RV 3.6 features 2K Uncompressed Playback from Disk, Remote Sync, HDR LUTs, Stereo 3D and More

Tweak Software, developers of RV, the
image and sequence viewer for animation and visual effects, announced today
the release of a significant new version. New features introduced with RV
3.6 include: 2K uncompressed playback from disk, remote sync, HDR LUTs, and
a Package System for RV scripts and other extensions.
Tweak Software released RV one year ago, and it has already been adopted by
leading VFX and CG animation studios such as Industrial Light & Magic, Weta
Digital, Tippett Studio, and LAIKA. The key to its success is that RV is a
professional, high-performance product built on an open, extensible
architecture allowing users to adapt the software to their own pipelines
and styles of working.
“LAIKA successfully used Tweak’s RV toward the end of production on
Coraline,” commented Tony Aiello, Software R&D Manager at LAIKA. “We found
the combination of stability, clean interface, pipeline integration
features, and stereoscopic playback really met our needs. We were also very
pleased with the outstanding customer support. After that experience and
evaluation of other alternatives, LAIKA’s entertainment division has now
standardized on RV as our default studio playback solution.”

Seth Rosenthal, President and co-founder of Tweak explained, “We set out to
make a playback tool that would convince the industry leaders to set aside
proprietary players for a commercial product, and that is what has
happened. RV’s extensibility makes it unique. All of the source code for
RV’s UI and control logic comes with the program. Users can easily create
new features, control RV remotely, or even embed RV in their own
proprietary applications.”

According to Alan Trombla, Tweak’s Director of Product Development
“Extensibility changes the entire support relationship so that users are
not held hostage to a vendor’s development schedule. RV 3.6 pushes this to
next level.”

“During the beta cycle for this release, one customer asked for the ability
to use identical RV session files on Linux, Windows and OS X, even though
the media path is different on each platform. We spent an hour or so
writing an RV Package to translate file paths on the fly, and we put it on
the website so all users could download and adapt it to their own
environment. You can’t do that with a black-box application,” concluded
Trombla.

RV is currently available directly through Tweak Software,
www.tweaksoftware.com at the price of $299 per node locked license and $369
per floating license. RV comes with RVIO, a batch image processing tool for
converting files and publishing dailies, and RVLS, an image properties
inspector. To schedule a demonstration of RV 3.6 at SIGGRAPH 2009, please
send an email to info@tweaksoftware.com.

About RV
RV is a real-time, film resolution, high-dynamic-range image and sequence
viewer for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The application also includes
native support for stereo 3D, Remote Sync, 2K uncompressed playback from
disk, and HDR LUTs. RV combines a flexible architecture with a lean,
polished design tailored to professional digital artists. Free downloadable
trial versions of the software are available upon request at
www.tweaksoftware.com.