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2016.1 R2

We understand that our customers need more than just leading toolsets to create sophisticated look enhancements, but more importantly our solutions need to work with multiple camera and file formats, allow collaborative workflows, and deliver finished content for different viewing platforms including high frame rates and High Dynamic Range.

Core Features Overview

Flexible multi-layer timeline Layout and process your material in a natural and flexible way, with multiple video and audio tracks. Timeline and shot bookmarks allow for better organisation and retrieval of information. Easily add different versions of shots to the same timeline.

ACES 1.0.3 Colour Management

HDR10 and Dolby Vision support Perform HDR10 mastering with PQ 2084, HLG or Dolby Vision mastering (additional license required). Import and Conform Easy conform of MXF, ProRes, DPX and any other media using AAF, EDL and FCP/Premiere XML Support for resizes, opacity, dissolves, retimes

Library A powerful library for managing all imported and referenced material with sorting, searching and sophisticated metadata handling. Includes reverse find and powerful sifting options. Automatic folder creation and item naming options on file import based on user configurable metadata extraction. Reverse Find to find material on the timeline

Interoperability Interoperability with third-party systems supporting industry standard formats like Avid DNxHR, MXF and Apple ProRes - including metadata. Read and write Avid DNxHR, MXF and Apple Prores.

Layer based tools Each Nucoda colour layer contains twelve tools to manipulate the colour of your image, these include tools that are designed manipulate in a very intuitive fashion

Tools include Balance, Brighness Regions, RGB Curves Printer Lights, Hue Curves, Luma-Sat, Sat-Sat. Advanced layer routing functionality combined with isolation tools that can be matte based, user-defined shape based or undertaken via sophisticated keyer functionality.

Layers can be selectively cached to streamline operations and greatly enhance user interactivity.

Multiple monitor support Multi monitor support with different resolution configurations makes working on complex timelines a breeze.

Easy save and recall of notes and tools Save and recall effects using notes, from single effects to complicated multi-layered effects.

Create a library of notes and apply to any segment on any timeline in any project.

Access to plugin effect Support for Digital Vision DVO Image enhancement tools and OFX support including Sapphire and Re:Vision effects.

Fully automated background caching Unobtrusive background rendering ensures you always have the best results available without interruption. Any project can be rendered on any Nucoda platform.

GPU acceleration A realtime Master layer accelerates rendering on Pan & Scan and Colour Correction work. Multiple formats can be used and delivered from the same timeline. Globally apply final crops or resizes.

SDI monitoring using AJA Kona 4 PAL NTSC 720p and 1080p 2K 4K UHDTV Support for hight frame rates up to 60p in UHD RAW File Support Sony RAW ARRI RAW RED RAW Phantom CINE Cinema DNG

Nucoda Look is an entry level grading solution based on the industry leading Digital Vision image science technology and Nucoda colour tools. It is ideally suited for use as a pre-grade assist station, either in the facility or on-set. When used as a preparation station for the Nucoda, it can be used to ingest or conform video or film content directly onto the timeline ready for editing and pre-processing. It is also an excellent post grade deliverables system.

Nucoda is the premium colour grading and finishing solution for feature films, commercials and broadcast applications. It combines a creative tool set, and a very tight integration with the Avid workflow including full support for Interplay.

Setting new standards in the highest quality, Nucoda supports ACES colour managed workflows, HDR and Dolby Vision. With an industry leading colour toolset, used by clients such as The Farm, Picture Shop and Pixar Animation Studios, Nucoda creates complex looks and visual styles for animation. With over 20 years of image science culminating in the Digital Vision Optics (DVO) suite of enhancement tools, Nucoda ensures the highest quality imagery available. Included with Nucoda is DVO Classic, a selection of image enhancement tools. DVO Grain - DVO Aperture - DVO ReGrain - DVO Brickwall

Nucoda- Project setup

Nucoda Look

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Nucoda interface

These new formats also need to coexist and stay compatible with older formats and assets, which can result in much greater project complexity and data management headaches for the production. ACES solves this problem by delivering a single post production workflow that keeps all production assets at their maximum possible quality and providing the full benefit of High Dynamic Range (HDR) production pipelines.

Nucoda comes with ACES support and a full HDR grading capability, including a rich toolset for dealing with colour critical workflows such as HDR capture from ARRI and RED cameras.

Flexible Workflows; Easy Integration

Nucoda offers the widest range of creative tools, built into the most flexible non nonlinear workflow for digital film or video post production. From ingest, editing, picture enhancement, colour correction, compositing and visual effects, to multi-delivery for any delivery format from HD to 3D.

Ingest using an EDL, AAF, XML or Cut list, then conform data directly from a SAN, or capture from tape. Support for a wide range of file formats such as EXR, DPX, R3D, ARRI RAW, Sony RAW, ProRes and MXF means you can bypass copying and transcoding completely.

Comprehensive conforming tools prepare your timeline with cuts, transitions and varispeed commands. Or use the powerful automated scene detector to quickly analyse your reels in the background.

Full support for the new ACES colour space which includes support and real time playback of the new SMPTE ACES EXR file format.

Today’s post production environment has seen an explosion in the number of cameras, file formats and distribution channels required for many jobs.

ACES Output Transform Selection

Timeline overview

Precision Control Panel

The Precision control surface includes three ergonomic and functional control panels that can be arranged to suit the needs of any colourist. Using a combination of traditional trackballs with rings and high-quality knobs and buttons, operators can move quickly to complete the work in the shortest time possible. Full Precision Brochure

Tangent Element Support

Full mappable support for the Element Panel from Tangent.

Lionel Kopp, Senior Colourist at Film Factory

“It was all about the color palette and choosing visuals that we wanted in the story. If you have to worry about how the pipeline is going to work, that takes time away from what is important. Nucoda has freed us from those concerns.

That is why we started with one, and now have three.”

Download the Precision brochure from digitalvision.se

Expansive, High-end Colour Tools

Nucoda creative and corrective colour tools combine a traditional approach to grading with the power and flexibility of digital technology. Select the colour tool that suits the task best; from Printer Lights through Colour Curves to Brightness Regions.

With the unlimited multi-layer timeline you can combine capabilities, using different isolation layer tools including the new ‘I-Keyer’ to produce complex looks quickly. Achieve dynamic grades and Keyer animation of effects parameters, and manipulate and track individual shapes on a individual transform or per-point basis, to refine that look over the whole shot.

Access to the Industry standard DVO image processing toolset*Known for presenting the best image manipulation tools for restoration, enhancement and format conversion, they are only available on the Nucoda and Phoenix platforms. DVO Classic is included as standard with Nucoda.

List Management

With Nucoda you can view all the events in a composition as thumbnails, as a contact sheet list view in either source or record order, giving direct access to any track, playhead, or event. From here any part of a grade or its dynamics can be copied to the current shot.

Easily-accessible Memories speed the workflow, offering different ways to store and recall, all or part of your grades and dynamics from shot to shot. Notes enable you to save unlimited numbers of these snapshots in folders so that you can assemble libraries of looks and access them in any project. A QuickNotes feature give you direct access for up to eight Notes from the control panel with a single key press.

The DI Suite

You can view, render and exchange Nucoda projects in all Digital Vision software applications, releasing the system for further client work. Add a Nucoda Look preparation workstation, sharing the same SAN, and you have a truly collaborative suite.

Add our unique Digital Vision Optics (DVO) tools to the assist stations to off-load preparation tasks such as grain management or dust busting.

Jet Omeshebi, Colourist at Encore London

“The way that the colourist works is changing with the advanced technology that grading systems provides. Using the Nucoda we’re increasingly adding vfx such as lens flares and sky replacements as part of the grading process where previously these would have been completed in the online/fx suites. Integrating these tools as part of the grade enables us to seamlessly blend these elements into the rest of the programme.”

S3D Colour & Align ToolImage courtesy of NASA

DVO Tools Effect Conv Enh Rest Cam Video Classic

DVO Alias Removes line-flicker and unwanted patterning l l lDVO Aperture High quality spatial sharpener l l l lDVO Brickwall Sharp frequency cut-off to eliminate artefacts l l l lDVO Chroma Fixes chromatic aberration or chroma artefacts l l lDVO Clarity The best grain & noise reducer available today l lDVO Cross-colour Removes chroma or dot crawl from video lDVO De-Interlace Accurate creation of progressive frames lDVO Dry Clean Superb automated large artefact removal lDVO Dropout +Fix Highly accurate removal of video dropout lDVO Dust Automated motion compensated dust removal lDVO Flicker Automatic flicker removal l lDVO Grain Motion estimated grain & noise management l l lDVO Line-Sync Removes line jitter from edges of video material lDVO Noise Removes unwanted noise on video materials lDVO Pixel Automated dead pixel dectetion and repair l l lDVO Print Align Automatically aligns RGB separation prints lDVO RegrainRGB Add realistic, highly customisable grain to images l lDVO Regrain Adds grain to video to match with film sequences l l lDVO Scratch Removes vertical and continuous scratches lDVO Sharpen Sharpens picture detail and not the noise or grain l lDVO Steady Removes camera shake or other unsteadiness l lDVO Steady II Removes Film weave and Splice jumps l lDVO Stereo Fix Corrects colour variations and image alignment

DVO Twister High quality standards conversion lDVO Zoom Optimized up and down scaling of film or video lDVO Warp Removes warping associated with line scanners lDVO Upscale Upscale SD to HD - Sharpen and Interlace Enh lDVO Warp Remove Telecine splice warps automatically

DVO Dust and Fix Automated Dust removal with manual Fix l

Key: l Included as standard in product ¡ Optional extra Ð Not Available 1 Colour Management and Gamma Matrix tools only 2 Panel Support does not include the panels - they are seperate purchase items

Software Look Nucoda

Multi Track Timeline l lConform AAF and XML l lBackground Scene Detection l lEDL handling l lVideo I/O SD/HD 444 l l2K / 4K / UHDTV / HFR l lSD / HD / HFR l lRAW Camera Support l lAdvanced Codec Support l l

DVO Classic ¡ lDVO Camera ¡ ¡DVO Video Ð ¡DVO Convert Ð ¡DVO Enhance Ð ¡DVO Restore Ð ¡Input FX Layer l lSingle CC & FX Tools l 1 lBase Layer Ð lMulti Colour Tool Layers Ð lMaster Layer l lDolby Vision HDR PQ2084 ¡ ¡LUT Support .cube and cms l lPan & Scan l lNotes & Composition Notes l lEvent View l lPrecision Panel Support2 l lTangent Panel Support2 l lVallhal Panel Support l lStereoscopic (DVO Stereo Fix) ¡ ¡PQ2084 and HLG HDR Support l lACES 1.0.3 l l

Avid Interplay Support l l

Nucoda product options Application

• Auto Backup project with history restore

• Cache and Proxy drives assignable per project

Timeline

• Trim, add and remove edit, ripple

• Multiple tracks for easy versioning and comparisons

• Fast and accurate background scene detection

• Apply and work with dissolves transparently during the grading process.

• Shared project and GUI structure of main Nucoda finishing solutions for collaborative workflow

• Conforming, editing & finishing, with unlimited video and audio tracks

• High speed foreground and background rendering and export

• Audio support (sync check against picture) import of WAV and MXF audio with automatic audio caching.

• Easy to do sanity check against original material in virtually any format.

• Timeline thumbnails

• Specialist clip scrubbing functionality

• Specialist restoration clip and frame review options

• Adjustment segments allow for any tools to be applied locally or globally

• Automated cache generation and ability to specify multiple cache nodes on a per layer basis.

• Apply effects and tools to entire image, or use mattes, shapes, keys to apply processing to isolated areas of the material.

• Manual and automatic tracking (Shape and Deformation)

• Manual and automatic keyframing

• Track naming

• Sophisticated conform ability with EDL processing Import AVID Locators from EDL

• Coloured, annotated markers on clip and timeline - can be exported to spreadsheet, EDL.

• Save complex Notes for re-use in other compositions and projects

• Recall/Append notes on a per layer basis including keyframes]

• Conform XML and AAF - including locators

External Colour Panel (Please see overview for availability)

• Precision Colour Panel

• Tangent Element Panel -(Fully mapping to Nucoda)

Video IO (Video, Refine & Finish)

• Support for Kona 3G, Kona4

• VTR capture/layback (capture not supported on AJA)

• 422 Control

• Support for embedded audio ingest and layoff

• Source order layoff

• SMPTE and Full Range

• Preview BVB, BBB.

• 4:4:4: Ingest & Layback

• Remote control of Nucoda timeline

Monitoring (Atomix, Kona 3G/Kona4)

• SD PAL/NTSC

• HD 1080 and 720 P and I Formats

• RGB and YUV 444 and 422

• UHDTV 3840x2160p • 23.98 ,24, 25, 29.97, 30, 50p, 59.94p and 60p• 4K 4096x2160p 23.98, 24• 3G monitoring support

• 12 Bit 444 Support for HDR and Dolby Vision

File I/O

• OpenEXR with header T/C support

• OpenEXR Compressed formats

• ACES EXR

• Audio Retime on export

• BWAV File export 16/24 Bit / Poly, Stereo and Mono

• 8 / 10 /12 /16 bit DPX file

• B & W Single channel DPX support

• 12 Bit DPX support

• YUV colour space export.

• CIN

• TIF

• SGI

• TGA

• JPG

• PIC

• EXR

• PNG

• Completely configurable Render Output Path with user definable presets and Preset variables

• Export with Source or Record timecode and as source clips.

• Export with configurable text burn-in

• Canon EOS MXF (XDCAM50)

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Technical specifications/Features

• Canon 5D/ 7D /C300

• AVC Intra 100

• DVCPro

• Panasonic P2

• Sony SR Master (SSTP MPEG-4) F65 MXF

• Quicktime - Import and Export. (All types)

• Export of Audio with Quicktime files

• Export of MXF OP-Atom

• Export of MXF OP1A

• Import AAF - Including audio tracks.

• Import Avid’s Multi-layer timeline.

• Export AAF

• Avid Interplay Support

• MXF Import and export (OP1a)

• Uncompressed MXF

• RGB 4:4:4:Uncompressed MXF

• DNxHR all formats

• XDCAM HD

• DVCAM

• Arri RAW

• RED RAW

• RED R3D - EPIC HDRx Blending support

• Panasonic RAW (DNG) VLog

• Sony RAW F55 and F65

• Silicon Imaging SI-2k support

• Phantom Camera support

• Sony F65 (incl XML)

Colour Tools - Base Layer*

• Channel Mixer

• Saturation

• SOP (Slope Offset Power - CDL Data Export)

• Printer Lights

• RGBM Levels (including Auto level)

• Lift Gamma Gain

• Balance

• Colour Curves (Differential Corrections)

• Brightness Contrast

• RGBM Curves

• Brightness Regions

• Soft Clip

• Klevin Tint

• HueCurvesRGBCurves

• HLS Correction

• Hue - Sat and SatSat

• Blur

Colour Tools - Master Layer*• Balance

• Channel Mixer

• Gamma Matrix

• HLS - incl Sat over Luma control

• Hue curves

• Saturation

• SOP (Slope Offset Power - CDL Data Export)

• Printer Lights

• Levels (including Auto level)

• Lift Gamma Gain

• Colour Curves

• Brightness Contrast

• RBG Curves

• Brightness Regions

• Soft Clip

• Kelvin Tint

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Effects - Including Isolation Tools*

• 3:2 Pulldown

• Auto 3:2 with broken cadence detect/remove

• Blur

• Channel Extract (RGB)

• Channel Align

• Convert

• Fade Colour

• Field Dominance Correction

• Field remove

• Field swap

• Invert

• Keyer (HLS / Luma / RGB / IKeyer)

• Paint

• Re-Flicker

• Reinterlace

• Retime

• Composite tools

• Blend - Incl. Blending Modes

• Channel Combiner

• Over

• Transition

• Dissolve

• Generators

• Source generator

• Test Pattern

Effects Layers - Isolation tools*•

• External Matte Support

• Matte Paint

• Matte Difference

• Shapes (Circle, Square, Bezier, Auto Bezier)

• Softness in/out and variable shape softness)

• Auto tracking of shapes

• Auto tracking by shape deformation

• Point tracking

• Point based stabilisation

• HLS / Luma / RGB and IKeyer

Transform Tools

• Pan & Scan

• Blanking

• Rotation

• Warp 9 - Nine point warper

• Warp 4 - Four point warper

• User Definable Mesh Warper

• Lens Distort / undistort

Stereo Tools - DVO Stereo Fix*

• Anaglyph & Checkerboard comparison modes User

• Dedicated L&R tracks

• Mono tracks

• Advance grade merging functionality

• Track grouped grading

• Floating window support

• P & S - Interocular adjustment incl Rotation

• DVO Stereo Fix Auto Colour & align Tool with localised colour matching and auto deformation

Specialist Comparison Modes

• Diff Red

• Diff

• Diff multiply

• Mono Checkerboard

• Split screen

• Dual screen

• Blend

• Anaglyph

• Checkerboard

• Butterfly Comparison Sources

• Playheads (ABC or D)

• Notes

• Tracks

• Events View

• Source

• Revert

List support

• AAF and XML

• CMX 3600 EDL import

• Enhanced EDL (CDL, File path support)

• AVID ALE Export - incl Audio

• Support for standard CMX and enhanced characters for tape name export

• Export Locators as comments

Viewer Tools

• Histogram

• User definable Grids

• User definable Frames

• User definable Metadata overlay

• R /G /B Channel isolation

• Matte and Alpha view

• User definable Masks

• Source/Output/Selected

• User definable HUD for frame burn-in including graphic files.

Plug-ins

• OFX Compatible

• Sapphire OFX

• Beauty Box OFX

• ReVision FX

Colour Management

• Full support for the ACES (SMPTE 2065)

• Version 1.0.3

• ACES Standard Input and Output Transforms

• ACES LMT

• CMS Layer FX

• LUT I/O Support for .cube and .cms

• 1D & 3D LUT Support

The following DVO packages make up the complete suite*

• DVO Classic (Included)

• DVO Restore

• DVO Enhance

• DVO Convert

• DVO Video

• DVO Camera

*Refer to the product matrix for availability

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