New Film Look / Color correction software: CinemantiQ
 

Mente Magica Unveils CinemantiQ

March 29, 2006: Celebrating 10 years in the CG development industry, Mente Magica announced today the availability of the first module from the awaited tungsten|SOLID series: CinemantiQ. This stand-alone application for the Windows platform, applies a film look treatment to video or still images. CinemantiQ uses a refined visual interface with real time feedback that brings users an unprecendented ease of use. CinemantiQ also provides very fast processing times, up to 30 times faster than non-accelerated plug-in solutions or custom layered compositing effects.

Some of the features in CinemantiQ include: Color correction (3-point histogram, hue, tint, saturation, RGB channels), diffusion and bloom lenses simulation, bleach bypass physical simulation, gradient lens, simple noise reduction and grain, video block segmentation, preset library (with more than 50 film looks included and more coming), smart and fast deinterlace, 180° rotation for 35mm DOF adapter users, batch processing and a pdf manual with flash tutorials.

For more information please visit http://mentemagica.com

Pricing and Availability

• CinemantiQ is available and can be downloaded today
• Input: bmp, jpg, tga, png, avi (with all directshow codecs)
• Output: bmp, jpg, tga, avi (with VfW / type 2 codecs)

Introductory offer: $99 for a limited time
Retail price: $350

About Mente Magica

For 10 years Mente Magica has been involved in the development of leading commercial and proprietary solutions for the CG industry. Its main focus has been on highly sophisticated CG applications such as enhanced subdivision surfaces, parametric bi-pedal motion, cloth dynamics, soft body simulation, and special effects. Mente Magica software has been used in production environments for tv and film (e.g. Discovery Channel), and has been featured in many industry magazines (3D design, 3D artist, Computer Graphics World, etc.) and has bundled demos with books from Coriolis Group, MacMillan Publishing, Charles River Media and IDG.