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FotoKem's Keep Me Posted Puts Nucoda Film Masters Into Fully Integrated Post Pipeline
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posted Sep 28, 2010, 08:22
FotoKem�s Keep Me Posted (KMP) has expanded their commitment to them with a hardware, storage, and software upgrade to their existing Film Master...
(London and Los Angeles) Digital Vision, provider of powerful image enhancement,
color correction and restoration systems for a wide spectrum of content, announced
today that FotoKem’s Keep Me Posted (KMP) has expanded their commitment
to them with a hardware, storage, and software upgrade to their existing Film
Master. Furthering their allegiance to Digital Vision, they also purchased a
second Nucoda Film Master grading system running the 2010 software release including
DVO Enhance noise and grain reduction option.
Keep Me Posted specializes in television episodic and commercial finishing
and is part of the FotoKem network of companies that includes Spy Post, LA Studios,
and nextLAB. Burbank’s Keep Me Posted has fully integrated the Nucoda
Film Masters into the company’s workflow, creating an end to end file-based
system and a completely Avid-centric TV pipeline.
Based on the success they experienced over the first few weeks using the newly
upgraded Film Master running 2010 software, Keep Me Posted ordered a second
system. At the beginning of next year, they will be one of the first Hollywood
customers to take delivery of the new Digital Vision “Precision”
color panel, recently unveiled at IBC. The decision to chose the Nucoda Film
Masters were based on three factors: its ease of integration into their file-based
architecture, the need for engineering excellence, and the company’s focus
on time sensitive deadlines and creative artistic requirements.
FotoKem CTO, Paul Chapman, commented that the Digital Vision systems clearly
met their demanding technical requirements. “When we were putting the
pieces of a file-based, start-to-finish workflow in place, we took a hard look
at the field of appropriate competitors. It was imperative that there was an
ease of integration into the colorist’s workflow in tandem with the critical
need for the system to fit smoothly into our file-based, ingest-to-storage pipeline.
The Film Master dropped seamlessly into our storage architecture, which immediately
differentiated it from the competition. Our engineering team evaluated Nucoda’s
interoperability and found that the PC-based system was the best choice for
us, by far. Integrating with Avid, Facilis, and the other technologies in the
pipeline has been an absolutely straightforward process. No other system came
close to that promise, and Digital Vision delivered on it.”
Hawk Hamilton, Vice President at KMP noted, “We work with the pre-eminent
content creators in the industry, and are ready to support their highly demanding
schedules and creative needs without missing a beat. We are focused on creating
a top tier experience for all of our customers and the second Nucoda Film Master
is a key component in our ability to provide that caliber of responsive customer
service. The transition process for our talented colorists to get up to speed
has been flawless. The training, testing and troubleshooting done by the experts
on the Digital Vision team ensured that our colorists were Film Master fluent
very quickly.”
Bruno Munger, Senior Product Manager of Digital Vision said, “The team
at Keep Me Posted and FotoKem are experts with keen vision about where the post
production market is heading. We are delighted that they see the 2010 Nucoda
product line as a perfect fit for their file based pipeline as they work with
the top producers in Hollywood. It has been fantastic to collaborate with the
creative and engineering teams at both FotoKem and KMP and we look forward to
continuing our involvement in these outstanding facilities.”
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