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S AN RAFAEL, CA — Autodesk (www.autodesk.com) was at IBC last month talking up the Lustre 2009 digital color grading system and Incinerator 2009, a realtime system accelerator for Lustre. Lustre 2009 runs on a new, high-per- formance platform and offers numerous features that improve the color grading workflow. Extensive GPU acceleration capabilities have been implemented to further improve performance. The new Lustre release — available this month — offers advanced tools for color grading stereoscopic content from live-action or CG productions. These tools accelerate the process of grading, previewing and rendering left- and right-eye media. The new timeline sor t feature helps colorists re- arrange the shots of an assembled EDL, grade the sorted shots in source order and then return them to their edited EDL order. Audio I/O has been inte- grated, allowing colorists to capture audio directly from a video source and use sound as an element of look design. And the control panel's sensitivity can be adjusted to a responsiveness level that suits each user's preference. Lustre 2009 runs on the same plat- form (Linux) as the Smoke finishing system and Flame, Inferno and Flint VFX systems, making it acces- sible to Autodesk's existing user base.. Incinerator 2009 offers the same creative toolset as Lustre, with enhanced performance that is made possible through parallel processing technology. Based on the latest server and networking technology, Incin- erator 2009 enables realtime color grading for the most demanding DI feature film projects. Lustre 2009 is available for Linux and Windows XP. Incinerator 2009 is available for Linux. Autodesk intros new Lustre, Incinerator Lustre 2009 offers GPU-accelerated performance. N E W S Built-in audio delay for frame-accurate sync. Signal processing is automatically selected based on selected input and output. Select input source. Select output format. Signal simultaneously sent to all output terminals. SD/HD-SDI with embedded audio. Real-time conversion to HDV. Direct input from computer. Accepts both digital and analog resolutions up to 1600x1200/60Hz. DVI (analog or digital) and component supports both SD (NTSC/ PAL) and HD (720p/1080i/1080p). 14 Post • October 2008 www.postmagazine.com AUDIO VIDEO STORAGE FILM DI STUDIO MONTREAL — Maxi- mum Throughout (www.max-t.com) showed off MaxEdit at IBC, a server-based editing software solu- tion for post and broadcast.With MaxEdit, users can quickly and affordably set up a multi-user editing environment that's suited for news production, specialty programming, digital dailies, corporate and offline editing. Multiple users can access MaxEdit by launching it from a Web browser. Users on a network can view, edit and render compressed and un- compressed SD and HD content, without using specialized soft- ware and hardware. They just need to log on to the MaxEdit app server and start edit- ing. Intense editing op- erations are processed on the MaxEdit server. Users can also review and approve via an iPhone app. The scalable, multi-seat HD/SD editing solution al- lows users to edit multiple formats, na- tively in realtime. Maximum Through- put plans to release MaxEdit this fall. In related news, London's Aardman An- imations (www.aard- man.com) took deliv- ery of its third Max-T Sledgehammer HD!O file server and real- time, multi-format video device. MAX T SHOWS ITS SERVER-BASED EDITING SOLUTION Chatsworth, CA's DataDirect Networks (www.datadirect- net.com) showed the latest version of its Silicon Storage Architecture (S2A), a perfor- mance storage solution, at IBC. S2A is designed for DI, post, tapeless broadcast and VOD and streaming apps. The S2A9900 can write data as fast as it reads it, providing consistently-predictable performance for large content files and the ingest of multiple data streams.