Finaliser is a real time non-linear colour correction & delivery system. There is no rendering of material at any time or at any resolution.
Suite TV are a recent member of the rapidly growing user group of the Finaliser grading system.
The London based company whose recent editing credits include 'Alistair McGowan's Big Impression' series & Christmas Special, concerts from Beyonce & Justin Timberlake plus a series of 'Swiss Toni' wanted to offer high-quality HD & standard definition colour correction to complement their editing and compositing systems. The high performance of Finaliser ensures that Suite's clients get the best of both editing and grading packages and each project can remain in-house through to completion.
With a minimum of six hours of HD storage , integrated Scratchbox restoration and Deliverance conversion tools, as well as impressive colour grading, titling tools and effects, Finaliser is the ideal system for digitally shot material for the television market. Formerly described as tape-to-tape grading, the Finaliser system is perfect to meet the increasing demand for high definition output.
How does technology help?
The role of the colourist is to enhance the way we experience recorded video material by adjusting and altering the recorded light and colour to achieve a desired look and feel. The look of each project may depend upon the director's terms of reference, product type, and programme genre such as feature film, commercial or music promo, or even the allowable time and budget, all have an effect on the type and style of the grading applied.
Edifis Finaliser is completely
redefining the colour correction suite and our understanding of its
functionality. It stands as the worlds fastest, and first, non-linear
grading and delivery system with absolutely no rendering over its 32
layers of video and effects, at either HD or Standard Definition. The
power of this technology allows greater levels of artisitic
creativity as well as faster workmanship and throughput efficiency.
This latest technology supports the best of all the exisitng
working practices with familiar and intuitive modes of operation, yet
there is no waiting for machine processes thanks to random access and
true real time processing capability.
Hard at work since 2004, Finaliser grading and special effects have been applied to programmes as diverse as "The South Bank Show", "The Last Night of the Proms" and "Judge John Deed" as well as many other dramas, documentary, animation, features and childrens series.
Targeted at any company currently grading in their NLE, Finaliser offers better value and a more competitive alternative to traditional telecine-film oriented colour correctors.It is much faster to work with than the traditional colour correctors. The controls and functions instantly responsive to the touch as there is no software rendering. The features and plug-ins give a far more powerful toolset than ever seen before, so the colourist can produce high quality results in record time. The huge integrated disk storage capacity not only provides a true non linear operation, but the grading work is carried out independently of the tape machine.
Finaliser utilises the power of Edifis PhD technology. This allows both High Definition and Standard Definition systems to be utilised. One button press and the operator can switch from HD to SD and back again.