Left: Raw video. Right: Frame processed with a single-click selection of the Warm Soft preset. Notice the de-interlaced frame, the nice contrast, the vibrant colors and overall warmth.

CinemantiQ changes the way your video looks. It gets rid of the video interlacing so you can work with progressive frames (like film frames). It also modifies the color-curve characteristics so you get richer contrast and colors to match the mood of your scene. CinemantiQ also allows you to diffuse the unnatural sharpness of video and enhance the highlight blooming by simulating black and white diffusion camera filters.

CinemantiQ does all of this through an easy to use visual interface, where the look you are after is just one click away. You don't need to be an film expert or a rocket scientist use use CinemantiQ, you can click on the presets and be done in an instant.

Furthermore, CinemantiQ, through the use of its XS-Chroma Engine will process your video and images much faster than other solutions while retaining full quality. (From 4 to 30 times faster in some cases!)

Get a Film look fast!

CinemantiQ is designed to increase the speed of your production at both the workflow and rendering stages.

Through the use of powerful features like the visual interface, video blocking, presets, and batch rendering, you spend less time working on setting up your projects.

Setting up a project on other environments does not only require knowledge of exactly what you are looking for and how to operate subtle aspects of post production, but can also prove more taxing due to the amount of operations required to achieve certain results.

CinemantiQ on the other hand is already setup and optmized for the task at hand. Many of the controls are visually active and provide real time feedback so that you see what you are getting, instantly. No more waiting for the software to render your frame (even a few seconds can be annoying!) .

With the aid of the fast XS-Chroma Engine, your work will be rendered fast on any computer, since CinemantiQ does not require hardware acceleration.

Mood setting imagery

Gallery coming soon...

Easy to use preset library

The preset library lets you store your favorite presets in convenient folders so that you can keep organized even with a large number of presets. With a single click you can select and preview a stored look on any frame of your video, or even on included test images so you can quickly determine if that is the preset you want. Click on the Apply button and your prest gets atuomatically applied to the current video block. CinemantiQ comes with over 60 presets to get you started, including the most useful and common settings plus some that will mimic famous movie looks.

Process your scenes individually with video blocks

Scrub your video to the beginning of a scene and press the Record button, then go to the beginning of the next scene and press the record button again. Congratulations you have just made a video block which is visible right under the video panels. Each video block will take any set of parameters you select and apply them to that and only that segment. You can segment your whole video by scenes and give them different moods and correct the colors appropriately, easy and fast. You can even copy and paste the same settings to different blocks, and thus save time and effort.

The filter technology: XS-Chroma Engine

CinemantiQ operates through a process stack of 6 independent image filters, each processed by the fast and high quality XS-Chroma Engine. But lets take a brief look at how the filters operate:

Initial Color Correction

Here you may alter the color characteristics of your scene through the use of simple but powerful controls. A fully adjustable histogram control allows you to change brightness, contrast, gamma at both ends of the spectrum. A HUE disc lets you alter the tint and a saturation slider controls the color richness of the image.

All of these parameters can be adjusted for the full range of the image or just for the highlights, midtones or shadows independently. You can even perform histogram operations on the separate R G B channels.

Noise and Grain

If needed, you can reduce the noise in an image, or add some grain to it.

Gradient Lens

This filter applies a gradient overlayed on top of the image to create a great number of effects. Make the day look like night, make the sky blue when it was blown out in your shot, create artificial sunset settings, etc. Each parameter of the gradient can be controlled, and the overlay works the way an optical filter would, but with much more dynamic control. You can even change the angle of the gradient.

Color Drama

Originally developed as a Bleach bypass simulation, the Color Drama filter will increase the general contrast of your image while affecting the colors in ways not possible with the regular saturation and contrast controls. This filter can is setup to physically approximate an actual film process, but its range of control is so great that it will literally change the drama of your image.

Diffusion and Bloom

Most video looks too harsh, too sharp on the edges. The diffusion filter will simulate the use of a real black diffusion filter and will make the image softer but not blurry. You retain all the detail while making the scene more pleasing. It is great with actors, as their skin will always look nicer. The bloom filter simulates a white diffusion filter so you can enhance the blooming of highlights as you wish. There is an added defocusing control that lets you center a defocusing disc anywhere on the image so you can produce a pseudo DOF effect and direct the eyes of your viewer to the point of interest.

Final Color Correction

This filter has all the power of the initial color correction filter, so you can make final adjustments to the image after all the other filters have been processed.

Other features

In addition to the filters, CinemantiQ can deinterlace your video using a smart adaptive deinterlacer so that you don't lose resolution where there is no motion. Also, for 35mm DOF adapter enthusiasts, CinemantiQ has a rotation setting so that your flipped images are diplayed and saved in their proper orientation automatically.

Since it is also very important that you can preview the results as they may appear on a TV video screen, CinemantiQ includes a monitor calibration process that you can toggle on and off to view your video in a simulated TV monitor mode.

The batch rendering unit lets you load any number of video files and apply your stored settings to any grouping of them. You can also load projects and let them excute all at the same time wihtout having to be near the computer. Set your batch list at night and wake up with all your work done for you. As obvious as this may seem, not many applications will allow you to do this, not even the expensive popular ones.

System Requirements

• 500 Mhz PC (1 or 2 Ghz recommended)
• Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
• 128 Mb RAM
• Enough hard disc space for video processing
• Microsoft DirectX 7 or higher
• 800 x 600 screen resolution or higher
• Appropriate video CODECs
• Input Formats: BMP, PNG, TGA, JPG, AVI (All DirectShow codecs)
• Output Formats: BMP, TGA, JPG, AVI (VfW / Type 2 compatible codecs)

VfW or Type 2 DV video codec needed for DV output. Commercial or freely available through the net.