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Compositing
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Post-Production
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Once the preserve
of very expensive "black boxes", Computer Film Services
(CFS) systems offer extremely sophisticated facilities for compositing
and special effects applications.
These systems
provide the majority of facilities offered by these "black
boxes", but at a fraction of the cost.
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Key
Features and Benefits:
- Uncompressed or
compressed broadcast quality record and playback. Work directly
on one system!
- True uncompressed
D1 or variable compression rates. True D1 for quality and post-production,
or variable compression for flexibility.
- Resolution independent.
Supports anamorphic 16:9, film formats (such as Cinecon) and user
defined formats - do what you want, when you want.
Clients'
Examples
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- Integrates
seamlessly with non-linear editing and 3D graphics environments.
Facilitates productivity, multiple workstations can feed one CFS
system simultaneously.
- Cost
effective - The majority of work can now be completed on the desktop,
rather than at a facility house, saving time and money.
- Scaleable
- Additional features can be added as required, maintaining your
investment
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| Framestore
employs DPS systems to help to create stunning visual effects. |
Huge Designs
use dpsReality and dpsVelocity to create exciting title sequences for
popular and high profile television broadcasts. |
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Cinesite
(a wholly owned subsidiary of Eastman Kodak Company) is one of the
largest full service effects facilities in the world, with offices in
Hollywood, London and Effects Associates at Pinewood Studios. |
| Cinesite provides
high quality digital effects, 3D animation 2D compositing, high resolution
film scanning and recording, video to film transfer, physical effects,
models, miniatures, pyrotechnics and weather effects for feature films,
broadcast projects and commercials. |
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Cinesite
credits include:
- Harry Potter and
the Sorcerer's Stone
- Tomb Raider
- Pluto Nash
- Red Planet
- X-Men
- Mission: Impossible
2
- The World is Not
Enough
- Entrapment
- Erin Brockovich
- U-571
View
Cinesite footage
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Stuart
McAra - Senior Digital Effects Producer, Cinesite (Europe) Ltd.
says "We used the Reality Recorders extensively in Tomb Raider
at Cinesite. They were particularly useful in the Brahmin animation
sequence - seeing a rough edit gave the animators a sense of timing,
consistency and a clear appreciation of how the sequence would work
as a whole."
Cath Duncan - Digital
Effects Producer, Cinesite (Europe) Ltd. adds, "dpsReality
has been invaluable over the past few months. We used it extensively
on The Lost Empire and also on Band of Brothers. We are currently
using it on Hans Christian Anderson for Hallmark Entertainment. It
continues to be a particularly useful reference for animation heavy
sequences."
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| Rushes
- one of the top special effects and post-production houses in Europe
and the world - commands a high profile through success in the London
market and through award winning work. Rushes places great emphasis
on leading edge engineering and innovation. |
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Rushes
uses dpsReality for assembling computer 3D animation and combining live
action footage with 3D computer animation. dpsReality gives operators
the advantage of a powerful system able to respond instantly to creative
demands and flow. |
John Paul Harney, Senior
3D operator, Rushes said
"When I first contacted Computer Film Services they gave us a machine
on spec
for quite some time so we could try it out and run it through its proccesses
to see if it was right for us.
This helped us on the job we were doing at the time as we immediately
saw a time saving difference and since then we've had good support from
them, when we had some software issues and some hardware issues, synching
to a D1 and things like that, they came round and sorted them out."
If we have a problem obviously we need to get it fixed quite quickly
and we do have a good response time, not just to fix bugs but also to
see if there are any features that we need adding."
"If I do have any issues with the Reality system then Computer
Film Services will
quickly follow up any problems that I have." |
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For The
Hive, one of Soho's most impressive young animation facilities,
dpsReality has become crucial to their creative output. The vast majority
of The Hive's projects have involved dpsReality at one stage
or another. In 2001, some of these included Fatboy Slim's "Demons"
promo; working with Jake Nava on Roni Size's "Dirty Beats"
commercials work for BMW and creature animation on a Channel 4 science/factual
series "Extinct." The DVD department has seen the release
of 2001's 'must-have' title "The Silence of the Lambs." |
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3D Animator
Adrian Wyer sees the advantages that Reality gives to the 3D
creative process for which The Hive is justifiably renowned.
He says,
"Reality has enabled us to keep our production pipeline going
at full tilt, whilst still being able to view and edit clips on the
machine. Three people can be rendering to the Reality, whilst someone
else can be laying off a tape. No one has to stop work and there is
no bottleneck. The ability to store footage at different compression
ratios means we can manage storage more efficiently, animatics can
be sorted at four or five MB/sec, and finals can be uncompressed for
maximum image quality."
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more about The Hive
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the Hive's footage
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