High performance online editing, color and finishing
The Quantel name has been synonymous with innovation and excellence in post-production since the birth of digital systems. Quantel Rio is the latest name in that proud line - delivering stunning images at any and every resolution, color space and framerate - whatever today’s rapidly-changing industry throws at it. Quantel Rio has the power to handle the whole job interactively through its comprehensive online editing, color correction and finishing toolset.
Whatever the job, Quantel Rio blends quality and creativity in a package that delivers the productivity needed to succeed in movie and TV finishing, getting the whole job done efficiently and without creative limits.

Performance
Quantel Rio delivers the ultimate productive post workflow. Thanks to its real-time performance, its complete, integrated toolset that keeps the whole job in the suite, and full integration into today’s file-based workflows, Quantel Rio can handle everything you require from a finishing system - interactively and in real-time, making it the natural choice for client-attended sessions.
To achieve this performance, Quantel Rio runs on enterprise PC hardware that exploits the latest NVIDIA Maximus multi-GPU technology to deliver interactive, real-time working even at 8K 60p.

Quality
With native colorspaces stored on disk, Quantel Rio handles Wide Color Gamut (WCG) and HDR grading utilizing a range of transfer curves. Its 32-bit full-float processing provides the best quality results with the highest precision color reproduction output in a range of colorspaces, including REC 2020, ACES, DCI-P3 and REC 709.

Choice
Quantel Rio is available in a choice of three turnkey configurations - 2K, 4K and 8K and two software-only options - 4K and the Rio Assist workflow partner for prep, conform and pre-vis.

Collaborative workflows
The Rio Connect™ collaborative workflow engine instantly solves facility scheduling challenges by enabling media sharing between up to eight Quantel Rio systems.

Open
Quantel Rio supports a wide range of data formats alongside wide color gamut and HDR. These include: OpenEXR, RED HDRx, Apple ProRes 422, Sony F55/65, Arri RAW, Canon, Phantom, Silicon Image, Blackmagic Cinema DNG, Sony XAVC and GoPro.