[By StereoscopyNews.com]
At last week’s DIMENSION3 expo, IRIDAS demonstrated FrameCycler DDS 2011, a powerful new playback, conform and review system that significantly extends existing stereoscopic capabilities. FrameCycler DDS 2011 adds parallax adjustments, mirroring and many automatic and manual setup options, as well as extensive Python scripting options to simplify integration with production pipeline management systems.
IRIDAS DualStream technology offers a comprehensive toolset for stereoscopic movie review, color grading, finishing and final presentation. IRIDAS stereo products are widely used in the industry and have contributed to the success of many 3D projects, among them U2 3D, Journey to the Center of the Earth and many independent stereo productions, such as Dark Country and My Bloody Valentine. DualStream is described in details at www.iridas.com.
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[From http://www.iridas.com/stereo/]
Stereoscopy
IRIDAS DualStream technology offers a comprehensive toolset for stereoscopic movie review, color grading, finishing and final presentation. IRIDAS stereo products are widely used in the industry and have contributed to the success of many 3D projects, among them U2 3D, Journey to the Center of the Earth and many independent stereo productions, such as Dark Country and My Bloody Valentine.
DualStream is built into the three IRIDAS product lines, FrameCycler, SpeedGrade and MetaRender. The level of functionality reaches from simple review in FrameCycler PRO to full correction and finishing capabilities in SpeedGrade DI.
Through RealTime RAW, unprocessed raw files from all available digital cinema cameras can be played and corrected in real time, without time consuming transcoding. This includes files coming from the ARRI D21, Phantom HD/4K, RED One, Silicon Imaging SI-2K, WEISSCAM as well as CinemaDNG files.
IRIDAS has been constantly developing DualStream since 2003. As a result, stereoscopy was not added as an afterthought, but is an integral part of the the system architecture. For example, SpeedGrade and FrameCycler feature real stereoscopic timelines, which don’t require you to copy presets around or manually keep track of your footage.
IRIDAS Dual Stream Products
A general overview of alI IRIDAS products and pricing information is available here.
| FrameCycler PRO | Desktop image review for artists | Supports all desktop stereo display devices. Correction for mirror rigs and temporal offsets. |
| FrameCycler DDS | Screening room review and conform. | Supports all stereo display devices, including dual SDI projection. Automatic stereo EDL conform. |
| FrameCycler DI | Dailies color correction | Simple primary stereoscopic color correction. |
| SpeedGrade XR | RAW-based color grading and finishing | Full color correction and film finishing functionality. Correction of vertical offset and rotational errors. Keyframable parallax adjustments. Sophisticated image analysis. Supports RAW file formats. |
| SpeedGrade DI | Full color grading and finishing. | Includes support for all file types commonly used in the industry, including DPX, TIFF, OpenEXR and Cineon. |
| MetaRender | Automated transcoding and rendering. | Render left/right eye independently or combine into a processed stereo file. Can be use stand-alone for automation or as a render farm node for SpeedGrade. |
History and Outlook
IRIDAS started the development of DualStream, a comprehensive stereoscopic toolset, in 2002. It was first used in a FrameCycler VenueSystem project, Starlight Express on Tour.
DualStream quickly became a success, early customers such as Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, Inition and Threshold Digital Research Labs, used DualStream in FrameCycler to visualize stereoscopic postproduction projects and present the results to the public. In addition, researchers and professionals around the world used DualStream-enabled FrameCycler systems to visualize scientific data.
Since 2003, all FrameCycler and SpeedGrade products were sold in special stereoscopic versions.
With stereo becoming mainstream, IRIDAS decided to make stereo a standard feature in 2007. All current FrameCycler and SpeedGrade products can work with stereoscopic images. Through IRIDAS RealTime RAW technology, work on stereo movies shot with digital cinema RAW cameras can start directly, without transcoding.
The DualStream toolset grew considerably over the last years. DualStream features support for all widely-used stereo display technologies. The 2009 versions of the SpeedGrade and FrameCycler products feature a comprehensive stereo finishing toolset, providing stereo conform, analysis tools for misalignment, functions to change offset, rotation and parallax as well as mirroring and temporal offset adjustment. Color grades are applied to both eyes by default unless the colorist wants to specifically adjust the color of one eye only.
The 2010 release of SpeedGrade is a milestone in the evolution of IRIDAS’ stereo tools. A new user interface for working in stereo and numerous automatic and manual correction functions make working in stereo an intuitive experience with fast turnaround times. SpeedGrade 2010 is currently undergoing beta testing.