Event evaluation Pablo Rio Roadshow

This morning I was at the demos organized by Quantel presenting Pablo Rio. After chatting for a while before starting with Rafael Zapardiel (whom I had the pleasure to meet in person) the demo artist (sorry, I don’t remember his name) showed us the system and its tools.

Pablo Rio can work as a turnkey system or software only (under a certified configuration with certain HP, Nvidia Tesla cards, AJA for I/O, etc). In both cases it is a solution that works with third party hardware (COTS as they call it) which reduces costs (although it is obviously still a hight end solution).

I must admit that during the demo I did not see anything that particularly surprised me. I don’t mean this in a bad way, but I expect to see in a device of these characteristics and with this hardware 4K in real time, the possibility of conforming and editing (the editing interface is quite intuitive, to be honest), basic compositing and of course color correction with primaries, secondaries, masks, groups, etc. A priori I did not miss anything that I use in my daily work as a colorist and all the questions I asked the demonstrator were very well explained.

I admit that I preferred when I finished the classic demo to take a look at the Pablo PA (the wizard) instead of the S3D tools, it’s not that I don’t like 3D, but it takes more of my time the conforming to my misfortune 🙂 I was pleasantly surprised by this wizard, I had it only for a conforming tool and found out that it has the full color tool set, limited state for performance and video outputs/inputs with respect to the full Pablo Rio.

In general the impression I got from following the demo is that it is an easy to use tool (or so it seems a priori) The menus were clear, the navigations between tools consistent with those of other applications in general simple to the eye, it seems not particularly difficult to learn if you have used other systems before. I’m looking forward to play with it some more to see how it behaves 🙂