3D technology and production services firm Cameron/Pace Group used Grass Valley Switcher technology to create a live line cut – or first pre-edit – of the live-action filled production of “Glee Live! In Concert!” for Twentieth Century Fox Television and Twentieth Century Fox Film’s co-production of the “Glee: The 3D Concert Movie,” scheduled for theatrical release August 12. “The faith that CPG placed in Grass Valley technologies only reinforces our belief that specialty 3D-only equipment is not necessary for high-end 3D television and theatrical productions,” said Grass Valley exec veep Jeff Rosica. “Production companies the world over have been and are continuing to produce 3D content with multi-format Grass Valley equipment.”
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Discovery Communications has purchased two Quantel Pablo Neo 4K systems, a Max and a Genetic Engineering shared workflow infrastructure. The systems are housed in newly constructed suites at Discovery’s Post facility in Silver Spring, Md. The system allows work to be instantly shared between the suites, optimizing suite utilization and speeding program production.
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Endemol has deployed EditShare Flow, XStream and Ark products to manage the new “Big Brother Jakarta” production.”EditShare systems assist us in better controlling the frenzied pace of Big Brother Jakarta’s production cycle,” says Claudia Vermeulen, consulting producer for Endemol International. EditShare adds a layer of automation to the production, automating media ingest from the multiple cameras and microphones placed around the house direct to the XStream shared storage system.
