NAB 05: Pablo Rio powers up with new software

NAB 2015: Pablo Rio powers up with new software

8K realtime playback at 60fps, improved EXR and alpha channel support, OFX plugin support, ACES Partner program

12th April 2015: Quantel unveiled the latest software release for its Pablo Rio color and finishing system at NAB 2015. The update adds OFX plugin support, improved EXR and alpha channel support as well as realtime working and playback at 8K 60p, maintaining Pablo Rios position as the system of choice for high quality post at 4K and beyond. Quantel also announced that it is an ACES Partner, working with ACES to deliver a fully-compliant ACES workflow for Pablo Rio customers.

8K 60p operation on Pablo Rio is achieved by combining Quantels super-optimized software with the latest i/o and processing hardware from AJA and NVIDIA to deliver realtime 8K 60p images to a stunning 85 inch 8K monitor (7680x4320) kindly loaned to Quantel by Sharp Corporation for NAB. Realtime 8K 60p input and output is achieved using the latest AJA Corvid 88 multi-channel I/O boards to achieve the required 5GByte/s continuous data rate. The processing muscle is delivered by three of the latest NVIDIA Tesla K80 GPU accelerators and three RAID 60 arrays controlled by Quantels FrameMagic technology, enabling them to deliver the required performance from 160 minutes 8K 60p storage. Pablo Rio 8K will be shipping early Q3 2015.

The Pablo Rio toolset gets a major boost with OFX plugin support now available on all Quantel workstations. OpenFX is an open industry standard for visual effects plugins, making Quantel systems more open than ever. OFX plugin support will be shipping on Pablo Rio in June 2015 and will support all OFX vendors including BorisFX, Genarts Neat Video and RE:Vision.

Quantel also demonstrated improved EXR and alpha channel support for Pablo Rio, allowing channels from EXR files and multiple auxiliary clips to be assigned for grading purposes. Adding to this, Pablo Rio now supports channel grading for EXR files allowing grading through any alpha or RGB channel on any cascade, making Pablo Rios color correction toolset even more powerful.

To meet a growing interest in UHD-1, at NAB, Quantel also announced that Pablo Rio 4KO now supports 4K 60p; previously this capability required the HDR option; this new development opens up UHD-1 work to the wider post market at an economical price point.

Quantel Product Manager, Damon Hawkins, said, "8K workflows will soon become a reality; our demonstration of realtime 8K 60p working at NAB is a world first, showing that we continue to push the boundaries so that our Pablo Rio customers never need to say no, no matter what the challenge. And of course, the other developments that come with the latest software further expand the range of work that Pablo Rio can take on, again keeping our customers ahead of the pack."

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