Finished at Roush Media, "10,000 days," and original web series created by Eric Small, was shot enitrely on the RED camera by cinemaphotographer Marco Mazzei. MORE
Cutting Edge Post, based in Singapore, has been using the Nucoda HD integrated to its existing five Avid suites on a number of high profile productions including: It’s Organic, an 8x 30 minute series by Very! (Singapore) for Channel NewsAsia International. MORE
Telson, Madrid’s full service post facility specializing in digital intermediate and audio-video services for feature film and television, has just completed the restoration and colour grade of four Pedro Almodovar movies. MORE
Hollywood post production facility and creative hub, Lit Post relies on Film Master. MORE
A facility recognized as restoration specialists, HTV illuminate has recently completed high profile projects that will bring a few of Hollywood’s most beloved motion pictures to DVD. The Film Master has been a critical tool in the restoration of these classic films. MORE
Digital Vision restores and grades prestigious new series ‘Indochine’ at the Edit Store
The Edit Store recently completed the major film restoration, grade and online for Big Ape Media’s HD series ‘Indochine‘ using Nucoda DVO and Film Master. MORE
Restoring Pride with no Prejudice
Blu-ray remaster of the BBC’s BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning adaptation of ‘Pride & Prejudice’ was undertaken by Vince Narduzzo at Narduzzo Too in its new offices at Pinewood Studios. MORE
Mill Completes a RED project on Film Cutter
Using the new version of Film Cutter, London based facility The Mill recently completed a short drama shot on a RED ONE™ camera. MORE
Planimonteur adds Digital Vision Nucoda HD to its workflow
Planimonteur, the well-respected Paris-based post production facility, has added a Nucoda HD to its post-production workflow which features 17 Avid editing systems. MORE
Grading Criminal Justice, by BBC Post Production
Using Film Master, BBC Post Production has successfully graded the compelling new five-part thriller, Criminal Justice, made by BBC Drama Production for BBC One. MORE
Making the non-human, human, by Filmsat59 Being Human, which aired in February on BBC3, gives Bristol-based Filmsat59 the opportunity to showcase the capabilities of its Film Master to its small but growing drama clientèle as it moves further into that market. MORE
Acolytes now in competition in Worldwide Film Festivals
Acolytes, a Stewart & Wall Entertainment production starring Joel Edgerton and Belinda McClory, was the first major feature in Australia to shoot with the Thomson Viper digital 2K camera. MORE
Apuntolapospo creates 3D fantasy The Magic Tale with Digital Vision
Barcelona’s high end post production house and Digital Vision customer Apuntolapospo is currently in pre-production on a major stereoscopic 3D Imax film.
The Magic Tale is a family story which combines live action and actors with CGI animated characters including a horse, a leopard and some crows. It
is a departure for Orbita Max since it represents a first foray into stereoscopy. Page 1 - Page 2
Grading the Katyn massacre
Digital Vision’s Film Master shines a light in dark places during The Chimney Pots’ work on Katyn, and helps pioneer 4k post in Europe as it does.
The Chimney Pot in Warsaw has just completed work on a feature film about one of the 20th century’s conflicts, Andrzej Wajda’s Katyn. What’s more, it has used Digital Vision’s Film Master finishing system to grade the feature in what Chimney Pot thinks is the first full 4k post to take place in Europe. Page 1 - Page 2
Documenting the Earth
Earth: The Power of the Planet is one of the highlights of the BBC’s autumn season.
Featuring sumptuous HD visuals, it was graded on Film Master at Narduzzo Too.
Thus the BBC is really onto a winner with Earth: The Power of the Planet which tells the full four and a half billion year story of our planet and looks at some of the forces that have shaped its development. Page 1 - Page 2
The Post Group adds digital color grading capabilities with Film Master
New system enables a unified grading workflow across The Post Group and Los Angeles-based iO Film. The Post Group recently used its Film Master DI/grading system on the 2007 “Thanks and Giving” PSAs – the annual fundraising campaign for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital founded by legendary entertainer Danny Thomas. MORE
IVC Gives Films the “VIP” Treatment to Classic Films
Los Angeles-based IVC Digital Film Center, a point.360 company, recently restored a number of classic films using their own “Visual Improvement Process” – or VIP. The films feature starring performances from the likes of Shirley Temple and Will Rogers, as well as the Charlie Chan mystery series and the films of director John Ford. MORE
iO Film Takes Self Medicated DI Beyond the Basics
Hollywood’s iO Film recently used the Film Master system to conform and grade the award-winning independent film Self Medicated. Colorist Michael Mintz worked with director and star Monty Lapica to take the look of the film well beyond the simple "best light" grade which was used for film festivals. MORE
Joy Division Singer Biopic Control on Film Master
The feature film Control, based on the troubled life of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, had its international premier at the Cannes Film Festival in May where it received an enthusiastic reception from filmgoers and critics. Directed by acclaimed photographer and music promo director Anton Corbijn, the film was graded by colourist Mats Holmgren on the Nucoda Film Master system at The Chimney Pot in Stockholm, Sweden. MORE
Colourist Eric Whipp grades Happy Feet on Film Master
The feature film Happy Feet was graded on the Nucoda Film Master at Animal Logic in Sydney. The first fully animated feature produced in Australia has grossed over $350 million at the box office. The movie was directed by George Miller (Babe, Babe: Pig in the City, The Witches of Eastwick, Lorenzo's Oil, and the Mad Max series) and stars Robin Williams, Elijah Wood, Brittany Murphy, Nicole Kidman, and Hugo Weaving.
The team’s priority was to achieve a vibrant, colourful look by ensuring accurate, crisp detail in the whites and blacks of the penguins. Rather than approaching the film as a traditional animated project, Animal Logic instead treated it like live action, and the Nucoda Film Master played a major role in this process. MORE
The Chimney Pot grades feature films using Nucoda Film Master and Valhall Colour Grade systems
The Chimney Pot, a leading post production house based in Stockholm Sweden, has recently completed the grade for Swedish feature film Wallander – Stejet Efter using Nucoda Film Master. Part of the Wallander crime series, the film follows police officer Kurt Wallander, played by Swedish actor Christer Henriksson. The film was shot on 35mm and then scanned in the facility’s Arri scanner to produce 2k DPX files. Mats Holmgren, The Chimney Pot's Colourist on the project, then imported the DPX files to the Nucoda Film Master using Nucoda’s Data Conform system. Holmgren explains, “I took the EDL and conformed the clips, adding them to the timeline. Then using the Nucoda Film Master I graded the material and exported it to both our Arri Laser Digital Film Recorder and our HD SR. From the HD SR we then did a Digibeta version for DVD. MORE
VDM uses latest DVNR system with Motion Estimation technology to restore classic film version of Mozart’s
Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni is arguably Mozart's greatest opera. Joseph Losey directed a very well regarded film version of the opera in 1979. Gaumont, the owners of this movie, wanted to release a home video version of the movie, and they wanted to be sure that they had a new, restored version that will work on Blu-Ray, HD-DVD and standard definition DVD. They approached VDM, one of the top facilities in France, about the restoration work. MORE
Frantic Films uses Nucoda Data Conform to develop visual effects for Stay,
a feature film starring Naomi Watts & Ewan McGregor
Frantic Films, a VFX powerhouse with facilities in Los Angeles, Sydney, Vancouver and Winnipeg, began work on Marc Forster’s (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland) chilling thriller, Stay, which tells the story of an Ivy League Professor of psychology, who attempts to prevent one of his students from committing suicide. MORE
Minivegas uses Nucoda Film Master to grade animated music video for
award-winning house track
London based digital production specialist, Minivegas has used Nucoda Film Master to conform and grade the animated music video for “Most Precious Love” by Blaze featuring house music diva Barbara Tucker. MORE
The Chimney Pot uses Nucoda Film Master to finish complex
Robbie Williams music video
The Chimney Pot is a pioneering multi-facility postproduction company with operations in Sweden, Poland and Norway. They have been an innovator in the post business for many years. They work on commercials, feature films, long-form television programs, as well as music videos. MORE
Weta Digital integrates Nucoda into their Digital Intermediate workflow
Weta Digital is one of the leading, state-of-the-art VFX facilities in the world. They produced the Lord of the Rings Trilogy (for which they won several Academy Awards). They have integrated the Nucoda system into their Digital Intermediate workflow. MORE
Cineco uses Nucoda Film Master to restore feature films
Dutch Digital Intermediate (DI) power house, Cineco is using a Nucoda Film Master to form the heart of its state-of-the-art DI facility.
“Our dedicated Nucoda room forms part of the THX audio-mixing suite,” comments Cineco CEO, Peter Limburg. “Film Master delivers real 2K including all colour corrections in real-time, which means we can run the graded DI together with a final or preliminary sound mix for approval. As the speed of the system allows for real-time 2K, we don't need to render proxies!”. MORE
Best Short Film at the 2005 Guadalajara Film Festival colour corrected on Nucoda Film Master
Utilizing the Nucoda Film Master, a system purpose-designed for feature film projects and commercial spots, Mexico’s TVI Films, has found an efficient and economical means of controlling the look of their projects while providing colorists and directors optimum creativity and flexibility to fulfill their vision and potential. MORE
Digital Intermediate for Crash completed at iO Film using Nucoda Film Master
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