Pandora International is a maker of hardware and software. Pandora International devices are able to color-correct video and 16 mm and 35 mm motion picture film transfered through its devices. Pandora International is based in Greenhithe, Kent, England.
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Pandora Int. was the maker the Pogle color corrector controller. The Pogle can control a telecines, like the FDL60 the first digital telecine. New models could control FDL 90, Quadra and Spirit DataCines [1] Pogle used customized external control panels. Pogle has a CPU rack and a telecine interface rack. The first Pogles controlled the telecine's internal color corrector. The Pogle also has a very good edit controller, that gives accurate 2/3 editing to tape (like the TLC). Original Pogles used the operating system ANDIX which ran on PDOS; the program and list are stored on a SCSI hard disk, with backup to a 3.5" floppy disk. Video display is to a multi-sync monitor. The newer operating system updated to a Silicon Graphics (SGI) platinum operating system ran on a SGI Indy computer and later an SGI O2; these replaced the internal CPU and video cards in the Pogle controller rack. The Indy computer and O2 computer's backup is usually to a external zip Drive or ext. floppy. The O2 has an internal CD-ROM. Pandora's DCP external color corrector is a Rec. 601 digital box the would not work on a FDL 60 without extra interfacing. [2]
DCP or Digital Color Processor was a standard-definition digital video processor controlled by a Pogle. With the DCP, color correction and secondary color processing could be done outside the telecine. Standard definition processing was of NTSC and PAL video.
The PiXi was Pandora's own digital color processor; it replaced the DCP. The newer system able to process HDTV also.
In 1999, Pandora came out with the MegaDEF system. MegaDEF uses two PiXi systems with a multiplexer rack. The MegaDEF could be used on both the Spirit DataCine and on the Specter VDC-2000 virtual telecine. MegaDEF was controlled with a Pogle Platinum controller. MegaDEF digital color processor could color correct 2k display resolution data in real time. On the virtual telecine this data was playing off a Storage area network - SAN through the VDC-2000.
Revolution is the current product; it is a non-linear data grade system.[5]
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