SGO Mistika’s timeline allows for an infinite number of layers with no dedicated audio, video or effect tracks. Instead editors have the freedom to create an edit or complex composite by stacking multiple layers of clips and effects anywhere in the workspace.
“Throughout post production Mistika empowered us to work in various resolutions, formats and frame-rates in one timeline, which was a major advantage. This is why Mistika is considered the perfect system for challenging projects like this that require demanding deliveries.”
Christian Troeger, DI conform and finishing Artist, PICTORION das werk
Mistika allows for the non-destructive grouping of clips and effects in a way that helps users organize their projects into manageable pieces. It also provides an intelligent way of creating templates for effects and composites that can be used again in other projects, even at different resolutions.
The Mistika compositing panel uses a tree flow diagram that allows navigation up to any level of the composite. Users can manipulate parameters at any point while seeing the results in real time. Working with this panel users have no need to go back to the timeline.
Mistika provides a complete set of tools, a large range of filters, colour correctors, distortion effects, chroma keyers, vector paint, rotoscoping, morph, warp, title, and many more all as standard. External control interfaces, such as colour grading trackballs, can be used to drive the interface. All effects in Mistika are combinable, non-destructive and will not require intermediate renders in order to see how they affect each other in complex composite stacks.
It fully supports third-party plug-ins based on the OFX standard e.g. Foundry Furnace Suite. Mistika is completely configurable in terms of resolution, frame rate, aspect ratio, and interlacing. You can edit and composite in any format and resolution on the same timeline while retaining the ability to non-destructively modify effects parameters.
Mistika’s ability to digitize and colour correct material in native YUV as well as RGB translates into tremendous savings in both disk storage and colour space conversions.
“With more than 600-hundred effects shots and material, that was captured in five different formats, together with different archive image sequences, Mistika was placed at the heart of our production process. Mistika’s powerful performance allowed us to fine-tune VFX integration into the film, saving a lot of precious time in modifications, transfers and re-conforming.”
Ferran Piquer, Digital Cinema Manager, Molinare, Madrid.
In support of Universal Mastering Mistika includes all the necessary conversion tools that will allow clients to finish a project in a master format, such as 2K Film or HD@24P, and deliver in any other standard format such as PAL or NTSC.
