Set to be highlighted at the show is the Resolve® digital mastering suite featuring all three Resolve configurations: FX, DI, and RT. The Resolve FX will be running Revival™ image restoration software, which will display its two newest features, improved Grain Reduction and da Vinci’s exclusive Color Registration tool.

da Vinci’s newest product, Splice™, just released in April and designed as a bridge to enable nonlinear workflow capabilities for da Vinci 2K/2K Plus users, will be demonstrated at IBC2006. Demonstrations of powerful new options for the 2K Plus color enhancement system will also be offered, including ColorTrace™, a session reconform tool that matches color decisions with editorial changes.

Resolve Digital Mastering Suite
The innovation and genius of da Vinci that have made it the cornerstone of color enhancement continues to evolve as the company shows its industry-standard products for the DI (digital intermediate) workflow at IBC2006. The Resolve FX, Resolve DI, and Resolve RT systems are each designed to address specific post-production applications and are optimized for varying resource demands.
Resolve FX is an excellent entry-level solution for studios wanting to offer file-based, nonlinear color enhancement and conforming work — making it ideal for processing and matching short clips in a less-demanding digital intermediate workflow. Resolve FX is equipped with PowerPlant™, da Vinci’s software-programmable image-processing accelerator.
With two PowerPlants for enhanced processing power, Resolve DI is the perfect fit for digital intermediate projects calling for a substantial volume of color-look creation and conforming. When ultimate speed performance is required, the Resolve DI can be reconfigured and upgraded to the RT system.
Resolve RT is the top-of-the-line system, optimized for studios requiring speed, flexibility, efficiency, and high-volume throughput. Resolve RT addresses the specific needs of true real-time image processing in film, digital intermediate, and video finishing applications. Greatest speed and performance are delivered with PowerGrid™, a unique set of da Vinci-exclusive programmable PowerPlant accelerator boards that deliver real-time, multilayered color correction on full-film-resolution images, not just proxies. Also featured are conforming tools, a file browser, a formatter, and real-time waveform monitoring of data, a unique capability that allows colorists to view simultaneously a vectorscope, parade, or histogram display of the color grades they’re applying.

Splice™
Splice creates a "virtual telecine" for the world-standard da Vinci 2K/2K Plus, offering users a bridge to nonlinear workflow with pan, tilt, zoom, and rotate capabilities in real time. Splice blends key technologies from da Vinci's Resolve® Digital Mastering Suite to allow new and existing da Vinci 2K/2K Plus users to expand and leverage their equipment investment.
Powered by da Vinci's exclusive Transformer™ image-processing accelerator, which provides real-time sizing and rotation, Splice allows colorists to conform, transform, grade, arrange, and deliver images in any order, in real time, and at unsurpassed quality. Operating as a front-end for the da Vinci 2K, Splice presents itself as a new device on the 2K control panel and provides operators with the types of controls one would normally only associate with a telecine environment.

Enhancements to da Vinci’s 2K Plus
At IBC2006, da Vinci will be featuring an improved toolset for its 2K Plus, the industry’s leading color enhancement system and the most widely used system in digital intermediate (DI) applications. The da Vinci team will show how the 2K Plus can be utilized in both linear and nonlinear applications to accomplish a digital intermediate workflow.

ColorTrace™ is the “five-second solution to the five-hour problem.” ColorTrace enables colorists to update 2K color sessions automatically to match editorial changes as they occur within program material, essentially doing in seconds what used to involve hours of manual copying and list-manipulation time, and offering post-production facilities a more efficient DI workflow.

Revival™
At IBC2006, demonstrations of da Vinci’s Revival image restoration system will be featured on the Resolve FX digital mastering suite. With the integration of Revival into the Resolve digital mastering suite, colorists now have direct access to a robust set of restoration tools while completing color grading. This integration saves post houses time, money, and hassle by eliminating the need for moving data between workstations, allowing colorists to address unexpected restoration tasks without delay. With this new platform, facilities are able to operate an image restoration toolset concurrent with digital color grading, without having to purchase additional hardware.
New DI tools for Revival include a Color Registration tool, which realigns color channels warped at varying degrees due to uneven fading and shrinking over time. With one click, color layers are woven back into synchronization without loss of any material from the original image. Revival also offers a new, improved Grain- and Noise-Reduction tool. By isolating both high- and low-frequency noise, the high-quality noise reduction feature will allow the user to make adjustments to noise independent to grain.

Representatives Attending IBC2006:
Bill Robertson, Vice President and General Manager
Peter Glassberg, Director of Worldwide Sales and Service
David Johnson, Director of Engineering
Gerry Vickers, European Sales and Service Manager
David Green, Northern European Sales Manager
Peter Chamberlain, Asia Pacific Sales Manager
Neil Kempt, North American Western Region Director of Sales
Jim MacKrell, Senior Product Manager.

Stand No: 7.330