Baselight Software Features

New features in Baselight 4.1 include:

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Native support of RED camera content with full control of metadata
Direct control of all telecine features, including noise reduction, on DFT Digital Film Technology Spirit DataCine®|Spirit HD| Spirit 2K|Spirit 4K and Shadow Telecine™ systems
Collaborative workflow with Avid® product ranges including AAF import|export, direct MXF reading and writing|reconform of multi-track timelines
Export an Autodesk DLEDL to load into Autodesk Flame|Smoke
Film restoration workflow allows grading in Baselight with simultaneous restoration in PFClean from The Pixel Farm

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Import from CMX3600, AAF or FilmLight EDLs, or Apple™ Final Cut Pro™ XML EDLs
Manually insert multiple sequences simultaneously, including QuickTime, MXF and R3D files
Filter media search on template, file type and|or metadata
Re-conform from revised EDL maintaining grade events and keyframes
Scene detect on long-form content

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Access to local storage of other Baselight systems in a networked cloud across 10GigE fabric; Baselight Assist seats can conform and prepare media on remote systems with optimised streaming access to high resolution images
Flux provides powerful tools to manage image data, and detects removable media on remote machines
All Baselight storage is NFS-mountable by Linux, OS X and Windows clients, so third-party applications can directly dust bust, repair and composite material used in the Baselight scene

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Unlimited primary and secondary grades
Secondary grading through combined chroma|luma keys, multiple soft-edged shapes and imported mattes
All controls fully keyframeable
Grouped grading allows simultaneous grading of multiple shots
Film-style grading tool, calibrated in printer points with full control over toe, shoulder and gamma
Video grade including customisable layout and RGB interpolation for keyframing
Curve grade with keyframeable spline-based editing of image parameters in RGB and HSL
Technical grade allows mapping of full range printing density data into video for telecine-style grading
Looks generated with Truelight to measure real-world processes
Blend modes, e.g. Darken, Screen, Overlay
Glow plugin for popular post-production lighting effects
Diffuse soften filter softens skin tones
Shuffle plugin maps output colour channels to input channels
Third-party filters via OFX support
Advanced free-form matte shape features
Independent matte overlay viewing modes for each cursor
One and two-point auto-tracking of shapes|edges

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Per-user, per-job reference gallery contains image sequences and complete grading stacks
Cutview shows all shots in a scene and enables rapid navigation, preview and ‘drag & drop’ grading
Scratchpad for fast and simple storage and retrieval of grade settings from Blackboard
Extensive timeline editing functions including group, copy, move, trim and delete
Automatic, contextual selection of timeline elements
Multiple-view modes to view multiple cursors simultaneously
Flexible automatic caching gives full playback performance of even the most complex grades
‘Cascadeable’ dynamic pan and scan for reframing and reformatting of output
Timeline sort by tape name, timecode and|or filename
Shots View provides a CMX3600 EDL-style view of the sequences contributing to a scene

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Fully threaded independent renderer, taking full advantage of multi-processor capability—with floating point GPU renderer on upgraded systems
Render to cache, enabling scenes to be cached up without waiting for them to play through
Render tasks may be offloaded to a central server
Render farm support (e.g. Alfred, Rush)
Render out QuickTime and AVI movies with audio

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Support for formats with non-square pixel aspect ratios—e.g. CinemaScope
Formats can be freely mixed within a scene or project
Format-dependent masks and safe areas
Standard and user-defined transforms for format conversion—e.g. Super35 to CinemaScope
Multiple output formats and deliverables from a single timeline
HD monitoring on reference display
Film to HD transforms via built-in Truelight
Audio ingest, record and playback
Links with Northlight scans for an integrated DI pipeline with use of IR data for repair work
External scripting for specific user tasks
Define workspaces for different tasks, such as grading or conform—pre-defined workspaces for large Gallery|Cutview
Setups save options including types of IO operations and display settings in named configurations
Persistent, unlimited undo|redo system

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Integrated video handling from timeline, including deck control
Background ingest and playout of SD or HD video from Baselight or standalone VTRE; VTRE can be run on a separate machine to the main application