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The new Keylink Reader Head includes a splice detector.
- In video transfer, by using the distance between the reading head and the telecine gate, the Keylink is now able to update the keycode in burning windows, right after a film splice. Database events can be triggered by splices, and referenced with their new keycode numbers.
- In data mode, as soon as a splice is detected, the new Keycode is transmitted to the scanner and can be stored into the DPX file headers. No more wrong Keycode numbers are recorded for frames standing between splice and next barcode occurrence.
Keylink correlates film and video codes by inserting VANC, reticules and virtual-slates in the HD signal, as well as VITC+characters in the SDI and Analog channels out of the built-in SD downconverter of D5 and HD-Cam VTRs. All in one pass!
This ability to simultaneously handle HD & SD channels is a great time saver when it comes to deliver both HD tapes for rushes projection, and SD tapes to the editor.
For those facilities which prefer to transfer HD only (then downconvert the HD tapes to SD), Aaton offers a standalone station called Passage. Furthermore, if one needs to convert SD made edls into HD edls, please check out Edilite.
Keylink is the most accurate code reader because all the physical transfer parameters, such as the film and video phasings and in-points validity, are permanently brought to the colorist eyes.
Making all the difference between a 98% and a 100% accurate code reader, Keylink virtually eliminates the time wasted in verifying and correcting unsure transfer databases.
Made of six miniature video cameras, the Keylink film-code-reader features the only contact-free head in existence: no dust generation ever, shuttling a freshly processed negative even!
All film codes are decyphered, Keycode (regular and upside-down), Arricode and Aatoncode, with no mechanical adjustments when switching from 16 to 35mm.
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