SuperSteve3D

Well, RED said their specs were subject to change and not a week
after saying RED would also be going into the DSLR camera market with
their own video, stills hybrid, the company pulled photos of the
Scarlet $3,000, 3K camera off its web site and said the camera is being
fully rethought and resdesigned.

Still targeted for next year, founder Jim Jannard said on the
company’s web site that “We have changed everything about Scarlet
because the market has changed and we have discovered a lot of things
in the process. We have a new vision. Wipe you minds of the past
announced Scarlet. Forget the design and forget the price. It is all
different now”. When asked by users about delivery he said “full
working models at NAB… shipping to ramp up after. Volume
estimations are high so the long wait like a RED ONE should not be an
issue…We are making these changes ‘in the nick of time’”. But they have
decided to not wait until NAB to show the new plan and they expect to
unveil details within weeks, this decision was reached 3 days ago he
said online, from an initial idea 10 days ago, but the old Scarlet was
at IBC and fully on display. In the same discussion he said back orders
on RED ONE would be solved by the Fall, but Jannard was at pains to say
this was in no way a reaction to the Canon 5D MKII which offers ultra
high res stills and full HD Progressive video.

Epic is also set to be completely redesigned. In a second release on
line, Jannard said that the Epic would also be completely changed from
their initial plans – but that the upgrade program for Red One cameras
remained. The Epic is still slated for “early-mid 2009″, he said.

 

PFTrack 5.0 Key Features

Geometry Tracking
# Import .obj models from 3D Applications to use as tracking guides
# Per Vertex weight painting to imporve tracking of complex shots
# Fast head and face replacement using imported geometry
# Track set models into footage for set extensions
# View geometry as wire frame, transparent and flat shaded modes
# Full geometry manipulation tools
# Key frame tracking for greater accuracy
# Vertex to Pixel pinning

Stereoscopic Tracking
# Support for dual camera solve of Left and Right Eye
# Automatic calculation of Occular distance and convergence point
# Rendering of Anaglyph preview movie complete with tracking markers

Camera Solver
# Major Speed Improvments
# Motion Capture Solver
# Extented Camera Motion Types
# Reference Frame support
# Solve multiple camera motions in one pass
# Independant Motion Group Solving
# Partial Solve Saving
# Delete camera path over a range of frames

Object Tracking
# Track individual rigid moving objects
# Export object data independantly of camera motion

Focal length estimation
# Intuative 3D estimation tool
# Calculate accurate focal lengths with no camera data

Editable F-Curves
# Edit any camera parameter within PFTrack and resolve quickly
# Editable visual display of Camera and Tracking errors

Integrated Z depth extraction
# Extract per pixel depth from moving images
# View pixel depth as 3D image
# User defined depth layer generation
# Export of Z depth data as grey map or mesh

Integrated image based modeling tools
# Auto-Mesh modelling tool
# Vertex based primitive modelling
# Full texture extraction and mapping
# Export of geometry to all major 3D systems

Optical Flow Analysis
# Optical flow calculation algorithm
# Proxy resolution flow field support
# Brush-based flow editing tools
# Matte and feature-based flow control
# Export to floating-point and RGB images
# Option to ignore specific user/auto-features from the camera solve
# Multiple undo for features and mattes

Cross Platform 64-bit application environment
Support for Cooke lens I-Data
Review movie
New support for Autodesk FBX and Apple Motion
Semi automatic lens distortion correction
Comprehensive image manipulation tools
Ability to snap user loadable test objects to features
Object manipulators to help position test objects
Edit range of frames
Improved Survey Data management
Improved matte editing functionality
Matte-feature attachment
Improved image manipulation algorithms
Support for graphics tablets
Improved calibration algorithm, giving more accurate calibrations of difficult shots
Motion capture for matchmoving non-rigid objects
Survey data points to assist calibration of measured scenes
Feature grouping to manage exported data points
Planar and linear feature constraints in bundle adjustment
Improved feature tracking engine
Improved free-motion camera calibration engine
Per-camera and per-feature statistics (numerical and graph), to help clean up calibration data.
Improved batch manager progress reports
On-screen cache indicator, and improved frame caching algorithm
Improved Shake support, with corner-pin script export
Per-user-feature footage brightness/contrast/etc.. manipulations
Image de-noise functions for improved tracking of noisy footage
Accelerated footage import and playback
Reduced memory usage when auto-tracking long shots
Improved Batch Processing
Render an Open GL preview to disk
Full Mac OS X 10.5 support
Support for Windows Vista

 

As Intel officially unveiled its six-core “Dunnington” Xeon 7400
processor Monday, Unisys rolled out servers boasting up to 96
cores—with a catch.

As expected, Intel launched the Dunnington chip for high-end servers, the company’s first six-core processor and last of its Penryn-class
chips. Penryn will be followed by the Nehalem microarchitecture, due to
appear initially as the Core i7 processor in the fourth quarter.

The Xeon 7400 boasts significantly better performance due to its 16MB cache memory and half-dozen cores.

 

Fantastic script that basically allows you to save your ztool on the fly. I map mine to a hotkey to save my work as I progress.

It does incremental saves by default. Which is nice.