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Description

Pdplayer is an advanced sequence player capable of playing movie clips and image sequences for the purposes of quality control. Its approach on handling information allows it to play multiple sequences and apply corrections in real time. Even though Pdplayer is a reviewing tool its wide range of capabilities allows it to be used for basic compositing and editing.

As a contemporary sequence player Pdplayer supports all the industry standard file formats including HDR, EXR, CIN, DPX, SGI, TGA, VRIMG, PIC and more. You can also use Pdplayer to view the different channels of EXR and VRIMG files. However it’s most important feature is its layered sequence playback which means that Pdplayer caches each sequence or movie clip on an independent layer. This way of handling information allows for multiple layers to be played simultaneously while applying changes in real time. You can fully control the way layers are composed together and how they are set in the time line. You can also scale each layer independently and change the aspect ratio independently or globally for all layers. Pdplayer allows you to move layers in an infinite work space.

Pdplayer allows for basic color corrections to be made in real time . These include gamma, contrast, hue and saturation as well as the exposure and soft – clip for high dynamic range images. All these options are explained in Section IV.5. Pdplayer also supports several color blending modes which can be applied in real time. With Pdplayer’s extended alpha support you can assign any channel from a given layer as an alpha channel for another layer. Further more Pdplayer supports the depth channel of EXR, RLA, RPF file formats. The different blending and alpha modes are explained in Section IV.5.c.

Pdplayer offers several specific layer types to speed up your work. (Section VI.1). The Brush Layer and Brush Sequence Layer allow you to put notes on your compositions. You can use the Adjustment Layer to make color corrections to several layers simultaneously. Finally the Embedded Image Layer allows you to paste the contents of the clipboard directly in your composition.

With Pdplayer you can save you work in several different ways. You can export the whole composition or just a single layer as a sequence of images or as an AVI/Quicktime movie. You can save the composition into Pdplayer’s specific file format (Section III.3). or export your composition to either Adobe After Effects JSX script, The Foundry Nuke script or Pdplayer Command File (Section III.4).

Pdplayer’s extensive command support (Section VIII.1) allows it to be integrated into any production pipeline. You can also assign single commands as well as series of commands or macros to a short key combination thus speeding up the work process. Another important feature of Pdplayer is that it can play sequences on external devices allowing you to preview your work on a broadcast monitor (Section IV.2). Finally you can use Pdplayer’s built-in http server (Section VII) to easily show your partners or clients the result of your work.

Features

Viewing Sequences

• • Multiple ways to open a sequence: double click, Open With » Pdplayer, drag and drop, copy and paste, File » Add Layer, File » Add Recent
• • Industry standard file format support including EXR, HDR, DPX, CIN, TGA, SGI, IFF, PIC, VRIMG and more
• • RED R3D support
• • Variable framerate playback
• • Horizontal and vertical flip
• • Depth channel
• • Viewing a single channel
• • Global zoom, pan and pixel aspect
• • Mask and safe area
• • Timecode/frame indicator modes
• • Locating a frame in Windows Explorer

Stereoscopic Playback

• • Option to detect matching footage and automatically build a stereoscopic composition
• • Anaglyph, interlaced and checkerboard output
• • Support for stereoscopic EXR (SXR) files

Image Layers and Channels

• • Support for EXR and VRIMG image layers
• • Per-layer image channel support including alpha, luma and depth

Color

• • Support for 1D and 3D lookup tables (LUT)
• • Exposure and soft clip controls for high dynamic range images
• • Color controls including lift, gamma, gain, brightness, contrast, hue and saturation
• • Adjustment Layer

Comparing Sequences

• • Toggle upper layer (V)
• • Difference blend
• • Side by side (Ctrl+Shift+Left, Right)
• • Layer crop rectangle (can approximate A/B split)

Layers

• • Layered sequence playback
• • Infinite workspace
• • Global and per-layer aspect ratio
• • Layer flip, scale, position and crop
• • Layer blending modes including normal, add, multiply, screen and difference
• • Alpha channel source
• • Layer opacity, including fade in and fade out

Caching

• • Layer-based cache
• • Realtime interactions
• • Full, half and quarter cache resolution
• • Preloading layers
• • Clear cache, Remove layer from cache
• • Direct disk playback (Layer » Disable Caching)
• • 64 bit (x64) version, not limited to 2 GB or 4 GB

Copy and Paste

• • Copy/paste layer, frame, copy from/to explorer
• • Clipboard Layer
• • Copy/paste color corrections
• • Copy layer to clipboard as Nuke script

Saving and Exporting

• • Ability to save a composition
• • Ability to save a frame, screen, mask
• • Export composition or single layer as sequence or AVI/Quicktime movie

Annotation and Collaboration

• • Brush Layer
• • Brush Sequence Layer
• • Text Layer
• • E-mail frame/screen
• • Built-in HTTP server for remote collaboration

Integration

• • Framebuffer Layer
• • Extensive command line support
• • Export composition as After Effects .jsx, Nuke .nk, Pdplayer .pdpcmd
• • Copy layer to clipboard as Nuke script

External Output

• • Bluefish444
• • Blackmagic Decklink
• • NewTek VT
• • Firewire/IEEE1394
• • Secondary/tertiary display

On-Set Grading and Monitoring

• • Live video layer from any DirectShow video input
• • Primary and secondary color key

Version/Release Updates

Chaos Group Pdplayer v1.0.6.25 - New support for Quicktime, RED footage, NUKE integration, and new file type support for DNG and DPX files.

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