prior to purchase.

Neo HD includes the following software components:

• CineForm codec with Active Metadata processor
  • - Win: DirectShow and Video for Windows (VfW)
  • - Mac: QuickTime
• First Light. End-user application to adjust non-destructive Active Metadata color parameters and selects playback parameters including demosaic algorithm
• HD Link (Windows) or ReMaster (Mac). End-user application to manage file capture and conversion to CineForm files. Allows selection of image pre-processing algorithms during conversion (spatial resampling, telecine removal, etc).

Neo HD Workflow Features - Online HD Editorial Workflow on Windows and Mac

• OS Compatibility: Separately purchased for Windows or Mac
• Chroma Formats: Real-time support for 10-bit CineForm Intermediate (4:2:2)
• Spatial resolution: Up to 1920x1080
• File Compatibility: QuickTime (MOV) or DirectShow (AVI) applications on Windows or Mac including Apple (Final Cut Pro / Motion), Adobe (Premiere Pro, After Effects), Autodesk (Combustion), Iridas (Speedgrade) Microsoft, Sony (Vegas), and many others.
• Deep-precision arithmetic: leverages available floating-point and deep-precision integer processing from calling application.
• Active Metadata processor: apply color parameters (white balance, RGB matrix, and 3D LUTs) after decode per user adjustments in First Light.
• HD camera support: HDV, AVCHD, P2, XDCam HD/EX, Canon 5D/7D/1DS V-DSLRs, Grass Valley Infinity, and more.
• HD-SDI capture: on Mac using AJA Kona 3.
• HD-SDI timeline monitoring: through Final Cut Pro using AJA Kona 3 ^*
• HDMI Capture (Windows): Real-time capture using Blackmagic Intensity card with HD Link
• Image processing during conversion:
  • - telecine removal (24p extraction from 60i)
  • - deinterlacing (30p/25p from 60i/50i)
  • - spatial resampling
  • - speed change (24p ↔ 25p, also slow motion)
  • - image flip (for 35mm DOF adapters)
• Importer: for Adobe Premiere Pro/After Effects on Windows and Mac^*
• Sharing Media: Free decoder available for both Windows and Mac
  * Pending release