Mistika

 

Post-production workflows demand ultimate creative and technical processes for any project, from commercials and music videos, to long form and episodic television, to feature films, at resolutions from SD to 5K and beyond. For any final mastering and finishing process total creative flexibility and operational responsiveness are both essential and demanded by operator and client alike.

 

Mistika is a range of next generation, real-time high-end time-line based DI, editing, compositing, effects, and colour grading systems for 2D and Stereoscopic 3D productions, at any resolution from SD up to 5K and beyond, providing creative and technical capabilities far in excess of the standard tools provided by alternative colour grading and finishing systems.

 

Mistika is designed to remove creative and technical limitations commonly associated with alternative post-production systems, and allow total freedom to create and manipulate moving images in real-time for multiple formats including SD, HDTV, Film, Stereoscopic 3D, IMAX and multiple screen projection. Mistika is a highly flexible system, both creatively and technically, without limitation on resolution, format, colour space, including mixing within the same time-line.

 

Mistika’s non-proprietary open architecture and its hardware, combined with standard file format support; as well as the overall system scalability, make it the most cost-effective choice, especially when you need the power and flexibility to produce and deliver any job in any format, in the fastest time possible, are key priorities.

 

True open SAN connectivity allows Mistika’s storage to be used across multiple Mistika systems, while third-party creative systems can read and write to the same storage in the background.

 

Mistika is completely configurable in terms of resolution, frame rate, aspect ratio, and image format. Editing and compositing are possible in any format and any resolution, on the same time-line, in the same project with unlimited layers. Concurrently, Mistika retains the ability to non-destructively modify any creative parameters, thus providing an intelligent and highly sophisticated workflow for complex projects. As a consequence, Mistika maintains total flexibility right up to the point of delivery, with maximum quality preserved throughout.

 

By using off the shelf hardware, Mistika has the advantage of being software based, which enables regular feature and capability upgrades, without the constraints of associated closed hardware. As business needs and workflows change, Mistika can be cost effectively upgraded and extended, maximising investment, as all systems are based on standard PC components. New PC hardware, graphics cards and disk systems can upgraded at market commodity cost, maintaining open-ended system value.

 

 

 

Mistika is available as a range of systems on a selection of hardware platforms, delivering the creative tools and technical capabilities required for different applications, from on-set to final deliverables. The standard off the shelf Mistika hardware combined with dedicated software delivers real-time 5K and beyond performance, for 2D and Stereo 3D projects.

 

Real-time capability for processing as well as playback comes from a combination of advanced CPU and GPU operation, providing the most efficient throughput with unrivalled scalable architecture to increase performance well beyond 5K real-time.