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Assimilate Live FX: The VP-Stages’ very, VERY nervous system.
Live FX turns a laptop into a virtual production media server, driving LED walls, lights, compositing, and colour.
Rack ’n’ Mini: Sonnet Turns Mac mini into Studio Hardware
No more desk spaghetti: Sonnet’s xMac mini (2024+) mounts up to two Mac minis in a 2U rack, adds PCIe via Thunderbolt, and finally brings order to your studio.
Creepy-Crawlies in 3D: Free “Arthropods” Anatomy App for Creature Designers
Twelve museum arthropods, one free app, and an excellent reason to stop swatting your references. Creepy-crawlies in 3D, just in time for Halloween.
Assimilate Webinar Explores Modern DI Finishing
Leonardo Marini’s 2020 webinar examined modern DI workflows, client review and integrating After Effects with Assimilate Scratch.
Archived SCRATCH Webinar Covered Dailies
A May 2020 SCRATCH webinar covered ingest, ALE and EDL imports, grading, colour management, automation, output and QC.
Scratch… Scratch Play Pro
The trend towards packaging continues: Scratch Play Pro brings together a universal format player, an immersive media player, look creator, transcoder (Prores on Windows) and QC tool in one package, offering both filmmakers and post-production artists greater efficiency and productivity.
On Offer: Quadro M6000 and Scratch VR
The Scratch VR Suite and Nvidia Quadro M6000 are being offered as a bundle by Assimilate. The price is significantly below the respective individual prices.
Scratch 8.5 Now in Open Beta
Assimilate releases Scratch as a beta and publishes updates for the complete Scratch package: version 8.5, Scratch Web, Play and VR Suite.
Quick Content Review on Samsung GearVR
ASSIMILATE now supports the Samsung GearVR headset through the browser-based SCRATCH Web VR tool for 360° content reviews.
Scratch on New Operating Systems!
Ahead of NAB, Assimilate is already showing off: Scratch is now available on more operating systems (including Android) and gets its own hologram panel. In addition there are LDR support, 2-bit display, Instagram filters, Kinect compositing and much more.
New Insights into VR Editing
The Scratch VR tutorial shows how editing for VR environments really works, including new editing techniques.
Assimilate Has Released Scratch Web
A cloud-based version called Scratch Web is now available for Scratch, the conforming tool used in studios for dailies.
Scratch 8.2 & Web
Grading directly in the camera live feed, Oculus Rift, and cloud-based one-click reviews - new tools in Scratch.
New Colour Calibration Software for Scratch
SpectraCal has worked with Assimilate to offer integrated 3D LUT calibration support in the form of a plug-in for Scratch.
ProRes 4:4:4:4 XQ in Every Mac Application
Anyone who can no longer wait to use the new ProRes in every tool can use this workaround.
Scratch and Scratch Lab Version 8
Assimilate has announced version 8 of its finishing tool Scratch and its dailies system Scratch Lab. This brings Apple and Windows closer together.
Scratch Play
Assimilate, the makers of Scratch, are now introducing a new tool: the free multi-format player Scratch. It handles RAW formats from a wide variety of cameras, web formats and image formats—practically everything needed in the VFX workflow—and its playback is based on CONstruct technology.
Trial Version of Scratch
Instead of roses: for Valentine's Day, Assimilate made a trial version available.
RED ONE Cameras in Germany
After a long wait, the eagerly anticipated RED ONE cameras arrived this week at Ludwig Camera Rental in Munich. An initial inspection of the five cameras found no faults, and even the issues with the PL mount that arose at short notice appear to have been resolved.