The Dalsa folks seem particularly happy this NAB about the notion that their Origin camera (pictured) and its affiliated tapeless, 4K data path flow are finally on the verge of making the transition from the development and testing and specialty production world into the realm of hardcore, bigtime feature film projects. Look for major feature films to be announced this year that are expected to use the Dalsa camera and 4K workflow.

To make this a reality, Dalsa is actively celebrating and promoting its technology partners—companies like Quantel, Ciprico, and Root6 Technology, among others. Root6, for instance, is offering a universal encoding platform designed to allow content creators to get its 4K data transcoded and transformed into digital dailies on any of a number of platforms. Root6 says this is accomplished by achieving the notion of “remote transcoding,” meaning that its system identifies 4k files on a network and transcodes those files by reaching out to them—not ingesting them and talking up mega storage space within its system, in other words. You can find Root6, by the way, within the Avid Developer community section of the Avid booth.

Dalsa’s Patrick Myles calls all these technologies that are cropping up to move 4K DPX files and associated metadata efficiently through a postproduction pipeline a “back-office IT” solution that Dalsa and its partners have concocted. He also suggests that it will lead to new business opportunities in the realm of data archiving and transfer as Dalsa’s raw data “will live on” in the possession of studios and content creators, in addition to any 4K masters or film masters.

“It’s really cool what’s going on,” Patrick states emphatically.

We’ll be chatting with Dalsa guru John Coghill about all this and more on an upcoming podcast.