MenteMagica just announced the release of CinemantiQ, a film-simulation software application. An obvious
competitor to Red Giant's Magic Bullet, CinemantiQ
(pronunciation, I can only assume, is oh-so-French) offers up all the usual suspects for de-DVing your footage:
bleach-bypass simulation, gradients, diffusion, curves, and of course, de-interlacing. The standalone Windows
application retails for $350 but is available for the "special introductory price" of $99. MenteMagica
claims their software processes footage up to 30 times faster than competing packages, but as with all software speed
claims, your mileage may vary (greatly).Does anyone have any experience with MenteMagica? They claim "10 years of CG software development," but it'd be nice to have some user feedback on the new (to me, anyway) company.
[via DV Info Net]
1. Strangely enough, all the other (several) products on the site are "coming soon," so I'm not sure what those ten years of prior development has actually generated. I know they used to make displacement plugins for Caligari Truespace (a long time ago), but being a Lightwave guy I had only a nodding aquaintance with them.
A lot of the buttons on that site don't go anywhere, so maybe they are in the process of reinventing themselves. I'll wait.
Posted at 3:08PM on Apr 3rd 2006 by Isaac Botkin