High Color Depth with Pomfort SilverStack HCD

Pomfort has released SilverStack v1.4. SilverStack is a unique software tool for inspecting, managing and previewing high resolution image sequences, the included Pomfort Cinemator render queue lets you batch create customized QuickTime movies for use in your production workflows.

New Features in SilverStack 1.4
New Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" features
* QuickLook plugin for DPX files
* Support for coverflow of DPX files
* New hires Leopard folder icons

Improved render pipeline "Cinemator"
* Compression options / codec settings dialog for QuickTime codecs
* Enhanced multi-threading support during QuickTime creation, support for 8core MacPros
* Support for alpha channels in source material and capable QuickTime codecs
* Improved I/O performance in Cinemator


High color depth (HCD) pipeline for 10 bit material
* New high color depth (HCD) pipeline
* Support for 10bit DPX and 16bit TIFF as source material
* Support for any 10bit YUV and RGB codecs for QuickTime such as Apple ProRes (HQ), 10bit Uncompressed or Cineform HD
* Available as separate license
* Basic "full-range" video support (super-black and super-white) for capable YUV codecs
* Various enhancements in movie settings and burn-in options

Improved meta data handling
* QuickTime timecode-track from DPX header (SMPTE timecode) with customizable "Reel" info
* New features for metadata handling for burn-ins, reel-info and QuickTime file names
* Emulsion / film stock info from keycode
* Full width burn-ins

Improved pixel manipulations
* Kodak-style LogLin linearization
* Extended LUT format support for Lustre 3D LUT and Blackmagic 1D LUT format

Various bug fixes and enhancements
* Gamma fix for Uncompressed 10 bit codec
* Extended DPX compatibility
* Fixed a bug concerning multiple "." in filenames
* Fixed bug with drop/nondrop timecode
* Various user interface improvements


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