Colorfront launched its Colorfront QC Player, a system enabling post and studio facilities to perform quality control tasks on UHD and HDR content. It runs on Supermicro and HP Z840 workstations with AJA’s Kona 4 I/O card supporting realtime output up to 4K at 60fps. QC Player’s transport controls include support for external panels from BUF and Tangent.
The QC Player supports all the major RAW UHD HDR formats including Alexa ARRIRAW – both MXF-wrapped and .ARI files; Panasonic VariCam 4K VRAW and Panasonic AVC-Intra; Sony F55 and F65 RAW, XAVC and X-OCN; Blackmagic DNG; Canon RAW; RED R3D; Apple ProRes; plus DPX and TIF sequences from scanned sources. It also supports playback of JPEG 2000 content, including DCPs (2D and stereo, encrypted, with subtitles) and IMF packages, such as lossless/high-bit-rate UHD Dolby Vision mezzanine masters with dynamic metadata and Dolby CMU control.
For UHD HDR image analysis tasks, QC Player includes waveform, vectorscope, histogram, split-screen, colour gamut and light-level metering tools. It features framing guide overlays for title/text/logos/graphics safe areas, plus image reframing and burn-in/watermarking tools. QC Player also comes with audio tools supporting embedded audio, WAV files and up to 24-channel audio output.
It’s set to ship in Q2’17 and is priced at $10,000, with an annual rental option of $5,000, both including support and updates.
Teledyne/Lecroy was featuring the Quantumdata 980 test platform with all kinds of HDR test and measurement capabilities. Called HDR Lab, it features test patterns developed by Florian Friedrich and Joe Kane. It can be used to do HDR proof of performance for UHD display and/or post production. The screen shots of the menu options indicate some of the test patterns, real life images and other functionality of the platform and test suite.
Teledyne/Lecroy added 12G-SDI support at NAB for 2017
New for NAB was the addition of 12G-SDI support. The platform is available now for around $35K. – CC
