Jun
The European company Cinemartin has just developed the second version of Cinec, a software for Windows that facilitates encoding, conversion and ingest workflows.
One of the best qualities of Cinec is that it has a completely free version that has practically all the functions. Multiple input formats are accepted, among which we can find avi, mpeg, mts, mov or wmv. In order to export files Cinec has presets for the ProRes, XDCam, DNxHD and H264 codec family. Both for import and export, PAL, NTSC, HD, 2K or 4K images are supported (although the free version only goes up to HD).
The 2.0 update focuses on working with cameras with RAW recording, such as the Blackmagic Cinema Camera, the Canon (RAW), Sony F55 and F65 or RED One, Epic and Scarlet. That’s why a new tool called “RAW Converter” has been included, which is responsible for transforming sequences of files into individual clips. This means that we import the files in TIFF, JPG, DNG and DPX (the latter only in the Gold version) as a sequence of images and export a single file in codecs such as ProRes or H.264, a very useful process if we are creating dailies, for example.
The RAW Converter tool is only available in the paid versions.
Added functions for advanced color matrix conversions: 601 to 709, SMPTE, FCC, etc.
Also, but only in the Gold version, it is now possible to dedicate up to 6 CPU cores to speed up the encoding of video files and use parallel processing for the RAW Converter tool.
Cinec 2.0 is compatible with Windows XP and Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit) and, as I have already mentioned, it has 3 different versions, one free and two paid versions. The Pro version costs 199€ (79€ for students or non-commercial use) and Cinec Gold is priced at 399€.
In this page you can see all the specifications of the different versions and download, buy or try any of them.
If you want to learn more about tasks such as dailies creation or color conversions I recommend you to take a look at the DIT Course, the HD Color Correction Course or the Calibration and Color Management for Film and Video Course.
