Laser sharp: with the emergence of digital imaging, more facilities are making the move to invest in a film recorder. Sydney-based Animal Logic shares its experience using the ARRILaser.(power review)

Animal Logic is a full service facility based in Sydney that has clients in the film, television, computer games, and Internet markets. Part of its facility is a Digital Film Bureau, which delivers full film resolution scanning and recording services for features and commercials.

Twenty-two-year veteran Chris Swinbanks, supervisor of the Digital Film Bureau, says the bureau has been using an ARRILaser for the last two-and-a-half years.

He explains, "Animal Logic has a wide range of systems at its disposal for creating visual effects. Inferno, Flame, and Shake are the main ...