Dailies to go: filmmakers want dailies hot off the telecine - Technology

Post, Sept, 2003 by Claudia Kienzle

To meet the growing demand for digital dailies, many vendors have responded with new products designed to satisfy this need. Here are some additional vendors and products to consider if you are looking to add digital dailies services to your facility:

BOXX (www.boxxtech.com) is offering CineBoxx[review], a time-line-based digital dailies system designed to streamline the post production workflow by eliminating the need to render image sequences to proprietary framestores. CineBoxx [review] is the first component in a series of digital intermediate systems for realtime playback of 2K DPX and Cineon files at 24fps. Users can drop TGA, DPX, Cineon, bitmap and YUV file sequences, ranging from SD to 2K, onto the timeline for seamless, realtime, uncompressed playback on a monitor or projector. CineBoxx [review] includes an assortment of LUT building tools that allow users to adjust gamma levels and colors, plus invert images and fine-tune separate RGB channels.

CINTEL's film scanners (DSX, C-Reality, and Millennium) provide dailies in all currently used standards from SD through 4K data from any film type and from any format (8mm to 70mm). Cintel also has a dailies "virtual telecine," which comprises Luci, its primary and secondary color corrector (with HD I/O and 24fps 10-bit 4:2:2); and Video Design Research's Ricki HD-DDR, for two hours of uncompressed 10-bit HD in a single chassis.

ENVIVIO's (www.envivio.com) MPEG-4 video contribution solutions allow facilities to effortlessly capture video and encode it into high-quality, low-bit-rate files that can be streamed via a wide variety of channels, including TV, the internet, wireless PDAs, mobile phones, digital TVs, or any portable devices anywhere in the world. The solution includes the Envivio 4Coder MPEG-4 encoder and Envivio 4Sight MPEG-4 streaming server to encode and deliver the movie set content to playback devices.

GLOBALSTOR (www.globalstor.com) offers the DVD TransPro II digital dailies solution, which saves video production time and money by enabling film professionals to burn daily "takes" or "rough cuts" to DVD-R media for view-anywhere, random access to dailies, as well as long-term video archive. The PC-based TransPro II imports timecode and chapter points with scene and take information of any associated dailies video and creates a DVD-R disc with complete, random access, DVD menu control to as many as 99 chapters.