FrameConduit

Affordable 32-bit float frame processing on Mac, Windows or Linux

Conduit for Final Cut Studio provides highly accelerated GPU rendering with realtime playback of multiple QuickTime layers. But if your company operates in an environment where cross-platform distributed rendering and compatibility with industry-standard frame storage formats are important requirements, the Final Cut Studio host platform may not address these needs.

FrameConduit provides an answer. In addition to an interactive Conduit Editor license that runs on Mac OS X, the FrameConduit bundle includes render node licenses that you can deploy on OS X, Windows or Linux. For compatibility with existing workflows, the FrameConduit render node works on individual frames and offers file I/O support for common 8-, 10-, 16- and 32-bit image formats such as Cineon/DPX and OpenEXR.

While the interactive Conduit Editor makes use of GPU hardware for maximum performance, the FrameConduit render node uses 32-bit floating point CPU rendering conformant to the IEEE-754 standard which guarantees bit-identical results across all supported platforms.

As a command line tool, it is easy to batch process frames with the FrameConduit render node using standard shell scripts or popular script-based network render queue managers (e.g. Rush).

Pricing and Availability

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