Revolution
Non Linear Software
Colour Corrector

Overview

In yet another industry first for Pandora, Revolution lights the way in the software creative colour correction arena: a non-linear, software grading system that actually works in real time regardless of layers, complexity of layers or resolution. A system that processes every image manipulation in full resolution as the controls are turned. A system that can flick backwards and forwards between versions without making innumerable copies — working from one original set of files applying metadata in real time.

Most software systems utilise commodity PC's and/or a host of background rendering techniques coupled with image destructive methodology and proxies to mask the physical fact that they do not have the bandwidth requirements to grade in real time – a dangerous game that often fails and despite Moore’s law is eon’s away from replacing the smoke and mirrors with truly real time performance.

Revolution does not suffer from these constraints by favoring the technology that is used to design PC's - FPGAs. The distinct advantage being that the processors are designed and tasked with one application in mind: image processing (Sorry, but you couldn't run a word processor on the Revo).

• No requirement for massive amounts of local storage — work directly from SAN or local media
• No need to store full size 'versions' as all grading lists are stored in metadata to instantly apply to the raw material
• Non destructive 16bit internal processing of full frames — no image slicing requirement*
• No background smoke and mirrors — every adjustment is performed in real time
  (Therefore, something like a 'trim all' at the end of a job can be instantly viewed and played out)
• Technology speed improvements in alignment with any other processors — Moore's Law
• No need to completely replace the Revo with a newer faster one next year — mix and match newer processors
• Ease of maintenance — a fully loaded data Revo takes up 1U of rack space and is totally programmable
  (Therefore, in the unlikely event of a fault the rack can be simply swapped out)
• Extensive feature set — bezier primaries, 50+ layers of complex secondaries, tracking, shapes... to be continued
• Infinitely expandable — any number of future features will have no effect on the performance
• The open architecture opens the processing platform up to any third party algorithms Pandora choose to work with

 

And if that wasn't enough, the POGLE and Revo have the same historically proven control of all leading telecine's and their features, VTRs and Noise Reducers. And being truly real time means 'prep' and ingest of material is not a time consuming, laborious task.

Combine Revolution with YoYo and realise the power of a complete data management and DI colour suite.

* Historical note:
In 1997 Pandora developed a patented technique for processing secondary colour correction on 2K images by dividing the image, processing and stitching together again. MegaDEF, served by a Spirit or a Specter, graded (and still grades) in real time for many customers Worldwide. Pandora won an Emmy for this remarkable achievement. Now, a decade on, Pandora truly believe Revolution represents a similar achievement by today's standards - real time, non destructive, non linear data grading is here.