da Vinci displays Color and Restor product lines at SIGGRAPH - Post News - Brief Article

Post, August, 2002

CORAL SPRINGS, FL -- da Vinci took three of its new products, along with a number of new product features, on the road last month to the SIGGRAPH show, which was held in San Antonio.

On hand from the company's "Color" product group was the new 2K Plus, which incorporates enhancements in color processing. Starting with primary correction, the 2K Plus adds true gamma curve adjustment with increased gamma range. Interaction between the gamma, white and black levels has also been improved. In addition, da Vinci's Custom Curves and Gamma Knee features are now individually controlled for applying separate custom curve and gamma effects. As for secondary correction, up to 12 qualifiers can now be overlapped so multiple secondary corrections can be applied to the same qualified area. In addition, items of the same hue but different luminance or saturation values can be isolated and enhanced independently.

The 2K Plus also features an improved fixed-vector system where each vector's width is now 120 degrees wide with full softness, providing quicker and cleaner secondary adjustments.

Also new is the Colorist Toolbox, a collection of powerful paint and special effects filters that can be applied in realtime at any resolution to images from any source.

"Restor" products on display included Revival and Revival for Discreet. Revival runs on an SGI platform with local video I/O and storage along with da Vinci's PowerHouse hardware acceleration system. The standalone version is optimized for facilities without Discreet systems or for users dedicated to true film restoration. Revival for Discreet is the company's new software-based application for image restoration, designed to run on existing Discreet/SGI hardware (and software applications such as Flame or Inferno) or offline as a background task when interfaced with Backdraft.

Other da Vinci products on display included the cost-efficient 2K Plus Data, a color enhancement system specialized for data only and the TLC Assistant, an option to the 2K developed in response to the needs of colorists who normally use a machine control and editing assistant.