Autodesk LUSTRE 2011 User manual

Whether you work in film or television post,
Autodesk®Lustre® software gives you creative
tools you need to help build a look that establishes
your unique vision or sells your client’s ideas with
compelling eect.
Creative Tools
Shape the audience experience using complex
secondaries to isolate the parts of the shot you need
to draw out and highlight. With Lustre software’s
rich creative toolset, your imagination is the limit.
Production-Proven Nonlinear Color Grading
Compare multiple shots in your sequence to help
maintain continuity of color and lighting across your
entire timeline. Jump between shots instantly, and
see them side by side in dierent contexts. With a
nonlinear workflow and a faster, higher-quality image
pipeline, you have time to do more by experimenting
with many grades and variations.
Streamlined Facility Workflow
Take advantage of the flexibility of the Lustre system
to help build open and scalable collaborative color
grading workgroups. Save time with Autodesk®
Wiretap®technology, an advanced application
programming interface (API) that provides access to
media, clips, and timelines created by Autodesk visual
eects and finishing applications. This capability
enables you to color grade an Autodesk®Smoke®
 or Autodesk®Flame® software timeline in
Lustre without duplicating media or transferring
media across the network.
Lustre is extremely user
friendly and compatible
with our in-house tools –
us the flexibility and
independence we need
with project and shot
management.
— Patrice Barrette
Colorist
Hybride Technologies,
a Ubisoft©Division
Shape Color and Light
Autodesk Lustre  software is a leading high-performance
digital color grading solution for creative look development.
Control color and light with artistic freedom to help establish
narrative tone and create stylized looks.
The Woman with a Broken Nose. © Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion Filmhouse Bas Celik, 2010.
Image courtesy of CinePostproduction.
Image courtesy of Zee Networks.

Key Features
Creative Tools
Explore creative options and develop looks in film
and television with the innovative Autodesk Lustre
creative toolset.
• Primaryandsecondarygrading  
• Freehandshapesandgeometries  
• Hierarchicalshapesystem   
• AdvancedGMasks   
• Multipointandregion-of-interesttracking 
and stabilization
• Keying     
• Panandscan    
• Degrainandautomaticdustremoval
GPU-Accelerated Processing
Lustre takes advantage of the graphical processing unit
(GPU)toacceleratethecoreprimaryandsecondary
grading tools and several of the Lustre eects plug-ins.
GPUgradingsignicantlyhelpsboostthereal-time
interaction and capability of the Lustre system.
Multilayer Timeline
Lustre provides a powerful conform toolset for building
timelines and handling editorial changes, which, in
the Digital Intermediate (DI) suite, are a fact of life.
The multilayer timeline in Lustre gives colorists the
gestural tools to help make edits, shot versions, and
grade versions faster. Try out multiple looks on a
single shot or rearrange the shots of an assembled
edit decision list (EDL) and then simply apply the
looks across multiple shots.
Stereoscopy
Autodesk solutions are designed to help develop a
holistic stereo pipeline, from D to D compositing
and color grading. Speed up the process of grading,
previewing, and rendering left- and right-eye media
with the automated stereoscopic tools in Lustre. A
bidirectional stereoscopic timeline and cross-product
media compatibility mean that facilities can easily
add Lustre color grading to Flame visual eects and
Smoke editorial finishing workflows already in place.
Parallel Lustre grading workflow with Smoke 
and Flame  for visual eects and editorial finishing
allows artists to work more eciently from a shared
pool of media.
Autodesk, Flame, Lustre, Smoke, and Wiretap are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or aliates in the USA and/or other countries. All other
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Color Decision List
Lustre integrates the American Society of
Cinematographers’ color decision list which was
developed to help make sure that images appear the
same when displayed in two dierent places on two
dierent platforms, for a more consistent look across
the dierent stages of post-production — from on
set look creation to dailies to final grade.
Interoperability
With support for multiple digital formats RED™
CODE RAW, Panasonic®P2, Sony®XDCAM,Apple®
QuickTime®, and multi-channel OpenEXR file formats,
Autodesk Lustre software enables you to develop a
more flexible workflow.
Autodesk Control Surface
A unique and beautiful modular three-ball control
surface is designed with colorists in mind to give you
faster, more intuitive access to the most common
color grading functions, and is available as an optional
component of any Lustre configuration. The control
surface gives colorists a highly ergonomic means to
access Lustre controls, and the response sensitivity
can be customized according to each colorist’s
individual preference.
Autodesk Lustre Configurations
Autodesk Lustre configurations oer a flexible way
to help customize your pipeline. Configuration
optionsincludeAutodeskLustreMasterStation,
Autodesk Lustre HD Station, and Autodesk Lustre
Assistant Station. For details on configuration, visit
www.autodesk.com/lustre.
To purchase a license of Autodesk Lustre or obtain
information about Autodesk visual eects, editing,
finishing, and color grading products:
NorthAmerica:[phone]
International:[phone]  
www.autodesk.com/contactus
www.autodesk.com/lustre
The Last Station. © Egoli Tossell Film, Zephyr Films. Image courtesy of CinePostproduction.
© 2009 UBISOFT. Photo Courtesy of Hybride and Ubisoft
Digital Arts.