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| Broadcast, Post-Production & Video Effects |
As broadcast production
moves from Standard Definition to High Definition, and
Digital Intermediate moves from 2K to 4K and beyond,
there is unprecedented demand for high performance image
processing systems. With some image processing tasks
taking up to 100x longer to render, just waiting for
next year’s PC to come along won’t do.
Alongside the demand for higher performance comes the business need to move to software-defined platforms, allowing your customers to benefit from instant upgrades and new features, giving you:
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Reduced risk
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Faster time-to-market
- Higher value products
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Lower component costs
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Improved Return-On-Investment from a reusable software-defined platform
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With up to 100x the performance of a PC platform, Linedancer-based products can give you the performance of dedicated hardware, but with the time-to-market and profit margins of a software company.
Leading customers in the broadcast and post-production industries,
such as da Vinci Systems and Imagineer Systems have used the
power of Linedancer to accelerate complex image processing effects,
such
as colour
correction and logo replacement.
Unlike fixed-function hardware accelerators, Linedancer can be used to accelerate multiple steps in the workflow, putting the processing power of a render farm inside every workstation. One minute, the processors might be accelerating your complex VFX application, the next they might be performing real-time HD compression for JPEG 2000, H264/AVC, Windows Media 9 / VC1, or MPEG-2.
And because Linedancer can be implemented on standard PCI plug-in boards, there’s no need for users to compete for the use of a shared server farm, and no lengthy data transfer delays.
Typical applications for Linedancer in broadcast and post-production include:
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Colour
correction
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Video compression / decompression (JPEG 2000, MPEG-2, H-264, WM9/VC1)
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Motion estimation
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Logo & element replacement
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Film restoration & cleanup
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Complex video effects
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For fast time-to-market, our Accelera PCI boards are available off-the-shelf, together with comprehensive image processing libraries, reference code, and our innovative new OpenRL host API.
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