Well, IBC (International Broadcasters Convention) is over for another year, but I managed to pretty much see everything of interest.
Obviously the most important event at IBC was the launch of the digital intermediates book, which launched at mid-day on Monday– apologies to all who came early and missed it.
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As for the rest, read on for a summary of what went on.

Kodak announced version 2.0 of its look manager system for Macintosh and Windows platforms, due to ship in December. New features and enhancements will include the ability organise images on a per scene basis, and assign metadata and color information, which can then be shared with others. Behind the scenes, it now also incorporates 3D LUT technology for color calibration.

Antics Technologies Ltd. was previewing a new version of its Antics Pre-Viz broadcast and production pre-visualisation software. Antics have been collaborating with the British Broadcasting Corporation in its development, and the results are extremely impressive. Some of the new features being demonstrated included the ability to create a virtual studio environment, complete with modelled cameras, dollies, lighting rigs and the like. A “blueprint” view affords a bird’s-eye view of the location, as well as multi-camera views (no doubt reminiscent of the BBC’s own “Video Gallery” control room). It will be available to buy later this year (priced at around $1,225), with a demo version coming soon.

Celco introduced an upgrade to its Firestorm recorder. The Firestorm 2 can output frames at a rate of 1.8 seconds per frame, making it 30% faster than its predecessor, and can output to a number of different formats, such as 16mm, 35mm, 65mm and IMAX formats. It will be available at an expected RRP of $200,000.

Arri announced that it is to adopt Kodak’s Digital ICE scratch and dirt removal technology on its Arriscan film scanner. The system uses an infra-red pass to generate a matte for defect removal, either on the fly, or later on in the pipeline.

Film + Data Technologies were demonstrating the Nova 2k HD film scanner. It will scan 8mm, 16mm, and 35mm at 15 fps at 2k resolution or 3 fps at 4k resolution. What is especially unique is the pricing plan. Rather than pay up front for the cost of the scanner, it is leased out for a monthly fee, which includes all maintenance and upgrade costs. The price is $16,000 per month, with a refundable deposit of $40,000.

Imagica previewed its Imager HSX film scanner, which can scan 35mm at 3fps at 2k, or 1fps at 4k resolution. It features a new CMOS sensor, coupled with an LED light source, and it will also adopt the Kodak Digital ICE technology. Also on show was the new Imager HSR film recorder, which also uses LED illumination, and can record frames out at 2k at a rate of 3 frames per second.

Edifis introduced its new grading system, “f/stop”, based on its “Finaliser” video grading system, with the capability to grade images up to 2k resolution in real-time, due to ship early next year. It comes with a control surface and graphics tablet, but it doesn’t offer much that we haven’t seen before, so it had better be cheap.

The Pixel Farm announced PFClean, a dust-busting system featuring both automatic and manual modes, and other tools such as stabilisation, deflicker, vignette correction and noise reduction. They also announced PFPlay version 2.0, a playback and media management system for digital image sequences, which features a number of improvements to performance and usability. To accompany this, PFClip was also announced, which is a standalone image playback system.

NAC Image Technology Inc. were demo’ing the HD-HS300P, an HD camera capable of shooting at a frame rate up to 300fps (@1920×1080 progressive, 4:4:4), producing stunning slow-motion images. [note: the website is in Japanese, but if I can dig up some more information about this camera I'll post it.]

TDK announced a Blu-Ray prototype that can store 100GB. At the same time, they also announced the “Durabis” coating technology which can be used on Blu-Ray discs to make them scratch-resistant, allowing them to be stored in the same way as DVDs.