Glue Tools this week announced that Cineon and DPX QuickTime Components are now available for filmmakers, editors, videographers and production staff. The Cineon DPX QuickTime Components v1.12 are now available for QuickTime 7.1 for Mac, allowing any QuickTime-enabled application, such as Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, iMovie, Adobe AfterEffects, QuickTime Player and others to read and write digital film files. The Cineon and DPX digital film file formats are feature film industry standards for visual effects production. DPX files are also used extensively for High Definition production, in the broadcast television industry. The Cineon DPX QuickTime Components features the ability to perform built-in LOG/LIN conversion for the end user. Parameters include the ability to set the White and Black points, Display Gamma, and Conversion Gamma values. The Cineon DPX QuickTime Components are now available for $30 (on Mac running QT 7.1 and Mac OS X 10.3 or later).

The components also support raw image reads and writes, with the ability to specify the White and Black points. The company says that taw reads and writes are ideal for those artists that wish to apply their own conversions or LUT inside their target applications. For those with HDR applications, the components support both 8-bit and 16-bit per pixel graphics modes.

"Packages such as Final Cut Pro have not been able to easily load digital film files, directly," comments Robert Monaghan, Senior Engineer at Glue Tools. "Our components make it really easy for filmmakers and production staff to load either Cineon or DPX images right into Apple's Final Cut Pro. The appropriate LOG/LIN conversion is even done on the fly! There is no need to have the frames converted using an expensive secondary application."

If used within Apple's QuickTime Player, the components allows production staff the ability to create QuickTime movies out of a range of Cineon or DPX frames, for later review, offering a cost-effective alternative to the expensive digital playback systems currently on the market. With this solution, production staff can quickly view native Cineon or DPX sequences on their own laptops or desktop computers.