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Chaos Player

Your fastest route from render to playback.

No more waiting! With Chaos Player, you can instantly review animations and frames as they are being rendered. Tweak them on the go with real-time color grading and editing capabilities – speed up your digital workflow in a breeze. Get ready for smoother playback experiences today!

Review your own or your team’s animation output in playback right after the rendering finishes. See new and updated frames instantly. Chaos Player is also powered up for basic compositing, color grading, and editing in real-time — even while playback is running.

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Try V-Ray, Phoenix, Vantage, Cosmos, Player, and Scans for free with a 30 Day trial. Tech support included.

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Chaos Player is Pdplayer’s successor — a professional image sequence player designed for fast and smooth playback. Artists and supervisors can use it to review their own or their team’s animation output in playback right after rendering finishes.  This release brings users a new, in-house developed new version of the product, which comes with a number of exciting features and enhancements, including a speed boost, full color precision, an all-new feature that enables artists and supervisors to compare different versions of a shot and do tech checks, an enhanced user interface, extended output formats, workspaces, plus more.

  • Speed. Designed for fast, smooth playback of high-resolution image sequences.
  • Smart cache. Instantly load and playback newly rendered and updated frames.
  • Power. Create multi-layered compositions and make changes in real-time.
  • Control. Composite, color grade, and edit layers while playback is running.
  • Remote work. Broadcast and collaborate with your teams with intuitive markup & annotation tools.
  • Professional quality . Work seamlessly in high dynamic range and output to all industry-standard formats.

 

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What’s new in Chaos Player

Here are the highlights of the release:

  • A boost to speed and precision — Chaos Player comes with caching speed improvements, full color precision, as
    well as support for OpenColorIO v2.
  • A/B wipe compare — Compare up to four versions of a shot in playback. Swipe and zoom into the details to tech-
    check and help perfect your own and other people’s work.
  • Enhanced user interface — Stay focused with a new, neutral color theme. The interface now scales on HiDPI
    screens and offers you easy access to the tools you use most, plus a smoother full-screen experience.
  • Output formats extended with MP4— Now you can export your compositions to one of the most commonly used
    video file formats — MP4.
  • Workspaces — Choose your workspace mode – Classic to unleash the full power of Chaos Player, or Playback to
    limit distractions and stay focused on reviewing your work or other people’s.

Chaos Player Features

Playback image sequences

Playback high-resolution image sequences quickly and efficiently with Chaos Player’s smart caching system. New and updated frames load instantly.

Layer sequences

Layer multiple sequences for simultaneous playback. By stacking layers, you can composite, edit and cut, tech check, and more.

A/B Wipe Compare

Compare up to four versions of a shot in playback. Swipe and zoom into the details to tech-check and perfect your own and other people’s work. Learn more about this feature in the tutorials tab.

Export to MP4

Export your cuts, edits, and compositions to MP4 videos or choose from a variety of image formats.

Composite

Composite layers quickly and easily in real-time while playback is running. Export to Adobe After Effects or Foundry’s Nuke for final output.

Adjust colors

Quickly and easily fine-tune exposure, contrast, color balance, and layer blending modes in real time while playback is running.

Edit and cut

Quickly arrange your shots, cut sequences, or add animated fade effects.

Broadcast and collaborate

Share previews of your animations on an HTTP server or directly on a broadcast monitor. Share ideas with your team by adding text and brush annotations.

Key and grade on set

Key, composite, and grade live on set and in real-time.

Command line support

Seamlessly integrate Chaos Player into your pipeline with extensive command-line support.

Chaos Player supports all industry standards as well as all industry-standard formats: OpenEXR (multi-channel and multi-part), .VRIMG, .MP4, a Lookup table (LUT), OpenColorIO v2, Adobe After Effects .jsx, Foundry Nuke .nk, and many more. See the full list >

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Part of the V-Ray Collection

Chaos Player is available individually and also as part of the V-Ray Collection

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Mac

  • Minimum requirements
    • Apple® Mac OS® X 10.15 Catalina
    • 8 GB RAM
    • 0.2 GB Hard Disk Space
    • Intel 64, AMD64 or compatible processor with SSE3 support
  • Recommended requirements
    • 32 GB RAM or more

Windows

  • Minimum requirements
    • Windows® 10
    • 8 GB RAM
    • 0.2 GB Hard Disk Space
    • Intel 64, AMD64 or compatible processor with SSE3 support
  • Recommended requirements
    • 32 GB RAM or more

Linux

  • Minimum requirements
    • CentOS 7 (64bit)
    • 8 GB RAM
    • 0.6 GB Hard Disk Space
    • Intel 64, AMD64 or compatible processor with SSE3 support
  • Recommended requirements
    • 32 GB RAM or more

 



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