During NAB Assimilate gave attendees a sneak peek at how its DI color system SCRATCH, currently in version 6, and the newer on-set digital dailies and review software SCRATCH Lab will evolve in upcoming versions. Said the company's Steve Bannerman, the next versions will feature an exanded toolset for the already merging skillsets of DITs, VFX artists, colorists and editors both on or near set and in post. The next versions of the software, he added, will include a deeper set of 2D and 3D compositing tools that work in tandem with SCRATCH's already robust and real-time media management and color grading toolkit.
In its first booth on the show floor, Assimilate also officially announced support for Sony's F65 and announced new support for AMD's Radeon HD 5770 and 5870 graphics cards on the Mac OS X versions of existing SCRATCH and SCRATCH Lab releases. Assimilate's CEO Jeff Edson told us that the OpenCL support of the AMD cards rounds out the existing options for GPU and playback, including AJA's Kona SDI and NVIDIA Quadro cards.
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I’ve always thought Scratch was super powerful–and, like a certain superhero, rendered completely flaccid and powerless by its particular version of kryptonite: its interface (and its programmers-running-the-company pigheadedness in being unwilling to conform to ANY interface conventions in favor of their own clunky, asinine saying of doing things). The idea of doing 3D compositing within that nightmare conglomeration of irrational and arbitrary workflow kaka they call an interface is enough to make me shiver with a kind of dread/anticipation I usually reserve for the latest gossip on Charlie Sheen.
Sounds like you are a real fan there! Scratch has been around though, try edictive.com but maybe it not what you are after. Its not the same idea.