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The 844/X is Media 100's new nonlinear editing and effects system for short-form, effects-intensive work such as television commercials, teasers, and interstitials. The 844/X costs less than $70,000 and can process eight streams of data simultaneously in real time with 10-bit accuracy.
A key component of the 844/X is the GenesisEngine, a proprietary embedded operating system that enables the 844/X to process several concurrent visual effects, including filters, color corrections, and color effects, in real time. Visual Voicing is a proprietary technology built into the GenesisEngine that allows any four layers in a multi-layer composition to be viewed and changed individually or as a group--all in real time with no processing or rendering.
The 844/X's 10-bit signal architecture, which the company claims is the first for a disk-based system in the digital media marketplace, handles more than 1 billion pixels and effectively eliminates the banding error artifacts common to most 8-bit systems (in which picture quality degrades as successive ...