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Blackmagic Design Singapore Upgrades Facility With New
da Vinci Resolve® R350, ImpresarioTM And RevivalTM
da Vinci Systems (Coral Springs, Fla.) announced last
month that Blackmagic Design Singapore, one of Asia’s top
post-production facilities, has purchased the new daVinci
Resolve® R350 digital imaging suite and accompanying
ImpresarioTM control panel. As part of a facility expansion
and upgrade, Blackmagic is also upgrading its current da
Vinci Resolve RT with the new Resolve R250, and adding a
second da Vinci RevivalTM image restoration suite.
“One of the biggest advantages of the da Vinci Resolve
workflow, and one that is hugely popular with our clients, is
in-sequence color grading,” said Peter Barber, Blackmagic’s
director of creative services. “Once you’ve graded this way
you can never go back to traditional telecine, where you
sit around for hours waiting for rolls to be loaded and shots
identified while working off stills stores to match color and
tonality. With the Resolve, all of your shots are in-sequence
as per your EDL, and tweaks and changes to the grade
can be made effortlessly to any shot, anywhere in the
sequence, at any time. Grading time is also reduced by up
to 75 percent through this superior workflow.”
Introduced this spring, the da Vinci Resolve R-series maximizes
Nvidia GPU supercomputing to deliver unparalleled
performance and an unsurpassed toolset for color grading
and DI finishing. The new R-series leverages C.O.R.E. (CUDA©
Optimized Resolve Engine), a massively parallel processing
engine optimized for speed and performance. Because
Resolve lives on 64-bit Linux and employs full 32-bit floatingpoint
calculations for precision, da Vinci has the freedom
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to develop innovative new tools such as Bezier curves, freeform
windows, open EXR and plug-ins.
da Vinci offers an easy plug-and-play upgrade path for
current Resolve systems, which Blackmagic will utilize when
it upgrades its current Resolve RT to a Resolve R250. Once the
facility upgrade is complete, Blackmagic will enjoy greatly
enhanced workflow flexibility, efficiency and productivity
for digital intermediate (DI) projects, feature film finishing,
TV programs and commercials, and HD documentary
grading. By employing a storage area network based on
Bright Systems storage, both Resolve suites can be used
simultaneously to grade a large DI project.
“The Southeast Asian film and technology market has long
been creative and dynamic, but recent initiatives have
seen it take off in an almost explosive way,” said Dean Lyon,
da Vinci Systems marketing director. “In Singapore, the
government’s Media Development Authority has been a
prime mover behind the market’s growth. As a developer of
cutting-edge technology, da Vinci Systems in Asia is uniquely
positioned to support this exciting period in the industry.”
da Vinci currently offers four models in the Resolve R Series:
the R200 with one C.O.R.E. and a TransformerTM board
(da Vinci’s real-time hardware acceleration for image
processing); the R250 with one C.O.R.E. and two Transformer
boards; the R300 with two C.O.R.E.s for twice the speed and
computing power; and the R350 with two C.O.R.E.s and two
Transformer boards.
//www.davsys.com
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