LAS VEGAS – Munich, Germany’s Iridas (www.iridas.com) is showing its SpeedGrade XR application at NAB, which is designed as a companion product for RAW camera workflows. The solution features the company’s new Realtime RAW 2.0 technology, which helps provide high image quality for review, grading and finishing of un-rendered RAW formats at any resolution.
The ability to stay in RAW for post production offers filmmakers numerous advantages. RAW files provide more image data than RGB formats, yet are just one-third the size.
Along with realtime interpolation of RAW formats, SpeedGrade XR can play video formats (QuickTime and AVI) at HD, 2K and 4K resolutions. The application offers primary and secondary grading tools, refined conform capabilities, animated masks, pan & scan, and numerous FX shaders, such as bleach bypass and Technicolor 3-Strip for creating stylized looks. In addition, DualStream technology for realtime stereo playback and grading is now offered standard. For final output SpeedGrade XR renders to any standard video or file format.
SpeedGrade XR runs on Max OS X and Windows XP and sells for $20,000. Fully functional trial downloads will be available from the Iridas Website on May 1st.
