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News Review By Jake Young
IFC traps AJA Ki Pro in the closet US network IFC recently debuted the latest chapters of original production Trapped in the Closet, singer-songwriter R Kelly’s ‘urban operetta’ series. ‘Trapped’ Co-director/Editor Jim Swaffield decided to adopt AJA Ki Pros to optimise and simplify the production’s camera to edit workflow. Swaffield and DP Teodoro Maniaci chose to work with two Sony F3 cameras for the bulk of the photography, supplemented by an Arri Alexa for slow motion sequences. Gary Pontore, who serves as a post/digital workflow consultant on the series, recommended an all new workflow using two Ki Pro recorders on set fed from the camera’s SDI outputs to the recorders to benefit from Ki Pro’s 10-bit 4:2:2 recording capabilities, along with Mac Pros running Final Cut Pro 7 and Adobe Creative Suite 6 for editing. The two F3 cameras output 1920x1080x23.976fps 4:4:4 10-bit RGB S-log signals, to which LUTs were applied on set by DIT John Waterman using Pomfort LiveGrade software.
www.aja.com
Agile workflow for Holby City BBC Studios and Post Production (BBC S&PP) has won the contract to provide post production facilities for the medical drama Holby City at its BBC Elstree facility. The award cements BBC S&PP’s Drama Services division as a ‘centre of excellence’ and destination of choice for long-running television dramas as it also provides studio and post production facilities at Elstree for EastEnders. To handle Holby City’s demanding schedule and last minute editorial changes that can occur to keep the show topical, BBC S&PP is employing a highly flexible and agile workflow comprising Avid Media Composer 6.5 and Avid Symphony 6.5 editing systems and an Avid ISIS 5000 shared storage solution. The programme’s audio will be mixed using Avid Pro Tools 10 as part of an overall integrated solution.
www.bbcstudiosandpostproduction .com
ADVERTISER INDEX
Harris.......................................1 Digital Rapids .......................IFC Bridge Technologies ................3 BlackMagic..............................5 EVS.........................................6 Canon......................................7
Mistika and The Hobbit:It took SGO Mistika's workflow in order for The Hobbit – An Unexpected Journeyto become the first large-scale wide release feature film to be exhibited in 48 frames per second. Utilising SGO’s Mistika platform as the hub of its large DI infrastructure, Park Road in partnership with SGO, co- developed tools across the entire pipeline. SGO worked in parallel with the Park Road team in Wellington from pre- production through to final delivery of the film developing the tools and inbuilt-HFR feature-set needed to meet the extremely high demands of this complicated production.
www.parkroad.co.nz www.sgomistika.com
FOR-A launch for winter sports FOR-A has updated its FRC- 8000HS HD/SD Frame Rate Converter to better accommodate the production of winter sports. With this software release, the FRC-8000 gives operators the ability to customise settings based on their specific needs. Users of the frame rate converter will now be able to select a ‘winter sports’ scene type, a special mode created by FOR-A to optimise the conversion process in environments with high-speed moving objects in highly saturated backgrounds that contain a lot of bright white, such as snow or ice. Broadcasters deploying the FRC-8000 for sports production include ESPN; CBC/Radio- Canada; Mexico City-based television network Televisa; Rogers Sportsnet, a Canadian live-event and high definition broadcaster; and Casablanca, a Brazilian provider of satellite communication services to customers such as Fox Sports Latin America.
www.for-a.com
TV Logic..................................8 Shure ......................................9 SGL........................................10 Matrox....................................11 AJA........................................12 Cinegy..........................13, 15, 17 Newtek ..................................14 OKNO....................................16
Miranda marches on with Softel purchase Miranda Technologies has acquired Softel, a provider of captioning, subtitling, audio and video description, interactivity and other key video technologies. “Captioning is a critical component of the playout chain, and one that is often difficult to manage,” said Marco Lopez, Miranda’s president. “By introducing Softel’s technology into the Miranda portfolio and directly integrating it into our iTX solution, we’ll present broadcasters with further efficiencies, not only in the purchase process, but also during deployment and in post-sale support as well.” Integration planning will be led by a team of Miranda and Softel executives, but there will be no business disruption for Miranda or Softel during the transition. Full integration is expected to be complete by this summer.
www.miranda.com
Playbox................20, 42 & OBC Guntermann & Drunk..............21 Snell ......................................23 Tools on Air...........................24 Thames Angenieux................26 Cobalt ...................................30 Lemo......................................31 Miranda.................................33
DPA focuses on Portugal DPA Microphones has expanded the remit of its Spanish distributor SeeSound to encompass Portugal. The change will ensure that Portuguese customers now benefit from SeeSound’s renowned service and technical support. Susanne Seidel, executive vice president of Sales and Marketing for DPA Microphones, said: ”SeeSound has had great success with the DPA brand in Spain and we are delighted to be extending this relationship to cover Portugal. This expansion of our sales network will significantly strengthen DPA’s position and development in the Portuguese market place and provide excellent customer service and support to our existing and passionate DPA customer base.”
www.dpamicrophones.com
Technicolor for Trance Danny Boyle has employed Technicolor’s elite motion picture services for psychological thriller Trance. Technicolor, based in Lexington Street in Soho, provided full processing and digital lab support for the feature, with Digital Manager at Technicolor, Dan Mulligan, leading the operation. The project saw the Arriraw archive used to master and clone RAID storage, and Arriraw Avid MXF creation with full ALE and 3D LUT applied for offline. The team ensured that full QC reports and data integrity checks were performed with the IndieCam processing to both Avid offline and new master file formats as required. The Canon 5D CR2 file processing was provided on 24p timeline. Trance is scheduled for release in the UK on 27 March 2013.
www.technicolor.com
www.tvbeurope.com February 2013
French Assembly goes HD:The French National Assembly has recently deployed Hitachi Kokusai Electric Europe’s DK-H100 HDTV box cameras as part of an HD upgrade. The new cameras are being used to record the Assembly’s daily sessions at the Palais Bourbon in Paris. All footage is subsequently transmitted over a fibre-optic connection to the master control room, located 350m away, for redistribution. Following a call for tender, the French National Assembly purchased eight Hitachi Kokusai Electric Europe DK-H100 broadcast cameras through local systems integrator Preview GM System. The Hitachi cameras, by replacing existing SDI equipment, become part of the first HD broadcast deployment within the bounds of the parliamentary hemicycle. The HD recordings from the Hitachi cameras on-site are immediately made available to the LCP- AN parliamentary channel and to the media.
www.hitachi-keu.com
WTS......................................35 HD Masters ..........................36 Murraypro .............................37 TV One..................................38 Sony ......................................41 DVS ......................................44 Lite Panels ............................45 Junger...................................46
Dalet .....................................47 Clearcom...............................48 Senheiser ..............................49 Ateme...................................50 Phabrix ..................................51 SSL .......................................52 IT Broadcast Workflow..........53 Evertz....................................55
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