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Cel-Soft To Introduce Cel-Scope3D Stereocopic Analyser with
3D Recording Option at IBC 2010
September 4, 2010
Source: Cel-Soft
The CEL name returns to IBC this year as Cel-Soft Ltd, a recently-formed
company specialising in broadcast-quality control and measurement
technology.
Cel-Soft is the brainchild of Robin Palmer
who founded CEL-Broadcast in the early 1980s and whose design
talents have been behind many innovative and successful broadcast
products.
Exhibiting on stand 9.IP533, Cel-Soft will
introduce the Cel-Scope3D stereoscopic analyser, a software
solution to the challenges of 3D quality control and depth
budget management.
"Increasing interest in stereoscopic
3D production has created an urgent need for a tool precisely
tailored to checking depth budget and all possible disparities
between the left and right images," Robin Palmer comments.
"Pairing two television cameras to
operate in 3D is easy but even slight differences in terms
of physical alignment, optical and electronic performance,
can seriously degrade the resultant 3D illusion. Poorly configured
3D causes eye strain and headaches or, for some viewers, destroys
the 3D effect entirely. This applies to high-end rigs just
as much as to semi-pro and industrial equipment. Cel-Soft
has harnessed the multi-core processors and graphics cards
to allow the Cel-Scope3D software package to out-perform other
existing hardware solution but at much lower cost, providing
real-time measurement of 3D stereo disparities in HD."
Compatible with all current versions of
Microsoft Windows, Cel-Soft's Cel-Scope3D allows stereoscopic
camera alignment to be performed quickly and confidently so
that the 3D is accurate from the moment of capture. Running
on a suitably powerful PC platform, Cel-Scope3D can display
left and right channels simultaneously plus actual depth dynamics.
Its display window can each be set to show the usual waveform,
vectorscope and histogram graphics as well as differences
in video parameters between each channel. Geometry issues
can be easily identified using built-in real-time image manipulation.
Quality-control tests can be performed on
live stereoscopic video sources in any SD, HD or 2K format
from industry standard capture cards or Firewire inputs, or
alternatively from file playback.
Cel-Scope3D is designed for use both on
set with live inputs and in post-production, reviewing and
playing back 3D media files. Captured footage or edits in
a wide range of file formats can be viewed and assessed in
real time.
Disparities are analysed and displayed as
clear and intelligible graphics on 2D or 3D monitors. Anaglyph
display, touch-screen control and auto-alarm are all supported.
Displays can be scaled and arranged as six or eight windows
on one or two PC monitors and also on a 3D monitor.
The most important setting the stereographer
or operator has to do is to assign the target depth budget
for the production in percentage of screen width or in pixels.
The live 3D analysis displays then include depth analysis
with depth budget markers, vertical disparity, depth histogram
and vertical disparities histogram. These can be colour-coded
to correspond to the false colour used on the depth map, for
easy problem-area recognition. Left/right focus-difference
and colour-balance-difference displays allow camera matching
to be checked easily.
Each display mode is configured via a simple
menu. Up to 20 configurations can be stored on preset buttons
for fast recall. Embedded audio, stereo or multi-channel surround-sound
can also be extracted, displayed, monitored and checked alongside
the video. Logging and GPI options enable Cel-Scope3D to monitor
content at any part of the 3D distribution chain.
An optional 3D recording facility allows
dual stream 3D be captured direct to hard disk in a number
of alternative formats.
Cel-Soft is marketing the Cel-Scope3D as
a stand-alone product through independent distributors and
also as a software component. Cel-Soft is licensing a number
of other companies for projects and products that will be
making use of the Cel-Scope3D in an embedded role. By the
end of the year, Cel-Scope3D will also be available as a plug-in
for one or more popular editing and grading systems.
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