Irudis Tonalizer | VFX

Irudis, a new company founded by the creators of the highly acclaimed (if no longer updated) RawShooter | Essentials and RawShooter | Premium software, has released Tonalizer | VFX, a “photographic-style” grading tool for serious videographers. Available as a plug-in to Apple Motion, Final Cut Express and Final Cut Pro, Tonalizer|VFX employs sophisticated per-frame, as well as temporal computations that take the dynamics of video footage into account. In addition to offering all the essential tools needed to make advanced tonal corrections, Tonalizer|VFX also incorporates noise reduction technology and software-based anti-aliasing to mitigate sampling related artifacts. The plug-in is available now for $179 through the website below.
Website: Irudis
Irudis Press Release
Irudis Introduces Tonalizer VFX™: The First Photographic-Style Grading Tool for Video Professionals
Irudis Uses Photographic Tradition to Create New Category of Video Editing Products to Support Videographers and Post-Production Editors
New York, USA – December 14, 2011 – Irudis, an imaging software company whose management team includes creators of award winning software for photographers, announced today a new category of editing software solutions for the video industry, beginning with its Tonalizer|VFX. Building on photographic software expertise, Tonalizer|VFX, is the first plug-in that enables advanced photographic-style grading for video and is immediately available for purchase.
Tonalizer|VFX is created to meet the demands of videographers and post-production pros. The result is a powerful and intuitive plug-in tailored to correct video footage for inescapable shortcomings due to adverse capture conditions such as poor exposure, lack of contrast, blocked shadows and highlights, improper white balance etc.
“Our vision is to create a new category of video editing products whose solid foundation is built on our advanced photographic software expertise,” explains Kenneth T. Laerke, CEO of Irudis. “We consider our primary audience to be post-production pros although we anticipate that our solutions will be of serious interest to photographers embracing video”.
Operations in Tonalizer|VFX are performed in a scene-adaptive manner by employing sophisticated per-frame, as well as temporal computations that take the dynamics of video footage into account. In addition to offering all the essential tools needed to make advanced tonal corrections, Tonalizer|VFX also incorporates noise reduction technology and software-based “anti-aliasing” to mitigate sampling related artifacts. Also, Tonalizer|VFX has been exclusively engineered to take advantage of the Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). In most cases Tonalizer|VFX will impose a limited overhead on the editing and rendering process.
“We are very excited about the benefits Tonalizer|VFX will offer videographers and post-production editors in the video grading process” adds Michael Jonsson, CTO of Irudis. “Tonalizer|VFX will improve common weaknesses in video footage with just a couple of powerful corrections and it the first in a series of innovative video editing solutions we will bring to the market.”
Tonalizer|VFX is compatible with Apple® Final Cut Pro® X 10.0.1, Final Cut Pro® 7, Final Cut Express® 4.0.1, and Apple® Motion™ 5, Motion™ 4, and is available for download for $179.00.
About Irudis
Irudis has offices located in Copenhagen, Denmark and Manhattan Beach, California, USA and was founded by Michael Jonsson and Kenneth T. Laerke, also co-founders of Pixmantec®, the company that brought RawShooter® to market in 2005. In the coming year, Irudis is planning to launch several digital video software applications. These will initially be plug-ins for leading video editing applications such as Apple® Final Cut and Adobe® Premiere. The software applications are designed for post-production pros, moviemakers and professional videographers. The tools provided by Irudis for digital video editing are based on patent-pending proprietary technologies.