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CineForm Product
Articles and Reviews
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CineForm Neo 4K for Mac (Part 1)
Feb 21,
2009
(Going One Better With
Intermediate Workflow) by
Mike Jones
Digital Media Net Forums
"...the first question to most
users is simply 'what is CineForm?', The answer
to which is not a singular response but rather a
triumvirate offering. CineForm,
is first and foremost, a compression technology;
a codec. Using visually lossless wavelet
compression, CineForm serves to encode media as
prime quality online master files while
retaining an efficient file size and maximum
performance speed. Where ProRes is limited
to YUV 10bit 422 colour sub-sampling, CineForm's
Neo 4K offers full 444 12bit precision - a
format every bit the equivalent of uncompressed
without the size overhead or the performance
drag."
Read the entire Article.... |
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Scott Billups Tests Canon XL H1 for
Motion-Picture Production
www.digitalvideoediting.com - May 19, 2006
Scott Billups has recently participated in
numerous visual tests of the Canon XL H1
recording direct-to-disk into a Wafian HR-1.
Following is a recent statement of his findings:
"I
found that the Canon XL H1—recording
to the Wafian HR-1 Direct-to-Disk
Recorder using 10-bit CineForm
Intermediate files—noticeably
outperformed tape shot on a far more
expensive HD camera in terms of
visual image, projected image, and
chroma key."
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Silicon
Imaging SI-1920HDVR - The Camera that
Defines Its Own Workflow
 Source:
Film and Video - May 8, 2006; By Bryant Frazer
As image-quality
requirements bump up against bandwidth-based
reality, it’s more clear now than ever that when
you select a camera you’re already starting to
determine your optimal post-production process.
Working in cooperation with the codec experts at
CineForm (they’re the guys who first brought you
HDV editing in Adobe Premiere Pro), Silicon
Imaging has a new camera that defines your
entire workflow from the moment you hit record.
Read the
HD Studio article.... |
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Desktop
DI Gains Indie Momentum
 Post
Magazine - April 2006
The feature film LBS
is a passionate real-life story about an
individual "Neil" who fights a food addiction
problem beginning at 385 pounds. Post Magazine
chronicles the online 2K post-production
workflow enabled by CineForm's Prospect HD with
Adobe Premiere Pro, running on an HP xw9300
desktop PC. Film scanning and recording
was performed by Pixel Harvest directly into and
out of 2K CineForm Intermediate files,
dramatically reducing the cost for film-based
independent productions.
Read the Post Magazine article.... |
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Some
Like It Raw
 Silicon Imaging D-Cinema
Camera with CineForm RAW Codec
Studio Daily - May 8, 2006
"It's not enough to
develop a camera anymore, Silicon Imaging [and
CineForm] are defining a workflow, leveraging
compression and metadata to maintain color
space."
[Watch the Video from the Studio Daily NAB
Coverage]
This video article, published
by Studio Daily from their NAB Coverage,
provides an excellent overview of the
SI-1920HDVR camcorder and the resulting
CineForm-enabled post-production workflow.
If you haven't seen the camcorder yet, there's
lots of excellent video in this article. |
 Jeff
Youel - Wafian; April 2006
DV Magazine sponsored video interviews at
NAB 06 with key product and technology players.
One of those was Jeff Youel from Wafian.
In this video interview, Jeff talks about
his HR-1 Direct-to-Disk recorder that leverages
CineForm Intermediate as its native HD
acquisition format. The HR-1 acquires
full-raster 1280 x 720p or 1920 x 1080i/p at all
industry standard frame rates using YUV 4:2:2
chroma and 10 bits of precision. After
acquisition, files are immediately ready for
editing on Windows PCs, and (soon to be) Macs.
The video file is large (aka high quality) - we
recommend you download it first, then watch it. |
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David Taylor -
CineForm; April 2006
At NAB 2006, Jan Ozer, contributing writer for
Digital Content Producer, interviewed David
Taylor to understand why CineForm's Aspect HD is
unique in solving real-world HD post-production
issues.
Listen to the audio interview.... |
 January
2006 - "HDV-to-Film:
A Real World Test" by John Jackman
(DV Magazine). As the title
suggests, John Jackman offers a pragmatic
assessment of the (post) production workflow
available to budget-oriented filmmakers when
taking HDV material through post-production and
out to film. His workflow isn't just about
simple cuts-only editing, but includes color
correction plus chroma keying performed in After
Effects, followed by a peer review of the
material after it was transferred to film.
John chose to use Aspect HD for his
workflow testing, and we're pleased to learn
that his visual result is impressive.
(You need to register on the dv.com site to read
the article.)
Read more.... |
 July
31, 2005 - John Jackman of DV.com: "Clean
intermediate format delivers higher picture
quality for effects and compositing than native
HDV. Excellent real-time preview features."
"Bottom Line: If you're moving to HDV,
you'll find Aspect HD is a great editing
solution that provides real-time previews and
higher quality composites than native editing of
MPEG-2 files."
DV.Com Award of Excellence Winner.
Read full review (you must register (it's
free) to read the review). |
 Say's
Charlie White about CineForm's Connect HD at
DigitalVideoEditing.com: "The performance of this
CineForm/
Vegas applet was impressive. Not only was the timeline
performance sprightly even on that decrepit machine [2.2GHz P4,
below CineForm's recommended spec], the quality of this CineForm
codec was quite good. It was notable the way the software and
decidedly mediocre hardware was still able to allow usable
previews of effects using the HDV footage."
Read the whole article.... |
 September
2004 - Alton Christenson, Film and Video:
"I’m a Mac
person, so I hate to admit
this, but I’m being very honest: The workflow solution using
CineForm Aspect HD and Premiere, as well as the quality of the
image, is, hands down, the winner at the moment."
Read Alton's full review |
 September
2004 - D. Eric Franks, Videomaker: "Perhaps
our greatest compliment is that [Aspect HD] makes editing
HDV video feel just like editing any other sort of
video that lands in your timeline.
The CineForm Aspect HD
plug-in will have you editing HDV video without a second
thought."
Read the whole article... |
 NAB,
2004 - Charlie White, Executive Producer at Digital Media Net (www.digitalvideoediting.com)
reviews Prospect HD in his wrap up of NAB 2004. Say's
Charlie: "These guys [CineForm] are a group to watch as
they continue their big plans to bring HD to the rest of us.
Before NAB they had already announced an excellent
bundle that edits HDV footage, and now this 10-bit system that
goes far beyond that. Can’t wait to see what's next."
Download the whole article.... |
 March
1, 2004 - Video Systems Magazine's own Steve Mullen looks in
detail at intermediate formats for HD editing. Steve looks
in detail at how Aspect HD makes HD post production more
efficient and powerful.
Read the article online.... |
 November
23, 2003 - Tim Kolb, an
Emmy Award-winning director and a 17-year veteran of video and
television production, recently reviewed CineForm's Aspect HD in
TV Technology Magazine. He says, "Aspect HD with Adobe
Premiere is currently the most complete and high-quality HDV
editing solution available."
Tim did
his test on his laptop: "When I got the clips into
Premiere and started to test just how much “real time” my rather
normal-ish laptop could muster with the large frame sizes, I
found I could get two streams of the CFHD material to play back
simultaneously without a hiccup at all from my FireWire drive."
Download the whole
review (PDF File).... |
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October
8, 2003 - Charlie White, a leading video editing
technologist from Digital Media Net (www.digitalvideoediting.com)
reviews Aspect HD. "My jaw was agape as I created a 3D
page curl transition between two clips where I had slowed down
both clips to 33%, added color correction to one clip, and then
added two text keys on top of that with fades on either side.
All this played back without dropping any frames -- on a
notebook. Wow."
Read the whole review.... |
 November
18, 2003 - Local San Diego news channel Fox News 6 covers
CineForm in conjunction with UCSD Connect. David Newman,
CineForm CTO discusses HD on a PC and CineForm's solution.
David Taylor, CineForm CEO is also featured. The news crew
at Fox 6 News love Aspect HD--and they should know!
Download the 3-min clip here..... |
