CONTENT CREATION | COMMERCIALS AND FILM
TELEVISION
GAMING
Oslo’s Monster Entertainment produces and posts Norway’s domestic versions of Idol, Norway’s Got Talent and The X Factor for commercial broadcaster TV2. An Apple house with 35 Final
Cut Pro Studio seats, the Monster facility contains a mammoth 200TB Xsan SAN, large enough to accommodate the significant throughput of data on these giant projects.
ENG footage is typically
recorded on XDCAM HD422 and ingested with Sony PDW-U1 decks. Stage performances are streamed to EVS servers and encoded in Pro-Res LT. Both sets of media are catalogued with CatDV software before ingest into Monster’s SAN. The logging stations use Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro cards, and the edit stations have DeckLink HD Extreme cards.
H.264 proxies are automatically made on ingest which, along with the logging metadata, means the production team can get to work compiling edits for full shows as well as inserts, special highlights, promos and short stings. The final show is output to XDCAM HD disc. “We typically run 12 Mac Pro suites for each show (eight for editing and four for logging and teasers/graphics), often working through the night and up to the last minute before broadcast,” explains CTO Paal Henrik Wagner. “When we open up material in Final Cut we can instantly find all the clips associated with a particular contestant or judge’s reactions to begin assembly. We need speed for this enterprise and this is exactly what we have with this technology.”
With more and more computer games being made for stereo 3D viewing, the marketing collateral which surrounds each release has to keep pace. SEGA Europe has ensured it’s ahead of the game by creating 3D trailers for titles intended for Sony Playstation. “We spoke to Jigsaw Systems about our need to find a way of capturing games in 3D and ultimately editing and outputting in 3D and they recommended the Blackmagic DeckLink HD Extreme 3D card,” explains Elliot Kidner, SEGA’s multimedia and AV producer who oversaw the first non-Sony created 3D trailer for the game Virtua Tennis 4. “We plugged in the PS3 by HDMI cable into the Blackmagic card and captured game footage and replays of ourselves playing tennis,” says Kidner. “Each left and
right eye feed is converted within CineForm First Light into 2D files which we can play back on Final Cut Pro Studio.”
Editing is performed in 2D with
review footage output as a L and R signal on a 3D monitor with passive glasses. Virtua Tennis 4 is the one Kidner is most proud of but the team has also created 3D trailers for Captain America Super Soldier, Thor: God of Thunder and several others. “The trend for 3D gaming is set to explode,” he says. “I was sceptical at first but 3D gaming is fantastic and lends a sense of realism to gameplay. We’re likely to need further investment in stereo-capable equipment to cope with demand.”
The trailers can be seen
on YouTube and downloaded from the Playstation Network.
Key advantages
When opening material in Final Cut Pro Studio, all the clips associated with a particular contestant or judge’s reactions can be instantly located
The speed of Monster’s workflow is notably faster using Blackmagic Design kit
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We need speed for this enterprise and this is exactly what we have with this technology
Key advantages
Blackmagic’s DeckLink HD Extreme 3D card provided SEGA with the means to capture games in 3D and edit and output in 3D too. The PS3 plugs into the DeckLink card using an HDMI cable, and game footage can then be immediately captured
I was sceptical at first that 3D gaming would work but it is fantastic and lends a sense of realism to gameplay
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