Multi-Camera
Production
Complete Post
Production
Motion Picture Support
Documentary Support
Major Events Support
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New Concept
in Mobile Production
HDMC-1
is a fully tested and proven HDTV production mobile
designed to fit different needs than the typical truck.
More comfortable and roomy than any mobile on the road
today and also more cost effective. One of the ways we
reduce production cost and improve work flow is to ISO most
or all of the camera feeds onto an uncompressed
“tapeless” HD server system, custom built by
Apple Computer.
HD
or SD Multi-Camera Production
Designed
to handle up to 12 High Definition camera feeds, this
mobile unit is perfect for
concert, entertainment, and small sports venues. We seem to
operate mostly with 6-8 cameras filling a niche market that
no other HD mobile does today.
Post
Production
The editing
capabilities of this unit are immense. We have the ability
to do complete post production on any project, including
color correction, and provide a finished HD master on HDCam
or any other format specified by the job. This system is
one of the fastest and most versatile edit suites anywhere,
and it just happens to be on wheels.
Motion
Picture Support
This mobile is
perfect for the motion picture industry as well. Providing
a plush, comfortable, mobile environment to view dailies or
conduct off-line editing. Any film director would feel
right at home between the Italian leathers, granite floors,
full kitchen and bath, specialty lighting, and roomy space
that this machine provides.
Documentary
Support
On the other end
of the spectrum, this unit can provide a documentary
producer with all of the production, editing, and office
needs right there in a remote environment. As long as there
is a paved road, your complete studio can be at your finger
tips.
Major
Events Support
At any of the
biggest sporting events or award shows that the biggest
trucks support, one element that often is lacking is a
comfortable space for the producers and executive producers
to watch the camera feeds, communicate with the director,
and yet be out of the way of the crew doing the technical
work. Well, today that is now all possible. We can mate
this mobile with any other unit on the road today, take
feeds and communication, and place them all in a viewing
environment second to none in the mobile
industry.
Editing and
Server Capabilities
HDMC-1
is a first of its kind mobile unit taking tapeless high
definition recording to the next level. With its one of a
kind computer and server system built by Apple, there is
very little that this unit cannot accomplish on the set or
even on the road.
As an example, lets take a typical 6 camera shoot. The six
cameras in the arena taping a concert would traditionally
send 6 ISO feeds to HDCam decks in the truck as well as a
switched master. Once the two hour concert is over, these
tapes would be gathered up, along with the switched master
and sent to the post house of choice. If the TD and
director did an excellent job, then perhaps as much as 70%
of the show will now be complete, leaving about 30% for
corrections or simply better choice shots that were missed
the first time live. Then you might add graphics and other
effects. All this in the hands of an editor who at first is
unfamiliar with the show and the ISO tapes. Perhaps after
three weeks worth of work and post expenses the producer
ends up with a finished product.
Take the same scenario with HDMC-1. While we can always do
tape ISO as back-up, all the feeds are first recorded in an
uncompressed (or compressed) server array, as well as the
master switch. In our case, editing can begin even
BEFORE
the
show ends if needed. Certainly editing would take place as
soon as the show is over, even as the crew strikes the
cameras and set. With all of the master and ISO tapes
already digitized and on the drives, days worth of work is
not even required.
With the additional ability to edit while in motion. We can
cut that typical 3 week edit schedule down to 3 or 4 days.
Print to tape, do down-conversions if required, and be
looking for a FedEx drop box usually before any real
editing even starts in the traditional method. And one of
the best perks of all, we usually will include post in the
cost of an imaging package.
Saving
both time and money. Our solution: Simple, Elegant,
Productive.
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