Setup guide

using the real-time deliverables function. The Lustre Station includes the film
workflow features, and the ability to create geometries and masks.
Primary colour grading on the Lustre Station requires a separate license. The
following features also require an additional license: SD and HD I/O, dual link
and HSDL video formats.
The Lustre Station does not support the Slave Renderer.
Other Components
You can expand the features of your Lustre system and improve the efficiency
of your workflow by adding any of the following components.
The Autodesk Control Surface provides improved
interactivity when colour grading film and video footage.
Control
Surface
You can perform many of the same tasks you do in the
Lustre user interface using the Control Surface.
You connect the Autodesk Control Surface to a Master Station and configure
the Control Surface on the workstation to which it is connected.
On the HP Z800 workstation, video I/O is provided by
the AJA card. The video I/O card consists of an HD/SD
Video I/O Card
and Breakout
Box card and a breakout box. This configuration provides
real-time SDI input and output of uncompressed 8- or
10-bit HD or SD video in both YUV (4:2:2) and RGB
formats (4:4:4 or 4:2:2). For a list of supported video
formats, see the Autodesk Lustre User Guide.
The drivers for the video card and breakout box are installed by the Discreet
®
Kernel Utility (DKU).
The Slave Renderer is a rack-mounted server that frees
system resources by automatically off-loading render tasks,
thus ensuring real-time interaction on the Lustre system.
Slave Renderer
Connect the Slave Renderer to a switch on your house network. Note that
only one Lustre Master station can use the Slave Renderer.
You install the Slave Renderer software package on the Slave Renderer.
Background rendering frees up Lustre workstations for
colour grading. You can use up to eight background
rendering machines to process your final frames.
Background
Renderer
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