Overview

The Truelight system is modular and extensible, allowing it to scale from a single system to a complete studio. It allows management and adjustment at any level of complexity: from the simplest of technical requirements to the most exacting.

• Truelight SDI
  
  Stand-alone, real-time, accurate monitor calibration and print emulation on any HD display or digital projection system.
• Truelight Probes
  
  Designed to calibrate high contrast motion picture images on digital projectors, or graphics and broadcast monitors.
• Truelight On-Set
  
  Provides calibrated Truelight assurance to directors and cinematographers in the on-set environment, as well as ensuring a clear and accurate communication channel for the calibrated 'look' back into post-production.
• Truelight Plugins
  
  Plugins allow you to accurately preview film images on your computer display directly from within compositing packages. Plugins are available for Apple Shake™, Adobe After Effects™, The Foundry's NUKE™ and Eyeon Digital Fusion®.

Datasheets

Truelight SDI

Truelight Probes

Truelight On-Set

Truelight Plugins

Real-time colour transformation

Truelight SDI provides stand-alone, real-time, accurate monitor calibration and print emulation on any HD display or digital projection system.

Designed to fit in-line into an HD stream, Truelight SDI allows you to select one of 15 stored Truelight 3D colour cubes and apply it to the image stream.

Truelight SDI is sited downstream from an HD colour corrector or an HD DDR. The output is fed to an HD monitor or digital projector to visualise the calibrated images exactly as they would appear on a film print, removing the need to process film-outs to review how the data will print. Truelight SDI can also provide a real-time render of calibrated HD/SD deliverables from a graded master.

The SDI unit supports all current HD formats in 8- or 10-bit YUV or dual link RGB, as well as SD.

Datasheets

Truelight SDI

To accurately visualise images you need a display device that is correctly calibrated. The Truelight Projector Probe and Truelight Monitor Probe are designed to calibrate high contrast motion picture images on digital projectors, or graphics and broadcast monitors.

Truelight Monitor Probe

The Truelight Monitor Probe is positioned against the screen without using a suction clamp, avoiding screen marking or damage, especially important in the case of plasma devices, and automatically operated from the Truelight Calibrate software. The software can be used to aid setting up monitor controls such as geometry, purity and colour temperature. Together with the probe, Truelight Calibrate can characterise the performance of the monitor and generate corrections for the Truelight 3D Cube.

Truelight Projector Probe

The Truelight Projector Probe is very simple to use; its point-and-shoot functionality is not sensitive to its position and angle to the projector screen, and the integrated laser target makes it easy to select the part of the screen that you want to measure.

It contains a colorimeter and a spectrometer so that highlights and shadows can be measured simultaneously.

As the Truelight Projector Probe is fully integrated with the Truelight software, and contains a spectrometer, a single device can be used for projector setup, quality control (so that you can easily check the brightness of your digital projectors on a regular basis), and calibration.

Datasheets

Truelight Probes

Colour correct from set to post-production

Truelight On-Set provides calibrated Truelight assurance to directors and cinematographers in the on-set environment, as well as ensuring a clear and accurate communication channel for the calibrated 'look' back into post-production.

It enables the production team to accurately visualise their shots on-set on a calibrated HD display, whatever the camera colourspace, and to easily determine exposure levels. The team can also review shots and set the 'look' of the show, performing basic colour correction on location. This provides guaranteed confidence that a shot will work as well as providing control of the look directly from set into post-production.

Truelight On-Set is simple to operate with a familiar interface, allowing directors and cinematographers access to the tool set without any specialised training. All of this means that what you see on-set is an accurate representation of how the images will look in the final release.

On-set monitoring

For monitoring while shooting, Truelight On-Set applies a colour transform between the camera and monitors. Colour grades, set in pre-production or on previous shoots, can also be applied and then further adjusted during shooting.

Dailies review

When reviewing dailies on-location, primary colour corrections performed by a colourist at a post-production house do not have to be burned in—the dailies can remain uncorrected, with the colour correction data provided live and changeable. These post-production grades can be replicated live within the Truelight On-Set system, reviewed and adjusted, and then returned to the post-production colourist by means of an ASC CDL list. This allows for a collaborative dailies review session with the ability to clearly communicate intent back and forth between production and post-production teams.

Datasheets

Truelight On-Set

White papers

Truelight On-Set

The following items are required but not supplied:

• Apple Mac laptop or workstation
  2GB RAM
  Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard or later
• Ethernet cable to connect the Mac to the hardware unit.
• HD-SDI video coax cables to connect input and output devices to the hardware unit.

Enhanced preview functionality

Truelight plugins allow you to accurately preview film images on your computer display directly from within compositing packages. Plugins are available for Adobe After Effects™, The Foundry's NUKE™ and Eyeon Digital Fusion®.

Generic Truelight

NUKE automatically includes a generic Truelight plugin, enabling general calibration of the monitor using a 'by-eye' tool. Print emulation is provided via a selection of typical output profiles.

For increased functionality, the full Truelight plugin can be added to Adobe After Effects, NUKE, and Digital Fusion (using After Effects plugin host emulation).

Calibrated Truelight

For a more exacting calibrated environment, the full Truelight plugin includes control software for the Truelight Monitor and Projector Probes to allow you to characterise any display, combine the data with the output LUT, and create a custom 3D LUT that can then be applied to the preview render.

Truelight plugins can use the same colour profiles as other Truelight-aware systems and allow you to accurately calibrate compositing workstations across platforms, operating systems and physical locations.

Datasheets

Truelight Plugins

Third party product information

• Adobe After Effects
• The Foundry's NUKE
• Eyeon Digital Fusion

Truelight plugins are available on the following platforms.

*Plugin available using After Effects plugin emulation.