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| Overview: |
dpsReality is the world's first Studio Digital Disk Recorder (SDDR), a tool designed not only for the way you work, but the way you work with others. It's compatible with the software you use every day, including Alias Maya, Newtek Lightwave 3D, Discrete Logic 3DStudio Max and many others. Whether your job is 3D animation, modeling, compositing, 2D artist or broadcast design, your job is to give the project life. dpsReality is just the tool you need to help get the job done.
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dpsReality is designed to take advantage of DPS’ latest real time hardware technology. That means real time non-linear playback with graphics overlay and 4 tracks of audio. No more waiting while you render your logo into your latest production and no waiting for time on a video editing station. Simply drag a video clip and a foreground graphic or logo to the timeline or storyboard views and hit play. You get instant, real time broadcast quality video playback without any rendering at all. Adding titles is no problem either. The dpsReality application supports still titles which can be created in any paint package, or you can use moving or still titles created in Inscriber CG or Power CG. With 4 tracks of hardware synchronized audio playback you don’t have to worry about audio sync. Adding audio is as easy as adding video, drag and drop or import through the trim table and hit play. Its that simple. Once you have a project completed you can save the timeline so that you can continue editing or play-back at a later date.
| Unrestrained Productivity: |
Sharing your work with others is a key facet of dpsReality. Using the built-in dpsNetStream™ technology, you can directly export to MPEG-1, MPEG-2, RealNetworks ®, RealVideo ® , Windows Media™, AVI, and Quicktime™ formats, allowing you to easily move projects between platforms, showcase them on the web, or distribute them by E-Mail, web, CD-ROM, and DVD. Flexibility in sharing your work doesn’t end there. One of the most powerful features of dpsReality is its Virtual Tape File System™ or VTFS. The VTFS acts like a mini server, allowing others to access your video and alpha channel data remotely from other machines.
Not only can they access your data, they can do so in one of nine different file formats. That’s where the virtual part comes into play. The VTFS virtualizes the data that is stored on the dedicated SCSI disks. It displays not only video data as DPS files, it also displays that same data in nine different file formats without using any additional storage. VTFS also eliminates the conversion process. You can render directly to the file system, and the VTFS driver will automatically convert your rendered frames directly into video so you can go from rendering to output directly. And because the dpsReality supports 4:2:2:4 video plus alpha channel you render with full alpha channel support.
| Digital Fusion DFX + ™: |
Included in every dpsReality package is Digital Fusion DFX +™, the latest in advanced resolution independent compositing and effects software from eyeon. DFX + is designed to allow you to easily add a professional finish to your 3D productions and video sequences. DFX + will allow you to move quickly from concept to final production with the same speed, precision, and productivity as the award-winning Digital Fusion 3.0.
DFX + uses both flow and timeline layouts to help you visualize your layers, making it easy to explore editorial decisions. By keeping the elements of your project separated until the final render DFX + will allow you to easily make changes to you footage on the fly.
When you are ready to take your projects to the next level, DFX+ can easily be expanded with optional modules to include Trackers, Keyers, Expressions and 3D Depth support. You can also use your existing plugins via built in support for AE Plugins, as well as a wide range of powerful third party native plugins.
Of course DFX + directly supports the dpsReality hardware allowing you to instantly review your production in full broadcast quality. Load, Save directly to the DPS format, and instantly view any part of your project to your video monitor. DFX + supports multiprocessor Intel systems & loads & saves over 20 professional image file formats, including OMF, PSD, DPX and Cineon.
| Virtual Tape File System: |
Unique to DPS products and one of the most powerful features of the dpsReality is the Virtual Tape File System or VTFS. The VTFS is a bit of software magic that makes dpsReality the most productive solution available for animation and compositing and it is your key to amazingly enhanced productivity.
The Virtual Tape File System eliminates a large portion of your production bottleneck by allowing your machines to move data back and forth between image sequences and live video seamlessly, without any drivers or application specific software.
Imagine a special server, a magic box that would automatically make your image data available in every popular image format simultaneously. Save an image as a Targa and this magic box would convert it to a playable video stream, as well as a TIF, SGI, PIC, BMP, or one of the other popular file formats, all in real time, instantly. This means that each software application can access individual frames of image data in its’ own native format. If your software works natively with SGI files, no problem, read the data from the SGI folder. If your software would rather work with Targa files, that is no problem either, simply open the Targa folder to read and write frames in that format.
Now imagine that storing all of this extra image data didn’t cost you one bit of additional space on your server. That is the power of the Virtual Tape File System. It turns the dpsReality hardware into a magic server, able to serve nine different image file formats, in full 4:2:2:4 image resolution, automatically, virtually, while only requiring the storage of one of those formats. Every time you save a file to the VTFS file system, it is automatically converted to video, and nine different virtual file formats: SGI, TGA, BMP, PIC, TIF, IFF, VPB, RAS, and RLA. But there is really only one type of file stored on the actual hard disks, which is a DPS video file.
In addition to solving the storage and productivity problems associated with the need to have multiple file types around your facility, the Virtual Tape File System also adds support for more sophisticated operations, like network rendering, playback while rendering, and full alpha channel support so you never have to worry about productivity, file conversion, or losing your alpha channel data.
The VTFS makes the dpsReality the most powerful and flexible SDDR architecture available.
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