At NAB 2018 (April 7-12) in Las Vegas, SGO will introduce Mistika Review, an all new product, joining the line-up of Mistika Technology based solutions as a part of its natively integrated Multi-dimensional Workflow Concept.
Mistika Review enables reliable real-time playback and review of VFX shots or clips, supporting many native file types, resolutions, frame rates and color spaces. This facilitates efficient and optimized postproduction workflows of even the most demanding UHD, 8K, HDR, HFR and VR/360o projects.
Unique playback capabilities
SGO’s globally acclaimed herosuite, Mistika Ultima, is recognized by the industry for its unique and unparalleled playback capabilities. Mistika Review utilizes a newly developed caching system that even works on much smaller and less demanding platforms, allowing dependable real time playback of hi-resolution media, even at 8K.
Review and sign-off
Mistika Review is an incredibly easy-to-use software solution that allows creatives and decision makers to check the quality and status of a project and sign off their work remotely in one-to-one and even one-to-many remote review sessions.
Users can change the speed, frame rate, zoom in and out during playback and share notes and suggestions utilizing colored markers with annotations as part of the creative review process.
Mistika Review is supported on Mac, Windows and Linux operating systems.
Review: Writer-Director Aaron Schimberg’s “A Different Man”
Imagine you could wake up one morning, stand at the mirror, and literally peel off any part of your looks you don't like — with only movie-star beauty remaining.
How would it change your life? How SHOULD it change your life?
That's a question – well, a launching point, really — for Edward, protagonist of Aaron Schimberg's fascinating, genre-bending, undeniably provocative and occasionally frustrating "A Different Man," featuring a stellar trio of Sebastian Stan, Adam Pearson and Renate Reinsve.
The very title is open to multiple interpretations. Who (and what) is "different"? The original Edward, who has neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder that causes bulging tumors on his face? Or the man he becomes when he's able to slip out of that skin? And is he "different" to others, or to himself?
When we meet Edward, a struggling actor in New York (Stan, in elaborate makeup), he's filming some sort of commercial. We soon learn it's an instructional video on how to behave around colleagues with deformities. But even there, the director stops him, offering changes. "Wouldn't want to scare anyone," he says.
On Edward's way home on the subway, people stare. Back at his small apartment building, he meets a young woman in the hallway, in the midst of moving to the flat next door. She winces visibly when she first sees him, as virtually everyone does.
But later, Ingrid (Reinsve) tries to make it up to him, coming over to chat. She is charming and forthright, and tells Edward she's a budding playwright.
Edward goes for a medical checkup and learns that one of his tumors is slowly progressing over the eye. But he's also told of an experimental trial he could join. With the possibility — maybe — of a cure.
So... Read More