SilverStack and Cinemator Features

Pomfort SilverStack and the included Pomfort Cinemator are available in three editions and offer vast functionality for your media production workflows:

(see basic features, DPX and Cineon support and HCD pipeline below)

Basic Features

Sequence Viewing

Unique, frame-based timeline, automatic frame number to timecode conversions, sequence navigation frame by frame, multiple file format support, de-anamorphing, customizable zoom, geniune pixel ruler, selective histogram, color clipping visualization for blacks and whites, 6-way color channel selection, instant JPG export through drag and drop.

Workspace

Group, sort and manage multiple sequences in multiple simultaneous opened workspaces, thumbnail cache, work with offline sequences, customizable sequence table, multiple sequence import from file system, multiple sound tracks per sequence, automatic detection of sound files.

Basic Color Correction capabilities

Neutral grades through basic (RGB) color correction, linear and logarithmic grading modes, floating point precision and fast processing through GPU utilization, selective histogram, grading in different units (stops, 1/1024, percent), multiple application of color settings, export sequence settings as Apple Shake™ nodes, 8-bit and 10-bit color picker (10-bit picker not available on MacBooks and Intel-MacMinis*).

Realtime playback preview

Color proof QuickTime previews, same grading and linearization capabilities as on single frames, jog shuttle controls, variable playback speed, selectable preview resolution, QuickTime-based, customizable preview resolution, import of existing preview movies e.g. from digital field recorders based on a relative path to the image files.

QuickTime movie creation

Customizable resolution, zooming and cropping, semi-opaque black bars for different film formats, custom burn-in-texts, codec-selection, compression options / codec settings dialog for QuickTime codecs, embedding of additional source time code track, appending of additional sound track, export as image sequence (TIFF and JPG), watermark images and presets management, support for alpha channels in source material and capable QuickTime codecs, creation of "reel" info metadata for FinalCutPro in timecode tracks, customizable pixel aspect ratios for appropriate codecs (DV, DVCPRO).

Metadata

Editable annotations and status tracking, editable ratings, disk volume information and file information for images and sequences, setting of in- and out-points for rendering, customizable text-based export of sequences.

NEW! Export of ALE files with time code metadata for Avid Media Composer.

Render management

Independent render engine and queue, management of jobs in batches, reordering of batches, multi-threading support, XML based job-setups for custom render jobs, pre- and post-scripts (AppleScript, perl, bash, Automator) for further processing, Apple Script support.

Productivity, scriptability

Append Automator workflows to render jobs for individual workflows, Pomfort Cinemator render queue with Apple Script support, XML based render job syntax for easy adoption.

Performance

Parallel (multi-threaded) rendering of QuickTime movies, graphical operations on GPU.

DPX and Cineon support, linearization

DPX and Cineon Support

Support for DPX and Cineon, SMPTE timecode and keycode, DPX Header information, editable SMPTE timecodes and framerates in headers of DPX sequences, emulsion / film stock info from keycode, support for Codex and S.two DPX syntax for additional metadata.

Linearization

White-point, black-point and gamma linearization, Kodak-style LogLin, 1D LUT linearization, global (de-) saturation settings, 3D LUT linearization (3D LUT linearization not available on MacBooks and Intel-MacMinis*), presets management, floating point precision, fast processing through GPU usage.

High color depth (HCD) pipeline

New high color depth (HCD) pipeline, support for 10bit DPX and 16bit TIFF as source material, support for any 10bit YUV and RGB codecs for QuickTime such as Apple ProRes (HQ), 10bit Uncompressed, SheerVideo from BitJazz or Cineform HD, basic "full-range" video support (super-black and super-white) for capable YUV codecs, available as separate license.

See the HCD section for more details on the creation of 10 bit QuickTime movies with the high color depth pipeline.

Misc

Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" features

QuickLook plugin, support for CoverFlow with DPX files, Leopard folder icons

Supported Filetypes

Input: DPX and Cineon, OpenEXR, RGB, TIF/TIFF, BMP, JPG, PNG, TGA, SGI and various RAW formats of DSLR cameras
(DPX and Cineon only available in Full Edition and HCD Full Edition)
Output: JPG, TIF, QuickTime (all installed codecs)

Exchange with other applications

Export current clipping to any other application such as graphics applications, iChat or Mail with drag&drop.

Embedded FrameCalculator

Expression based timecode calculation, multiple timecode mixing, calculation of disk space and network transfer times, conversion into footage length, integration (timecode exchange) with current sequences.
See the FrameCalculator page for more info.

Embedded Spotlight Plugin for DPX files

Meta data extraction of resolution, SMPTE timecode, keycode and project name from the DPX header. So you can for example use spotlight to check, if for a certain timecode a 1k proxy exists ("dpx 01:23:45:12 1024").
See the stuff page for more info.

Automated update

Notification on new versions available online.

* MacMini Intel and the MacBook have reduced graphics capabilities due to their special graphics hardware.

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