Digital Vision Unveils Powerful Nucoda 2009 Upgrades

Digital Vision has unveiled a new ground breaking software development milestone for its 2009 Nucoda Platform. The powerful upgrades include features that significantly simplify the creative process, add new powerful toolset, and address the industry’s increasing use of stereoscopic content. The new features are available now, with even further development expected by the end of the year.

 

Digital Vision’s industry-leading image scientists undertook the development process for features based upon Digital Vision’s extensive, ongoing dialogue with customers, users, and content creators. The new release addresses a deeply researched wish list from the professional community.

 

Nucoda 2009 upgrades specifically include:

 

With increased demand for stereoscopic content on the rise, the 2009 release provides clients with a toolset that includes end-to-end project management, playback and monitoring for stereo projects. Supported by industry partners that include NVIDIA and Centaurus, Nucoda 2009 color grading tools enable time saving grading and synchronous workflow for Left Eye/Right Eye footage with impeccable management of every 3D acquisition format. 

 

Formulated and designed for intuitive use by colorists, the new automatic tracker includes automatic tracking of shapes & layers, full tactile control from the control panel, and full rotational, scaling and predictive tracking. With this new functionality the colorist can create shapes and automatically have them animated smoothly through scenes and layers, which presents significant time savings.

 

Combined with Digital Vision’s powerful color grading and enhancement toolsets, the ASC CDL tools (available everywhere in the processing pipeline), floating point processing, native support of the Open EXR file enable virtually limitless high dynamic range grading and greater color precision. Additional tools in 2009 also include a new channel mixer, layer input saturation and a gang grouping/grading tool to synchronize color correction decisions across scenes and layers.

 

The award winning DVO image processing software is further enhanced with the addition of two new tools:

 

DVO Flicker restores material and deals with issues based in brightness fluctuations that arise from a variety of sources, automatically producing a flicker-free viewing experience. 

 

DVO Upscale is a conversion tool that optimizes upscaling, including conversions from SD to HD, using algorithms that maintain edge quality.

 

With an already market leading editorial toolset, the 2009 release enhances the editing of timeline segments, the moving of clips, plus new cut & paste functionality. The precision of edits are simply managed with additional bookmark features, new scene edit tools, plus the flexibility of BL/AUX conform and increased interoperability with the major professional editing systems. 

 

 

Enhanced color dynamics

Group grading

Open EXR grading

Export Media enhancements

Automatic backup

Field Dominance Correction

Advanced keyframe editor

Enhancements to Cache and Proxy clean up 

 

Bruno Munger, Product Manager at Digital Vision said of the new software release, “Digital Vision has been deeply ingrained in the image and color pipeline for over twenty years. The Nucoda platform, developed with users and colorists in mind, has evolved to the point of being an industry standard. We heard our customers, and took their needs back to our color scientists and R&D team. The 2009 Nucoda release answers their wishes and sets the stage for future needs.”