Tuesday was pretty much spent walking around the show floor. There’s so many booths and so much stuff to see it’s often quite a challenge to decide where to stop and chat. Here’s a few of the things that caught my attention.

Iridias Speed Grade OnSet  looked like a nice tool to use on-set for establishing looks and beginning the process of color grading. It supports most common look files that can be exported to a number of different grading system. It looked like a great solution to use on the shoot if you aren’trelying on only RED tools and a RED-centric workflow (though it probably would work in those pipelines). It doesn’t export a RED-look file but it does export most everything else.

Coremelt was showing their V2 update of its entire product line. With V2 the Coremelt plug-ins have moved from the Noise Industies FxFactory engine to their own engine. This new engine allows for some very intuitive controls that didn’t exist before.

All the high-speed camera talks always goes to the Phantom camera but there’s also the Photron. They are on the show floor and I saw the Photron Fastcam SA2. It can shoot 1080i at 2000 frames per second. Apparently Photron has been associated with scientific applications more than television so maybe that’s one reason they were at NAB.

Both Gluetools and MXF4Macare software tools that allow a Final Cut Pro editor to play content directly on an FCP timeline that ISN”T a .mov file. It’s entirely possible so it’s the powers-that-be that won’t allow Final Cut Pro to natively support formats other than a .mov wrapper … not the application’s technology.

Oh, and da Vinci had a little Macintosh laptop sitting in the corner of their booth running a software version of its Resolve software. Just a demo and not a real and shipping product but cool to see.