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products Dolby improves PRM monitor with new 4220 SAN FRANCISCO — Dolby Laboratories (www.dolby. com) has updated its Professional Reference Monitor. The new PRM-4220 offers the same accuracy and Grade 1 perfor- mance as the PRM4200, but introduces several new hardware features, including HDMI 1.4 and Display Port 1.1 interfaces. With a more ergonomic design and a slimmer profile, the updated monitor allows facilities easier integration into installations where space is limited. Other improvements include an almost one-third weight reduction over the previous design. At IBC, Dolby's PRM-4220 displayed images acquired on the Arri Alexa camera, played back from the new Codex Digital Review system connected via 12-bit HDMI to the monitor. 38 The Foundry previews Nuke 8 software Thor takes on 4K image processing L ONDON — The Foundry (www.thefoundry. co.uk) has announced that a brand new version of its Nuke compositing software will launch later this year. Nuke 8 will offer artists enhancements to the dope sheet, allowing them see and move keys around in the context of a timeline style view. They will be able to see the results and each property of a node accurately displayed in context. The new viewing capability will make working with scripts that involve time manipulation a more simple process and give artists greater visibility on their work. A brand new text node will allow artists to compose, edit and animate directly in the viewer. The software's grading and color correction tools will also see improvement, as will the user interface, which will include a new in-panel color wheel for the control of hue, saturation and value. Nuke 8 will feature a wide range of scope tools to help users analyze the picture. These include waveform, vectorscope and histogram viewers, along with a brand new pixel analyzer. Other color innovations will include a match grade node that will enhance Nuke's grading capabilities. Nuke's updated camera tracker will let artists track and solve cameras from reference stills. Brand new 3D tools will include viewer capture to allow users to flipbook images from the 2D and 3D viewer, a new edit geo node for greater control, a particle cache node to speed up rendering times, and the wireframe shader node for various VFX and increased control over projection mapping. Atomos previews new calibration solution M ELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — Atomos (www.atomos.com), which creates camera-mounted recorders such as the Ninja-2 and Samurai, as well as pocket-sized Connect converters, showed a pre-release of the Spyder at IBC. Developed in partnership with Datacolor, Spyder is a field monitor and recorder color calibration tool. The Samurai Blade includes a five-inch SuperAtom IPS, 1280 x 720 IPS 325PPI touchscreen. Samurai Blade allows the recording of 10-bit images straight from the camera sensor directly to inexpensive HDD or SSD drives, captured using the Apple ProRes or Avid DNxHD codec. With Spyder, the Samurai Blade gains the ability to accurately calibrate to the SMPTE Rec 709 color space with a D65 white point with 100 percent gamut. The solution can also be used as a standard calibration unit for any monitor or computer, provided Datacolor software is purchased from their Website. The Windows-compatible version of the Atomos Spyder is slated to ship in November for $199. AJA adds to mini converter line-up G RASS VALLEY, CA — AJA Video Systems (www.aja.com) has expanded its range of compact mini converters with the addition of the V2Digital, V2Analog, HD10A-Plus and 4K2HD. Each offers new features and capabilities for analog and digital workflows across SD, HD, UltraHD and 4K. 4K2HD ($795) downconverts 4K 3G-SDI to HD-SDI and HDMI 1.4 simultaneously, and is well suited for HD monitoring with 4K cameras. Supporting 4K (4096x2160) and UHD (3840x2160) input signals, 4K2HD enables simultaneous HD-SDI and HDMI output from 4K, downscaled at high-quality to HD. V2Digital and V2Analog ($345 each) convert analog video to digital and digital video to analog, respectively, supporting HD/SD-SDI and YPbrPr/RGB component or composite. The devices are configurable on USB via AJA MiniConfig software for Mac and PC, and offer 10-bit high-quality conversion in a new, compact, low-power design. HD10A-Plus ($695) facilitates the high-quality conversion of HD/SD 10-bit analog to digital for HD and SD digital workflows. With full bandwidth component HD RGB, RGBS or YPbPbr input, HD10A-Plus features three HD/SD-SDI outputs, SD mode support and internal or external sync input. Post • October 2013 www.postmagazine.com STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — Digital Vision (www.digitalvision.tv) showed Thor at IBC 2013, a dedicated hardware platform for advanced image processing. Scheduled for delivery in December, Thor enables realtime processing for 4K and faster than realtime processing for HD and SD sources. 8K processing will be enabled in 2014. Thor will initially feature the DVO Clarity noise and grain management tool, followed by other tools, including DVO Dust 2.0, DVO Steady and DVO Upscale. It will be available as part of the Nucoda and Phoenix ecosystem, but will also function independently.