Autodesk Flame is powerful 3D visual effects software that provides some of the industry’s most advanced tools for 3D compositing, VFX, and editorial finishing.

ALT Systems is an Autodesk Specialized Partner. Our tech team has the advanced product knowledge and real-world experience gained from selling and supporting Flame on behalf of Hollywood’s best known studios and VFX houses.

The latest version of Flame for 2022 includes AI-powered tools and solutions for remote artists working from a home studio.

New 3D Compositing and VFX Features

• MatchMove – next-generation automatic camera motion solver
• 3D selective motion vector mode – Feed CG-rendered or analyzed motion vectors directly into 3D selectives to combine with masks
• 3D compositing – Combines the interactive speed of traditional 2D compositing and powerful 3D visual effects.
• Physical Defocus – GPU-accelerated rack defocus effect for Image, Action, and Batch.
• Cryptomatte render pass support – Crypto object, asset, and materials without having to request re-rendering.

New Machine Learning Features

• Human face extraction – Extract mattes using machine learning with a new human-face region Semantic keyer.
• Human body and head extraction – Isolate human bodies and heads for fast, iterative color grading and light FX treatments on shots.
• Human face normal map generator – Use machine learning to generate 3D surface-orientation bump maps for color adjustment, relighting, and retouching.
• Semantic keyer for sky extraction – Isolate skies with a single click to remove clouds, add treatments to sky backgrounds, and more.
• AI-powered salient keyer – Identify and provide a matte for the most obvious object within a bounding box using object recognition tools
• Z-depth map generator – Live-action, scene-depth reclamation. Color correct and apply effects based on camera distance.

Each Adobe application has an intuitive user interface with sophisticated tools that give you complete creative freedom over the content you create.

• Adobe Premiere Pro is the ultimate video editing software for creating great video content fast. Discover intuitive tools to composite clips, create transitions, and craft the videos of your dreams with ease.
• Adobe After Effects is the industry standard for digital visual effects and motion graphics for post-production, video games and television production. Sophisticated keying, tracking, compositing, and animation capabilities make After Effects an essential tool for creating motion content.
• Adobe Media Encoder is used to ingest, transcode, create proxies, and output media in almost any format imaginable.  Media Encoder allows you to automate workflows with presets and watch folders, adjust clip duration, and apply LUTs and Loudness corrections without having to re-open projects.

ALT Systems integrates Adobe apps with a wide array of infrastructure tools, including SAN & NAS storage systems, nearline and archive storage, and media asset management platforms.

From its intuitive workspaces and advanced finishing and delivery tools, to a more powerful media engine and customizable role-based toolset, the new Media Composer provides an inviting and inspired way to work.

• 8K and beyond – Experience smooth, reliable editing and playback performance, no matter how large your source files are.
• Optimized for HDR  – Media Composer provides ACES color space, and a 32-bit floating color pipeline to deliver HDR content predictably, with pristine accuracy.
• Automation – Media Composer automates background tasks like transcoding, rendering, consolidating, and relinking media, plus automated bin saving, audio mixes, and audio/video sync.

As an Avid Elite Solutions Partner, the ALT Systems Sales Team is ready to help you discover the rich feature set Media Composer offers. We can also help you evaluate Avid Nexis storage, Media Central asset management, or Avid’s Audio product line.

From powerful recording and editing tools, easy loop workflows, and groundbreaking cloud collaboration, to top-notch effects and automated mixing, Pro Tools enables you to sound your best. Today’s Pro Tools has new MIDI features, tons of timesaving tools, and more flexible licensing.

• Record and mix bigger sessions with 256 audio tracks and 64 I/O channels—2x more than previous versions
• Customize Dark and Classic UI themes with control over brightness and saturation
• Run Pro Tools on Apple’s M1-based Macs
• The latest Pro Tools release is packed with even more features to make your content sound better than ever before. Contact our Audio Experts to learn more.

ALT Systems sells, supports, and provides training for the full Avid Pro Tools line, plus Avid S-Series Mixing Consoles, NEXIS storage, Media Composer, and Media Central asset management solutions.

DaVinci Resolve lets you work faster and at a higher quality because you don’t have to learn multiple apps or switch software for different tasks.

Resolve’s elegant, modern interface is fast to learn and easy enough for new users, yet powerful for professionals.

That means you can work with camera original quality images throughout the entire process. It’s like having your own post production studio in a single app! Best of all, by learning DaVinci Resolve, you’re learning how to use the exact same tools used by Hollywood professionals.

Colorfront Transkoder is a Netflix Production Technology Alliance Product that meets Netflix technical and delivery specifications.

The Production Technology Alliance recommends products that have met Netflix’s technical and workflow requirements, providing the highest level of innovation, support, and customer service.

Features:

• Industry-leading IMF, DCP, AS-02 mastering, authoring, validation, and QC tool.
• Colorfront Engine – Perceptual color mapping to any target display, for preview or remastering.
• Complete IIF-ACES Workflow – maintains color accuracy for digital production and post integrated quality control.
• Running on off-the-shelf workstation, no obsolescence-prone, proprietary hardware.
• Available on PC, Mac and Amazon AWS.
• Highest quality RAW deBayering from any camera from AJA Cion to ALEXA65.
• Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos – advanced tools for QC, mastering and localization.
• Unmatched performance state of the art multi-GPU image processing engine.
• 4K DCP/UHD IMF and HEVC encoding at 100+ FPS.
• API, Watch Folder and Web Form based automation.

Benefits:

• Industry-leading IMF, DCP, AS-02 mastering, authoring, validation, and QC tool.
• Colorfront Engine – Perceptual color mapping to any target display, for preview or remastering.
• Complete IIF-ACES Workflow – maintains color accuracy for digital production and post integrated quality control.

• GPU-accelerated performance – for super fast real time response.
• VFX & Colorist Collaboration – access VFX and Color together.
• Nonlinear Color Grading – for primary and secondary grading.
• Deep Color Management – track colorspace metadata by clip from the original media to final deliverables.
• Dolby Vision – Dolby Vision HDR Support.
• Updated AJA Support – Supports AJA 15 drivers.
• Resizable Thumbnails – Set storyboard thumbnail sizes in both storyboard views.

Flare is a software-only tool for use by creative assistants to organize and streamline VFX and finishing post-production.

With just the core features available in Flame, finishing facilities can leverage Flare for creative collaboration, managing artist-driven versioning, and spreading the creative workload among multiple Flame seats.

The latest version of Autodesk Flare includes Batch and the Action 3D compositing.

• 3D compositing – Combines the interactive speed of traditional 2D compositing and powerful 3D visual effects. Includes a WYSIWYG preview for artists in session.
• Editorial timeline – Use the timeline to manage projects, create consistent looks and match graded and 3D VFX shots. Includes scene detection.
• Conform – Create multi-layer timelines faster. Use a large set of advanced conforming and troubleshooting tools in a single task-based area.
• Media management – Support for additional formats and enhanced sharing and handling help you better manage your media.
• Matchbox API – Use GPU-accelerated GLSL shaders to solve challenges in Action’s 3D compositing environment.
• Pybox – Use a scriptable handler to process your images via external renderers.
• Connected Conform smart merge – Merge new editorial cuts dynamically with work in progress shots late in a project.
• Shotgun integration – Access the power of the Shotgun review and production tracking toolset.

The revolutionary Avid S-Series modular control surfaces provide superior ergonomics, intelligent studio control, and fully integrated Dolby Atmos workflows.

Get the deep level of Pro Tools control only Avid can provide, the flexibility to control other popular DAWs using EUCON, and the performance you need to create and deliver the best sounding mixes possible—faster.

Avid S6 Dolby Atmos Modular Control Surface

Experience the most intuitive, immersive mixing workflows for modern sound engineers.

The revolutionary Avid S6 modular control surface leverages the best of the industry-leading ICON and System 5 product families, providing superior ergonomics, intelligent studio control, and fully integrated Dolby Atmos workflows.

Get the deep level of Pro Tools control only Avid can provide, the flexibility to control other popular DAWs using EUCON, and the performance you need to create and deliver the best sounding mixes possible—faster.

Avid S4 Mixing Console for Music and Audio Post

Get the mixing power of industry-standard Avid S6 in a more compact control surface.

Perfect for budget-conscious pros and smaller audio post and music facilities, Avid S4 boosts your mixing efficiency with the same award-winning workflows in a more streamlined, semi-modular surface that provides intelligent DAW control. Whether creating music, designing sound, mixing immersive audio, or teaching audio production, it’s the perfect fit for any project.

Avid S3 EUCON-Enabled Desktop Control Surface

Get a streamlined yet versatile mixing system for the modern sound engineer.

Based on the award-winning Avid S6 control surface, Avid S3 delivers intelligent control over every aspect of Pro Tools, Media Composer, Logic Pro X, Cubase, Nuendo, Premiere Pro, and other EUCON-enabled audio and video software. All in a more portable and affordable surface.

But don’t let its small size fool you. While it’s ideal for space-confined and on-the-go mixing, it packs enormous power to handle large sessions and turn around projects faster. Plus, it pairs perfectly with Avid Dock and the Avid Control app to extend your workflow further.

Avid S1 Mixing Slimline Control Surface

Get the unparalleled speed, rich visual feedback, and software integration of Avid’s high-end consoles in a slimline surface that’s an easy fit for any space or budget.

Avid S1 gives you deep hands-on control of your favorite audio and video software, including Pro Tools, Media Composer, Logic Pro X, Cubase, Nuendo, and Premiere Pro. Together with the free Avid Control app on your iPad or Android tablet, it provides great ergonomic efficiency, easy touch workflows, and Avid S6-style metering and processing views, so you can mix more intuitively and turn around better sounding mixes fast.

Avid Dock

Accelerate your editing and mixing tasks in creative new ways.

Based on the advanced touchscreen workflows of the award-winning Avid S6 and hybrid command of the bestselling Artist Control, Avid Dock provides intelligent studio control in a portable, ergonomic, and affordable surface.

Working together with your iPad or Android tablet, you get the quick touchscreen access and tactile precision control you need to navigate and control music and post projects faster using your favorite DAWs. And when paired with Avid S1 or S3, you gain new timesaving touch workflows and custom control. Mixing deadlines have met their match.

It all starts with the artist. Dolby Atmos technology lets you place each voice, instrument, or sound in its own space. Wherever you are, you’re in the center of the experience.

• Hear every sound in its own space – With an extra dimension of sound, Dolby Atmos helps you hear more in every track.
• Feel exactly what the creators wanted – Dolby Atmos is intense. It lets you experience exactly what the artists wanted.
• From cinema to soundbars – Dolby Atmos technology scales up or down, so you always hear awesome.

Unlock new creative and business potential with the world’s leading immersive audio technology.

Colorfront Streaming Server is as a cost-effective way to deliver color-critical content to staff while working from home.

For finishing workflows, the Colorfront Streaming Server offers a robust, color-calibrated, and cost-effective alternative to other remote collaboration systems.

Features:

• Sub-Second Latency – Real-time, robust streaming video delivery.
• 4 Channel HD SDR thru 4K HDR – Works with HD, 2K & 4K, and stereo 3D content in Rec709 SDR or HDR.
• 10-bit 4:4:4 Reference Quality Video – For color critical QC on a theater projector or 4K HDR reference broadcast monitor.
• 8-500Mb/sec HEVC – Tunable bitrate that’s more efficient than intra-frame encoding for higher quality.
• SRT (Secure Reliable Transport Protocol) – Pristine quality, low-latency live video over the public Internet.
• 256-bit AES Encryption – The same requirement Hollywood studios trust for sensitive content.
• Watermarking – NexGuard forensic and unique visible watermarking.
• Multi-Channel Audio Support – Up to 16 channels of audio with 16bit/24bit AAC/PCM.
• Dolby Vision Tunneling – High Dynamic Range with Dolby Vision on displays such as an LG OLED via HDMI.
• Streaming Player Client – Mac/Windows/iOS and iPadOS and Apple TV.
• Gateway/Hub – Colorfront Broker System with email invitation support.

Benefits:

• HD SDR through 4K HDR in Stereo 3D – works with HD, 2K & 4K, and stereo 3D content in Rec709 SDR or HDR.
• Dolby Vision Tunneling – High Dynamic Range with Dolby Vision on displays such as an LG OLED via HDMI.
• 256-bit AES Encryption – the same requirement Hollywood studios trust for all their sensitive content.
• Forensic Watermarking – NexGuard forensic and unique visible watermarking.
• Streaming Player client on Windows and Mac OS – low cost hardware supported on tower, 1RU and even a laptop configuration.

Contact ALT Systems for a free, hands-on demo of Colorfront Streaming Server’s breakthrough technology.

Colorfront On-Set Dailies offers faster than real-time performance, a major reason why it’s been adopted by major Hollywood studios, labs, and post-production facilities throughout the US and Europe.

And because Colorfront partners with high-end digital cinema camera manufacturers, On-Set Dailies always supports the latest capture formats, including ARRI, RED, Sony, Canon, Phantom camera systems.

Features:

• Unprecedented Processing Speed – the industry’s fastest solution for acquisition, syncing, logging and rendering turnaround, 100+ fps rendering, and R3D CPU playback without GPU accelerated RED processing.
• Ease of Use – Advanced-design UI for metadata logging, VTRoll creation and one-touch audio syncing simplifies tedious tasks. Integrated checksum verified copying, QC, media management and archive.
• ACES and Colorfront engine workflows – use advanced color grading tools and manage color pipelines with ASC CDL, CCC, ARRI Look Files, automatic 3D LUT import, and integrated live camera grading, HDR deliverables and monitoring.
• Production Proven – On-Set Dailies is a complete system successfully used in on-set and facility workflows, and backed by a highly responsive development and support team.
• UHD & 4k support – On-Set Dailies supports the Latest digital cinematography cameras for realtime playback in UHD and 4k, including support for high frame rate projects.

Benefits

• Unprecedented Processing Speed – the industry’s fastest solution for acquisition, syncing, logging and rendering turnaround, 100+ fps rendering, and R3D CPU playback without GPU accelerated RED processing.
• Ease of Use – Advanced-design UI for metadata logging, VTRoll creation and one-touch audio syncing simplifies tedious tasks. Integrated checksum verified copying, QC, media management and archive.
• ACES and Colorfront engine workflows – use advanced color grading tools and manage color pipelines with ASC CDL, CCC, ARRI Look Files, automatic 3D LUT import, and integrated live camera grading, HDR deliverables and monitoring.

Colorfront Express Dailies sets the bar for functionality and performance with Colorfront’s industry leading image science technology and color tools.

Features:

• Fully Rounded Toolset – from data wrangling, checksum verified copying, sound sync, color grading, archival and rendering deliverables, Express Dailies has all the tools you need for a complete data lab.
• Simultaneous Faster-than-Real-Time Deliverables – in all common file formats.
• Complete IIF-ACES Workflow – maintains color accuracy for digital production and post integrated quality control.
• Extreme Performance – gets the job done faster allowing you to walk away from the set with complete dailies done.
• Easy to Use and Learn – with a drag & drop interface so camera crews can deliver soundsync color graded dailies in multiple formats within minutes.
• Return On Investment – robust, proven toolset at an affordable price for both ownership or rental.

Benefits:

• Fully Rounded Toolset – from data wrangling, checksum verified copying, sound sync, color grading, archival and rendering deliverables, Express Dailies has all the tools you need for a complete data lab.
• Simultaneous Faster-than-Real-Time Deliverables – in all common file formats.
• Complete IIF-ACES Workflow – maintains color accuracy for digital production and post integrated quality control.

Colorfront’s QC Player is an essential tool for studios and post facilities because it maximizes performance of NVidia GEForce 2080TI GPU graphics cards in ALT Systems’ custom-configured Supermicro and HP Z8 workstations.

With AJA’s Kona 5 I/O card, QC Player supports realtime output up to 8k @ 60fps. QC Player also supports external control panels from BUF Technology and Tangent.

Features:

• Waveform, Vectorscope, and Histogram for SDR and HDR media.
• Split-Screen For Confidence Check.
• Preview Object Audio On 2.0, 5.1, 7.1, 7.1.4 Speaker Setups.
• Manual QC Tagging and PDF Report Generation.
• Dolby Vision Metadata Inspection, ECMU Soft Proofing.
• Color Gamut and Light-Level Metering Tools.
• Audio Level and Phase Metering.
• Inspection of File Metadata.
• 4K DCP/UHD IMF and HEVC encoding at 100+ FPS.
• IMF and Encrypted DCP Playback and Validation.

Benefits:

• Waveform, Vectorscope, and Histogram for SDR and HDR media.
• Split-Screen For Confidence Check.
• Preview Object Audio On 2.0, 5.1, 7.1, 7.1.4 Speaker Setups.

Spectra Logic BlackPearl can easily store media forever at virtually no cost using a tiered storage strategy that is cost effective, easy to manage and scalable to exabytes of data. With a simple RESTful Spectra S3 interface, content creators can confidently keep data for pennies per gigabyte.

BlackPearl is available in four different series depending on your media write speed requirements:

• BlackPearl V Series 200—300 MB/s sustained write
• BlackPearl S Series 450—800 MB/s sustained write
• BlackPearl P Series up to 3 GB/s sustained write
• BlackPearl X Series up to 10 GB/s sustained write

In addition, BlackPearl is available with both NAS and object storage capabilities in a single cost-effective solution providing self-protecting, flexible and affordable secondary storage for data that does not require continual backup.

Spectra Logic StorCycle® cuts storage costs by moving less-frequently needed content to nearline or offline tiers until needed. No longer do organizations need to fully redesign their storage infrastructure to implement a storage lifecycle management software solution.

StorCycle provides flexible options to orchestrate media movement:

• HTML and Symbolic Links or “stubs” can be left in place of the original file at the exact location where users previously accessed the media. StorCycle and BlackPearl make the media available, and editors avoid having to relink to media during editing.
• Copy/Keep migration copies files to a perpetual storage tier such as nearline storage or LTO tape but keeps the original file on the primary storage tier for a period of time. Storage policies can then be used to delete the original file if the content has not been accessed within a certain period of time.
• A traditional archive workflow will migrate media from the original location to spinning disk nearline or LTO tape tier. With this method, StorCycle’s intuitive web interface allows users to restore data when needed.

StorCycle helps preserve data for long-term storage and future monetization – as well as providing a high degree of cyber-attack preparedness.

Scale Logic’s feature-rich, high performance solutions for Ethernet-based and media-rich workgroups offer:

• Unlimited snapshot functionality enabling users to “go back in time”
• Automated Data replication and synchronization
• Scale out from 48TB to 9PB
• Hybrid cloud support
• Single global namespace up to 2PB
• High-availability and easy cluster management
• Optional NVMe or SSD caching to turbocharge editing environments
• 24x7x365 health monitoring

Powerhouse applications like Adobe Premiere and After Effects need a workstation that can keep up with your creative imagination. We select the best mix of processor power, onboard memory, and GPU power so you get a fast, reliable workstation at an affordable price.

ALT Systems is one of Hollywood’s leading providers of custom editorial and VFX workstations because we offer: 

• Fast turnaround on custom-configured Mac, Dell, HP, and Supermicro workstations
• Delivery and installation
• Same-day service in the Hollywood area

Be sure to ask about our flexible Financing and Rental programs.

To orchestrate CPMC’s demanding workflows, ALT Systems deployed a CatDV MAM system running on a HP DL360 Linux server. 

ALT Systems configured CatDV’s extensive API feature set to accept surgical procedure metadata from CPMC’s Storz endoscopy system. The MAM database then correlates the metadata with operating room media, allowing doctors to rapidly find, view, and edit content.

CPMC leverages CatDV’s extensive media and metadata management capability through a user interface panel that appears directly in Adobe Premiere.

Clients and servers are tied together via fiber optic cabling to an Arista 10Gb Ethernet switch. The Arisa switch provides the sustained bandwidth and reliable access required by a 24x7x365 surgical center dedicated to life saving procedures using cutting edge video technology.

• Avoid production disruption and achieve maximum uptime – Industry professionals trust Avid NEXIS because it delivers proven reliability — from ingest, editing, and finishing, to project parking, backup, repurposing, and archive.
• Balance costs and performance with scalable tiered storage – Empower teams with faster, more efficient access to your entire library of assets, whether housed in online, offline, nearline, or archive storage tiers—on premises or in the cloud.
• Accelerate production with workflow-optimized performance – Avid NEXIS delivers powerful performance and the best user experience for today’s complex media workflows across a wide range of Avid and third-party applications, services, and systems.
• Protect your assets – Avid NEXIS provides the bulletproof security and fail-safe protection to keep your media and workflows safe. From single- and dual-disk protection, automatic drive rebuild, and media mirroring, to high availability options and the ability to set user permissions down to the folder level, you can create and collaborate with confidence.

• Timeline-Based Creative Workflow – Center your creative work around an easy-to-use, track-based, nonlinear-editor workflow with powerful visual FX tools.
• ConnectFX Node-Based Compositing – Go directly from the timeline to ConnectFX, so you can create sophisticated effects without leaving the timeline.
• Powerful Compositing – Action combines keying, tracking, transformation, deformation, lighting, and shading tools in an interactive 3D workspace.
• 3D Text and Geometry – Import 3D geometry and create dynamic 3D titles with bevels, textures, and per-character animation controls.
• Dynamic Trimming – Tell your story easily with dynamic trimming tools that adjust timing and timeline navigation.

Autodesk Flame is powerful 3D visual effects software that provides some of the industry’s most advanced tools for 3D compositing, VFX, and editorial finishing.

ALT Systems is an Autodesk Specialized Partner. Our tech team has the advanced product knowledge and real-world experience gained from selling and supporting Flame on behalf of Hollywood’s best known studios and VFX houses.

The latest version of Flame for 2022 includes AI-powered tools and solutions for remote artists working from a home studio.

New 3D Compositing and VFX Features

• MatchMove – next-generation automatic camera motion solver
• 3D selective motion vector mode – Feed CG-rendered or analyzed motion vectors directly into 3D selectives to combine with masks
• 3D compositing – Combines the interactive speed of traditional 2D compositing and powerful 3D visual effects.
• Physical Defocus – GPU-accelerated rack defocus effect for Image, Action, and Batch.
• Cryptomatte render pass support – Crypto object, asset, and materials without having to request re-rendering.

New Machine Learning Features

• Human face extraction – Extract mattes using machine learning with a new human-face region Semantic keyer.
• Human body and head extraction – Isolate human bodies and heads for fast, iterative color grading and light FX treatments on shots.
• Human face normal map generator – Use machine learning to generate 3D surface-orientation bump maps for color adjustment, relighting, and retouching.
• Semantic keyer for sky extraction – Isolate skies with a single click to remove clouds, add treatments to sky backgrounds, and more.
• AI-powered salient keyer – Identify and provide a matte for the most obvious object within a bounding box using object recognition tools
• Z-depth map generator – Live-action, scene-depth reclamation. Color correct and apply effects based on camera distance.

Autodesk Flame is powerful 3D visual effects software that provides some of the industry’s most advanced tools for 3D compositing, VFX, and editorial finishing.

ALT Systems is an Autodesk Specialized Partner. Our tech team has the advanced product knowledge and real-world experience gained from selling and supporting Flame on behalf of Hollywood’s best known studios and VFX houses.

The latest version of Flame for 2022 includes AI-powered tools and solutions for remote artists working from a home studio.

New 3D Compositing and VFX Features

• MatchMove – next-generation automatic camera motion solver
• 3D selective motion vector mode – Feed CG-rendered or analyzed motion vectors directly into 3D selectives to combine with masks
• 3D compositing – Combines the interactive speed of traditional 2D compositing and powerful 3D visual effects.
• Physical Defocus – GPU-accelerated rack defocus effect for Image, Action, and Batch.
• Cryptomatte render pass support – Crypto object, asset, and materials without having to request re-rendering.

New Machine Learning Features

• Human face extraction – Extract mattes using machine learning with a new human-face region Semantic keyer.
• Human body and head extraction – Isolate human bodies and heads for fast, iterative color grading and light FX treatments on shots.
• Human face normal map generator – Use machine learning to generate 3D surface-orientation bump maps for color adjustment, relighting, and retouching.
• Semantic keyer for sky extraction – Isolate skies with a single click to remove clouds, add treatments to sky backgrounds, and more.
• AI-powered salient keyer – Identify and provide a matte for the most obvious object within a bounding box using object recognition tools
• Z-depth map generator – Live-action, scene-depth reclamation. Color correct and apply effects based on camera distance.

Autodesk Flame is powerful 3D visual effects software that provides some of the industry’s most advanced tools for 3D compositing, VFX, and editorial finishing.

ALT Systems is an Autodesk Specialized Partner. Our tech team has the advanced product knowledge and real-world experience gained from selling and supporting Flame on behalf of Hollywood’s best known studios and VFX houses.

The latest version of Flame for 2022 includes AI-powered tools and solutions for remote artists working from a home studio.

New 3D Compositing and VFX Features

• MatchMove – next-generation automatic camera motion solver
• 3D selective motion vector mode – Feed CG-rendered or analyzed motion vectors directly into 3D selectives to combine with masks
• 3D compositing – Combines the interactive speed of traditional 2D compositing and powerful 3D visual effects.
• Physical Defocus – GPU-accelerated rack defocus effect for Image, Action, and Batch.
• Cryptomatte render pass support – Crypto object, asset, and materials without having to request re-rendering.

New Machine Learning Features

• Human face extraction – Extract mattes using machine learning with a new human-face region Semantic keyer.
• Human body and head extraction – Isolate human bodies and heads for fast, iterative color grading and light FX treatments on shots.
• Human face normal map generator – Use machine learning to generate 3D surface-orientation bump maps for color adjustment, relighting, and retouching.
• Semantic keyer for sky extraction – Isolate skies with a single click to remove clouds, add treatments to sky backgrounds, and more.
• AI-powered salient keyer – Identify and provide a matte for the most obvious object within a bounding box using object recognition tools
• Z-depth map generator – Live-action, scene-depth reclamation. Color correct and apply effects based on camera distance.

The Spectra tape library family delivers the industry’s best combination of capacity, performance, scalability, reliability, support and affordability.

Spectra Logic has been focused on innovation in storage systems and solutions for 40 years. Spectra launched its first tape library in 1995, and since that time, has built the most rugged, reliable tape systems in the industry. Today, Spectra delivers a portfolio of tape solutions that are second to none in meeting the needs of global organizations—from small to midsize establishments, to large Fortune 50 corporations and government entities. Trusted for decades by many of the world’s most recognized organizations, Spectra libraries protect and preserve a vast amount of the world’s data.

Spectra TFinity® ExaScale Tape Library

Spectra TFinity ExaScale Tape Library delivers unsurpassed storage density packaged in the smallest footprint of any enterprise library on the market. Deployed by some of the most recognized organizations in the world, the Spectra TFinity provides maximum flexibility by allowing users to select the tape technology that best fits their business needs, including LTO, IBM’s TS11X0 and Oracle’s T10000x tape technology. With dual robotics for efficient operations, each Spectra TFinity provides customers with performance, reliability and the ultimate in data protection at a lower price point.

Spectra® T950 Tape Library

Spectra T950 Tape Library is designed to meet the stringent requirements of the enterprise for data integrity, data security and high reliability. The Spectra T950 provides maximum flexibility enabling users to choose the tape technology that works for their unique environment, whether LTO or IBM’s TS tape technology. Built to grow as requirements evolve, the T950 allows users to start with a single frame and seamlessly expand to eight frames for unsurpassed data protection.

Spectra® T950v Tape Library

Value Storage without Compromise Based on the Spectra^® T950 Tape Library, Spectra’s workhorse for medium capacity library applications, the T950v tape library is a redesign focused on increased value through significant cost reduction. By removing add-ons originally designed for high performance computing and multi-hundred petabyte data centers, the Spectra T950v Tape Library is an ideal fit for General IT and mid-level Media and Entertainment markets. We’ve also added new features such as support for lower cost, half height drives which can save customers tens of thousands of dollars per installation. The T950v provides all the same enterprise grade features, reliability and capacity but with a new entry level price point. The full 8-frame T950v can store up to 180PB of data or content (450PB compressed) and when fully populated with 120 tape drives, offers an impressive transfer rate of up to 172TB/hr. (432TB/hr. compressed) using LTO-9 tape technology.

The Spectra T950v provides maximum flexibility by allowing you to populate your library with LTO tape technology or IBM® TS11XX Enterprise Tape Technology, enabling you to choose the technology that is perfect for your business.

Spectra® T680 Tape Library

The exceptionally high-performance Spectra T680 Tape Library will meet your backup, archive and deep storage requirements. Designed to be easy to use and manage, it won’t let you down in the most demanding environments. Scalable from 50 to 670 LTO slots, you can store up to 12 PB (30PB compressed) of data. With up to 12 LTO drives you can transfer data up to 17.3 TB/hr. (43TB/hr. compressed) using LTO-9 tape technology.

Spectra® T380 Tape Library

The exceptionally high-performance Spectra T380 Tape Library will meet your backup, archive and deep storage requirements. Designed to be easy to use and manage, it won’t let you down in the most demanding environments. Scalable from 50 to 380 LTO slots, you can store up to 6.8PB (17PB compressed) of data in a single library. Scale to 12 LTO drives with the ability to transfer data up to 17.3 TB/hr. (43TB/hr. compressed) using LTO-9 tape technology.

The Spectra T380 Tape Library provides maximum flexibility by supporting LTO tape technology and IBM® TX11X0 Tape technology, enabling you to select the tape technology that is the perfect fit for your business.

Spectra® Stack Tape Library

Built with maximum flexibility at its core, the Spectra Stack Tape Library meets backup, archive and perpetual storage requirements. Designed to be easily installed, expanded and managed, the Spectra Stack is rated at a 100% duty cycle – meaning it is one of the only stackable libraries built to perform in a 24/7 environment. Spectra Stack offers the ultimate in scalability, delivering affordable, expandable and secure data protection that grows as your organization grows.

Spectra® Certified Media

Spectra makes tape pain-free through Spectra Certified Media. From manufacturer selection to packaging and customer shipment, every step of the Spectra Certified Media manufacturing process is designed to ensure you have the most reliable and automated tape storage available. No other supplier places as much emphasis on continual enhancements and features that simplify all aspects of the media management process.

Media quality is at the core of efficient, pain-free tape storage. All tape is not the same. Only the highest quality media available on the market becomes Spectra Certified Media. This ensures you have the most reliable and worry-free data protection possible.

Spectra’s offers certified media with CarbideClean® for both LTO and TS11XX media, ensuring that your media is debris-free to allow your system to run at peak performance. CarbideClean is a unique Spectra enhancement that extends the life of your tape drives and enhances the performance and capacity of your tapes.

As data moves across storage media, from NVMe or SSD to HDD, tape, or cloud, StorNext provides continuous access.

For performance-sensitive applications, StorNext leverages iSER/RDMA or IB direct to storage connections for up to 23 GB/s single stream throughput. The storage media can be NVMe or SSD Flash for sub-millisecond latency. Thousands of parallel streams are supported to maximize data ingest and streaming. Once data no longer has performance demands, it is automatically, per policy, placed on lower-cost storage.

If data requires preservation over time, it can be copied or moved to Quantum LTO supported tape libraries, ActiveScale™ object store on premise, or S3 in the public cloud. Data placed in object storage or S3 in the cloud is self-describing with vast benefits: leverage applications in analytics directly against data in the cloud, facilitate collaboration across departments or organizations, and protect data assets from infrastructure obsolescence or vendor lock-in

Digital Vision Nucoda combines a creative tool set, and integration with Avid workflows – including full support for Avid Interplay and NEXIS storage devices.

Setting new standards in the highest quality, Nucoda supports ACES color managed workflows, HDR and Dolby Vision. With an industry leading color toolset, used by clients such as The Farm, Picture Shop and Pixar Animation Studios, Nucoda s used to create complex looks and visual styles for film, television and animation.

With more than 30 years of image science culminating in the Digital Vision Optics (DVO) suite of enhancement tools, Nucoda ensures the highest quality imagery available.

Now you can make your videos more cinematic with the same tech used by Hollywood directors, when you create in Dolby Vision®.

• Stunning picture quality – Experience a remarkable color palette, sharper contrasts, and incredible brightness that feel more like looking through a window than at a screen. This is HDR like you’ve never seen it before.
• See every detail – Discover subtle details you simply can’t see with a standard picture, for a viewing experience without compromise, just as the filmmakers and creators intended.
• Vimeo + Dolby Vision – Bring your Dolby creations to the world by sharing Dolby Vision content directly with global viewers on Apple devices. Whether it’s daily moments, your passion project, or professional video work, Vimeo gives you a platform to reach viewers with stunning Dolby Vision video quality.

Our technical team has completed rigorous training and passed stringent testing on:

• The Dolby Vision ecosystem 
• Basics, theory, and terminology around Dolby Vision content creation 
• The Dolby Vision content creation workflow for production, post-production, quality control, and deliverables 

Improve Productivity and Time to Value with a Simplified StorNext User Experience.

The Quantum H4000 Series is a line of high-performance storage appliances for hosting the StorNext® 7 File System. The H4000 Series takes advantage of the latest StorNext 7 software-defined architecture, which dramatically simplifies the StorNext user experience and enables easier and more flexible deployment options.

In this new software-defined architecture, StorNext 7 file services, data services, and block services run virtually on a single platform. StorNext 7 has been virtualized, and significant architectural components such as the management layer and APIs have been containerized in a Docker environment.

Maximize Your Productivity.

The StorNext® File System can be configured and deployed as software, or on tested and pre-configured appliances from Quantum, referred to as Xcellis® storage appliances. StorNext Xcellis appliances enable high-speed shared access to your files, and are available in a variety of configurations, both for hosting the StorNext Metadata Controller (“MDC”) software, and for scaling out client connection support and bandwidth for primary and secondary storage data placement.

Quantum Xcellis appliances are the easiest way to purchase and deploy the StorNext file system, and are purpose built for the task. Get the most out of your investment, get the best performance, and the best overall customer experience when you deploy StorNext file system software on an Xcellis appliance from Quantum

Increase Productivity while Reducing Infrastructure Costs.

Major studios, corporations, research institutions and government agencies use the Quantum F-Series to accelerate the capture, edit, and finishing of high-definition content, speed VFX and CGI render performance by 10x-100x, and develop cutting-edge augmented and virtual reality.

NVMe is enabling these customers to process higher-resolution content that drives higher data rates, and provide massive parallel performance for large render farms, while reducing both storage and network infrastructure costs and complexity.

Improve Performance with a Highly Available, Flexible Design

The Quantum H2000 Series is a line of high-performance block storage arrays used for scaling up the StorNext® File System capacity and for other high-throughput, low-latency workloads. The H2000 Series is available in two server form factors, a 2U12 and 2U24, that support different types of SSD and HDD storage, and the H2000 Series can be scaled up using optional JBODs.

The H2000 Series 2U24 model comes with SSD or 10K RPM HDDs, for latency-sensitive workloads, while the 2U12 model supports NL-SAS HDDs and is ideal for sequential streaming workloads and lower-cost storage options.

Every H2000 model has a dual controller hardware architecture using high-performance multi-core AMD CPUs and offers flexible networking options that include 100 GbE, 25 GbE, and 32 Gb Fibre Channel.

Cutting Edge Hardware Delivers Best Performance and Value

The Quantum H2000 Series uses the latest hardware to deliver the best performance at the best value, including PCIe 4.0, end-to-end 12G SAS connectivity, and DRAM write caching to deliver the best performance for high throughput low latency workloads, and the best value.

Intuitive User Interface for the Best User Experience

The H2000 Series is ideally suited for adding capacity to a StorNext File System environment, and in that use case StorNext 7 users can configure, monitor, and manage H2000 arrays directly from the StorNext 7 user interface.

For customers that deploy the H2000 Series as a block device in older StorNext File System environments, or as a standalone block storage device, the H2000 Series provides an intuitive, simple user interface that makes it easy to configure volumes, monitor system health and system performance.

Quantum QXS: Exceed Requirements, Stay Within Budget.

Architecting a storage infrastructure that supports increasing volumes of data and accessibility requirements, and doing so within budget, can be challenging. By offering higher levels of configurability than competitive storage arrays, and with the ability to create a storage environment that precisely supports individual workflow requirements, QXS™ storage arrays provide an optimal foundation on which to base your business operations.

StorNext Q-Series appliances are a scalable disk-based storage system with integrated archiving and tiering capabilities, StorNext provides users with a cost-effective solution to archive and protect their data, while still ensuring access when they need it. Available in four different models, the StorNext Q-Series is designed to deliver a blend of performance, scalability, and density. It easily handles bandwidth-intensive Big Data applications that require the highest levels of availability, reliability and security. With StorNext solutions for Big Data, your workflow immediately benefits from purpose-built storage optimized for organizations with high-performance and high-capacity primary disk needs.

With almost 100 CatDV projects completed so far, ALT Systems has deployed CatDV with traditional SAN and NAS storage, nearline and LTO archive systems, and cloud storage.

Unlike many other Media Asset Management systems, CatDV can start small and grow seamlessly: from small onsite teams of editors and producers, to hundreds of CatDV users across the enterprise and around the world. With its scalable and modular architecture, the CatDV product family has an offering that’s right for every user:

• CatDV Desktop Clients – provide a rich, fully functional media management interface, media ingest, playback and logging, nonlinear editor integration, systems administration, and configuration.
• CatDV Server – acts as the central clip and metadata repository, supports search across the database, enables collaboration between teams, and applies security and production groups permissions.
• Worker Node – is the CatDV automation engine. It can watch folders for new or changed media, perform ingest, import and export, xml publication, relocation, proxy generation, transcodes and file delivery. Part of its power comes from “server queries” (changes in the CatDV data) meaning complex workflows can be run from the CatDV clients or file system.
• CatDV Web Clients – CatDV Standard and Advanced browser clients provide remote access to the CatDV server from a web browser.
• CatDV Web Services, ‘Panel’ & Custom clients – use the CatDV REST and Javascript APIs to provide new user interfaces to CatDV plus to provide a further integration point for third party hardware, software, and services. Panels for Adobe creative tools and Tricaster further extend CatDV’s reach.

Exos CORVAULT is an intelligent, self-healing and self-managed storage system with hands-off performance.

• 1.9PB raw capacity.
• Up to 14GB/s sequential read, 12GB/s sequential write and 17,680 IOPS.
• Five-nines (99.999%) availability.
• Autonomous Drive Regeneration reduces human intervention and e-waste by automatically renewing hard drives on the fly.

The Exos X Series arrays

• Exos X 5U84 offers up to 1.51PB of data in a single 5U enclosure with throughputs reaching 7GB/s sequential read, and 5.5GB/s sequential write.
• Exos X 2U24 is the best price/performance system in its class at 320K maximum IOPS in a hybrid configuration.
• Exos X 2U12 entry-level cost for an all HDD configuration with up to 216TB of storage capacity in a 2U rack mount.

As a Telestream media systems integration partner, ALT Systems sells, integrates, and supports the full Telestream line:

• Vantage – Media Processing Platform
• ContentAgent – Automated file-based workflow management
• Lightspeed Server – GPU accelerated image processing
• DIVA | Kumulate – Content storage management
• TrafficManager – Ad ingest & management
• MacCaption | CaptionMaker – Captioning & subtitling software
• Vidchecker | Aurora – File-based QC
• Switch – Video player & encoder with inspection and correction
• GLIM – Play pro media in browser

As a Telestream media systems integration partner, ALT Systems sells, integrates, and supports the full Telestream line:

• Video Test Solutions – Monitoring & measurement for broadcast applications
• PRISM – Hybrid SDI & IP monitoring for live, post-production, QC
• Waveform Monitors – SDI only monitoring for live, post, QC and engineering
• Sync Generators & Reference Clock – SPG, TG, ECO products for SDI and IP timing
• MPEG/PQA Analyzer – MTSA MPEG analyzer & PQA picture quality
• Inspect 2110 – Video monitoring for ST 2110

As a Telestream media systems integration partner, ALT Systems sells, integrates, and supports the full Telestream line:

• cPAR – Analytics & reporting
• iVMS ASM – Real-time aggregation & correlation
• PLM – Product deployment manager
• Medius – Sentry manager
• Inspect 2110 – SMPTE 2110 QoS monitoring
• Inspector LIVE – In-depth content QoE monitoring
• Sentry– High-volume content QoE monitoring
• Surveyor ABR Publishing – ABR publishing monitoring
• Surveyor ABR Intra-CDN – CDN performance monitoring
• Surveyor ABR Active – ABR streaming QoE & QoS monitoring
• Surveyor ABR Edge Client – ABR client session monitoring
• Surveyor TS | Sentry Verify – Transport Stream QoS monitoring

As a Telestream media systems integration partner, ALT Systems sells, integrates, and supports the full Telestream line:

• Transform – Advanced media transformation in the cloud
• Stream Monitor – Correlated end-to-end video monitoring
• Vantage Cloud Port – Power of Vantage. Simplicity of SaaS
• Quality Control – Automated quality control
• Timed Text Speech – Auto-transcription
• Flip – Transcoding in the cloud

Unlock Your Data’s Potential with Seagate Lyve Cloud

Seagate Lyve Cloud offers a simple, trusted, and efficient S3-compatible object storage solution built for today’s data-intensive world. Experience the freedom of predictable pricing with no surprise egress or API fees, allowing you to scale your storage effortlessly without vendor lock-in.

Lyve Cloud is designed for mass data, providing robust security, high durability, and always-on availability for your most demanding workloads. Whether you’re managing backups and disaster recovery, powering AI and machine learning projects, centralizing edge data, or building cloud-native applications, Lyve Cloud delivers a cost-effective and flexible foundation for your multicloud strategy. ² Take control of your data and activate its full value with Seagate Lyve Cloud.

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Introducing Lyve Mobile from Seagate, a high capacity storage solution enabling production houses to manage data workflows more efficiently.

Meet the needs of data capture, archive, copy, and access for remote production and post-production projects with more capacity and less transfer time.

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Lyve Mobile Benefits:

• Store data anywhere and move it everywhere.
• Transfer mass data sets quickly, even in environments that lack bandwidth.
• Pay for only what is needed, when it is needed.
• Option to upload data to Seagate’s Lyve Cloud storage as a service. Lyve Cloud allows customers to move data into, around, and out without paying hefty fees for egress or API calls.

Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K is a revolution in digital film with a 12,288 x 6480 12K Super 35 sensor and 14 stops of dynamic range, built into the award winning URSA Mini body.

The combination of 80 megapixels per frame, new color science and the flexibility of Blackmagic RAW makes working with 12K a reality. Oversampling from 12K gives you the best 8K and 4K images with the subtle skin tones and extraordinary detail of high end still cameras.

You can shoot at 60 fps in 12K, 120 fps in 8K and up to 240 fps in 4K Super 16. URSA Mini Pro 12K features an interchangeable PL mount, as well as built in ND filters, dual CFast and UHS-II SD card recorders, a SuperSpeed USB-C expansion port and more. DaVinci Resolve Studio is included for creative control through post from editing to color, VFX and more!

Avid Edit on Demand is NEXIS Cloud storage and Media Composer running securely in Microsoft Azure – leveraging cloud compute, storage, and bandwidth.

Edit On Demand auto-provisions the resources needed to quickly spin up a complete virtualized editing solution that provides the elasticity, scalability, and accessibility that the cloud affords. Users access Media Composer through a secure thin client and easily upload and download content using accelerated file transfer.

• A full virtual post-production environment in the cloud.
• Cloud-optimized Media Composer software and Avid NEXIS storage.
• Set up a full cloud-based editing environment within hours.
• Enable true remote collaboration.
• Share and store media securely.

As an Avid Elite Solutions Partner, the ALT Systems Sales Team is ready to help you discover the flexible advantages of Edit on Demand. We can also help you evaluate Avid Nexis storage, Media Central asset management, or Avid’s Audio product line.

Colorfront Streaming player runs on Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and AppleTV.

For video monitoring, you can connect a consumer monitor via the HDMI output of the Apple M1 Mac Mini directly, or to an Apple XDR Pro display via Thunderbolt 3.

Colorfront Streaming Player also supports the Blackmagic Design UltraStudio 4K Mini, as well as the AJA T-Tap Pro, both inexpensive small form-factor Thunderbolt connected professional video output solutions, with 4K HDR video output via both 12G-SDI and HDMI. Upto 16 channels of embedded audio are available via SDI, or upto 8 channels via HDMI.

AJA T-Tap Pro also supports Dolby Vision output via HDMI to a consumer display, such as an LG OLED.

Supported Mac hardware includes:

• M1 Mac Mini.
• M1 iMac.
• M1 MacBook Pro.
• Mac Pro with optional Apple Pro Display XDR.
• iPhone
• iPad Pro

Seagate CORTX: A Revolution in Open Source Mass Capacity Object Storage.

CORTX is a mass capacity object storage data platform co-developed with Seagate’s best in-class mass-capacity storage devices. Seagate is making CORTX open source with a view to making hyperscale storage capabilities accessible and affordable for all businesses and organizations. Doing so will ensure that the improved economics of our mass-capacity devices are delivered efficiently to end users while saving at-risk data.

CORTX is:

• 100% Open Source – Community-driven design delivers faster access to innovations while open source code can be tailored to your use case.
• Exabyte Scale Capacity – Get lightning-fast access to data with exabyte-scale software that improves with storage media scalability and efficiency.
• High Availability – Optimized for HDD capacity growth, data durability, and recovery.
• Easily Deployable – Get the tested and supported version of CORTX bundled with our converged infrastructure solution, Lyve Drive^™ Rack.

Contact ALT Systems to download CORTEX and learn how you can leverage Open Source Mass Capacity Object Storage today.

Spectra Vail^® is a breakthrough cloud data management software solution for the multi-cloud world. Vail unifies all of your data, allowing you to leverage on-prem applications and native cloud services, no matter where your data is created or stored.

With so many public clouds, so many object storage platforms and so many applications, a solution is needed that makes everything available in a single managed storage platform without vendor lock-in.

Vail provides a user experience that is built utilizing Amazon® Web Services (AWS®), meaning that users familiar with AWS will have an easy transition to Spectra’s Vail software. Vail’s multi- synchronization capability manages cloud and on-premises storage repositories so that customers can direct users to either type of storage based on that user’s locality and performance requirements, all under a single pane of glass management user interface (UI). Vail enables workflows that leverage the flexibility and agility of cloud services while keeping data locally when
needed, allowing egress optimization for lowest cost and fastest access from available storage.

For datasets that are on-premises, Vail can synchronize them to public cloud storage enabling public cloud applications to leverage the same data as on-premises applications.

Leverage on-premises applications and cloud services

• Integrate on-prem data with cloud services
• Right-size your cloud storage footprint
• Obtain serverless cloud-based management
• Access public cloud agility for on-prem infrastructure

Move data between platforms and clouds managing egress costs

• Easliy move data to the cloud provider that meets your data needs
•  Avoid cloud lock-in – Cloud cost control
• Optimize data egress for lowest cost and fastest access
• Seamless support for On-Prem Glacier* storage

Unify and simplify storage across on-prem, multiple clouds and storage platforms

• On-prem and cloud storage integration across multiple clouds and sites
• Single global namespace – across multi-cloud and mutli-site environments
• Multi-directional data synchronization across clouds and on-prem
• Configurable policy engine manages data across multiple clouds and sites
• Data policy management accomplished at bucket level

Integrates public cloud services into your distributed workflow

• Local storage and cloud service capability through seamless hybrid workflows
• Data accessibility independent of data’s physical location
• Secure, central repository for long-term preservation and disaster recovery
• Asset placement where it is needed

Avid NEXIS | EDGE is a new remote proxy media workflow that extends the power of Avid’s proven, collaborative production tools. Users get the same media access, workflow, and user experience as if they were editing at a brick & mortar facility. And with the Avid NEXIS | EDGE web client, team members can find, organize, storyboard, edit, and review content at the facility, at home, or on location, extending the limits of what’s possible.

• Work from Anywhere – Edit remotely leveraging the known and trusted resources of your facility and get the same experience as editing in-house. Change location without changing your workflow—even when disconnected from the Internet. And browse, search, organize, log, share, play, edit, and review content using just a web browser, expanding collaboration to your extended team.
• Work with Anyone – Expand your distributed workforce worldwide to bring in the talent you want, no matter where they live or how they prefer to work, with collaborative remote video editing workflows. As projects ramp up or down, you can scale your team quickly and easily as needed, without constraint or physical boundaries.
• Create with the Tools you Love – Nothing new to learn. Avid NEXIS | EDGE works with Media Composer | Enterprise, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Avid NEXIS storage, so you can stay focused and in your creative groove. Share bins and projects and collaborate with the comfort and familiarity you’re accustomed to—regardless of location—to complete projects faster together.
• Uncomplicate your Workflow – With its cutting-edge zero-relink workflow, you can quickly switch from working on proxy to high-res media—or vice-versa—with a simple selection. Move from editing to finishing and review with less stress. And go from working at the facility to working at home without the headaches.