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As is discussed in detail in both
the Technology portion of our website and in our White Papers,
CineForm has optimized our CineForm Intermediate™ technologies
for the rigorous visual quality and real-time performance demands of a Professional post-production
environment. Our unprecedented performance is
easily demonstrable by simply using our products. But what
can be more difficult to evaluate casually is the resulting video
quality of a completed project that uses CineForm Intermediate
versus other editing formats. The bottom line is that whether
you demand a 12-bit, 10-bit, or an 8-bit workflow, you'll achieve the
best-quality results using CineForm Intermediate.
We have performed four distinct Quality Analyses:
Posted April 4, 2007:
Visual quality comparison of 12-bit CineForm 444 versus
HDCam SR in SQ-440 Mbps mode. The CineForm 444
codec is now available in CineForm's Prospect 2K.
Posted October 2005:
8-bit quality analysis of the 8-bit CineForm Intermediate
workflow using v2.3 of CineForm's 8-bit codec used in
Aspect HD and Connect HD. NOTE: This page
contains about 1MB worth of data, so depending on your
connection it will likely take longer to load than most web
pages.
Posted January 2005:
10-bit CineForm Intermediate workflow versus DVCPRO HD
Our 10-bit workflow is provided
through Prospect HD
for Adobe Premiere Pro. Prospect HD is intended for
Professional film and television productions that require 10-bit
precision throughout the post-production workflow.
Posted January 2005: Original
quality analysis of
8-bit
CineForm Intermediate workflow versus "native" MPEG2 for HDV
source material
as provided
in both Aspect HD
and Connect HD.
(NOTE: This analysis was performed using a much
earlier (v1.2) release of CineForm's 8-bit codec technology.
Many visual quality enhancements were made to CineForm's
8-bit codec after posting this original quality analysis.
These enhancement are present in the analysis posted (above)
in October 2005).
We'll mention up-front that we
performed these analyses on our premises using our employees, but
in what we believe is a fair and identical set of test conditions for all
codecs being tested. Within each analysis, we have details
on the procedures and test methodology used.
Other Quality Analyses
In addition to the compression quality analyses above we
have also performed quality analyses to illustrate
Visual
differences between 10-bit and 8-bit precision and
Visual
differences between 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma
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