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Ocean Allows Real-Time Restoration of Film, Data and Tapes Ocean © Marquise Technologies 2011 www.marquise-tech.com OCEA N IS A FLEXIBLE OCEA N SPEEDS UP THE SOLUTION FOR FILM AND PROCESS OF YOUR ARCHIVE TAPE DAILIES TRANSFERS CREATE YOUR DAILIES IN A SINGLE PATH TRANSFER YOUR FILM ARCHIVES IN With its wide range of i/o capabilities O C E A N is the ideal REAL-TIME, WITH EASE tool for film and tape dailies creation: O C E A N remote O C E A N’s user interface has been designed to easily controls the telecine or the VTR and performs automatic navigate through the telecine controls and to allow quick scene detection. An EDL or an ALE log file can be manipulations of the grading tools. One Light and Best exported for further editing process. Light transfers are ready to be captured in data, on a Handy tools like Output Blanking for letterbox formats, SAN, or for later storage on LTOs, in a single path. Pan&Scan, Time Code and Edge Code burned-in overlays Traditional auxiliary devices like denoisers and key code will speed up and enhance the dailies creation process, readers are also supported within the same user interface, no matter the format of choice. creating a holistic approach to user experience. CONTROL AND ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE SWIFTLY CREATE A SCENE-BY-SCENE ACCURACY TRANSFER O C E A N has a toolset of image color analyzers like Use the Still Store available in O C E A N to store, recall, Vectorscope, Histogram or Color Picker. It can also display and apply on one or several scenes the desired look. The a wide range of guides and safe margins like title or Grade Library allows you to store unlimited color looks for action frames, as well as aspect ratio. All these features your current project, and to simply access other projects’ allow full control over your image accuracy and grades. Telecine’s controls and O C E A N’s digital color conformity with industry standards (SMPTE). corrections can be easily compared frame by frame using wipes. REVIEW THE IMAGES WITH A FILM OR VIDEO LOOK STABILIZE YOUR IMAGE 1D and 3D LUTs can be used on the incoming SDI signal or O C E A N’s digital Pan&Scan allows to compensate for on the output destined for a reference monitor at the the differences in the images: each pan or zoom same time. You can also bake-in the LUT on the output correction can be animated, achieving a stabilized signal in order to transfer the resulting image, with the playback. This can also be done automatically with an applied look, on a VTR or render it to a SAN. image stabilization device such as imageMill Steady, remotely controlled and integrated within OCEAN’s user OUTPUT MULTIPLE FORMATS AND interface. RESOLUTIONS DIGITIZE OLD MASTER TAPES FOR CONTENT O C E A N is able to transfer signals, ranging from SD up to 2K(through HSDL), directly to a disk array or a SAN, all ENHANCEMENT uncompressed for optimal quality, turning your telecine O C E A N’s control capabilities can also be applied to into a data-cine. Data export can be done in QuickTime, digitize tapes: the VTR can be remotely controlled using DNxHD and of course as file sequences(DPX, TIFF, etc). For the RS422 Sony 9-pin protocol, allowing the video stream tape recording purposes, O C E A N can also embed the to be resized and graded in Real Time, with the speed of a TimeCode(RP188) in the SDI output signal. traditional linear system. The result is directly rendered in Up to 4 VTRs can be connected and remote controlled DPX, or encoded in MXF DNxHD (optional) for immediate from O C E A N with on the fly automatic broadcasting purpose or later DCP mastering. upconvert/downconvert performed direcly on the video stream if needed. GET AUDIO SYNCHRONIZED O C E A N is able to embed up to 16 channels of AES/EBU FORWARD YOUR FIRST COLOR DECISIONS 24-bit 48 Khz audio into the outputted SDI signal. It can TO THE FILM LAB also ingest audio through AES/EBU connectors, an SDI O C E A N’s Primary Grading capabilities allow for embedded audio stream or it can be synchronized with a real-time color correction of the images using Printer sound follower. Lights: add or remove points and half-points of Red, Green and Blue and export this Color Decision List in ASC format. OCEA N ALLOWS REAL-TIME OCEA N PROVIDES YOU RESTORATION OF FILM, DATA WITH ADVANCED GRADING AND TAPES CAPABILITIES FOR YOUR COMMERCIALS EXPAND THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUR RESTORATION PROJECTS EDL IMPORTING MADE EASY Gaining the ability to restore any kind of material, within one system, can become a huge asset in any post- Thanks to O C E A N’s backbone Timeline, Edit Decision production facility. O C E A N allows several processing Lists of video commercials are easily imported in workflows: film to data, film to tape, tape to data and OCEA N: the conformed clips become immediately even data to data. available for a real-time color grading session. Real Time degrain, denoise and stabilisation devices are remotely controlled by O C E A N, directly from the same APPLY LAST MINUTE EDITING CHANGES interface. Restoration can then be applied on the fly from The editing tools available in O C E A N allow last minute any traditional video source(telecine and VTR), but also changes in the editing: cut, join, replace or insert are from DDRs (e.g. M I S T, Clipster, Doremi, etc.) playing out easily performed, and the new composition is immediately data files. available for export in ALE or in EDL CMX 3600. RESTORE DAMAGED COLOR CHANNELS ON BENEFIT FROM ADVANCED COLOR A TAPE GRADING TOOLS O C E A N’s management of red, green and blue O C E A N’s Primary Grading features are performed in channels allows to compensate for time ravages like Real Time on the video signal received from a telecine or degaussing. The digital channel mixer feature, usually only a VTR. Switch between timeline and shot-view, within a available in telecines for film reels, enable the restoration streamlined and intuitive user interface, for maximum of a missing or damaged color channels on a tape. efficiency. Color Balance, YRGB corrections and Curves are all included in the available Grading Toolset. In addition, optional Secondary Grading features are available: 6 vectors with keyers and unlimited shapes/windows. Denoiser SDI IN Telecine RS422 RS232 Ethernet RS422 SDI OUT RS422 RS232 FIBER VTR Digital Projector SAN OCEAN FEATURES TRANSFER TOOLS VIDEOMODES 720 x 486i 59.94Hz • Automatic scene detection 720 x 576i 50.00Hz • Unlimited events on the timeline • Per shot Pan&Scan 1280 x 720p 23.98/24/25/29.97/30/50/59.94/60 • TimeCode & KeyCode support 1920 x 1035i 59.94/60 • TimeCode & EdgeCode burn-in 1920 x 1080p 23.98/24/25/29.97/30/47.96/48/50/59.94/60 • Batch capture on disk 1920 x 1080psf 23.98/24/25/29.97/30 • Export of ALE and other log formats 1920 x 1080i 47.96/48/50/59.94/60 2048 x 1080p 23.98/24/25/29.97/30/47.96/48/50/59.94/60 TELECINE CONTROLS 2048 x 1080i 47.96/48/50/59.94/60 2048 x 1556psf 14.98/15/18.98/19 The Controls are those available on the telecine of choice and vary depending on the type of machine used: transport, camera 2048 x 1556psf 14.98/15 focus, effects, etc 2048 x 1080p 23.98/24 COLOR GRADING VIDEOI/O • Output Blanking for letterbox formats 10/12bit input • Scopes & Color Pickers for image analysis • Additional YRGB & HSL Primary Grading available 3G-SDI capable • Support for 1D & 3D LUTs 2K/HD/SD 4:4:4(RGB/YCrCb) • 32-bit float color processing HD/SD 4:2:2 Video(YCrCb) • Animatable parameters (keyframing/dynamics) • Still store for reference frames HSDL • Wipe & Dissolve A/B comparator RGB 4:4:4 I/O AND REMOTE CONTROL YCrCb 4:2:2 or 4:4:4 • Remote Control of RS422 Sony 9-pin devices AUDIOI/O • Capture to DPX 10/16bit, TIFF, Targa, QuickTime*, Cineon • SDI 10 bit linear or log switchable INPUT OUTPUT • HD/SD 3G-SDI 4:2:2 & 4:4:4 24bits 48KHz sampling 24bits 48KHz sampling • Tape transfers (up to 4 VTR controllable) 16 channels SDI(A/B) 16 channels SDI(A/B) • Support for Tangent Devices Wave, CP100 & CP200 control 8 channels AES/EBU panels *QuickTime codecs : ProRes, DNxHD, H264, etc. AVAILABLE OPTIONS CONFIGURATIONS • Secondary Grading Option with 6 vectors of Secondary CC with O C E A N is designed to be fully integrated in your telecine suite, unlimited geometric shapes and is upgradable upon your needs: • MXF encoding • Local Attached Storage 7 TB •OCEA N is a turn-key solution that includes, in addition to the • SAN Options : Fiber Channel Host Bus adapter 4/8GB, 8/16 TB telecines controls, digital Primary Grading and data rendering SAN turn-key solution capabilities. The solution is enhanced with optional Secondary Grading vectors and shapes for precision work. This is the ideal system for demanding transfers, like the recovery of SUPPORTED TELECINES audiovisual heritage or feature film dailies. • Cintel Millennium HD • Cintel DSX / C-reality • lightOCEAN is a basic turn-key solution able to remotely • Cintel URSA control the telecine features and the connected auxiliary devices.
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