DrasticPreview is a professional media player. It is designed to play production file formats like DPX, 16 bit TIFF, SGI, YUV, and VPB, intermediate formats like uncompressed MOV, AVI, WMV, MXF, and GEN and scientific formats like .Y.U.V, Luma/Rmy/Bmy, Hdr/Raw/Yuv, .Y4M,.4224 and DVS. DrasticPreview also supports audio, real time and static metadata and a variety of playback modes.

DrasticPreview Professional Media Player

DrasticPreview is a media player designed to support the majority of media formats used in the broadcast and production industries. DrasticPreview can play many, many different flavors of media files. It supports today's most important file types, and includes a number of others we've added over the years. This innovative software allows the user to view their files on a VGA/DVI monitor without tying up the native, or even compatible (typically precious) production or broadcast device or application. Play media for collaborative and review applications, scene marking and EDL construction. Play media orphaned by failed or unavailable legacy devices or applications. Play all your files from one station, using one application.

The Player

The main GUI offers a full range of transport controls for forward and reverse playing and cueing, displays time code, playback mode, and file name, and shows a slider to indicate the current position within the clip. The on-screen viewer window may be scaled to effectively accommodate varying viewing requirements, including a full-screen mode.

Media can be selected through a standard browse approach, or dragged and dropped onto the display window. Once loaded, the clips may be played or viewed in various playback modes, including normal, looping, palindromic, RAM, audio-only or video-only. DrasticPreview provides a full range of keyboard/number pad commands for transport control, window resizing, playback modes, and to access the metadata, extended metadata, playlist and real time data windows.

DrasticPreview Skin

DrasticPreview may be 'skinned'. This allows the user to implement a custom or branded media player, as suited to the application. The user may create a set of images corresponding to the possible states of DrasticPreview's operation, with the user's preferred look and feel (and possibly the user's branding), and save them according to the skin editor's preference. The application can then be pointed to the new skin. Any number of skins may be created to suit various purposes, which the user may open as needed.

Real Time, Metadata and Per Frame Data

A great deal of information associated with the selected media is maintained and can be displayed in separate, dedicated windows. These can be opened and closed as needed; in fact the user may choose to locate everything but the display window on a second monitor depending on the hardware setup. Here are some additional DrasticPreview display components.

Real Time Data

* TC (time code) - Absolute position

* LTC - Longitudinal (SMPTE) time code and user bits

* VITC - Vertical interval time code and user bits

* DATA 0 user data or size (4 bytes)

* DATA 1 user data or pointer (4 bytes or greater) Basic Elements

Metadata

Metadata associated with the media is maintained by DrasticPreview and may be displayed within the metadata window. There are over a hundred metadata elements with information addressing the many facets of each media file's existence, and in some cases the attributes of a selected track, or stream. For a complete list of metadata fields, see the Drastic Metadata page.

Frame Information

The Extended Metadata, or Per Frame Information window displays text/hex and key code/ink code and stats information.

* TEXT Data - User defined per frame text

* HEX Data - User defined per frame hex

* RP-215 - Audio/Video time code, Ink Code and Key Code

* Stats - clip statistics, including frames per second/dropped, output size, load and display attributes etc.

Time Code Display

To augment some playout applications, a large time code readout window has been implemented so that the time code may easily be viewed while a clip is being played, without necessarily having to be sitting directly in front of the monitor. The user may select between standard time code, LTC or VITC time code sources.

Closed Captioning

DrasticPreview supports 608/708 Closed Captions. The closed caption information will be displayed over the video frame when enabled.

Media Sequencing and Cueing

Play List

The Play List allows the user to set up a list of clips to be played in sequence. The Play List is not as full featured as the timeline in Drastic DDR and MediaNXS, but it will play through a simple list of clips. The Play List is opened by selecting the appropriate item from the DrasticPreview context menu. Clips may added to the list using the Add Clip browser, until all the required media is in the list. The position of any clip in the list may be revised by moving it up or down in the list.

A Play List may be saved in a variety of playlist formats, and opened as needed to play through media. Supported Play List formats include: Windows Media play list, Standard URL play list, MPEG play list, Playa play list, Advanced Streaming Redirector Files, HTML Page play list, Text File play list.

Go To

To access a known time code location within a clip, the user may open a "Go To" window and enter the location, then press the Go button. The loaded clip will be cued up to the specified location, ready to play.

Supported File Formats

AUDIO formats:  Windows Wave, Broadcast Wave (bwf), Apple/SGI Aiff Audio, Sun/Next Audio, Apple HCOM Audio , SF Audio, Sample Vision Audio, NeXT Sound, Creative Labs Voc, CD Audio, Unix Audio, MP3 Mpeg 3

AUDIO specs: 8000Hz..96000Hz, 8/16/20/24/32 Bits, 2 Channels

VIDEO formats:

4224 - YCbCr 4:2:2:4 ARC - IFX Piranha Audio/Video (YCbCr/RGB 8 only) ARI - Arri raw 12 bit bayer AVC-HD - MPEG-2 camera media AVI - DVSD, DV25, DV50, DVHD, CineForm, CineForm3D, YCbCr 8 & 10 SD/HD, System Codecs AVS - Windows script re-direction files BMP - Windows bitmap series of stills BOX - Boxx video files DV/DIF - Raw DV files HDR - High Definition series of stills HDR-YUV - DV25, DV50, DVHD, AVCi100, RGB, Uncompressed YCbCr 8 & 10 SD/HD CINE - Phantom 12/14 bit bayer DIB - Microsoft device independent bitmaps DNG - CinemaDNG 12 bit bayer DPS - DPS Velocity files DPX/Cineon - RGB 8, RGB 10, YCbCr 4:2:2 DPX-C - CineForm, CineForm3D DVS - Uncompressed YCbCr and RGB files EDL - Edit Decision List FLM - Adobe Film Strip files GEN - 4:2:2 YCbCr (Avid DSHD) GXF SMPTE 360 - MPEG-2, DV25, DV50, DVHD h.264 - 4:2:0 SD/HD up to 80 mbits/sec HDR-YUV - YCbCr10, YCbCr16, DPX RGB, DNxHD HDV - MPEG-2 camera files ICB - Targa Truevision stills IHSS - Iridas Frame Cycler RGB JP2 - JPEG 2000 series of stills JPG - JPEG series of stills JS - Jaleo 4:2:2 YCbCr LUMA RMY BMY - Uncompressed YCbCr M2TS - AVC-HD camera files MOV - DVSD, DV25, DV50, DVHD, AVCi100, DNxHD, CineForm, CineForm3D, RGBA, RGB-10 (DPX), YCbCr 8 & 10 SD/HD, ProRes, h264, AVCi, MPEG-2, XDCam, System Codecs  MPEG-1 - 4:2:0 up to 15 mbits/sec MPEG-2 - 4:2:0/4:2:2 SD/HD Elementary/Program Stream/Transport Stream up to 80 mbits/sec MPEG-4 - 4:2:0 up to 50 mbits/sec MTV - MTV Raytracing image format MXF-Avid - DV25, DV50, DVHD, DNxHD, Uncompressed MXF-DCI - Unencrypted JPEG-2000 XYZ Digital Cinema MXF-EditCAM - DV25, DV50, DVHD, DNxHD MXF-Harmonic - MPEG-2 MXF-OP1a/Omneon - DV25, DV50, DVHD, AVCi100, Uncompressed MXF-Panasonic-P2 - DV25, DV50, DVHD, AVCi100 MXF-Pinnacle - MPEG-2 SD/HD MXF-Quantel - Quantel MXF MXF-Snell&Wilcox - MPEG-2, IMX MXF-Sony - MPEG IMX, XDCamHD, XDCamEX 4:2:0/4:2:2

NTV - AJA NTV uncompressed audio/video OMF - DV25, JPEG, Meridien, AVBV, CamCutter PBM - Portable bitmap format PCB - Photo CD format PCX - ZSoft PC Paintbrush PGM - Portable graymap format PNM - Portable anymap format PPM - Portable pixmap format PSD - Photoshop series of still images RAS - Sun Raster series of stills RAW - Raw RGB images R3D - Red camera media RED BLU GRN - Uncompressed RGB RFB - HiCon32 SLB32 RTINDEX - Real time replay of VBR records RTV - Newtek Video Toaster files SGI - SGI series of images SIV - SI2K raw bayer camera stream STEREO - XML stereo redirection file (for melding eyes) SUN - Sun Raster format TGA - RGB, RGBA, RLE TIFF - RGB, RGBA v210 - 4:2:2 10 bit YCbCr image sequence VC-1 - WMV of raw wrapper VDA - Targa Video Display Adapter format VOB - Unencrypted VPB - Quantel uncompressed YCbCr images VST - Targa Virtual Studio Technology format WMV - Windows OS version only XBM - Windows monochrome bitmap XPM - X Windows Pixmap format Y4M - YCbCr raw 4:2:0, 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 streams Y U V - Multi file component YCbCr files YUV - 4:2:0/4:2:2 YCbCr image sequence YUV - www.testvid.com 8, 10, 12 and 14 4:2:0/4:2:2/4:4:4 bit streams

 

VIDEO Frame Rates: VariCam(1~60), 14.98, 15, 23.98/23.97, 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 50, 59.94, 60 or greater

VIDEO Frame Sizes: Variable(60~2048/1556), 720/704x480/486/508/512, 720x576/596/608, 1280x720, 1920x1080/1035, 2048x1080/1112/1536/1556

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DrasticPreview Installer (for Windows XP~7, 32 or 64 bit)