Chaos Group

Pdplayer 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
• • RED R3D support
• • 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
• • Secondary/tertiary display
• • AJA Kona (via DirectShow)

On-Set Grading and Monitoring

• • Live video layer from any DirectShow video input (only available on Windows)
• • Primary and secondary color key

Supported Operating Systems

• • Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP
• • Mac OS X version of Pdplayer, containing both 32 and 64 bit applications (Pdplayer 32 and Pdplayer 64). It has been built and tested on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
• • LINUX version of Pdplayer has been built and tested on Fedora Core 10, but should work on most distributions

Limitations

Compared to the Windows version, Pdplayer for Mac OS X has the following limitations:

• • Audio output is not supported;
• • External device output is not supported;
• • Live video layers are not supported;
• • The --attach command line option is not supported.

In addition, the following features are not yet functional:

• • Watch for New Frames;
• • Frame buffer (shared memory) layers;
• • HTTP server.

The Linux version has the following limitations, compared to the Windows one:

• • Audio is not supported;
• • AVI, MOV and other types of movies (except R3D) are not supported;
• • External device output is not supported;
• • Live video layers are not supported;
• • The --attach command line option is not supported.

In addition, the following features are not yet functional:

• • Watch for New Frames;
• • Frame buffer (shared memory) layers;
• • HTTP server.