Intended for 3D cinema, broadcast, Blu-Ray, and Internet distribution, Neo3D empowers traditional 2D industry editorial and effects tools into feature-rich 3D editorial tools.
With versions for both Windows and Mac, CineForm’s Neo3D delivers a real-time 3D editing workflow compatible with most NLEs — including from Adobe, Apple, Avid, and Sony. A Neo3D workflow begins by creating CineForm 3D media that contains full-resolution Left and Right eye information in a single AVI or MOV wrapper. CineForm Intermediate compression is acclaimed for its high visual fidelity, and is used routinely as the mastering format for 2D and 3D film, televison, and archive workflows. The workhorse application for making 3D adjustments is First Light which is included with Neo3D. First Light implements 3D image adjustments, non-destructive primary color correction, plus 2D/3D text and graphics overlays as Active Metadata™ layers on top of the underlying 3D video layer. During editorial, First Light allows for choosing 3D display modes for an external monitor, real-time keyframeable adjustments of convergence, keystoning, primary color correction, and much more, all performed in real time and implemented through Active Metadata. First Light's Active Metadata architecture ensures media and Active Metadata compatibility with all QuickTime and AVI applications on both Windows and Mac.
Considering workflow, First Light is used in parallel with the preferred NLE, allowing 3D adjustments during editorial playback. The tools in Neo3D can be used for 3D finishing, or can be used to offline a 3D project with finishing performed in other tools. Neo3D is a superset of Neo4K and includes all applications and tools described for Neo4K, including HD Link (Win) and ReMaster (Mac) which convert virtually all camera or file sources into CineForm media at unrestricted spatial resolution.
Neo3D offers the following 3D features:
- Full 3D editorial workflow: Using Neo3D, you have a consistent 3D editing workflow that is cross-platform compatible with Premiere Pro, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Media Composer, Vegas, and other editorial and effects tools in a manner similar to editing any CineForm 2D file.
- First Light™ 3D: the heart of Neo3D. All 2D and 3D adjustments are implemented as Active Metadata under control of First Light. The First Light application is kept active during editorial and allows adjustments of 2D and 3D Active Metadata parameters.
- Display Support for most 3D monitors: Real-time formatting of CineForm 3D media into a selectable 3D presentation format during 3D decode based on the 3D monitoring setup: dual-link stereo, passive polarized, active shutter (page flip), or anaglyph
- Keyframeable 3D Adjustments (all real-time):
- Convergence: horizontal, vertical or rotation (skew) between Left and Right eyes
- Stereo color adjustments: white balance, exposure, saturation, lift, gamma, gain, and more
- Crop/zoom including pan and scan
- Titles, metadata, and graphics overlays
- Individual Eye Adjustments for color and image flip useful for beam-splitter 3D rigs
- Keystoning Adjustment: Allows correction for camera toe-in/out
- Depth Tilt to adjust relative depth of primary objects in a scene
- Ghost Busting to reduce high contrast ghosting visible on some passive displays
- 3D file creation and synchronization, including slipping one eye relative to another when sources are out of alignment.
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