Cut to the Bones
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 07/29/2009 - 15:37.
Australian post house Cutting Edge used a Digital Film Technology Bones Dailies post-production workflow system to deliver dailies for 20th Century Fox summer hit X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The movie was shot in Australia and New Zealand over 21 weeks on approximately 850,000 feet of film. Roughly 157 hours of footage were shot and on certain days as many as 11 film cameras were used.
It was filmed on the Arriflex 435 and on the Panavision Panaflex Millennium XL with Primo and Angenieux Lenses. The project used Kodak Super 35mm Vision2 200T 5217, and Vision3 500T 5219 stocks.
The dailies were delivered on approximately 130 Digital Betacam Tapes, 500 XDcam disks, 400 HDcam SR tapes, and 2,500 DVDs.
“Bones Dailies provided us with a tool to deliver fully graded, fully logged, fully sound synchronized 10 bit 4:4:4 quality dailies. Being an uncompressed, non-linear, template based system; we were able to instantly create tailor made versions by a single click of a button,” says Stuart Monksfield, general manager of Cutting Edge, Sydney. “Our client, 20th Century Fox loved the flexibility as we had to specifically tune deliverables for the various departments involved, and all without any loss of image or sound quality whatsoever.”
With Bones Dailies, Cutting Edge were able to scan the 35mm negative on their Spirit4K Datacine, apply a best light color correction with their DaVinci 2K and record totally uncompressed HD 4:4:4 images in real-time to EditShare disks. Once in Bones Dailies, the lab rolls were marked up manually according the Scene, Take, Camera. All the metadata was maintained by Bones Dailies in its internal database, alongside the Keycode information coming from the Spirit 4K. Location audio was imported into Bones Dailies faster than real-time and specially designed algorithms analyzed each file, identifying Sticks/Slate closures. Audio and image synchronization is semi-automatic based on a variety of sync markers.
“Bones Dailies provides a way to boost productivity in the Dailies process,“ says Morris Lindenkreuz, DFT product manager for Bones. “It is a template-driven tool, which automates processes ultimately saving time and eliminating mundane tasks. Facilities can work concurrently on the Dailies processes – audio and video ingest and synchronization, ASC CDL based primary, and secondary color-correction, and play out of the color-corrected, sound synchronized, fully logged Dailies to multiple file formats, all while transferring the next film roll.”
Cutting Edge www.cuttingedge.com.au
DFT Digital Film Technology www.dft-film.com
It was filmed on the Arriflex 435 and on the Panavision Panaflex Millennium XL with Primo and Angenieux Lenses. The project used Kodak Super 35mm Vision2 200T 5217, and Vision3 500T 5219 stocks. The dailies were delivered on approximately 130 Digital Betacam Tapes, 500 XDcam disks, 400 HDcam SR tapes, and 2,500 DVDs.
“Bones Dailies provided us with a tool to deliver fully graded, fully logged, fully sound synchronized 10 bit 4:4:4 quality dailies. Being an uncompressed, non-linear, template based system; we were able to instantly create tailor made versions by a single click of a button,” says Stuart Monksfield, general manager of Cutting Edge, Sydney. “Our client, 20th Century Fox loved the flexibility as we had to specifically tune deliverables for the various departments involved, and all without any loss of image or sound quality whatsoever.”
With Bones Dailies, Cutting Edge were able to scan the 35mm negative on their Spirit4K Datacine, apply a best light color correction with their DaVinci 2K and record totally uncompressed HD 4:4:4 images in real-time to EditShare disks. Once in Bones Dailies, the lab rolls were marked up manually according the Scene, Take, Camera. All the metadata was maintained by Bones Dailies in its internal database, alongside the Keycode information coming from the Spirit 4K. Location audio was imported into Bones Dailies faster than real-time and specially designed algorithms analyzed each file, identifying Sticks/Slate closures. Audio and image synchronization is semi-automatic based on a variety of sync markers.
“Bones Dailies provides a way to boost productivity in the Dailies process,“ says Morris Lindenkreuz, DFT product manager for Bones. “It is a template-driven tool, which automates processes ultimately saving time and eliminating mundane tasks. Facilities can work concurrently on the Dailies processes – audio and video ingest and synchronization, ASC CDL based primary, and secondary color-correction, and play out of the color-corrected, sound synchronized, fully logged Dailies to multiple file formats, all while transferring the next film roll.”
Cutting Edge www.cuttingedge.com.au
DFT Digital Film Technology www.dft-film.com
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