The Digital Fact Book - Quantel

Finally, the most important requirement for stereo online is to work interactively, at fulltechnical quality. In a nutshell you want to be able to see exactly what you are doing whileyou are doing it. As well as tough hardware demands, stereo also places unusual toolsetdemands. Because of the offline issues previously mentioned, much more needs fixing inonline post. That means a stereo online or color correction system ideally needs any toolthat might be needed to fix a last-minute problem – and those problems could need color,editing or effects fixes. The alternative is to have to use several machines, and worse still,copy or move data between them. Pablo iQ and Sid all have the complete range of tools thatmight be needed instantly available to the artist. That means problems can be easily fixed.That’s why as well as using conventional computing resources to process stereo, Pablo iQand Sid also use special stereo imaging hardware that manipulates the whole compositestereo image in realtime, on the fly and without writing back to disk. That means convergence,stereo effect strength and framing can all be set instantly and played out instantly.ConclusionOf course, all of this is just a snapshot of where we are today, and as I said earlier, we areall still very much in a learning phase. Stereo 3D is the best thing that’s happened to ourindustry in years. It’s an opportunity for us all – manufacturers, broadcasters, post housesand of course the content producers. And it’s fun!196