Well this is a question many friends told me since I work with clipster, I try to explain them why really a Clipster diserve it, so here i go: Clipster is a very specific tool, DVS said is "the heart of your DI", and i said, is the heart and the head. If you have the lucky of having a Clipster you have to understand that is a machine capable of many many things, lets discuss this: - Clipster is a machine wich is capable of moving 4K in real time, not so impressed!! well what if i told you that you are capable of doing some kind, repeat, some kind of analog device, BTC DIG, HD CAM, HD CAM SR... without a rendering and without a AJA, Blackmagic, ETC. The HD-SDI output of clipster is completely adaptable to your need, so if have 4K media and do you want a BTC DIG (PAL or NTSC) you have everything done! Without a render! Awesome! - With Clipster you cant export for example a QT NONE of a movie in 2K in about 40/48fps, you are going to have a QT NONE of your entire movie in a awesome time, lets say i want mu QT in a PAL resolution, 40/48 fps velocity too. The hardware of Clipster is absolutely great, it has a lot of cards connect each other that aloud you have this velocity on render times, Dont fotget to mark the HARDWARE FINALIZING SUPPORT in finalizing window to have this. - Clipster can export all types of QT, BMP, DPX, TIFF, TGA, DNXHD, WMV, AVI... incredibly faster. Also you can capture transcoding directly to QTPRORES, DNXHD, DPX or what you want. - In the conform is where clipster gets the A+, a entire new interface appears to show you many options about all kind of things, you can edit the EDL entirely, since the TC until the CLIP or FILE names wherever you want, it makes the work of the online editor easier. - You can digitalize too 444 RGB, (you need dual link for that) - You can grade a material, pan and scan it, and finishing in a tape without a rendering. And you can do many things more. So those friend whot told me what for?? I said...
You can also output directly to film in real time with on the fly adjustments in 2k and 4k if you have capable output recorders. Great tool hassle free and pretty straight forward.
Yeah sure also is the player of the CINEVATOR , to do film, negative, internegtive, positive, positive with subtitles...
I was transcoding RED Epic 4K HDR to ProRes at 170fps, A full days worth of rushes encoded in around 2 hours. Headed straight for the offline the same day i received em. Creating DCP´s is straight forward and works a treat too.
Combined with the killer DCP creation, this is practically worth the price of admission alone. DVS OEMs the Rocket for RED, but the most we've ever gotten out of a RR is about 30-36 FPS going to DPX. So, I'm guessing Clipster must include an even more advanced version of the Atomix (newer DSP, Chipset, PCI-E 2.0, etc) than RED is selling. I think Light Iron uses 3-4 of them for R3D transcoding, and they've mentioned up to 200fps in articles I've read. I'm helping to "untangle" an indie feature conform, I can't tell you how much a Clipster would help us right now. But, the cost of a Clipster would eat up a fourth of their budget alone. lol.
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I think they start around US$60K, and go up from there based on options you can add, like I/O and storage. I have also seen a few of them used. A Clipster 2K was recently posted on eBay for $25K.
