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Testimonials

Christopher Nichols
VFX supervisor, Method Studios

While PDPlayer can be seen as a flipbook tool, it is in fact a great deal more powerful than that. It is both extremely simple, and extremely powerful. It allows us to load and view frame sequences extremely fast.
However, it can do a lot more. From simple composites, color corrects, notation layers, output options, even saving comps into After Effects and Nuke scripts, I have yet to see a program that matches the feature set of pdplayer!
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Robert Nederhorst
VFX supervisor, SpeedShape, Santa Monica

pdplayer has been a really great app to use from early stages in development. The developers were very receptive to the many feature requests and implementation ideas we had. The software is a very lightweight app that gets out of the way of the process and lets the user do what they are supposed to do. The UI is sparse and very task specific. However, there are loads of great features that set pdplayer apart, like the layering system with full color controls. Additionally the output of After Effects and Nuke scripts directly from the software's layer system creates usable composites. It's great that people can QC their work in an app and then send all the layers to compositing so easily! This is a pretty amazing v1.0 of the software. I can't wait for v2 !
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Greg Tsadilas, VFX Supervisor at Red Magnet

I would expect nothing less from the company that brought us the best 3D render engine out there, but the best way to view and manipulate multiple and concurrent image sequences. The ability to composite, make color corrections and even allow real-time remote viewing of my desktop, increases my productivity 1000%. To call pdplayer just a “flipbook viewer”, is like calling a priceless Diamond “just another rock.”
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Key features

Viewing Sequences

• • Multiple ways to open a sequence: double click, Open With » Pdplayer, drag and drop, copy and paste, File » Add Layer, File » Add Recent
• • Industry standard file format support including EXR, HDR, DPX, CIN, TGA, SGI, IFF, PIC, VRIMG and more
• • Variable framerate playback
• • Horizontal and vertical flip
• • Depth channel
• • Viewing a single channel
• • Global zoom, pan and pixel aspect
• • Mask and safe area
• • Timecode/frame indicator modes
• • Locating a frame in Windows Explorer

Stereoscopic Playback

• • Option to detect matching footage and automatically build a stereoscopic composition
• • Anaglyph, interlaced and checkerboard output
• • Support for stereoscopic EXR (SXR) files

Image Layers and Channels

• • Support for EXR and VRIMG image layers
• • Per-layer image channel support including alpha, luma and depth

Color

• • Support for 1D and 3D lookup tables (LUT)
• • Exposure and soft clip controls for high dynamic range images
• • Color controls including lift, gamma, gain, brightness, contrast, hue and saturation
• • Adjustment Layer

Comparing Sequences

• • Toggle upper layer (V)
• • Difference blend
• • Side by side (Ctrl+Shift+Left, Right)
• • Layer crop rectangle (can approximate A/B split)

Layers

• • Layered sequence playback
• • Infinite workspace
• • Global and per-layer aspect ratio
• • Layer flip, scale, position and crop
• • Layer blending modes including normal, add, multiply, screen and difference
• • Alpha channel source
• • Layer opacity, including fade in and fade out

Caching

• • Layer-based cache
• • Realtime interactions
• • Full, half and quarter cache resolution
• • Preloading layers
• • Clear cache, Remove layer from cache
• • Direct disk playback (Layer » Disable Caching)
• • 64 bit (x64) version, not limited to 2 GB or 4 GB

Copy and Paste

• • Copy/paste layer, frame, copy from/to explorer
• • Clipboard Layer
• • Copy/paste color corrections
• • Copy layer to clipboard as Nuke script

Saving and Exporting

• • Ability to save a composition
• • Ability to save a frame, screen, mask
• • Export composition or single layer as sequence or AVI/Quicktime movie

Annotation and Collaboration

• • Brush Layer
• • Brush Sequence Layer
• • Text Layer
• • E-mail frame/screen
• • Built-in HTTP server for remote collaboration

Integration

• • Framebuffer Layer
• • Extensive command line support
• • Export composition as After Effects .jsx, Nuke .nk, Pdplayer .pdpcmd
• • Copy layer to clipboard as Nuke script

External Output

• • Bluefish444
• • Blackmagic Decklink
• • NewTek VT
• • Firewire/IEEE1394

On-Set Grading and Monitoring

• • Live video layer from any DirectShow video input
• • Primary and secondary color key

Pdplayer price - 249,00- EUR

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Volume Discounts are available if purchase is made directly from our resellers. Please see the full list of our current Pdplayer resellers here

Pdplayer download, support and inquiries

In order to be able to download Pdplayer one must register at the top right corner, log in and download Pdplayer from the download section
If you still have questions - feel free to contact us at pdplayer@chaosgroup.com or give us a call.

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