DUCKLING CONFORMS FEATURE WITH HD | LUST AND AVID DS NITRIS!
07 April, 2005
Duckling has just finished conform, visual effects and color grading on a new Danish feature titled “Allegro” by Cannes winning director Christoffer Boe. Bluefish and the Avid DS team in Montréal worked closely to get this new workflow up running.
The workflow starts with exporting a batch list from Avid DS’ EDL processor. From here we used the Bluefish symmetry software to capture DPX clips from HDCAM SR 4:4:4 tapes. The DPX’s is then linked into DS with the new DPX conform features introduced in Avid DS 7.6. From here we could perform color grading in true 4:4:4 10 bit RGB.
The nice thing about this workflow is that you have all the raw files as frame stacks available throughout the facility without spending time on exporting. We could instantly access the material in 3rd party tools like shake. And easily outsource VFX shots to non expensive workstations.
I would definitely recommend this workflow for long form projects with a lot of effect shot where material needs to be shared amongst artist.
ABOUT DUCKLING:
Duckling is a post production and visual effect company based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Working on high end commercial, promos and feature films. Jonas Drehn, Visual Effect Supervisor – Duckling A/S. http://www.duckling.dk
The use of Bluefish444’s HD|Lust and Symmetry software in a separate workstation, providing a seamless uncompressed HD SDI 10 bit RGB DPX workflow between a Sony SRW-5000 VTR and an Avid DS Nitris system, has been co-developed, tested and qualified by Avid for an upcoming release of the Avid DS Nitris system scheduled for Q1 2005.
“We are excited about working with Bluefish444 to provide a solution for working with Sony HDCAM-SR and other HD-RGB 4:4:4 sources,” “HD|Lust and Symmetry provide an ideal, off board capture station that, combined with the new file-based conform capabilities in the Avid DS Nitris system, makes a great workflow for HD-RGB and DI customers.”
