CinéWave offers the scalability and flexibility that you demand from an award-winning content creation system. Designed with the future in mind, CinéWave delivers both true uncompressed video and real-time effects at a fraction of the price of competing products today.

CinéWave Classic is ideal for creating graphic intensive intros, outros, IDs, and promos. It is uniquely suited for broadcast designers or editors that already have Final Cut Pro and Commotion Pro. CinéWave Classic delivers the same clean, uncompressed quality as all CinéWave products and easily integrates with a variety of QuickTime native applications including Commotion Pro, After Effects, combustion, and Pro Tools. QuickTime video-out support for NTSC/PAL and HD is provided on demand through the standard QuickTime Movie Player or in Commotion Pro, After Effects, or combustion through their native QuickTime viewer or RAM preview. You can even simultaneously play out to tape up to four 10-bit uncompressed SD streams or two 10-bit uncompressed SD streams and one uncompressed HD stream, using CinéWave’s standard dual Digital Tethers.™

All CinéWave solutions include the new, robust CinéAcquire™ application and plug-in module for Commotion Pro and After Effects. CinéAcquire allows you to quickly and easily do everything from grab a frame to batch capture with complete RS-422 deck and device control in NTSC/PAL and widely used HD formats.

CinéWave SD and CinéWave Classic provide numerous capabilities for acquisition, post-production, and delivery in many formats, including: DV, DigiBeta, uncompressed 601, PAL, NTSC, 4:3, 16:9, and Web. You always have the option to upgrade to CinéWave RT or CinéWave HD without changing the underlying system configuration.

The CinéWave SD system includes:

• TARGA Ciné Engine (PCI card)
  
• CinéAcquire
  
• CinéOffline
  
• GeeThree Stealth Serial Port
  
• Pipeline Digital RS-422 Device Control Cable
  
• Final Cut Pro
  
• Commotion Pro
  
• Knoll Light Factory
  
• Pro Analog or Pro Digital Breakout Box
  
  

The CinéWave Classic system includes:

• TARGA Ciné Engine (PCI card)
  
• CinéAcquire*
  
• CinéOffline
  
• GeeThree Stealth Serial Port
  
• Pipeline Digital RS-422 Device Control Cable
  
• Pro Analog or Pro Digital Breakout Box

For more information, please see CinéWave's hardware and software specifications.

In order to upgrade to CinéWave RT, simply purchase the CinéWave RT software upgrade. There is no learning curve associated with the increased power that you will achieve at this next level, as the Final Cut Pro interface remains the same and there are no new modules to learn. With CinéWave RT, you can composite two uncompressed video tracks and two uncompressed graphic tracks with alpha channels – in real-time. In fact, you can even add multiple keyframeable filters (e.g. Brightness and Contrast; Color Balance; Sepia, Tint, Desaturate, Proc Amp, and Gamma Correction, etc.) and motion controls (e.g. Crop, Scale, Center, Anchor Points, Opacity, etc.) to each track of uncompressed footage.

Unlike systems using preview effects, CinéWave RT’s real-time powered effects and transitions can be mastered to tape without rendering. The result is greater productivity and uninterrupted creative workflow. CinéWave RT means power to create with the speed, quality, and control you deserve. There is no longer a need to compromise for the sake of cost. Now you can create the best looking images in a fraction of the time.

What are CinéWave RT users saying?
“CinéWave RT is like having an entire post house in a box. I have an engineering facility with thousands of square feet whose capabilities have essentially been reduced to a single card. The great thing about CinéWave is that it just keeps getting better. I’ve got million dollar systems that gather dust after a year or two. CinéWave continues to become more powerful and valuable.”

David Seeger, CEO of Today Video

It is easy to upgrade to CinéWave HD. All you need to do is purchase a new breakout box. Your CinéWave system can then handle uncompressed 1080i/30, 1080i/25, 1080p/24, and even 1080p/23.98 FPS for true 23.976 editing support in Final Cut Pro. There is also limited support for 720p. Unique to CinéWave is the ability to simultaneously output uncompressed SD and HD content. This is a huge time saver when you need to send SD review copies of your HD work-in-progress.

CinéWave HD supports true 24-frame film editing from acquisition to distribution. Editing at 24 FPS means there is no need for error prone, time consuming, frame rate conversions. In fact, with CinéOffline, you can even maintain 24 FPS in the offline mode. Of course, if you prefer to edit in 29.97 FPS, CinéWave also supports this format.

Quote from a CinéWave HD User:
“Why do we use CinéWave HD? For the first time we can finally edit in our native HD format of 23.976 fps right here in-house using our non-linear editing system. No one besides Pinnacle Systems has got this figured out. Not having to struggle with repeated conversions between 29.97 and 23.976 means no more slipped frames, out-of-sync audio, and frame count discrepancies - basically no more hassles. It's great to be able to do speed changes in-house and know that everything will work the first time without the stuttering introduced in machine-based online bays. It is so wonderful to know that a finished segment will look exactly the way we intended it to.

With CinéWave HD we have eliminated our dependency on scarce time on expensive online editing bays. Now we do color correction, play with camera moves, composite, and much more - all in house. Our workflow has been streamlined and the cost savings are tremendous.”

Barrett Sanders
Editor for "Living with Monsters"
Evergreen Films www. evergreenfilms.com