ASSIMILATE Announces the Availability of SCRATCH 5.2

ASSIMILATE, a leading provider of powerful post-production tools for digital workflows, announced today the immediate availability of SCRATCH 5.2, the industry’s most comprehensive digital cinema and broadcast imaging tool for dailies, conforming, color grading and finishing. SCRATCH 5.2 offers new features that allow post-production artists to boost their creativity and productivity in both the grading and finishing of complex projects as well as the dailies workflow.

New 5.2 Features for Finishing

• Improved stereo 3D-specific features:
• An S-Lock feature that allows artists to keep a left eye/right eye dual-view configuration, while interactively selecting which stream to grade, sync or visually manipulate. This unique feature brings a far more intuitive approach to stereoscopic color grading.
• Convergence, scaling, and versioning that enable a streamlined, highly efficient 3D pipeline.
• Supported output to any one of the available stereo patterns: side by side, over/under, line interleave, checkerboard, or anaglyph. This enables post-production facilities to be more competitive by offering a broader range of output options to their clients.
• A Consolidate function that seamlessly archives only the conformed media elements of a project into a centralized directory, even when the original files exist in different locations across a network. This function not only saves time when retrieving archived project elements, but dramatically lowers storage hardware costs.

New 5.2 Features for Dailies Production and Viewing

• New additions for RED-based productions allow directors, DPs, and post artists virtually unlimited creativity and flexibility in the dailies process. These features include:
• Association of metadata based on shots rather than tracks
• Ability to easily update R3D settings across multiple clips at once
• Support for the REDlogFilm Gamma.
• Support for auto-sync of Broadcast Wave files (including calculation of slip values) to significantly improve the efficiency of the dailies workflow.

John “Pliny” Eremic, partner, chief operating officer and director of post production at Offhollywood (NYC) – “We rely exclusively on SCRATCH to grade finish feature films like The Rabbit Hole and Fair Game. SCRATCH is the only system we’ve used that gives us the benefits of real-time performance up to 4K resolution, best-in-class color grading, and powerful 3D stereo features. We’re excited about SCRATCH 5.2 because features such as the Consolidate function and Broadcast Wave syncing have the potential to really streamline our workflow, increase our productivity and save us significant money in hardware.”

“SCRATCH 5.2 is keenly focused on the critical and ongoing trade-offs our customers make between time, project quality, and budgets,” said Steve Bannerman, VP of marketing at ASSIMILATE. “By significantly streamlining workflows and enabling increased productivity, SCRATCH allows artists and post-production facilities to be more creative and competitive in today’s challenging landscape of shrinking budgets and rising customer expectations.”

Price and Availability

SCRATCH 5.2 is available immediately. Current SCRATCH users with maintenance contracts can upgrade their SCRATCH system by visiting Software download and licensing information:
www.assimilatesupport.com.

For a demo, pricing, and configurations of SCRATCH v5.2, contact your local SCRATCH reseller. For a list of contacts for ASSIMILATE direct sales and resellers, see www.assimilateinc.com.