FilmLight Ltd. pioneers of digital film technology, announced today that it is now shipping its next generation of its Baselight colour grading systems, Baselight Four and Baselight Eight. Announced at IBC 2004, the new systems combine software-based flexibility with a brand new scaleable, super-high bandwidth image processing system, delivering the ability for 4K colour grading in real time. Since their September introduction, FilmLight has sold Baselight Four and Baselight Eight systems to four post-production facilities.
As previously announced, the new Baselight Four and Eight systems also include new video I/O capability – bringing the power and creativity of the product to the video post-production market and enabling straightforward creation of multiple deliverables. The product has seen large amounts of interest from video and film customers worldwide that are looking to this growing market.
Availability
Baselight, Baselight Four and Baselight Eight systems are currently shipping. System pricing starts at $160,000 USMSRP (130,000 Euros).
About Baselight Four and Baselight Eight
With support for real-time grading of 4K streams or multiple 2K streams that enables instant review and approval for an attending DoP, Baselight Eight is designed as a “hero suite” for high-end film grading applications. Baselight Four, with dual/single link HD/SD SDI ingest and playout, is ideally suited as a grading system for HDTV applications. As with the current Baselight product, the new Baselight systems include FilmLight’s acclaimed Truelight 3D colour management system, ensuring accurate emulation of the final deliverable on the electronic grading display.
By utilising industry standard PC hardware, the Linux OS, and an open architecture, the Baselight hardware subsystem provides an economic and highly flexible platform, able to benefit from the rapid advances in disk, graphics and processor technology. Unlike other parallel processing platforms, the multi-node Baselight architecture provides true parallel operation of all hardware components. The internal file system is able to utilise a very high I/O bandwidth as each node has its own directly connected RAID. Externally the file system appears as a standard NFS to enable network connectivity.
Contact – Deepa Parbhoo ([email protected]) +44 20 7292 0400
