flipstream flipstream player

catapult™ accelerated film review.

flipstream™ is a catapult™ accelerated frame review application easily capable of streaming up to 4K resolution (1.85:1 or higher aspect ratio) 10-bit uncompressed frames directly from a catapult.

Typically, for uncompressed real time review, a studio relies on either a shared SAN connected review system or copying the relevant frames to the local storage array on a dedicated review system. The first method requires a powerful, concurrent I/O SAN, the latter a lengthy data transfer. Neither is cost effective in terms of time and money.

flipstream™ eliminates uncompressed frame duplication to a dedicated high end review station and instead allows any user with a standard workstation1 on the same network to directly stream frames from a catapult™ system.

Features & Benefits
  • Windows, Linux and Mac support.
  • Multiple uncompressed formats: cineon, dpx, tga and tiff
  • Multiple bit depths: 8, 10, 12, 16
  • Real time 3D LUT support.
  • Common infrastructure: up to 6 simultaneous GigE interfaces.
  • High performance RDMA fabric support: 10Gig Ethernet and InfiniBand.
  • Review HD (1080p) or 2K (16:9) uncompressed frames over 2 x Gigabit Ethernet ports to any standard workstation1 from any catapult™ system.
 1. A standard workstation requires an nVidia Quadro FX570 or higher graphics card, and sufficient network interfaces.