Quantel demonstrates realtime, true 4K pan and scan at IBC

Visitors to Quantel’s stand at the IBC 2005 convention in Amsterdam witnessed the world’s first realtime true 4K super-film resolution playout with realtime pan and scan.
Putting this achievement in perspective, this involved the Quantel system pulling a whopping continuous 1.15 gigabytes of data from the disks – without even raising a sweat.
Quantel’s iQ digital intermediate system and its newly-launched sibling, The Pablo colour correction suite, are the only digital film systems in the world with the processing power necessary to play out full resolution 4K material and simultaneously reframe it in realtime with pan and scan controls – all without using low resolution proxies or patches and their consequential quality control and imaging problems.
In fact, the demonstration at IBC was even more powerful than it first seemed, because in addition to 4K playout and pan and scan, the iQ and Pablo were also scaling the material to HD on-the-fly in order to display the result on a giant plasma screen, as well as applying both LUTs and masks all in realtime without creating new media.
Quantel Marketing Manager – Post and DI, Mark Horton, said: “When DI houses move to 4K operation, the business model has to work. Rendering 4K deliverables simply isn’t practical; just think of the extra time and massive added disk storage that would be required. Customers asked us for a practical 4K business model – here it is.”
And they clearly liked what they saw at IBC; Quantel took a number of orders at the show for iQ DI systems and Pablo Color Correction Suites, which will start shipping in October 2005.
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