How to Set Up Reeltime Pro
Setting up a video playback system with Reeltime Pro starts with understanding the needs of…
Read moreReeltime Pro is a next-generation software application for professional on-set video playback in film productions. Meticulously crafted to balance both simplicity and functionality, it empowers playback operators to tackle the multi-faceted challenges of providing instant video feedback to all creative roles on set. Its innovative slot concept allows for quick interaction for all common use cases but offers a multitude of configurations and routing options under the hood. It leverages the powerful Apple silicon processors, rendering it a dependable workhorse in demanding production environments.
Reeltime Pro provides an intuitive and well-thought-out interface design, ensuring effortless navigation between multiple tasks. Everything is dedicated to getting your repetitive tasks and common use cases done most efficiently.
Reeltime Pro allows you to build your workflows on the latest advanced technologies. Built for the latest Apple silicon processors, it ensures stability and robustness while also future-proofing your setup.
To engage all participants, Reeltime Pro offers versatile options for tailored views and signal distribution, ensuring that everyone accesses precisely the video signals plus metadata they require - in the manner, on the device and location of their preference!
With a focus on transparency and flexibility, Reeltime Pro's central user interface is designed around slots. The concept is adopted from Pomfort's well-proven Livegrade applications but modified to address the specific challenges of video playback more conveniently. Easily manage and route multiple live and playback signals to various destinations without losing track. Use various slot types and modes to present or compare single or multiple live and playback videos. Customize views for specific purposes or audiences by creating different composites and applying filters. Therefore, it guarantees that all creatives on set can access the content they need for review and collaboration.
It all comes down to speed and precision on set. Reeltime Pro provides you with a variety of smart clip controls and automation features to help you save valuable time. Bank on the auto-record option triggered by the record flag embedded in SDI signals to not miss any recording. More than one camera involved? Easily create synced group recordings when shooting with multiple cameras. Set in and out points already during recording to mark specific sections to only playback the relevant parts. Even if the camera keeps rolling for several actions within a single take, we’ve got you covered by the option to add multiple ranges.
On top quickly arm or unarm slots, if a camera won’t be rolling for the next recording. New clips are auto-loaded for instant playback of timecode-synced group recordings. Control them with industry-standard JKL controls and conveniently playback only your marked in and out ranges with the ranges playback option, which can also easily be combined with looping.
Reeltime Pro offers a selection of different window layouts to choose from. Each one is tailored to support you in getting your daily jobs done most efficiently. Do you need to monitor all camera signals simultaneously on a small MacBook Pro display? Make the multi-view window layout options your best friends during recording and playback, and switch back to the main view layout for browsing the shot library, or configuring routing and filters.
Conveniently compare various clips in your library in the library slots’ multi-view layout. Or head to the output slots’ multi-view layout to see all outgoing signals and check within a glance what is currently presented to the individual watchers in the video village.
While focusing efficiently on your current task in one of the dedicated multi-view layouts, the toolbar's most important global controls and metadata fields for recordings always stay at your fingertips. So you are all geared up when the cameras roll again!
Being able to run a multi-cam cart this mobile and nimble has been great! With Reeltime Pro, I boot up, plug cameras in and it's just a matter of setting slots to whatever I want to show on set. Having the ability to pre-build slots and label them accordingly makes handling requests a breeze.
Richie Myers
Rely on Pomfort’s proven clip library concept to organize the tons of recordings thoroughly during a project. It allows for customized table layouts and helps you to create meaningful structures for fast retrievability. Search the library by text, clip ratings, or flags. Track and edit valuable shot metadata for either single or multiple clips in a detail view. Global metadata, such as slate info, can be easily edited and applied to multiple clips in one step. Also benefit from the innovative “smart groups” concept to organize clips using an automatic, customizable outline assembled by metadata. Once found, scan a recorded clip or multiple clips in a collection view with a dedicated skimming feature to find requested actions for review on the spot.
Nothing beats a quick pre-visual to ensure the creative intent, continuity and technical accuracy of a scene shot in front of a green screen. Provide your director, actors and crew with real-time previews of how the final shot will look once the desired background is added in post-production. Reeltime Pro’s green screen key filter can be applied on any live or playback signal.
The overlay option of a composite slot blends the isolated foreground with any background plate loaded into a library slot. For a seamless blend, adjust the color settings of both foreground and background using the “Color Adjust” filter. Finally, refine the composite with the “Blur” filter to achieve a more realistic appearance.
Reeltime Pro seamlessly integrates with your current workflows and more, enabling smooth transitions and setup optimization. With your Stream Deck controller actions, you can take complete control of the application. Keep using your trusted AJA and Blackmagic video I/O devices and SDI video routers. Furthermore, integrating any devices equipped with DELTACAST video I/O cards rounds up customization opportunities.
Reeltime Pro’s interactive router control panel simplifies the tedious process of signal management, adds transparency and flexibility. Create multiple video routing configurations that can be triggered by your Stream Deck or automations based on a specific event. For instance, ensure the lowest possible latency for your director when switching from playback to live mode by automatically triggering the appropriate routing configuration.
Reeltime Pro's slot concept enables tailored views for sending live and playback signals to various destinations, accommodating diverse viewing preferences. While some roles will require high-quality SDI outputs, others might prefer real-time streams on their mobile devices. Reeltime Pro utilizes the on-set wireless network for local streaming to its dedicated companion apps – Reeltime Viewer (iOS and iPadOS) and Reeltime Cinema (visionOS) – featuring industry-standard encryption and a custom protocol to ensure low-latency, reliable viewing.
Additionally, Reeltime Pro integrates with 3rd-party internet streaming services like Sony Ci Media Cloud, RePro Stream, Autodesk Flow Capture, Teradek TV, and Sohonet ClearView Flex for remote collaboration with creatives, clients or other stakeholders not on set. Facilitate an efficient, secure connection via the internet with the service of your choice to enhance the remote collaboration experience.
Every project is unique, and flexibility is key. Whether you're crafting a feature film or a captivating ad spot, our diverse licensing options mean you're covered! Choose between a yearly subscription or temporary licenses starting at just 1-day.
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