Assimilate SCRATCH is a comprehensive DI software that lets you take control of your digital workflow. The ultimate, professional playback & review tool for virtually all production and camera formats, the world's fastest, most interactive creative platform.

WHY START FROM SCRATCH?

• Buy and learn one tool to use, from on-set throughout the entire post-production pipeline.
  
• SCRATCH covers all bases and can be the foundation of your workflow while still integrating with other dailies- and editorial-system or specialized post-tools.
  
• The most interactive and fastest user interface around. On any hardware configuration from your laptop to high end power system. On Windows and OSX.
  
• The most cost effective solution that will accelerate your productivity and boost your creativity.
  

ON-SET DAILIES

• Format support - SCRATCH supports almost all professional media formats around from RAW, to traditional intermediates dpx, EXR, QuickTime, etc. to compressed like XAVC and other H264 variants.
  
• Live View - ingest the SDI signal of a camera directly to manage on-set looks or green-screen testing.
  
• Flexible transcoding to any (intermediate) format - MXF, ProRes (also on Windows!), H264, etc. - in multiple resolutions in one go, including grades and burn-in titling.
  
• Manage looks, import and export CDL or LUT and use the match-functions to ensure looks created on-set can be easily used further down the pipeline.
  
• Fully customizable reporting in html or directly online, including proxy images and all shot meta data.
  
• On-Set Dailies
  

EDITORIAL AND CONFORM

• SCRATCH has its own online editor but can also import a timeline from your favorite offline editor.
  
• Flexible conform options to assemble your timeline from Final Cut, Media Composer or Premiere.
  
• Navigate through your Multi Layered timeline and easily navigate your tracks down to any composite element of your shots.
  

GRADING

• Primary- and secondary grading: qualifiers, curves, vectors, unlimited grading layers and masks in any (free form) shape.
  
• Flexible and fully automated Color space management covering all major color spaces, including ACES. Support for a wide variety of LUT formats.
  
• Versioning: easily create, manage, compare and switch between versions of shots.
  
• Full support for grading panels and surfaces.
  

COMPOSITE

• Shape tracking and animation of any effect, grade and layer geometry.
  
• Support for third party OpenFX plug-ins. SCRATCH standard comes with a paint module, a text module, bicubic layers to warp any surface.
  
• Easily navigate and view complex composite trees while in the context to the full timeline.
  
• Nest and cache a node to preserve realtime playback with complex composites.
  
• Manage your Stereo 3D project almost just as easy as any standard 2D production with automated convergence.
  

FINISH

• Create and manage complex output trees / templates for all deliverables.
  
• Multiple resolutions, formats and framerates - QuickTime, MXF, dpx, EXR, DCI compatible J2k, and more - all in one go.
  
• Add subtitles, logo's or deliverable specific grades.
  
• Publish directly to YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook or SCRATCH Web.
  

DATA MANAGEMENT

• Easily manage thousands and thousands of shots in a single project.
  
• Import/export, search, edit all available shot meta data.
  
• XML Scripting to integrate the power of SCRATCH into your (automated) pipeline and link it to other tools.
  

COLLABORATION

• SCRATCH Remote; connect multiple SCRATCH systems from all around the world for a creative grading session.
  
• Store your user settings online - grades, gallery items, panels settings in the cloud so you can take place behind any SCRATCH system anywhere and enjoy your own setup
  
• Publish to SCRATCH Web to share content online in a secure manner.
  

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST...

• Playback: Single view, split-view, A/B view, Reference monitor or projector, SDI output - SCRATCH offers it all.
  
• Playback revisited: smooth while grading or compositing - instant response when adjusting any grade parameters.
  
• Handle any image resolution - no need to stop at 4k.
  
• Widest hardware support for graphic cards, grading panels and video-IO industry wide.
  
• Our support team - always available to guide you and help out with any issue you might encounter.