At IBC 2004, FilmLight Ltd., pioneers of digital film technology, is introducing three new products for its Truelight colour management system. With a new VGA Truelight Box, a new Truelight Player for 2K media playback, and support for Adobe After Effects plug-ins, Truelight enables facilities to accurately pre-visualize colour facility-wide across an expanded range of digital content creation and viewing applications for film DI work and video post-production.

Print film emulation on VGA monitors

The new VGA Truelight Box provides print film emulation on a standard VGA monitor. Like its currently available HD/SDI counterpart, the Truelight VGA box stores up to 15 3D cubes, which can be selected via a Java application. Combined with the Truelight probe, which enables accurate monitor calibration, the VGA Truelight hardware is an integral component of a facility wide coherent colour management strategy.

Truelight Player for 2K clip playback

The new Truelight Player is a cost-effective alternative to film-outs, playing back content digitally and accurately from disk or central storage to be viewed through a digital projector. It can conform, play, loop, and save metadata and snapshot images from clips up to 2K and is able to select and load from a library of generic or client generated cubes. Combined with an option to modify printer lights, this capability enables DoPs to quickly test the look of their production during their dailies sessions. Options include, SD/HD SDI ingest and Fibre connectivity.

Colour management extends to Adobe After Effects

FilmLight has added After Effects support to the existing Truelight rendernode plug-in currently available for Apple’s Shake. The plug-in offers a viewing and render-output option for colour management using components from the Truelight colour science library. With a calibrated monitor, Shake, After Effects, or other applications that support these plug-ins, can produce accurate print film emulation.

Peter Stothart, FilmLight’s Commercial Director said, “Taking a project from film through digital processes and back to film has presented the industry with a difficult challenge in that digital devices don’t display colour accurately. We developed Truelight to address that challenge – first for HD/SDI systems, and of course our own Baselight grading system. A complete solution means that you must be able to go anywhere in a facility and know the colour display is consistent, whether that’s a high-end theatre grading suite, a creative compositing system, a telecine bay, or a digital theatre. Our vision for Truelight has been to integrate colour management across facilities and pipelines and these new products complete that picture.”

Availability

The Truelight system, including Truelight colour management software, the HD/SDI hardware device, the Truelight library of calibration and image settings, and the Truelight cube builder is currently available. The VGA hardware device, Truelight Player, and After Effects plug-in option will be available in 30 days. Pricing for the Truelight Player hardware/software solution begins at $28,000 USMSRP. Pricing for the Truelight colour management system varies depending on implementation.

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