The Foundry at IBC 2006

Leading visual effects developer The Foundry has announced Tinderbox 4, a major new product release for After Effects, the European debut of Furnace 3 for Discreet, and its much acclaimed Forge automated dust-busting solution, at IBC 2006.
Visitors wanting to enhance workflow and boost productivity in VFX post production will find these solutions on offer at The Foundry’s stand 7.638.
After Effects customers looking to enhance their creative VFX arsenals will be delighted with the latest addition to The Foundry’s Tinderbox range. Tinderbox 4 is a brand new collection of 18 visual effects filters featuring new plug-ins like Colourist, for automatic colour correction and balancing, Cartoon to give images a hand-drawn cartoon look, and Fire for generating animated flames, plus whole range of other creative effects.
In addition to the new Tinderbox 4 range, The Foundry’s Tinderbox 1, 2 and 3 have been re-engineered to take advantage of the new features within After Effects 7.0. These include automatic synchronisation with the After Effects in-built camera and lighting features, support for 32-bit floating point images, brand new licensing to make it more flexible for customers to have plug-ins on multiple machines, as well as significant speed and feature enhancements.
Furnace 3 for Discreet will make its European debut at IBC 2006. The next generation of The Foundry’s world-renowned Furnace tools now comprises over 30 advanced image-processing plug-ins which enhance workflow and boost productivity. The Furnace 3 collection includes Correlate, an intelligent solution to help automate the alignment of two clips; fast new matting tools including MatteToRoto, a plug-in that helps artists to effortlessly edit and tidy ill-defined RGB and alpha mattes without the need for time-consuming rotoscoping; and DeNoise, an enhanced noise and grain removal plug-in.
Visitors looking to assess the latest scanning technology will have the opportunity to check out Forge, The Foundry’s automated dirt and dust busting software. Winner of the IBC 2005 New Product Award, Forge is a command line application that automatically detects and corrects the day-to-day flecks of dirt, dust and hair that occur on digital film scans.
For maximum benefit, Forge can be integrated into a scanning pipeline alongside a scanner with an infrared dirt detection pass. When used in this way, Forge automatically produces clean plates without the risk of so called ‘false positives’, with very limited impact on film scanning times. When used alongside an infrared scanner Forge massively reduces the need for operator-assisted dirt removal and reduces the cost of everyday scanning. Visitors can see Forge working within the scanning pipeline at the FilmLight stand 7.110.
In addition, The Foundry will be demonstrating its full range of visual effects plug-ins and image processing tools on some of the industries leading compositing platforms.
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