Hollywood DI, a leading Hollywood post-house and developer of file-based workflows for TV, features and commercials is pleased to announce the completion of digital dailies on the feature film GEOGRAPHY CLUB. The teen comedy based on the Brent Hartinger young adult novel and produced by Michael Huffington and Anthony Bretti at Huffington Pictures, stars Cameron Deane Stewart, Justin Deeley, Andrew Caldwell, Allie Gonino, Meaghan Martin, Ally Maki and Nikki Blonsky. The script written by Edmund Entin and directed by Gary Entin, was shot on the Red EPIC camera by Director of Photography, Matthew Irving. The movie was lensed over a period of twenty days in and around Los Angeles, California. Hollywood DI delivered synced audio and color corrected dailies files from the RAW .r3d camera files using the recently developed Express Dailies software from Colorfront.
Neil Smith, Managing Director of Hollywood DI, is delighted with the performance and cost-savings provided by the ‘Dailies In A Box‘ solution. “For a modern post-house like Hollywood DI that specializes in file-based workflow for filmmakers and TV shows, it’s imperative that we find the most robust and cost-effective tools to deliver our digital dailies, color correction and finishing services.” said Smith. “Working with Express Dailies to sync, color correct and transcode camera files to ProRes or DNxHD for editing and H.264 files for iPad review was a very straightforward and efficient experience. Express Dailies is an integral part of our ‘Dailies In a Box’ solution and incorporates many features that facilitate the easy exchange of digital content between production and post systems. Our ‘Dailies In A Box‘ solution for TV, features and commercials combines the high-powered functionality of Express Dailies with general purpose tools like Avid Media Composer, DaVinci Resolve and Autodesk SMOKE to provide a complete end-to-end system for productions looking to save money on dailies and post.”
Anthony Bretti, producer at Huffington Pictures, is pleased with the way that Hollywood DI processed and delivered the digital dailies. “We looked at several different options for delivering our dailies and in the end went with Hollywood DI’s approach,” said Bretti. “We really liked how efficient their workflow was and how flexible they were on meeting our requirements in a cost-effective manner. The EPIC camera shoots a RAW looking image but we wanted a best light grade on the different set-ups. Hollywood DI’s dailies colorist worked closely with our DP and editor to give them exactly what they wanted. The iPad review dailies were uploaded to the Hollywood DI website every night and easily accessed by the Producers wherever they were located. Overall, everyone was very happy with the speed and quality of the dailies turnaround and Hollywood DI’s attention to detail.”
For Director of Photography, Matthew Irving (Waitress, Waiting), the Hollywood DI dailies workflow was both creatively and logistically satisfying. “Since we had a 20-day schedule, we had to move very rapidly, so there was no time for “painting” the image on-set. In fact, it looked exactly like a film set: I was exposing to my meter rather than a monitor, knowing exactly what the “digital film stock” of the RED Epic could and could not capture. Then, the streamed dailies from Hollywood DI allowed me to communicate clearly and quickly with our excellent colorist Steve Macmillan to ensure that our “best light” grade reflected precisely the look we were going for.”
To optimize performance of Express Dailies the new 64-bit software runs on the Mac OSX platform and supports nVIDIA CUDA GPU processing. Hollywood DI’s dailies colorist, Steve MacMillan adds, “Express Dailies delivers faster than real-time processing for all major camera formats including ARRI Alexa, Red Epic, Sony F65 and Canon C500 and HDSLRs. We can easily grade clips using the built-in high-resolution scopes. I’m very impressed with Express Dailies superior ability to quickly sync sound with picture and produce editorial files and review dailies with complete metadata for both Avid and FCP workflows.”
Smith added, "Express Dailies is an integral part of Hollywood DI’s ‘Dailies In A Box‘ solution. By combining state of the art software such as Express Dailies and Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve 9 along with cutting edge hardware from Apple and nVIDIA, Hollywood DI is able to provide customers with a cost-effective alternative to the typical heavy-iron expensive systems currently on the market."
About Hollywood DI
Located on “The Lot” in West Hollywood, California, Hollywood DI provides workflow consulting and post-production services for TV studios and filmmakers worldwide. The facility’s centerpiece is the versatile Fairbanks Theater, a 33-seat DI suite that offers a 2k DLP projector and a 35mm Simplex projector in a precision-calibrated environment. Offering a full RGB 4:4:4 workflow plus a complete range of 4k, 2K, HD editing and color correction tools, Hollywood DI provides the ultimate in creative freedom. Hollywood DI’s ‘Dailies In A Box‘™ digital file processing system provides significant time and money savings for content creators. The ‘Dailies In A Box‘ solution integrates cost-effective hardware and software into a mobile computing system for on-set and near-set digital file processing.
Visit www.hollywooddi.com for more information on ‘Dailies In A Box‘.
About Huffington Pictures
Huffington Pictures is an independent entertainment company specializing in the production and financing of feature films, documentaries, and television programming. Huffington Pictures produced "Grassroots," a film directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal, which was theatrically released this past week by Samuel Goldwyn Films, and Michael Mohan’s romantic comedy "Save the Date," which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and has been acquired by IFC Films.
Visit www.huffingtonpictures.com for more information on ‘Geography Club’.
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