RadiantGrid Technologies has integrated the parallel Cinnafilm Pixel Strings image processing engine into the RadiantGrid Platform. Leveraging NVIDIA’s (News - Alert) CUDA technology, Cinnafilm’s benchmark software, Dark Energy, has become a plug-in for all existing RadiantGrid installations.
Cinnafilm is an Albuquerque, New Mexico-based specialty engineering company focused on creating the powerful, reliable and simple-to-use texture control and resampling image processing solutions.
The integration brings some of the most advanced motion estimation-based image optimization and format conversion technologies available to the grid-based transcoding software from RadiantGrid, said the company.
“The proliferation of our software expertise into many platforms is what our SDK and software was built for. We are excited to bring RadiantGrid into our family of growing partners and we look forward to expanding our future product sets into their unique grid-based transcoding architecture,” stated Chris Gorman, CTO of Cinnafilm, Inc.
“As clients of transcoding companies like RadiantGrid become more aware of bitrate-budget and how to maximize image quality within their budget, Cinnafilm’s effectiveness and adaptability become essential to delivering images that are both free of imperfections and can fulfill any format requirement,” Gorman added.
Starting with the building blocks created by the powerful Pixel Strings video processing engine, Dark Energy rebuilds every frame to the exact specification directed by the user. Whether the desire is to de-noise, standards convert, frame rate convert, simulate film, or retime video, the company said Dark Energy provides an unequalled level of precision and speed in software designed for conversion/optimization.
Created with video engineers and cinematographers in mind, Dark Energy is equal parts scientific and creative; having the ability to visualize needs/vision immediately without rendering.
“The addition of Cinnafilm Dark Energy video processing to the RadiantGrid Platform is furthering our initiative to provide our users with the best tools to speed up their file-based workflows,” commented Kirk Marple, president, chief software architect, RadiantGrid Technologies. “Since Cinnafilm’s video processing modules are GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) -based, they fit seamlessly into the RadiantGrid Platform. Dark Energy is able to perform grain and noise management, pulldown removal and frame rate conversion faster, much like our grid-based transcoding, and with better quality than other software out there in the market.”
Cinnafilm Dark Energy technology for RadiantGrid is available through Cinnafilm, RadiantGrid and their respective resellers globally.
RadiantGrid Platform offers workflow management, multiplatform transcoding, storage management, metadata indexing, and file-based ingestion into a scalable, extensible, future-proof solution that manages the media transformation lifecycle for companies of any size.
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