Marquise Technologies announces news for MIST and RAIN

The Swiss company Marquise Technologies has just launched its two latest innovations: the Mosaic tool, and DCI mastering in its MIST system.

Mosaic is a new post-production tool that significantly increases the debayering speed of RAW files, even reaching real time, and ensuring maximum quality.

At the moment only a few RAW formats are supported; such as ARRIRAW, from ARRI Alexa (3K) or D21; Adobe DNG, including Aaton Penelope Delta (4K); and the Cine Files of the Vision Research Phantom Flex and Phantom Gold high-speed cameras (from HD to 4K).

In addition to increasing the debayering speed, it also allows you to work with these files natively, and to play back the RAW material in real time, either in 2D or s3D.

Combining these features with its user interface, which allows you to handle RAW parameters directly in the color correction, your operators can perform tasks such as dailies and color corrections quickly and efficiently.

Another of its functions is image rescaling.

Mosaic will be available in the MIST dailies management system and in the RAIN color corrector. It also works seamlessly with Jazz, the real-time rendering engine that is available in both systems (MIST and RAIN), so you can send full quality files in DPX or TIFF. In addition to these, it can also export MXF, DNxHD and Quicktime.

Marquise Technologies has also introduced another new tool for MIST, through which DCI mastering can be performed to encode and create DCPs.

One of its great advantages is that the original material does not need pre-encoding to start mastering, since MIST works natively with most standard formats, including DPX, TIFF, Apple ProRes, Quicktime, XDCAM or H.264, regardless of their resolution or frame rate. However, if the material we import is already in JPEG2000, we can speed up the process and the generation of the DCP in 2K or 4K can be done in real time.

All the processes necessary for the creation of the package are performed naturally in the MIST timeline, being able to control each step at any time. Also, thanks to this feature it is possible to edit or make modifications, through the DCP file management (video, audio and/or subtitles), in a traditional timeline.

Subtitles are fully supported, and we have several possibilities to work with them. We can simply view them or edit them as well; and when it comes to exporting, we can choose between exporting them in the package as subtitles or “burning” them on the image.

In addition to being able to create a SMPTE- or Interop-compliant DCP, MIST also allows immediate display of the master on a DCI projector, regardless of the format or color space of the images.

An update will be released later this year that will provide access to KDM and encryption features.

Both products will be presented at NAB 2012.