'Blackmagic Design buys second Lasergraphics Director Film Scanner'
"Film is alive and well but traditional telecine is dead!"Background: Blackmagic Design Singapore, Asia’s leading post production facility, announces the purchase of their second Lasergraphics Director scanner, offering both 16mm and 35mm scanning capabilities. Blackmagic Design Singapore, is the first post production company to offer a fully data-centric commercial post workflow from dailies to final grade without a traditional telecine machine and it has proved to be a major success.
"We have proven over the past 18 months that we can make the feature film 2K DI workflow work at television commercial speeds giving our TVC clients unprecedented quality far superior to traditional telecine and our feature film clients DI VFX and grading at television commercial speeds. Our infrastructure and workflow also give us greater flexibility to offer our clients deliverables at data, HD or SD or all of the above depending upon the project."
"Because this workflow has been so successful this latest purchase of our second Lasergraphics Director Film Scanner represents the fourth film scanner we have bought in the past two years. Incorporating additional scanners into our facility allows our truly nonlinear workflow to handle more projects simultaneously. For example we can grade in our two da Vinci Resolve suites while simultaneously scanning reels for a further two projects. That means four projects all at the same time"
"Because of this amazing quality and efficiency I can categorically say that while film is well and truly alive, telecine is most certainly dead."
Peter Barber, Director of Creative Services.
The Lasergraphics Director Scanner makes its’ debut at Broadcast Asia 2008 at The Media Village stand, #8M4-05.