Qube Bring Digital Cinema Technologies to IBC

A leader in digital cinema mastering technologies, Qube Cinema, will present a collection of impressive digital mastering tools at IBC this September.
The QubeMaster Pro, QubeMaster Packager, and QubeMaster Xport will be among the products displayed on their stand.
Alongside its digital cinema mastering tools, Qube will also be demonstrating the Qube Keysmith KDM management system, the Qube XP-D Series 2 server and the new Qube Xi 4K Integrated Media Block for digital cinema projectors.
"The technical challenges of digital cinema used to mean that only large facilities and big productions could afford the tools," explained Senthil Kumar, founder of Real Image and Qube Cinema.
"We're making these capabilities accessible to anyone who wants to get into digital cinema. Nothing could be simpler, for example, than the QubeMaster Xport plugin for Apple’s Compressor 4 and for companies who need more, we have that, too."
The Qube's workhorse mastering application, QubeMaster Pro, is a comprehensive solution for generating Digital Cinema Packages (DCPs). The Windows- based software provides fine controls for mastering, quality control and versioning of any digital content for theatrical distribution.
CubeMaster Xport is a plug-in for Apple Compressor, providing a cost-effective means for filmmakers, post houses, and pre-show content creators to generate digital cinema content on the Mac OS X platform with drag-and-drop simplicity. This is modular software and retails for $799. Stereo 3D and 4K capabilities can be added or combined for $999 per module.
Available as a component of QubeMaster Pro, or as a stand-alone application, QubeMaster Pro Packager is also a Windows-based application. It provides quality control as well as the ability to create alternate versions of a DCP without having to start from scratch and re-encode a whole file. With Packager, users can apply encryption, unwrap DCPs, add additional or alternate soundtracks, remap audio files, generate KDMs and insert subtitles in projects.
QubeMaster technologies were originally developed in India where the movie industry is characterized by a more integrated approach to content creation, distribution and exhibition. Thus, from the very beginning, Qube has taken a holistic approach to digital cinema, with a keen understanding of how the elements of the "content pipeline" fit together.
(LB/BMcC)