The renowned English house Quantel, presented the first results of its research and development program of Monty technology, with the new product IQ. It is a system that integrates a new architecture to support post-production operations and, in turn, offers the central support and elements necessary to integrate the workflows and operations of most houses dedicated to post-production services.
Quantel IQ, is a product that consists of a powerful platform dedicated to image processing, with the additional capacity, and this is the surprise of Quantel, to handle any type of video resolution in real time, even with high definition materials, and the possible mixtures between them within the same project, thanks to the state-of-the-art technology that Quantel has achieved in the development of its disks and the new hardware elements that make up the configuration.
The connectivity of the IQ application is solved through Clipnet, an option based on the Ethernet communications solution, which is also an integral part of the system. The IQ platform becomes a completely open platform by integrating a conventional computer that operates on the Windows 2000 operating system, which allows the possibility of working with applications from manufacturers associated with Quantel and with additional applications, such as plug-ins, that are able to make good use of the resources of the solid platform offered by Quantel along with an amazing processing speed.
As it is essential to use applications that provide character generation solutions and the possibilities of including additional information such as Closed Captions, during the post-production of any audiovisual project, Quantel agreed to the integration of Qscribe, Inscriber Corporation's character generator and Qpaint's retouching tools. , which are actually the integration of paintbox functions within the IQ system.
Similarly, apart from the solutions offered for this purpose, several companies involved in the development of applications for post-production work have expressed their interest in providing new solutions that are integrated into the IQ system and that are available within a prudently short time, so that the users of the new system have a greater range of options that can be used to the maximum by the technological platform offered to the Quantel market. Some of these applications are Boris FX and the well-known software for the management of audiovisual files Image Mine.
But, definitely, the most interesting thing about this new Quantel platform is the capacity it has for the post-production islands, to handle different resolutions of material and combine them in the same project. This can turn IQ into the brain of a networked post-production operations center. The specific application offered by the editing tools is Qedit, which also allows the multiformat option. In its interface it offers the possibility of working on timelines. It can handle any TV standard, including high-definition signal files without compression. The system keeps the material information in its original resolution, but depending on the needs of the project, it is able to offer an output signal in the format that is requested. This is achieved by keeping the clips at the original resolution according to the request and the other materials, of resolutions different from the one requested, adjusting and resizing them to the needs of the format or resolution required. This is a process that can do both towards higher resolutions and in the opposite direction. For example, if you are asked to play standard digital television material, the system searches for files that have the corresponding original resolution and the others, adjusts them to this resolution to offer adequate playback. If you are prompted for high-definition files, you determine this resolution as a reference by playing the corresponding files in their original format and the others conform them to the requested resolution.
Finally, and this is a feature of the system that is worth highlighting, IQ has a design that allows future extensions, as the alternative update as the solutions and applications for the system evolve.
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