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EQUIPPED
Triple Horse Productions Invests In Autodesk Pipeline
Triple Horse Productions is a 15 year old independent film and
television production company headquartered in Atlanta, Ga.,
with a satellite office in Los Angeles. At NAB 2008, Triple Horse
Productions acquired Autodesk Flint, Smoke and Lustre systems
to integrate into their post-production department.
Triple Horse is a turnkey production company with a sizable postproduction
operation that exclusively serves internal production
projects. The company takes projects from start to finish, from
concept and storyboarding through to scripting, production and
post. Client projects have included sports broadcast packages
for the NBA, Nascar and various professional teams airing on
networks such as ESPN, ABC, FOX and others. Corporate clients
such as Coca-Cola and Smith & Wesson have also brought
commercial projects to the company.
Most recently, Triple Horse has ventured into long-form,
producing multiple television and film projects. Standardizing
on an Autodesk editorial, VFX and finishing pipeline is key to
that effort.
“We were the first
company to own an
Avid Nitris DS system,
and in the past we
were using Avid
equipment for all of
our finishing work.
Those systems were
ok for short form, but
when we needed to do HD finishing for our longform projects,
we started experiencing bottlenecks with the DS systems. We
chose to switch to Flint, Smoke and Lustre for the way they
handle larger files. The resolution independence is a huge issue,
and interactivity between the three products: online editing
with Smoke, compositing and finishing with Flint and colorgrading
with Lustre is really efficient,” explained Karl Horstmann,
founder, Triple Horse Productions.
Triple Horse Productions has nine Apple Final Cut Pro systems
with centralized storage for offline editorial and will be finishing
projects on Autodesk systems. The company has one of the
largest production and post facilities in the southeast, with
sound stages and extensive production equipment including
dollies, cranes and recently acquired Red cameras. The
Autodesk Smoke and Flint systems will be put to regular use in
the company’s broadcast graphics design department, and
will also be used as part of the digital finishing pipeline on the
company’s upcoming independent feature film project. The
film’s working title is “Vengeance,” an action adventure film
that will begin shooting in the Rocky Mountains in October of
2008. The film will be color-graded on a Lustre system which
will be set up in an on-site screening room with 4K projection
capabilities. Triple Horse Productions has a first-look deal on the
film with Lionsgate, who released their last feature, “3:16 - Stories
of Hope” written by NY Times best-selling author Max Lucado.
“We’ve been great fans of Autodesk Flint, Smoke and Lustre for
a long time and are excited to be bringing them on board at
Triple Horse Productions. The new versions of Autodesk’s systems
are accessible, with ideal workflow and creative capabilities,”
Horstmann concluded.
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Global Video Launches Its
Virtual Tape Room Express Service
The Virtual Tape Room (VTR Express) service is an
incredibly fast, convenient, secure and economical
way to have your finished spot or long form content
output to any high or standard definition video tape,
CD or DVD format, including Blu-Ray and shipped to
your designated clients.
It is easy to use. Call or e-mail Global Video to obtain
your secure user name and password. Thereafter, just
send your content as a Quicktime file to the VTR Express
FTP site and e-mail your project instructions (dub format,
quantity, shipping instructions, etc.) to Global Video.
Global’s expert staff will quality-check the incoming
Quicktime file, prepare and quality-check the requisite
dubs, ship them out as you instructed and e-mail the
tracking data to you. All this without you ever having
to leave your desk or computer – nor do you have to
worry about renting tape decks or bringing a hard drive
to the actual tape room. And you can send your file to
the VTR Express from anywhere in the world without that
costing you a dime.
It is very economical. Sending your file to the VTR
Express is free. You will not be charged for any hard
drive or tape machine rental. Your dub will be made
at a reasonable price and you will enjoy the volume
buying power of the VTR Express with UPS, Fedex and
DHL for your outgoing shipments.
It is fast. Your Quicktime file will arrive as fast as your
uploading bandwidth allows. We will print your tape
or DVD dub if possible on the same day your file
arrives here and ship it out the same day. Blu-Ray discs
require overnight processing and next day service is
the fastest possible.
It is an option. If you prefer the traditional method, you
can of course just ship us your content on whatever
mastering format you use, or ship us your Quicktime file
on a firewire hard drive or a DVD data disc right out of
your Avid Final Cut Pro or Premier editing system.
About Global Video:
Global Video was started 12 years ago and, by
providing outstanding service and consistently high
quality, it has grown to be the leading technical services
provider in the Midwest. It also provides broadcast
quality standards conversion, captioning, professional
and mass duplicating, DVD and Blu-Ray authoring,
replication and duplication services. Global Video’s
www.videodailies.tv division has digitized over 1,500
high definition and standard definition videotapes
into editing-ready files, which it delivers typically via a
firewire hard drive, for editing on either Avid, Final Cut
Pro or Premier. Its quality and service-conscious staff
of 25 has over 200 years of experience servicing the
needs of the video professional community.
//www.globalvideo.com