Autodesk Flint - Image processing

Image Processing: Plug-ins, Filters, and Optics
Filters include sharpen, soften, emboss, and glow, as well as user-customizable convolution filter matrices.
Lanczos filtering provides high-quality resizing when down-scaling images, preserving edge detail during image resizing.
Pixel math operators and blend modes enable compositing effects.
Motion analysis tool produces forward and reverse motion vectors. Motion Blur provides motion-estimated timewarps and motion blurs. Selectively set object blur based on relative motion.

Support for many third-party Autodesk Developers Network (ADN) Sparks® plug-ins.
Advanced flowchart representation of the compositing workflow and clip history to display operations performed on a clip, allowing for easy editing of complex visual effects.
Monitor downstream results with in-context viewers. Show the result at selected nodes while modifying others.
Batch nodes support 16-bit floating point processing. Custom node bins save effects that you create so you can reapply them.
Node grouping with user-definable group display settings. Cleanly organizes the schematic display while permitting rapid switching between node menus.
RGB Blur to create Box, Gaussian, Radial, and Directional blurs.
Integrated editing timeline with multiple video and audio tracks offers in-context editing, time warping, and synchronized audio. Vertical timeline editing with nested containers and multiple layers for complex visual effects. Render soft effects in a clip from Autodesk® Smoke® software. Create new Timewarp, Resize, Blend, and audio soft effects in the Batch timeline.
Improved source and record timeline editing workflow.
Segment FX enables visual effects to be dropped into edited timeline segments.
Proxy processing allows for fast interaction even when working at high resolutions.
Intelligent caching and bypassing functions enable automatic or user-defined pre-rendering of parts of the composite, increasing interactivity.
Script with the power of UNIX® operating system. Use scripts to automate tasks ranging from email notification of render completion to generating Apple® QuickTime® application program movie previews.
Batch Log and Queue Management handle workflow by setting up and prioritizing multiple-render jobs at once and monitoring progress on a web browser.
Unified channel editor allows display and modification of animation curves for different effects in Batch.
Digital notepads to annotate nodes and provide reminders and instructions for further work.
Enter Batch to apply effects to a single timeline segment before SoftFX® filters are applied (pre-segment) or to the result of a vertical compositing /soft effects (post-segment).
Batch navigation view mode provides a visual representation of the entire Batch effects tree resulting in a given Batch effects segment.
Designed for a procedural compositing environment, Batch paint has settings to define how paint strokes are applied to the image sequence, the ability to slip the reveal frame offset, as well as the ability to adjust the scale of paint strokes.

Infrastructure
Autodesk® Stone® Direct storage solution-high-speed fiber channel storage solutions for real-time access to high-resolution media.
Autodesk® Stone® FS software-advanced file system helps to provide performance and reduces fragmentation risks.
Autodesk® Wiretap® technology-application processing interface (API) provides convenient access to Stone FS file system by third-party applications.
RAID 5 protection from data loss of audio and video media, and nonobstructive background healing.
Supports Autodesk® Backdraft® Conform software-an assistant utility for project and media management, I/O, conform, and editing.
Autodesk® Wire® software networking for visual browsing and high-speed transfer of clips. Support for InfiniBand® networking protocol delivers faster-than-real-time transfer of clips up to 2K 10-bit resolution.
Supports standard file systems. Multiple Autodesk systems can connect to and share the same storage, such as a SAN or NAS, resulting in significantly faster media access and reduced media duplication (Linux® operating system only).

Motion Estimation Timewarp
High-quality timewarping for speeding up or slowing down the frame rate of a clip.
Minimizes the telltale ghosting, softening, and stepping artifacts typical of traditional frame-averaging timewarping.
Powerful optical flow algorithms track changes in image pixels from frame to frame and interpolate movement for crisp, clean rendering of extreme slow motion.
Enables interaction with onscreen motion vectors to improve accuracy. Speed curves facilitate setup and animation of speed changes.