For Brad Carvey, Cinnafilm's technical advisor and Emmy Award winning member of the Video Toaster team, the company's advancements can be summed up in one word, incredible. "Cinnafilm's engineers have spent years writing code that uses all of the graphics processors simultaneously and they’ve put all that computing power into Cinnafilm HD1. Effectively, the solution is an affordable desktop supercomputer with over one hundred floating point processors that can easily process HD streams in real time," said Carvey. "Cinnafilm HD1 will change the way professionals apply a film look to video, but that is just the start of what Cinnafilm HD1 will be able to do with future applications and advancements. Can you imagine what can be done with 128 32-bit floating point processors all running in parallel? It is going to be exciting to seeing what Cinnafilm does next."
Rick Clemente, president of Production Central ABQ (productioncentralABQ.com) is an award-winning film professional, with extensive managerial, technical and creative experience in production, post-production, and visual effects for film, television, and advertising. He served as the 2nd Unit Director of Photography on the original Star Wars, and helped pioneer several film technology advancements, including motion control systems.
Clemente is excited about the new Cinnafilm HD1 real-time film look workflow paradigm. "Cinnafilm's film simulation for CG and video images gives colorists, cameramen, and directors greater control over the subjective look of the image, while allowing the physical properties of various film stocks to be mimicked," he says."Cinnafilm HD1 also easily transforms everything up to uncompressed HD resolutions in real-time, and at a reasonable price. I've been involved with cutting edge film technology for over thirty years, and this is a pioneering move. I look forward to adopting this solution into our studio."
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