STORM | Features


Flexible & Intuitive User Interface

Storm tagging

  • Clean Layout makes it easy to navigate STORM's rich feature set
  • Drag and drop centric user interface makes it easy to apply tags, effects, looks, filter on metadata, and more
  • Customisable workspaces allow you to optimise STORM for any given task
  • Quickly transition between different tasks by using saved workspaces

Easy Media Acquisition and organisation

Storm intray

  • Quickly import RAW (RED R3D) media and work at the highest quality
  • Import Broadcast WAV audio files then link and sync them to your shots
  • Imported media appears as thumbnails that can be scrubbed, played, and updated with selected poster frames for fast verification and organisation
  • View your media with the look that came off the camera, at camera defaults, with your adjustments or toggle between all three and ensure you can attain the look you are after
  • User defined Tags and Notes allow you to identify and flag shots and will appear in the metadata that follows you throughout the editorial process
  • Create a custom hierarchy of bins to sort your media and keep yourself organised

Actionable Metadata

  • Search your media using tags and metadata to filter your media and organise across your bins
  • All media metadata is imported for reference, organising media, or quickly identifying problems
  • Identify potential problems early by creating templates based on selected metadata to immediately recognise issues such as incorrect frame rate or resolution.

Realtime Playback

Storm player

  • Compare looks using a multi-viewer workspace
  • Use realtime scopes to verify shots and ensure latitude
  • Use STORM's exposure warning tools and histogram to see where you are over or underexposed
  • Supports the RED Rocket adapter for decode, de-Bayer, and SDI/HDMI out including support for the RED Rocket Breakout Box for projector or multi-monitor displays
  • Test your shots using STORMs blanking and safe area tools to ensure you have captured the right quality and details

Technical & Creative Grading

Storm technical grading

  • See the RED Look as it came off the camera and manage the effect in STORM to control interpretation of the RAW R3D and RMD files
  • Easily toggle between the shot look, the RMD look and the user defined Look to explore artistic intent
  • Support for Avid Artist Color control panel to quickly prepare a technical look and apply it to many clips
  • Flexible layered effects stack to control look priorities and dependencies.
  • Preset library of looks to quickly trial intent on set
  • Define your own complex Looks and apply them to your selected clips or save them for later use
  • STORM provides a rich effects library including a ranges tool to create complex effects and isolations

Multi-track timeline

Storm timeline

  • Compare multiple edits on different timeline tracks to explore editorial intent
  • Manage your edit in a timeline and source viewer workspace to compare your edit to the original media
  • Explore different Looks by applying any version of a Look to a clip in the timeline

Media Export

  • Get to edit and post quickly by exporting QuickTime, DPX and OpenEXR files at any resolution and bit depth
  • Export with user defined handles to ensure the proper edit can be managed
  • Apply any look or effects to output media for viewing your dailies with the correct intent

Final Cut Pro Workflow

  • Export STORM's Bin structure or timeline to Final Cut Pro to maintain consistency throughout the edit and conform
  • Quickly render QuickTime Proxies for edit but maintain references to original R3D media in STORM and ensure your workflow maintains the highest quality possible
  • STORM's metadata Tags and Notes are passed to Final Cut Pro as Markers to ensure critical information is presented to the editor
  • Re-conform from Final Cut Pro to original R3D sources maintaining latest Looks, Tags and re-linking all metadata references

Robust Architecture

  • Extensible architecture facilitates expansion of STORM features and camera formats
  • Floating point colour processing and GPU acceleration enables you to audition looks and effects in realtime

Storm creative grading


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