ASSIMILATE's Universal Media Player

3D CineCast: ASSIMILATE's Universal Media Player:
SCRATCH Play supports a wide range of media formats. From cinematic RAW files (RED, Arri, Sony, Canon, Phantom, etc) to DSLR RAW files (Canon 5D, Nikon N600, etc) to editorial formats (MXF, WAV, etc) to pro VFX/still formats (DPX, EXR, etc). Even web-based media (QuickTime, Windows Media, MP4, H.264, etc) and still image formats (TIFF, JPG, PNG, etc).

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Exclusive Webinar: Find Out Everything On-set Professionals Need to Know About Color Correction

Exclusive Webinar: Find Out Everything On-set Professionals Need to Know About Color Correction by Jeremiah Karpowicz:
As working professionals, I'm sure you're all aware of how complex color correction has become. With so many different options, it can be a challenge to establish what will work best for you and your production. Luckily, Juan Carlos Ortiz-Duran and Michael Forrest know a thing or two about how to navigate this landscape. The two joined us for a live webinar where they discussed...

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Avid Media Composer to Assimilate Scratch Roundtrip Workflow

Avid Media Composer to Assimilate Scratch Roundtrip Workflow | Premiumbeat.com:
If you’re doing high end post production work, chances are you might be using both Avid (for editing) and Scratch (for color grading and compositing). The video tutorial below demonstrates how to bring your Avid video editing projects into Scratch for finishing.

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Over 6 Hours of Free Colour Grading & VFX Training

Over 6 Hours of Free Colour Grading & VFX Training:
If you want over 6 hours of free training on professional color grading and compositing techniques and generally how to make the most Assimilate Scratch’s finishing capabilities then these tutorials from Mike Burton and cmiVFX will do just the trick.

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ASSIMILATE and DiaQuest Turbocharge SCRATCH Integration with Avid Interplay

ASSIMILATE and DiaQuest Turbocharge SCRATCH Integration with Avid Interplay: ProductionLink plug-in creates seamless, and user-friendly link between ASSIMILATE’s SCRATCH and Avid Interplay (Amsterdam IBC, Netherlands--September 8, 2012) ASSIMILATE, makers of the powerful, real-time SCRATCH® and SCRATCH Lab® digital intermediate and dailies workflow software for the production and post-production of feature film, episodic television, commercials and spots, and DiaQuest Products, the world's leading supplier of connectivity middleware for media production workflows, today announced the availability of ProductionLink™, a plug-in for connectivity between the recently announced ASSIMILATE SCRATCH v7 and SCRATCH Lab v7 and the Avid® Interplay™ production asset management (PAM) system.

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ASSIMILATE announces support for AMD Radeon HD Graphics on MacOS X

ASSIMILATE announces support for AMD Radeon HD Graphics on MacOS X:
ASSIMILATE announces support for AMD Radeon HD 5770 and 5870 graphics cards on the MacOS X versions of SCRATCH and SCRATCH Lab. AMD Radeon Graphics join NVidia Quadro graphics and AJA Kona SDI to form an extremely flexible line-up of powerful GPU and video-playback solutions for SCRATCH and Lab on MacOS X.

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ASSIMILATE supports REDgamma3 and REDcolor3 Color Science

ASSIMILATE supports REDgamma3 and REDcolor3 Color Science:
Continuing its trend of being first to market to support new RED technology, ASSIMILATE today announced both SCRATCH and SCRATCH Lab support for REDgamma3 and REDcolor3, the latest advancements in RED’s Color Science. With RED’s latest color science update, SCRATCH and Lab artists – DITs, video engineers and DI artists -- will see dramatically improved image quality in the monitoring path, and a richer environment for color grading, even when using older REDCODE RAW images.

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LiveGrade to Scratch Lab

LiveGrade to Scratch Lab:
Pomfort has added a native Scratch .3dl LUT output to LiveGrade. This LUT lines up in Scratch for color corrected file outputs very nicely. This is an outstanding workflow for generating dailies on commercial projects. Anything you could ever need to do for file generation you can do in Scratch and LiveGrade is a very fast and seamless way to generate LUT's for this software. Using the Avid Artist Control Surface with this software combo has sped me up considerably and closed a lot of the previous workflow gaps.

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Colour grading a TV commercial using Assimilate Scratch

Colour grading a TV commercial using Assimilate Scratch:
Freelance colorist Andreas Brueckl has some great tutorials for colour grading using Assimilate Scratch. This whirlwind tutorial reveals the process he used for a TV commercial which involved a lot of complex alpha matte based grades. This tutorial gives you some idea of the power and simplicity that Scratch can provide.

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ASSIMILATE Announces Breakthrough 48 FPS Playback of RAW RED EPIC Stereo Streams

ASSIMILATE Announces Breakthrough 48 FPS Playback of RAW RED EPIC Stereo Streams:

ASSIMILATE, Inc today announced that SCRATCH® and SCRATCH Lab® version 6.1 have achieved never-before-seen performance levels in the playback of RED EPIC Stereo content. SCRATCH Lab now provides DITs, DPs and Directors with dailies playback and review of RAW Stereo EPIC streams, direct from the camera at a full 48 FPS. SCRATCH 6.1 finishing systems can achieve the same 48 FPS playback rate of EPIC Stereo content even after sophisticated color grades and VFX have been applied.

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Scratch Lab

Scratch Lab:















I've been demo-ing Scratch Lab by Assimilate - very smart, very slick software for the creation of on-set deliverables. It's interesting because there are a lot of tools available now for transcoding raw or uncorrected camera media into great looking, synced up files ready to go for the editor or whomever else needs them. Among these workflow options we run the price gamut from free to moderately expensive to extremely expensive and all of them basically do the same thing but with varying degrees of efficiency and economy.

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Neat Video noise reduction available for SCRATCH 6.1

Neat Video noise reduction available for SCRATCH 6.1:

Neat Video is a video filter designed to reduce visible noise and grain in video footage produced by digital video cameras,camcorders, TV-tuners, digitizers of film or analog video.

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ASSIMILATE Announces Support For RED SDK 4.2; Raises The Bar For RED workflows With The Release of SCRATCH 6.1

ASSIMILATE Announces Support For RED SDK 4.2; Raises The Bar For RED workflows With The Release of SCRATCH 6.1:

Dramatic RED performance gains, Expanded SDI output capabilities and support for the new Tangent Element control surface power latest release (Santa Clara, California--January 10, 2012) ASSIMILATE, the leading provider of powerful post-production tools for digital workflows, has shipped the 6.1 versions of its renowned SCRATCH® digital intermediate finishing tool.

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Freeware and Shareware section on the ASSIMILATE Store, first out SCRATCH2Nuke

Freeware and Shareware section on the ASSIMILATE Store, first out SCRATCH2Nuke:

ASSIMILATE has created a new Freeware and Shareware section on their ASSIMILATE Store. The first item in that section is SCRATCH2Nuke.
SCRATCH2Nuke is a set of Python based scripts that exhibit the extensibility of SCRATCH through the use of XML. It allows you to create a bridge to pass both MetaData and images originating in SCRATCH to Nuke (By The Foundry) and back to Scratch via XML and the Global Watch Folder.

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LightSpace CMS plugin for Scratch

LightSpace CMS plugin for Scratch:

Light Illusions has released new Windows and Mac based Scratch plug-ins for closed-loop calibration with LightSpace CMS.

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Scratch video tutorials 1-15

Scratch video tutorials 1-5

• Output Node
• Red Meta Data
• Cleaning up human complexions
• Using dissolves to animate color effects
• Paint out visual effects using texture layers

Scratch video tutorials 6-10

• Using scaffolds to shape the lighting of a scene
• Tips for getting the most out of the tracker
• Using recursive scaffolds for creative effects
• How to make a monochromatic silver look
• Reverse Assemble

Scratch video tutorials 11-12

• Surrealistic Skin Tones
• Scratch Roundtripping with Media Composer

ASSIMILATE ships SCRATCH Six DI Suite on Mac and Windows

ASSIMILATE ships SCRATCH Six DI Suite on Mac and Windows: ASSIMILATE, the leading provider of powerful post-production tools for digital workflows, has announced the eagerly-awaited release of SCRATCH® Six, its renowned, end-to-end digital cinema and broadcast imaging tool for post-production workflows. Released simultaneously on Mac OS® X and Windows 7.

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