Online 3D editing workflow for Adobe, Apple, Avid, and more on both Win and Mac

Intended for 3D cinema, broadcast, Blu-Ray, and Internet distribution, Studio Professional empowers traditional 2D industry editorial and effects tools into feature-rich 3D editorial tools.

With versions for both Windows and Macintosh, GoPro’s Studio Professional delivers a real-time 3D editing workflow compatible with most NLEs — including from Adobe, Apple, Avid, and Sony. A Studio Professional 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. Studio Professional 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, Studio Professional 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. Studio Professional's Active Metadata architecture ensures media and Active Metadata compatibility with all QuickTime and AVI applications on both Windows and Mac.

Considering workflow, Studio Professional is used in parallel with the preferred NLE, allowing 3D adjustments during editorial playback. The tools in Studio Professional can be used for 3D finishing, or can be used to offline a 3D project with finishing performed in other tools. Studio Professional is a superset of Studio Premium and includes all applications and tools described for Studio Premium.

Studio Professional offers the following 3D features:

• Full 3D editorial workflow: Using Studio Professional, 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. All 2D and 3D adjustments are implemented as Active Metadata under control of Studio Professional. The 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
          Note: Some minor feature differences exist between the Windows and Mac versions. Please verify features in the Trial download prior to purchase
• 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.

NOTE: Some minor feature differences exist between the Windows and Mac versions of Studio Premium. Please verify features in the Trial download prior to purchase.

The underpinning of Studio Professional is the creation and use of CineForm 3D QuickTime or AVI files that contain temporally-aligned Left and Right eyes. Each eye contains full spatial resolution suitable for online workflows. CineForm 3D files are created in a manner that they are interpreted by all QuickTime or AVI applications as if they were traditional 2D files. This allows virtually all 2D MOV and AVI compatible applications to edit CineForm stereo files. This "trickery" to the calling application happens beneath the QuickTime or DirectShow layers where GoPro's Studio Professional blends Left and Right eye information in into stereo HD frames which are passed to (and through) the 2D calling application without its knowledge.

Studio Professional is a superset of the features in Studio Premium, but with the following additional professional 3D features, all of which are implemented in real-time through the Active Metadata processor:

• Keyframeable 3D convergence controls
• Independent eye color adjustment (including white balance)
• Independent eye frame flip (for stereo mirror rigs)
• Floating windows to manage edge violations
• Keystoning to correct for improper camera toe-in/out
• Ghost Busting to correct for high-contrast ghosting on some passive displays
• Depth tilt to adjust relative depth between primary objects in a scene
• Image warping to correct for lens distortion (coming later)
• Dual-link stereo HD-SDI output to drive RealD, Dolby, or XpanD projectors; and to record in stereo mode to HDCAM SR.

Included software components

• CineForm 2D and 3D codec with Active Metadata processor
          - Win: DirectShow, Video for Windows (VfW), and QuickTime components installed
          - Mac: QuickTime components installed
• End-user utilities included to manage file capture and conversion to CineForm files. Allows selection of image pre-processing algorithms during conversion (spatial resampling, telecine removal, and much more).
• Command-Line Converters (Windows). Command-line conversion utilities for conversion of greater-than-HD resolution content into CineForm files, including:
          - R2CF: Convert from Red R3D media into CineForm files
          - VR2CF: Convert from Phantom (Vision Research) RAW files and CineForm files
          - DPX2CF and CF2DPX: Convert between DPX or TIFF files and CineForm media

Stereo File Creation

• First Step: Individual conversion of Left eye and Right eye sources into 2D CineForm files;
• Second Step: Using Studio Professional, multiplex individual eyes into a CineForm stereo stream.
• NOTE: Certain camera and file sources will have one-step conversion into CineForm stereo files in upcoming releases.

Studio Professional Feature Specifications

• OS Compatibility:
          - Mac: OS 10.6 or later
          - Win: Windows XP /Vista /7 (either 32-bit or 64-bit)
• CineForm compression with embedded Active Metadata processing
  Windows: DirectShow, Video for Windows (VfW), and QuickTime compatible with all video applications that support these interfaces.
  Mac: QuickTime compatible with all video applications that supports QuickTime.
• Application Compatibility: Most AVI/MOV compatible editing and effects applications including:
          - Final Cut Pro
          - Adobe CS3 / CS4 (Windows only) / CS5 / CS5.5
          - Avid Media Composer v5
          - Sony Vegas
• Spatial resolution: Unrestricted. As a practical matter up to 8K for each eye.
• File Compatibility: MOV, AVI
• Chroma Format:10-bit 4:2:2; 12-bit 4:4:4(:4); and 12-bit CineForm RAW
• OpenGL display support for timeline and First Light monitoring (Windows only)
• Media Sharing with others: Free CineForm decoder with Active Metadata processor available for download on both Windows and Mac
          - Real-time Full framerate playout as user-selectable 2D or 3D format
          - Real-time Active Metadata processing for color adjustments and 3D controls
          - During render CineForm 3D files are properly recreated

GoPro CineForm Studio Professional is the heart of your 3D workflow. Studio Professional operates in parallel with your editing or effects software, and provides real-time, non-destructive adjustments for 3D controls, primary 2D/3D color correction, and overlays. Studio Professional adjustments are implemented as Active Metadata, which means all adjustments are made non-destructively as a "layer" on top of the underlying video. Active Metadata is implemented in a manner that is compatible with all AVI and MOV NLEs and effects applications.

LUT Package

In a separate download, CineForm provides a package of 34 64x64x64 3D LUTs ("Looks") for use with the application.

System Requirements

Operating System

• PC: Windows XP / 64 SP3, Vista 32 / 64 SP1, Windows 7 32/64
• Mac: Mac OS 10.5 or greater

CPU

• Min: Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz
• Preferred: Core i7 or Dual Nehalem
• Mac Note: Intel Mac Only

QuickTime

• PC: N/A
• Mac: V7.6 or greater

RAM

• PC: 3GB or greater
• Mac: 4GB or greater

System Drive

• 7200 rpm SATA (Capacity: User Preference)

Media Drive

• Min: Single SATA separate from OS
• Preferred: Two (or more) drives as RAID 0