Deluxe Hollywood selects SGI Professional Services and Barco for film review suite
Hollywood’s Deluxe Laboratories has installed a Barco Premier DP100 D-Cine projector for film review applications, complementing the four Barco DP100s in EFILM’s Digital Intermediate suites.
Barco and Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) announce that worldwide media company Deluxe Labs has installed a Barco DP100 2K D-CINE PREMIERE projector at its Hollywood facility through SGI Professional Services. Designed for exclusive use in Deluxe’s film review suite, the DP100 will be used to project content for customer final sign-off prior to mastering and release.
The review suite’s projection booth is multi-purpose, housing both the Barco DP100 and one film projector. Because of limited space restrictions in the booth, a precise suspension mounting system was required for the Barco projector, enabling it to be mobilized into place when digital projection was required, and moved aside when film projection was scheduled. Because of the DP100’s modular design, the power supply was remoted, thus easing the required suspension weight.
In addition to the DP100’s 2048 x 1080 native resolution, high lumen output and 2000:1 contrast ratio, the projector was also chosen by Deluxe for precise consistency with Deluxe’s subsidiary, EFILM — Hollywood’s leading Digital Intermediate (DI) facility.
“We exchange a lot of material with EFILM,” said Jim Whittlesey, Deluxe’s VP of Digital Cinema Technologies, “and a great deal of their work comes over to us for digital cinema mastering. Our DP100 is set up to give the exact same response as the projectors in EFILM’s DI suites, where the movies are color timed. So, when the customer comes here for QC, they’ll see exactly what they saw during the DI color grading sessions.”
Similar to EFILM’s DP100 suites, installation and system integration for the Deluxe DP100 was provided by the SGI Professional Services arm of Silicon Graphics, one of Barco’s strategic reseller partners in digital cinema. Maintenance will also be provided by SGI's Support Services organization.
“We’re thrilled with the projector and the level of professional support and integration from the SGI team,” said Whittlesey. “With similar Barco equipment at both EFILM and here, the operative word for the client is ‘no surprises.’”
About Deluxe
Deluxe is a trusted worldwide entertainment media services partner, providing systems and solutions for the production, manufacturing and distribution of entertainment content. With facilities throughout North America and Europe, Deluxe is a single resource for full-service entertainment media supply chain solutions. Deluxe provides an extensive suite of film, video and DVD supply chain solutions with the industry's best on-time record for screen and street date delivery. Our dedicated and tenured account services representatives establish open and honest relationships with our customers and make themselves available around-the-clock. We have created a culture of customer satisfaction that is unparalleled. Deluxe is also launching a new Digital Cinema initiative to support the gradual transition from physical to digital delivery of content to exhibitors. Visit www.bydeluxe.com for more information.
About EFILM
EFILM, LLC, located in Hollywood, California is owned by Panavision Inc., and Deluxe Laboratories, and has been providing digital laboratory services to the motion picture industry since 1993. Utilizing proprietary digital color timing systems and image processing tools, high resolution scanning & recording technologies, and a high speed network, EFILM’s services include digital intermediate, high-resolution scanning and recording for the visual effects industry, digital opticals for features, trailers and commercials, and tape-to-film services including 24p HD, DV, NTSC, PAL. Visit www.efilm.com for more information.
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SGI, also known as Silicon Graphics, Inc. (OTC: SGID), is a leader in high-performance computing. SGI helps customers solve their computing challenges, whether it's sharing images to aid in brain surgery, finding oil more efficiently, studying global climate, providing technologies for homeland security and defense, enabling the transition from analog to digital broadcasting, or helping enterprises manage large data. With offices worldwide, the company is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., and can be found on the Web at www.sgi.com.
About Barco
Barco, an international company headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium, provides visualization and display solutions for professional markets. Barco designs and develops solutions for large screen visualization, display solutions for life-critical applications, and systems for visual inspection. Barco is active worldwide and has its own facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Barco is quoted on Euronext Brussels and is a BEL 20 and a Next 150 company (Euronext: BAR; Reuters: BARBt.BR; Bloomberg: BAR BB). Visit www.barco.com for more information.
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