New York Post House Standardizes on Quantel Platform
July 14 2005
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Six months after ordering their first eQ, Goldcrest Post has taken delivery of a second 4:4:4 eQ to service its growing business of feature film Digital Intermediates as well as HD cable and broadcast programming projects.
Housed in the heart of New York's Greenwich Village, Goldcrest Post brought in Managing Director Tim Spitzer to shepherd the company's evolution into HD and digital intermediate finishing. Integrating with Goldcrest's established niche in providing filmmaker friendly offline, sound editorial, mixing, and screening services, the new HD and DI infrastructure was designed to meet the exacting demands of feature filmmaking and delivery.
One of the first things Spitzer did was design a DI theater for the company and purchase the types of tools necessary to win the hearts and minds of directors looking to stay ahead of the curve.
"I appreciate Quantel's editorial, effects, and color correction technology and the ability of the eQ to work with mixed media," said Spitzer, a former digital film producer. "The eQ has a remarkably robust toolset for the markets we are in. With QColor, a full primary and secondary color corrector, the system is better than anything else out there."
Spitzer went on to say: "For DI work the eQ enables the finishing artist to both edit and color correct to large screen dark chip DLP projection, at both the resolution and the frame rate of the desired end product. This is critical for accurate pre-visualization in DI feature filmmaking."
Spitzer also acknowledged the benefits of the new Eiger software, which outputs different aspect ratios, now done in real time without rendering, making versioning cost effective at the highest quality. He also applauds the real time output look-up tables (LUTS) that allow creation of masters appropriate for film recording or video deliverables from a single color correction.
"The eQ allowed us to structure a business based on the only new business model appropriate to New York," said Spitzer. "Quantel has always excelled in that arena in terms of providing the most powerful equipment available," Spitzer said. "It's done so by migrating to a more open platform and by becoming more cost effective over time."
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About Quantel Limited
Quantel has been at the forefront of the use of digital technology as a creative tool for the last 30 years and it is now using its vast experience to create tools for the new digital age - covering everything from terrestrial and multi-channel television, to broadband internet, DVD and d-cinema.
Quantel's generationQ is a radical, all-encompassing, new concept that offers total scalability in both hardware and software across post production, graphics and broadcast for multiple resolution, team-working production environments. With its sQ server technology, the company produces the world's most popular server-based newsroom systems; its iQ machine is responsible for more digital intermediate work, in more suites, in more countries than any other system; and with eQ it is leading the global transition towards HD production workflows.
Since completing a management buyout in 2000, the company is now privately owned, and employs nearly 500 people worldwide. It is headquartered in Newbury, UK and has offices in the USA, mainland Europe, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Australia.
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