Phantom Cine Toolkit for Final Cut Studio 2.0.12

Phantom Cine Toolkit for Final Cut Studio 2.0.12 is described as an easy-to-use yet useful software that can allow you to open and play Vision Research's Phantom Cine movie files.

Vision Research creates and manufactures high speed digital cameras that can capture imagery at several thousand frames a second. Their cameras have been used in many industries, including Science, Manufacturing, Aerospace, Defense, as well as Film and Television.

This package lets the user open the raw Phantom Cine movies and choose from different debayer algorithms, color correction matrices, as well as white balance and gamma modes. A SMPTE Timecode track is created as well, from the Timestamps inside the Phantom Cine file. As with any QuickTime component, the Operating system is fully aware of the new file format, allowing for Finder Thumbnails, and Spotlight integration.

QuickTime aware applications will be able to load the Phantom Cine files just as they would any other QuickTime movie. These include Final Cut Studio 2, iMovie, Adobe AfterEfffects, and others.

Major Features:

1. Time Code:
   • With these components, productions can import Phantom Cine clips directly into Final Cut Studio. No additional processing is required. Time code is now extracted from the embedded timestamps that have been generated by the camera. This now provides editors with a reliable Time Code source for all Phantom footage regardless of the source frame rate.
2. Playback with the AJA Kona 3 Card:
   • On capable systems with high speed storage, the Phantom Cine Toolkit can now playback HD sized footage out though AJA’s Kona 3 card. Now you will be able to preview your footage using Final Cut Pro, and assorted broadcast equipment.
3. Spotlight Plugins:
   • The Spotlight Plugins enable your system to see inside the Phantom Cine header. The Finder can extract specific information from the Phantom Cine files when it does a “Get Info.” You can search for camera models, encoding characteristics, or even “shot notes” from the user modifiable “description field” from the Finder’s Spotlight panel. Simple shell scripts can also take advantage of the spotlight services and sift through frames for specific data.
4. With Glue Tool’s Cineon/DPX Components:
   • Phantom Cine QuickTime Toolkit in conjunction with Glue Tool’s Cineon/DPX Pro Components, allows users to export a Phantom Cine movie as high quality dpx frames. The combination provides universal access of Phantom Cine footage to many industry-wide visual effects, editorial and color correction packages. In addition, all of the features of the Cineon/DPX Components will also be available such as adding Time Code, adding custom Metadata into the headers, Adjusting the Frame Rate and Exporting files out to film or have the footage color corrected at a DI faciity and then printed to film.
5. Important Notes about Phantom Cine File Format:
   • Vision Research has been in business for a number of years, building high speed digital cameras. As time has gone on, the camera capabilities have greatly improved. As a result, each generation of camera has required the Cine file format to expand and change. Vision Research’s more modern cameras create Cine movies that have a different image payload from the cameras that the company originally built several years ago. As a result, some legacy cameras create a movie file that is not supported with this software.
   • The Phantom Cine QuickTime Toolkit currently supports the following cameras: Phantom 65, Phantom HD, v10, v9x, Miro series, and v7x cameras. Earlier camera models are not supported. When the Phantom Cine QuickTime Toolkit is installed, you can do a “Get Info” on Cine file, and see which camera model created the Cine file.
   • The Phantom Cine QuickTime Toolkit will only open files with a “.cine” extension. Files with a “.cin” extension will be confused with the Cineon file format. If you can’t open your Phantom Cine files, check to see that the extension is set properly.
6. Exporting a New Movie from QuickTime Player:
   • For the ease of portability with other users, you can quickly and easily convert a Phantom Cine Movie to any other QuickTime Movie format. You can do this by opening a Phantom Cine Movie using QuickTime Player, and then selecting the “File->Export...”. Select your codec, location and filename as you would with any other movie, and start the export. It is that easy.
7. Importing a Sequence into Final Cut Pro:
   • Final Cut Pro will treat Phantom Cine Movies exactly the same way it treats other QuickTime Movies. To import a Phantom Cine Movie, select the “File->Import->Glue Tools Phantom Cine Import...” menu item, and locate and click on your movie. Your movie will now appear in the browser. If a Time Code track is enabled, it will be attached to the movie as well.
8. Additional Features
   • Provides user customizable time code track
   • Allows the user to choose from one of several debayer algorithms
   • Allows the user to use ITU-R BT.709-5 gamma or LOG 90 gamma
   • User can provide their own XYZ color transform matrix or use the built in ones
   • Controls Include:
   • Can adjust white and black levels
   • Time code burn in
   • Auto-Detect presets for camera models
   • Adjust Frame rate to several different popular frame rates
   • Universal binaries for Intel and PowerPC