NAB 2010 Sony Electronics Booth #C1101—Baselight and Truelight On-Set from FilmLight to showcase advantages of latest “HDCAM-SR” file based workflows.
FilmLight will show at NAB 2010 the speed, quality and infrastructure cost saving benefits of the new Sony “HDCAM-SR” file based workflows including native support for the MPEG-4 SStP codec.
Capturing output from a Sony F35 camera to Sony “HDCAM-SR” SRW-5800/2 VTR, FilmLight will demonstrate how it is now possible to visualise how digital film camera output will look in the cinema during shot setup and recording using Truelight On-Set to apply 3D-LUTs for looks and film emulation in real-time. Pre-defined looks and primary colour correction conforming to the American Society of Cinematographers Colour Decision List (ASC-CDL) can also be applied near set after recording a shot. ASC-CDL colour decisions made on-set can easily be embedded as auxiliary data and recorded on the “HDCAM-SR” tape in the same process. They can be used as a starting point for the final grade in Baselight, or burned-into shots to create digital dailies.
Baselight, FilmLight’s non-linear colour grading system will also demonstrate the latest advances in “HDCAM-SR” workflows with 2X speed uncompressed HDSDI Ingest providing double-speed ingest or real-time 3D stereoscopic ingest capability. Also on show is the native grading support for the standards-based high quality 440Mbit MPEG-4 SStP codec, on which the “HDCAM-SR” recording is based. SStP is now available as MXF wrapped media for near real-time exchange over a GB Ethernet connection from the latest SRW-5800/2 VTR and can be decoded in real-time within Baselight.
Sony General Manager Content Creation Solutions Business Division, Hiroshi Kiriyama said “FilmLight is one of the first manufacturers in the industry to realize the benefits of MPEG4 SStP file based workflows, and they have been very instrumental in establishing a powerful yet efficient system to manage high quality images created by our F35 camera and recorded to HDCAM-SR tape.”
FilmLight Founder and Technical Strategist, Wolfgang Lempp commented “We are very pleased to be working in partnership with Sony to help develop and support these new “HDCAM-SR” file based workflows. The inclusion of SStP closes the gap between compressed and uncompressed high-end workflows, and will eventually lead to a cost-effective and efficient 4K workflow.”
* HDCAM-SR is a trade mark of Sony Corporation
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