GENERAL
ASSIMILATE SCRATCH® is Digital Imaging platform for on-set, dailies and post-production. It offers a wide variety of workflows and features from high performance playback to conform, editing, color grading, compositing, transcoding, finishing, advanced data-management capabilities, an application programming interfaces (API) for third party integration and more.
SCRATCH contains different Toolsets for targeted workflows. Next to that, ASSIMILATE offers targeted products, like Play Pro, with a subset of functions. This manual covers all the functions and if applicable will refer to the specific Toolset or (derivative) product.
It is recommended that you read this manual carefully when planning to do projects with SCRATCH. This manual is available both on-line on the Assimilate Support site at www.assimilatesupport.com and as a pdf download from that same site. The on-line version is continuously updated when updates are released for the same version. The pdf version of the manual is in general only created with each first release of a new version.
Besides this manual and various articles on the Support Site there are additional sources of information to learn about SCRATCH and options to post questions you might have: the ASSIMILATE Support Team, the SCRATCH user list and ASSIMILATE Tutorial videos at https://assimilate.sweb.media.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT TEAM
For Technical Support on SCRATCH, send an email to support@assimilateinc.com. Indicate your company, what build of SCRATCH you are running, your hardware configuration, and a description of the problem you are experiencing with steps for reproducing the problem. If possible also include a SCRATCH Log file. Note that this service is only available if you have a valid SCRATCH support contract or subscription.
SCRATCH-LIST
To keep up to date about the latest developments, tips and tricks,and general SCRATCH information, join the SCRATCH User Group list.Register at http://groups.google.com/group/scratch-list with the email account you wish to use. Once you are authorized, you will receive emails that are posted to the Scratch-List group. Each email is identified with [SCRATCH-LIST] in the message subject, so they can be easily identified and sorted in your email reader.
The Scratch-List is an excellent resource for users of any level.Post questions, opportunities, recent projects, or any other SCRATCH-related topics; then watch for feedback from SCRATCH users around the world.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The following non-proprietary code is used within SCRATCH and derived applications:
FreeType (uses version 2.3.10)
Copyright (c) 1996-2002 The FreeType Project (www.freetype.org)
All rights reserved.
The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library (1.3.3)
Copyright (C) 2002-2008, Milan Ikits <milan.ikits@ieee.org>
Copyright (C) 2002-2008, Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
Copyright (C) 2002, Lev Povalahev <levp@gmx.net>
All rights reserved.
Half float pixel format type
This is the format used on the graphics hardware, and the conversion from, and to this format is provided through software, which is:
Copyright (c) 2002, Industrial Light & Magic, a division of Lucas Digital Ltd. LLC
All rights reserved.
OpenEXR image format
Copyright (c) 2004, Industrial Light & Magic, a division of Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd. Portions contributed and copyright held by others as indicated. All rights reserved.
XML toolkit from the GNOME project (libXML2 version 2.6.11)
Copyright (C) 1998-2003 Daniel Veillard. All Rights Reserved.
Additional notices for files contributed to the libXML project:
Copyright (C) 2001 Bjorn Reese <breese@users.sourceforge.net>
Tiff library:
Copyright (c) 1988-1997 Sam Leffler
Copyright (c) 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Jpeg library:
The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG software
This software is copyright (C) 1991-1998, Thomas G. Lane.
JPEG 2000 Format image format support is handled through:
Kakadu V6.1, License 00845
Copyright (c) 2001, David Taubman, The University of New South Wales (UNSW)
JasPer
Current version: 1.701.0
JasPer License Version 2.0
Copyright (c) 1999-2000 Image Power, Inc.
Copyright (c) 1999-2000 The University of British Columbia
Copyright (c) 2001-2003 Michael David Adams
All rights reserved.
OFX : Open Plug-Ins For Special Effects
Basic Host implementation uses the specification headers provided by the OFX project, which are:
Copyright (c) 2003-2009, Open Effects Association.
All rights reserved.
SCRATCH DNxHD MXF - Patent and third party libraties
For its implementation of (DNxHD/HR) MXF format, SCRATCH uses a number of third party Patents and software libraries.
AVID
DNxHD Patent rights and Notices. The MXF DNxHD implementation in SCRATCH is manufactured by ASSIMILATE INC under license to pending patent applications and issued patents: [U.S. Patent Application10/817,209, allowed. U.S. Patent 7,403,561. U.S. Patent Application No.12/215,228, currently pending. Canadian Patent Application 2521467,allowed. European Patent 1629675. European Patent Application 07121939,published as European patent publication 1892965, currently pending.]
AAF SDK
The Source Code version of the AAF SDK used in SCRATCH is available from the Advanced Media Workflow Association, Inc., under the terms of the AAF SDK Public Source License Version 2.0. A copy of this license is available at www.amwa.tv The terms of the SCRATCH End User License Agreement do not apply to the AAF SDK, neither is any Contributors to the AAF SDK responsible or liable for the terms and conditions in the SCRATCH License Agreement.
BMX library
Copyright (C) 2015, British Broadcasting Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
APPLE ProRes Encoder
Apple Licenses the Apple Technology to Assimilate on an "AS IS"basis. APPLE MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON INFRINGEMENT, REGARDING THE APPLE TECHNOLOGY OR ITS USE AND OPERATION ALONE OR IN COMBINATION WITH OTHER SOFTWARE OR HARDWARE. APPLE DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE APPLE TECHNOLOGY WILL MEET PARTICULAR REQUIREMENTS, OR THAT THE OPERATION OF THE APPLE TECHNOLOGY WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE,OR THAT DEFECTS INT HE APPLE TECHNOLOGY WILL BE CORRECTED.
FFmpeg
SCRATCH uses code of FFmpeg licensed under the LGPLv2.1 and its source can be downloaded here.
Assimilate Inc does not own any of the FFmpeg source code. More information on the ownership of FFmpeg can be found at http://www.ffmpeg.org/index.html.
Various web libraries
- mpeg4ip from the mp4creator - lib v1.6.1c - (MPL 1.1). Portions of this library were created by Cisco Systems Inc. are Copyright (C) Cisco Systems Inc. 2001. All Rights Reserved.
- OpenSSL - Copyright (c) 1998-2011 The OpenSSL Project. All rights reserved. This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/).
- libfaac v1.28 - (LGPL) Copyright (C) 2001 Menno Bakker, Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 Krzysztof Nikiel. libfaac uses KISS FFT, Copyright (c) 2003-2004, Mark Borgerding.
- Parson - Copyright (c) 2013 Krzysztof Gabis.
- ftplib - Copyright (c) 2000-2006, The Perl Foundation - (AL 2.0)
- Google's Skia - 2D Graphics Library. Copyright (c) 2011 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
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VR Headset support
- Oculus Rift SDK: Copyright © 2014-2016 Oculus VR, LLC. All rights reserved.
- Valve OpenVR API for HTC Vive: Copyright (c) 2015, Valve Corporation All rights reserved.
Trademarks
Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.
Pentium is a trademark or registered trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.
The following are trademarks of ASSIMILATE Inc.:
ASSIMILATE, ©copyright and trademark, ASSIMILATE Inc, 2004. All rights reserved.
SCRATCH is a registered trademark ® of ASSIMILATE, 2006. SCRATCH SCAFFOLDS, SCRATCH EXTENSIONS, and SCRATCH Digital Intermediate Process Solution are all trademarks and registered trademarks of ASSIMILATE,2006, All rights reserved.