| Autodesk® Backdraft® Conform software is a remote assistant utility for data wranglers and assistant editors. It provides ingest, assembly, and conform tools to get a project started, comprehensive media management tools to keep it going, and output and archiving tools to wrap it up.
Since Backdraft Conform runs in parallel with the creative process, you can save valuable time typically associated with media management, allowing your editors and artists more productive time to focus on creativity.
Overview
Autodesk® Backdraft® Conform software is a remote assistant utility for conforming and managing projects in an intuitive environment based on the Autodesk® Smoke® editing and finishing systems software user interface. With complete EDL management capabilities, as well as tools for managing media and clip libraries, Backdraft Conform allows you to offload conform and administrative tasks, freeing up your creative seats for revenue-generating work.
Backdraft Conform conveniently runs from a central workstation, allowing access to any Autodesk advanced system project within a facility. With Backdraft Conform operations running in parallel with the creative process—all without disrupting creative sessions in progress—this utility can help boost the productivity of any facility.
Remote Project Management
With Backdraft Conform, you can access, browse, and edit all Autodesk advanced systems projects within your facility from a single application. You can conveniently create and edit project and user settings with Backdraft Conform, thus offloading administrative tasks from your creative talent, while policing naming conventions across your facility and reducing manual errors.
Remote Media Management
Backdraft Conform can save valuable time typically associated with media management, enabling editors and artists to focus on creativity and productivity. Working seamlessly in the background without disturbing the creative workflow, Backdraft Conform software performs media imports from peripheral devices such as VTRs, exports to archives, and assists in suite preparation as it loads projects in advance of a session.
Editing and Conform
Using the same intuitive environment as Autodesk Smoke software, Backdraft Conform is an ideal assistant utility for conforming and basic editing tasks. Conform from EDLs, OMFs, AAFs, and Apple® Final Cut Pro® XML files, and automatically assemble the clips into any remote project library. New capabilities in Backdraft Conform 2009 enable conforming from Panasonic® P2 MXF as well as compressed QuickTime® files. Backdraft Conform can help boost the productivity of any facility, and is built on top of Autodesk® Wire® technology to provide fast, transparent information access across any industry-standard TCP/IP network, including Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) and InfiniBand® networks.
Features
Autodesk® Backdraft® Conform software is a remote assistant utility for data wranglers and assistant editors. The software provides ingest, assembly, and conform tools to get a project started; comprehensive media management tools to keep it going; and output and archiving tools to wrap it up.
Remote Project Management
Create and modify Autodesk projects from a central location. Setting up new projects from Backdraft Conform offloads administrative operations from the creative seats. This also makes it easier to duplicate project settings across multiple seats while reducing human error.
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Full Project Archiving
Back up and restore your project data, including all media and setups, to file, data tape, or VTR. Make incremental archives or easily archive your entire project for safety or storage. Archiving is streamlined, making it more convenient to archive and restore your projects.
You can archive selected clips, libraries, or the entire project in a single operation. Setups can also be archived together with the media, making complete projects easy to store and retrieve.
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Remote Media Management
Clip Library
With Clip Library, which provides a hierarchical structured system for organizing all elements of a project, much like bins found in other editing applications, you can create nested source areas for clip organization and multiple record areas, which is useful for versioning. You can efficiently manage multiple projects on multiple seats from Backdraft Conform, loading new sources, viewing ongoing work, and outputting clips for the entire facility.
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Wire Media Transfer
Execute Autodesk® Wire® software transfers with Backdraft Conform. Transfer clips between framestores without disturbing the creative artists. Performance optimization maintains framestore priority to the artist during concurrent
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Editing
Gestural-Based Editing Toolset
With its Autodesk® Smoke® editing interface, Backdraft Conform is designed for basic editing tasks, enabling assistant editors to make adjustments after conforming a timeline.
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Multi-Master Editing
Quickly reformat your timeline for multiple deliverables. Distribute content in multiple formats from a single timeline
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Multichannel Audio Editing and Mixing
Backdraft Conform includes a full range of audio tools for complete audio finishing. Input and link audio to your video clips. Deliver versions with different language tracks for different markets.
Conform
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Integrated EDL Editor
Full-featured EDL editor supports industry-standard EDLs and enables easy changes based on events, selections, source, or comments. Robust EDL management tool facilitates the process of importing, combining, and
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Automatic Batch-Capture from EDL
Minimize time and effort with efficient Batch capture. Automatically digitize the media required to assemble a conformed EDL into a timeline clip.
Media Unlinking and Relinking
Quickly disconnect your original clip metadata from the captured media with the Unlink/Relink tool, so you can go back and recapture the media at a different resolution or version. Tools for efficient media onlining and offlining are at the core of the editing process. Media linking enables relinking of entire projects to new media without having to re-edit your timeline.
Conform from OMF
Import OMF files with audio media to simplify the conform process. Edit information is maintained with multiple video and audio tracks, dissolves, timecode, tape source, and more. Embedded AIFF-C and WAV audio media is supported. Editors can also export an edited sequence as an OMF file with audio media.
File-Based EDL Conform
Use file-based EDLs to conform edits by importing (or soft importing) data files from a standard file system. This provides the capability to data-conform, enabling an editor to conform 2K (or greater) film projects directly from film scans residing on a central server. This capability is increasingly important as facilities implement digital intermediate and data-centric workflows.
Conform from AAF
Quickly conform from an Avid® system offline with AAF support. The AAF format contains more data than is available in an EDL. Backdraft Conform automatically re-creates the timeline with most transitions and effects intact, significantly reducing the manual work required to replicate a complex timeline.
Conform from Apple Final Cut Pro XML
Auto-conform multilayered, effects-rich Apple® Final Cut Pro® sequences in Backdraft Conform using the FCP XML interchange format.
Conform from Panasonic P2 MPX and Compressed Media—New
Streamline all workflows from broadcast to digital intermediate (DI) with native playback of streaming media formats, including Panasonic® P2 MXF and compressed QuickTime® files.
Effects Rendering
Render Effects
Process unrendered effects, or launch an Autodesk® Burn® remote rendering job directly from the timeline or clip library. Offload CPU-intensive processing from the creative seat.
Integrated Backburner Monitor
Quickly monitor Burn jobs with the integrated light version of the Autodesk® Backburner™ monitor.
Video I/O
Multiformat Capture and Playback—New
Capture and play back audio and video from the industry’s most common high-quality media formats. Ingest, view, and output media conveniently from a central location. With real-time uncompressed HD and SD video I/O, you can easily maintain the highest-quality content through compositing iterations and other processing tasks, thereby eliminating worry about generation loss, color space conversion errors, or image degradation. Backdraft Conform now supports native playback of streaming media formats, including Panasonic P2 MXF and compressed QuickTime files.
RGB 4:4:4 Dual-link and HSDL I/O
Quickly ingest high-resolution images while preserving their pristine quality. The high-speed data link (HSDL) offers a fast and reliable means of importing or exporting uncompressed 2K, 10-bit RGB images to or from Backdraft Conform.
VTR Emulation
Backdraft Conform is capable of emulating a VTR for either input or output. Other edit controllers (devices or applications) can control Backdraft Conform as if it were a VTR. For instance, in a typical telecine transfer process, a da Vinci color-grading system can control Backdraft Conform as if it were a VTR, digitizing color-corrected video frames directly to the framestore.
Media File I/O
Import/export all common industry-standard image, video, and audio file formats. A complete range of industry-standard media file formats is supported, now including Panasonic P2 MXF and compressed QuickTime files. Use Backdraft Conform to load and export footage for creative artists throughout your facility. This helps increase productivity and enables artists to have the correct footage and versions at their disposal.
Soft-Import and Publish Image and Audio Files
Directly read and play back files from standard file systems on open storage devices without having to copy them to the Autodesk® Stone® file system, saving disk space and reducing versioning errors. Once files are soft-imported, they are usable within all modules as any other clip. Publish allows you to export your finished results while keeping links on the Stone file system.
File Export Integration with Autodesk Cleaner XL 1.5
Launch an Autodesk® Cleaner® XL encoding job directly from Backdraft Conform to easily encode video file formats, including QuickTime, MPEG, and AVI. Encoding tasks are carried out on a separate Windows® PC and managed via the Autodesk Backburner application. This provides a clean workflow, and client-facing editing functions can be performed on an inexpensive standard office PC connected to the facility network.
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