Mistika
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Mistika is a post-production
Post-production
Post-production is part of filmmaking and the video production process. It occurs in the making of motion pictures, television programs, radio programs, advertising, audio recordings, photography, and digital art...

 software published by SGO. It has gained a lot of new users in the past couple of years, especially when compared to its main competitors Autodesk Lustre, Quantel Pablo, Filmlight Baselight, with users becoming very loyal as the system is unique in operation and design.

Features

Mistika's main features include timeline-based editing, color grading, compositing, image restoration, filters for stereoscopic finishing and native support for various media formats like RED, ARRI RAW, PHANTOM, WEISSCAM. All image processing is done on the GPU, which lets the user do tasks like grading 4k DPX files in real time.

Operation

The GUI of Mistika has been viewed as being quite different than most video editing software, and a lot of people found it very difficult to understand at first. Although Mistika users spend most their time in the software (and therefore get a deep understanding of how to do different tasks), this made the system hard for assistants, freelancers etc. to operate, however, v5 launched at NAB
NAB
NAB may stand for:* Name and address book* National Assessment Bank, an internal exam used by the Scottish Qualifications Authority* National Association of Broadcasters, the industry group representing the commercial radio stations and television stations of the United States** NAB Show, an annual...

2010 changed this with a improved user GUI.

Stereoscopic 3D Success

One of Mistika's biggest successes has been within the Stereoscopic 3D world, with many post facilities adopting the system for the growing 3D market, including the UK's BSKYB, Framestore, Preditors, On Sight, BTVPost and more recently New Zealand's Park Road Post Production.

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