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CODEX PROVIDES UNMATCHED
FEATURES FOR 3D STEREO RECORDING AND POST

Live action 3D capture

Codex systems, as used on James Cameron's Avatar and Walt Disney's Tron Legacy, facilitate stereoscopic capture at the highest quality, and provide a smooth and flexible workflow into editing systems. Both the Codex Studio Recorder and Codex Portable can capture either two 4:4:4 or two 4:2:2 HD streams, operated from the DUAL tab of the Codex User Interface shown above. The operation of the two channels on the recorder are locked meaning that timecodes and common metadata are identical for the two recordings.

3D playback

Once recordings are made, the Codex provides synchronised playback of the left and right eye material so that it can be viewed on a 3D monitor system. The Studio Recorder can output the streams as either single or dual link, while the Portable can output two 4:2:2 streams - as recorded, or down-converted from 4:4:4. Codex systems also allow for the playback of left and right shots individually. All of these features provide an exceptional amount of feedback for quality assurance during a production.

Delivery

Stereoscopic recordings are linked by metadata so that left and right channels will always be associated with each other for playback and for the generation of editing and finishing files. The Codex Virtual File System can rapidly output Avid 3D MXF files - with 1D/3D LUTs and three optional levels of DNxHD compression - for digital dailies and offline editing of 3D material.

Finishing

Codex systems record Roll information in the shot metadata. On all recorders this Roll information can be made unique for each source, which is a requirement for many finishing systems to reconcile full-resolution finishing files for 3D productions.