Blackmagic Design Singapore Upgrades Facility With New da Vinci Resolve® R350, Impresario™, and Revival™
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — June 30, 2008 — da Vinci Systems today announced that Blackmagic Design Singapore, one of Asia’s top post-production facilities, has purchased the new daVinci Resolve® R350 digital imaging suite and accompanying Impresario™ 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 Revival™ 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 floating-point calculations for precision, da Vinci has the freedom to develop innovative new tools such as Bezier curves, free-form 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 Transformer™ 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. For more information, visit www.davsys.com.
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About Blackmagic Design Inc.
Blackmagic Design Singapore is the lone post-production facility of Blackmagic Design, Inc., which manufactures high-quality video cards and converters for post production and television broadcast. Founded by leading editors and engineers from the post-production industry, Blackmagic uses their knowledge to enhance its products. Blackmagic Design has operations in the U.S., Netherlands, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia. For further information about Blackmagic Design, please visit www.blackmagic-design.com.
About da Vinci Systems®, LLC
da Vinci Systems, a JDSU company, is the leading provider of color enhancement and image restoration products used in post-production facilities worldwide. Incorporating the company’s Emmy® Award-winning technology, da Vinci’s products support SDTV, HDTV, data, and digital film. Since the introduction of the company’s first color corrector in 1984, da Vinci has been a front-runner in the field of image enhancement, shaping color enhancement into the vital role it holds in post-production today. The company is headquartered in Coral Springs, Fla., with offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, France, Germany, and Singapore.
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