INSIGHT OUT | Digital Production in Film & Television

Hands-on digital work flow

HFF, in co-operation with Camelot Broadcast Services, will be staging a HD Expo for the first time, setting up a complete digital work flow in HFF. IO participants and film/TV professionals from Berlin-Brandenburg will have the opportunity to look over the shoulders of experienced professionals while they shoot, edit and colour-correct HD footage.

HD Expo @ HFF, 11-12 March 2008

The HD Expo will be held in HFF’s lobby on Tuesday, 11 March and Wednesday, 12 March, 2008. It will be open from 10am to 6pm each day. Film-makers, media professionals and journalists are invited to participate free of charge. You are required to register beforehand.

What's on show

The following equipment will be set up and "connected" into one seamless digital production chain. See and test it all live and for real.

Area	Equipment on show*
Acquisition (on a real set in HFF's studio)	Cameras ARRIFlex D20 Canon XLH1 with P+S Adapter Mini35c Panasonic AJ-HPX3000 and AG-HVX200 RedOne Silicon Imaging SI-2K provided by P+S Technik Sony F23 & PMWEX1 Fujinon Lenses by Videor Technical Monitors/Display JVC 24'' DT-V24L1D native HD monitors Panasonic 50" Plasma with HDSDI boards TV Logic 7'' LVM - 071W multi-format monitors
Data Ingest / Verifying / Storage / Transfer	Bright Systems SAN Server by Storrax Codex Digital Recorder Convergent Design Flash XDR HD Recorder DVC ClipRecorderXTrem SAN and Megacine hard-disk recorder Panasonic P2 Flash Memory: AG-HPG10 and AJ-PCS060G portable recorders Sony HD Cam SR
Editing & Compositing	Apple Final Cut Pro Avid DS Nitris Avid Media Composer Quantel IQ
Finishing	Assimilate Scratch, provided by Business TV GmbH Apple Color Nucoda Film Master provided by MWA Nova Quantel Pablo
Packaging / Mastering / Playout	Dolby Content Encoding provided by CinePostproduction DVC ClipDisk 3D Kinoton DCP70 2K Projector

* The equipment may be subject to change.