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CONTROL Dailies

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CONCURRENT WORKFLOW FOR DAILIES

Whether a project is shot on film, video, or data, CONTROL DAILIES provides a complete workflow that encompasses all facets of the dailies process.

CONTROL DAILIES facilitates faster than real time transfer from film or 2k DPX files to HD and SD, automatic synchronization of audio, and output to either tape or file based deliverables. CONTROL dailies is a concurrent workflow that optimizes your telecine investment and frees colorists from time consuming clerical duties, allowing them to do what they do best: COLOR.

FEATURES

  • 2K or Video Dailies… Faster than real time
  • Delivers HD, SD tapes to editorial – Outputs three simultaneous, asynchronous video streams, each with different Layoff Configurations including VANC and VITC
  • Sub-frame accurate synchronization of audio to picture
  • Complete metadata collection and editorial file generation such as ALE and Flex
  • Editorial Tools for post synching of audio
  • Import ALE or Flex files for rescan

CONCURRENT PROCESS

To streamline workflow, CONTROL Dailies allows all logging, ingest, and output to be handled through a common database accessible simultaneously to all workstations. Any operator can create or update log entries.

Film dailies can be ingested in two modes: Select Takes or Full Reel. For film transferred in Select Takes mode, audio and picture are automatically synchronized based on operator identified sync points logged in the database. For Full Reel film transfers, the CONTROL Dailies-QA module provides a One-Click editorial tool to post synchronize audio to picture.

INNOVATION

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CONVEY is a sister application to CONTROL Dailies that automates the creation of popular file based formats for Dailies deliverables.

CONVEY shares Project Management, Database, and Scanlist parameters found in CONTROL Dailies facilitating a seamless integration of the two applications. The power of the CONTROL Dailies concurrent workflow is enhanced by its direct interaction with CONVEY.

As events are approved in CONTROL Dailies, CONVEY is encoding data into multiple file formats. Codecs such as MPEG 2, DNxHD, WM9, MPEG 4, QuickTime and AVI can be simultaneously created with user defined bit rates, aspect ratios, window burns and audio mixes.

Slate and Burn Templates and Layoff Configurations created in CONTROL Dailies are available for use in CONVEY or, if desired, can be created within CONVEY. As part of CONVEY’s Project Management all templates and configurations are recalled automatically eliminating redundant input and setup. DVD Menu Templates are also created in CONVEY and stored as an asset of the project for recall during automated DVD authoring.

FLEXIBILITY

CONTROL Dailies allows users to define a Layoff Configuration that includes:

Slate Templates- Create slate templates that reflect project metadata such as project name, title, production number, shoot date, transfer date, reel number, scene, take, etc. that are automatically recalled during Layoff.

Burn Window Templates- Insert user configurable Burn-Ins for KeyKode, record and audio timecodes into either the HD or SD output streams.

Size, color, font, background, opacity, and cue timing parameters can be user defined per metadata field for slates and burn windows.

Layoff Configurations- Create tape layoff configurations with user definable parameters including video standard, aspect ratio, audio mix, Auto-Striping - Automatically stripe up to three videotapes with Black, Bars/Tone, and Slate prior to picture start with user defined timing and timecode parameters – and contextual slate and burn window template insertions.

Telecine EDLs - Generate industry standard ALE or Flex files to track metadata for nonlinear editorial.

OPTIONS

CONVEY New!

  • File based deliverables including Auto-DVD, DNxHD, WM9, MPEG4, QuickTime and AVI executed simultaneously in the background

AUDIO ONLY WORKSTATION New!

  • Faster than real time for audio files, real time for tape with ability to view one SD stream
  • ALE and FLex EDLs for cutting room

Standard Control Dailies System

Film Ingest Workstation

Film capture in faster than real time

  • Simultaneous capture to HD and SD at 30fps with separate inputs for Dmin-Dmax transfer
  • Import ALE or FLex for rescan
  • KeyKode calibration - 16mm 35mm 4perf & 3perf

Direct Control of Telecine/Scanner

  • No edit controller required

Auto-Sync HD and SD picture with audio

  • System corrects for video/audio room delays

Complete film metadata ingest

  • No additional after-burner hardware required – just the KeyKode reader

Multi-Purpose Workstation

Audio ingest and metadata logging

  • Faster than real time for audio files, real time for tape
  • ALE and FLex EDLs for cutting room

Quality Assurance before tape lay-off

  • Faster than real time QA to ensure zero errors

Resolution Independent CG/Burn In Generator

  • Slate Templates for automatic contextual insertion based upon user defined parameters
  • Multiple burn-in generators for KeyKode, audio TC, record TC, scene, take, camera & sound rolls, and freeform text cued for insertion by user defined parameters

Multiple simultaneous tape lay-offs

  • Simultaneous and asynchronous lay-offs to one HD and two SD VTRs with VANC and VITC
  • Each output may contain different play-list of scenes and lay-off configurations
  • Tapes are automatically striped with Black, Bars, and Slate prior to picture start

8 Channel Mixer

  • User defined mix for each output

CONTROL STORAGE MODULE

Fibre channel RAID SAN for 8.5 hours of HD and SD and 200 hours of 8 channel audio. All write/reads performed concurrently from the same media.

  • One HD write/one HD read
  • One SD write/three SD reads
  • 8 channel audio write and read

CONTROL DATABASE SERVER

  • PC with mirrored storage for database
Technical Specifications subject to change without notice.