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MillimeterProducts: Assimilate
Jan 1, 2005 11:58 AM, By Dan Ochiva
Scratch for DI
Some of you will have fond memories of the “let's-take-on-the-big-boys” attitude of long-gone Intergraph Computer Systems. Its innovative PC workstations blended unique graphics processing designs with low-ball pricing.
Two Intergraph veterans, Jim Meadlock and Jeff Edson, along with inventors Gerk Huisma and Nacho Mazzini, hope to bring back that excitement for DI with their new company Assimilate. The company launched at IBC 2004 with a business plan built upon Scratch, a pumped-up Windows workstation and software combo that features realtime, multi-resolution review/playback, assemble/edit, conform, primary color grading, scratch audio, visual effects, and final mastering to film.
The Miami-based company states that Scratch operates at resolutions from SD through 4K and higher, but realtime 2K is the sweet spot for most of today's DI post. The system targets that market with its dual-processor Windows XP Pro workstation featuring Nvidia Quadro FX graphics and support for The Foundry's OpenFX API, which opens up hundreds of plug-in possibilities. The open-systems approach also means that you can just buy the $35,000 software package and build any DI system you want. www.assimilateinc.com
