When South Korea’s leading post-production company, AZ Works, opened a new four-storey complex in the southern port city of Busan, it called upon DVS Digital Video Systems AG to install high-quality hardware and software for its professional film post-production facility.
CLIPSTER digital intermediary workflow and Spycer intelligent data manager are key features at AZWorks, which was created as a one-stop DI workflow facility with scanning, CG, restoration, colour grading and mastering.
Clipster’s powerful and stable performance DPX 2K workflow has already proven itself as the ideal mastering system for the film industry. The Clipster 4800 system delivered for general mastering and DVS SpycerBox as storage for ingest from the film scanners
Spycerbox 1 Gigabit quad port interface provided gateway for bigger and flexible bandwidth for many of the facility’s Ethernet clients. Spycerbox 24TB of local storage proved useful for general purpose.
The DVS-SAN (real-time 28.8TB) and Clipster with DCI board installed at the Korean Film Archive (KOFA) helped in accomplishing digital archiving and management of film, and mastering for cinema screenings. As many of the films in the archive are old and defective, restoration and color correction are also a key requirement.
More recently, Centro Digital Pictures in Hong Kong installed the first DVS ProntoXway in the Asia-Pacific region. The post house utilizes the multi-channel disk recorder for the implementation of 3D applications and high-resolution presentations.
The DVS disk recorder enables the post house to create images using uncompressed data material. With ProntoXway, the editors at Centro are now able to process image data in real time and prepare it for playback. With two video channels, the playback of stereoscopic content is easily possible using only a single DVS system.
Thanks to its 2K option, the ProntoXway is a future-proof piece of equipment and supports Centro’s plans for the intensification of 2K workflows. Especially when realising 2K projects, Centro benefits from the reliability and the real-time features of the DVS disk recorder.
Hon Fung, senior engineer at Centro: “DVS disk recorders enjoy an excellent reputation. With its reliability, ease of use, and ability to play back stereoscopic images, ProntoXway offers us exactly the features that we need.”
Eric Augereau, sales director at DVS: “We are happy to have installed Asia’s first ProntoXway at Centro. With ProntoXway, Centro now owns a future-proof system that is ideally suited for Centro’s 3D projects.”
With its DI systems, DVS experience with real-time 4K-processing, the company is primed for the switchover to HDTV in the broadcast sector, and is equally active in the D-Cinema arena.
At NAB 2009, DVS advanced its offering in 3D Digital Cinema with innovative CLIPSTER 3rd generation features including DCI Mastering for 3D projects, enabling CLIPSTER to convert stereoscopic film data to Digital Cinema Packages (DCP) in real time. Stereoscopic DCI Mastering, encoding and MXF wrapping is accomplished with CLIPSTER DCI Mastering Wizard.
CLIPSTER also provides fast and easy conforming of 3D material. A user can generate stereoscopic images by dropping the EDL for left and right eye directly into the CLIPSTER timeline. Both tracks can be merged together into one stereoscopic video track that can be edited as regular video material. Once the streams are synchronised there is no need to edit left and right eye separately.
Bernhard Reitz, DVS head of product management: “CLIPSTER 3rd generation is pioneering new distribution formats such as DCP or Digital Video Packages. With sophisticated software functionality, high-performance hardware and interfaces for third-party applications CLIPSTER ideally fits the requirements of future-proof workflows.”
DVS also enhanced its established OEM video board product line with the introduction of Perseus at NAB 2009. Meeting the demanding requirements of digital post-production and high-level presentations, this PCIe interface board plays out uncompressed material in real time at resolutions up to 4096x3112.
As Perseus plays out uncompressed images, compression artifacts such as blurred pictures, faded colors and block artifacts can be prevented. A sophisticated SDK provides ideal opportunities for developing systems that meet the requirements of high-quality content creation.
DVS also introduced the VENICE broadcast video server for use in broadcast environments. VENICE supports compressed formats such as Avid DNxHD, XDCAM or DVCPRO for fast, secure and reliable processing of digital video content.
The VENICE server enables users to achieve fast, consistent workflows with compressed video formats. Different data formats can be converted on-the-fly. VENICE also supports parallel processing of SD and HD projects.
“Broadcasters are faced with unique demands for time sensitive content delivery while maintaining high quality. With the introduction of VENICE, we are delighted to offer a powerful toolset that gives broadcasters the flexibility they need to migrate into a tapeless and file-based workflow environment,” added Reitz.
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