digital intermediate
Since its earliest days, Alvernia Studios has been pushing the boundaries of what is possible within the digital intermediate. Alvernia Studios’ digital intermediate combines technical leadership with creativity to push the technology even further, and creates a complete calibrated chain from camera-to-screen 4K DI pipeline and is proud to launch the most powerful 4k DCI compliant DI facility in Poland and one of the most sophisticated in the world.
Alvernia Studios’ digital intermediate services include but are not limited to:
file-based dailies for all budget levels and acquisition
editorial
2K/4K Scanning 35mm/16mm
4k real-time colour grading
film recording
D-Cinema
16/35mm negative processing and global data delivery.
film scanning
Alvernia Studios uses the Northlight 2 scanner to enable Digital Intermediate and restoration projects. Using that equipment Alvernia supports 35mm and 16mm formats.
The scan capability makes an automatic downstream dust-busting process possible. Using 3rd-party software products allows Alvernia Studios a degree of flexibility and customisation enabling to deliver pristine scans for digital mastering and restoration of entire feature films and VFX.
colour grading
Alvernia is equipped with a Film Light colour grading system and is one of the 25 studios that have obtained Truelight Theatre Certification and the only one in Poland to allow 8/4K colour correction in real-time.
The entire digital intermediate and video grading workflow is done in Alvernia Studios’ grading theatre featuring two large digital grading and screening rooms for 2K/4K data and video projection equipped with Baselight 8 4k realtime. Baselight 8 features a great colour management system integrated with the grading tool, which helps to knit the entire DI chain. It is technically stable and flexible, allowing a colourist to make quick creative decisions together with the director and DoP, and makes it possible to review the shots in real-time 4K. Colourists work in a resolution-independent environment and can apply an infinite number of corrections, layers and complex trackable mattes in a single frame with reliability, flexibility and speed. Truelight is integrated into the Baselight 8 system and provides a precise match between the image displayed on the Sony 4k digital projectors in the DI grading theatres and the film prints produced at the film-screening theatre.
film recording
Alvernia Studios offers film recording services using a Celco Fury Film Recorder which is capable of achieving images of the highest quality very fast: one second per frame. This changes the rules for imaging facilities, making massive digital film productivity possible. The Celco Fury, being the heart of the Digital Intermediate Chain, is well cushioned and regularly calibrated by developing tests in our Lab. Celco’s technology gives you the ultimate in reliability, image quality, stability, flexibility, and ease of use.
restoration
Our studio uses PF Clean System for everyday digital intermediate, automated and manual dustbusting, and for 4k film restoration. It is a comprehensive set of non-destructive, hardware accelerated tools to clean up and restore images.
machines room
This is the real heart of our film factory. There are audio and video machine racks, video transfer racks, networking and storage racks. In Alvernia Studios digital transmission of image and sound is possible from the central machine room to all studios through fibre-optical connections. We can establish satellite connections with any external shooting locations
Key features:
digital transmission of image and sound from the central machine room to all studios through fibre-optical connections to 160 Tb SAN
satellite connection with external shooting locations
compatible with all SD/HD video formats
emergency power supply (UPS), power 2 x 160 kVA and power 300 kVA
digital lab
The Alvernia Studios Digital Lab team prepares data for further creation of the DCP packaging using the DVS Clipster.
It is capable of creating DCPs in 4k with its great compression JPEG 2000 board delivering close to real-time performance during the creation.
DVS CLIPSTER 4K-9600 characteristic:
This workstation provides our clients with online editing of film data, conversion to various output formats. CLIPSTER can handle any level of resolution: SD, HD, 2K and 4K.
