Kronos File
Delivering Faultless Media Retiming - In Software
Kronos File is an unparalleled software-based media retiming solution — Based on Grass Valley's Emmy® Award-winning image processing expertise — enabling run time adjustments of file-based assets with no perceivable quality difference. Offering the very best in motion-compensated image performance and the finest quality audio pitch correction for run time changes of up to ±20%. It runs on commodity IT equipment to deliver picture perfect quality the first time, every time.
FEATURES
- Media retiming with no perceived difference in quality for video and audio, however complex the source
- Deploy it on commodity IT infrastructure from a single node to the cloud
- Simple integration via watch folders or standardized FIMS SOAP interface
SPECIFICATIONS
File Wrappers
- MXF OP1a (AVC-I, DNxHD, DNxHR, DV, XDCAM, JPEG2000, D10 IMX, XAVC)
- MOV (ProRes/DNxHD/JPEG 2000/DNxHR/
- AVC-I (decode only)/XDCAM/DV)
- MTS (AVCHD only)
- MJ2 (JPEG 2000 only)
- MP4 (H.264 Long GOP only)
- MBG/TS (MPEG-2)
Video Formats
- SD, HD and 3 Gb/s broadcast standards
- 2K, 4K, and custom resolutions up to 8K
- Custom frame rate (12-300 Hz)
Video Codecs
- DNxHD
- DNxHR
- DV25/DVCPRO25/50/100
- XDCAM HD
- D10 (IMX 30/40/50)
- AVC-Intra 50/100
- AVC-Intra RP2027 50/100/200
- Apple ProRes
- JPEG 2000 (Lossy/Lossless/DCI)
- AVC-HD (MTS only)
- XAVC (I-Frame/Long GOP)
- MPEG-2
- H.264 (Long GOP)
Uncompressed Video
- DPX*
- Uncompressed MOV
Audio
- PCM input – support for 44.1, 48, 96 kHz
- PCM output – 48 kHz only
- AAC input only – support for 32, 44.1, 48 kHz
- Output will always be PCM 48 kHz
- Audio Stream Routing
- Audio Channel Shuffling
Retiming Modes
- Constant retime
- Retime with protected segments (configured via marker file or GV File client)
Duration Adjustment
- Percentage Squeeze/Stretch
- Time Squeeze/Stretch
- Target Duration
- Job Specific (Retime with protected segments)
Retiming Processing
- Constant retime
- Audio pitch correction/re-sampling
- Cadence maintained (2:2/2:3/mixed/custom)
- Discontinuous cadence repaired
Video Utilities
- Color space conversion (REC601/BT709/SMPTE ST 2020)
- RGB Legalization (700/721/735/custom)
- Luma Clipper
- Luma/Chroma/Black Level
HDR Processing
- HDR (PQ/S-Log3/HLG) to SDR (BT709) using Grass Valley’s Advanced Tone Mapping
- HDR (PQ/S-Log3/HLG) to HDR (PQ/S-Log3/HLG)
- SDR to HDR (PQ/S-Log3/HLG)
Control
- GV File Client
- Watch Folder
- FIMS Media SOA Framework v1.0.7
Operating System
- Windows (64-bit) server 2012/2008 R2
- Windows (64-bit) 7, 8 and 8.1
- Linux (RedHat, CentOS)
- OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (Client only)
Minimum Configuration
- 1x 4 core 2.5 GHz processors
- 1 or more GPUs (Multiple cards should be matched)
Memory:
- SD/HD 1 GPU: 8 GB
- SD/HD 2 GPU: 16 GB
- SD/HD 3 GPU: 24 GB
- SD/HD 4 GPU: 32 GB
- 4K 1 GPU: 16 GB
- 4K 2 GPU: 32 GB
- 4K 3 GPU: 48 GB
- 4K 4 GPU: 64 GB
DRIVER (See NVIDIA website), AMD DRIVER (See AMD website), AMD
DRIVER FirePro (See AMD website)
Metadata
- Closed Caption 608 / 708 SMPTE ST 436 support in MXF (not including XAVC)
- Closed Caption Line 21 IMX only
GPU Support (min 2 GB for SD /HD, min 4 GB for 4K) GPU must support Open CL 1.1 or aboveNVIDIA:
- GeForce GTX
- Quadro
- Tesla
AMD:
- AMD FirePro
- AMD HD 6000 Series**
- AMD HD 7000 Series**
- AMD R7 Series**
- AMD R9 Series
- AMD RX Series
- AMD Pro WX-Series
Conversion times will vary depending on hardware specification.
* Trial feature
** These cards have not been verified by Engineering.
MEDIA GALLERY
ORDERING INFORMATION
Please contact your authorized Grass Valley representative.
