First European Showing of monet at IBC 2004
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 10th September 2004 -
At IBC 2004, Imagineer Systems will show for the first time in Europe its recently launched product monet. Developed for the broadcast, film and video post production markets, monet is a unique and innovative tool for offering a start-to-finish solution for replacing elements in film and video. Imagineer Systems also announced today that over 10 licenses of monet have been sold to post production facilities since the product started shipping in August 2004.
monet offers precision, lens distortion aware, 2D motion tracking with tools that allow accurate adjustments of the track to be made. It allows properties of the source material, such as lens distortion, shadows, highlights and grain/noise easily to be applied to the new element. This, combined with options for per pixel motion blur, focus blur and colour controls, allows the artist to perform complex package replacements, language adaptations and screen inserts in a fraction of the time it would take with traditional high end compositing tools. The technology for monet was developed in collaboration with Cinesite (Europe) Ltd for use on the feature film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
"Our aim is to develop the next generation of intelligent, productivity enhancing tools for digital media. With our unique expertise in computer vision and image processing we are able to quickly deliver targeted solutions for post production facilities that solve challenging problems and reduce the time artists need to spend on boring, laborious tasks. monet was created with artists for artists and we are very excited about the benefits of the solution," said Allan Jaenicke, Managing Director for Imagineer Systems.
monet ships in two editions:
monet extreme - turnkey solution - this is a complete solution, including hardware and software accelerator card, to ensure the user maximises the benefits from monet's advanced algorithms by ensuring optimal performance. The solution includes:
- monet software
- A workstation from BOXX Technologies or other recommended brand
- Aspex Accelera hardware card that accelerates software processing
- Optional SD/HD/2K video I/O card by DVS Centaurus.
- monet software based on FLEXlm floating license
