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Visits: Post-Production Companies and HHI Berlin

Heinrich Hertz Instituteand Post-production houses in Berlin are visited, each offering a special insight into its facilities and current work:

  • The CinePostproduction group, with its six subsidiaries all over Germany, offers film lab services, digital lab services and sound studios for feature films, TV productions and advertising. Regardless if a project has been shot on film or digital, CinePostproduction ensures a perfectly calibrated workflow for 2D and 3D postproduction. This also includes digital and 35mm release prints. Together with rise|fx CinePostproduction will showcase the feature film 12 Meter ohne Kopf/ Pirates of the Baltic Sea. Both companies collaborated closely on various VFX shots, realizing day for night scenes partly direct in the Autodesk Lustre colour grading system. The case study will focus on workflows that ensure smooth interaction between postproduction and VFX facilities, ensuring maximum quality and cost efficiency.

  • Cine plus was initially formed as a post-production company in 1989, with its own premises in 6 locations throughout Germany. Today, it is one of the leading full-service media-services providers in Germany. In addition to classic post-production, cine plus also provide news, broadcasting and event services and produces image films, documentations and reports. Cine plus has a particular strength in satellite-based distribution of data-intensive content. (i.e. for Astra SES) and with the integration of HD into the production and post-production process in film and television.

  • The Post Republic is a full service post-production facility offering the full range of 2D and 3D post-production processes from digital dailies to final 35mm print and DCP. Located in Berlin and Halle they provide complete sound and picture post-production solutions to an international range of clients. The Post Republic is currently mixing the first British 3D feature STREETDANCE 3D in its new cinema mixing stage in Berlin. Equipped with an Euphonix System 5 Mixing Console, and a 2D and 3D projection, the mixing stage is the first one in Berlin to be Dolby Premier and THX certified.

  • In addition the Heinrich Hertz Institute invites one group to visit their cylindrical panorama projection, tomorrow's cinema. The 180° screen in combination with 3D-sound leads to a perfect immersive impression. Key component for the system is the CineCard, a hardware based solution for multi projection. Seven HD projectors, each with 3.000 ANSI-Lumen makes possible to provide a resolution of about 7.000 x2.000 pixel. The 3D-sound is realized by an IOSONO-sound system, developed by Fraunhofer IDMT. The most of the content is generated with a special panorama camera, the OmniCam also presented on site.