Eastman Kodak's wholly owned post subsidiary, LaserPacific Media, is extending its digital services.
The entity is forming a digital-mastering services business unit that will handle new titles as well as the remastering of film elements from studio libraries to create digital elements for new distribution formats as well as preservation requirements.
To lead the business, LaserPacific has brought on a pair of respected industry veterans: Ron Burdett, who will serve as Gm, and supervising mastering colorist Lou Levinson.
"There is a need for extremely high-quality masters now that there are new display technologies in the home and delivery formats like Blu-ray," LaserPacific president Leon Silverman said. "As a result, the studios are going back into their libraries and remastering titles that have already been mastered. Because we are moving from a videotape to file-based world ... it makes sense to have the file-based, not tape-based, master elements of the highest possible quality.
The entity is forming a digital-mastering services business unit that will handle new titles as well as the remastering of film elements from studio libraries to create digital elements for new distribution formats as well as preservation requirements.
To lead the business, LaserPacific has brought on a pair of respected industry veterans: Ron Burdett, who will serve as Gm, and supervising mastering colorist Lou Levinson.
"There is a need for extremely high-quality masters now that there are new display technologies in the home and delivery formats like Blu-ray," LaserPacific president Leon Silverman said. "As a result, the studios are going back into their libraries and remastering titles that have already been mastered. Because we are moving from a videotape to file-based world ... it makes sense to have the file-based, not tape-based, master elements of the highest possible quality.
- 11/12/2008
- by By Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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ABC's "Pushing Daisies" and a Jaguar commercial called "XF Hush" led the pack Thursday as the Hollywood Post Alliance presented its third annual HPA Awards to the top behind-the-scenes talent working in motion pictures, television and commercials.
The event at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles also honored Elizabeth Daley, dean of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, with its Charles S. Swartz Award for outstanding contribution in the field of postproduction and Ron Burdett with its Lifetime Achievement Award.
"Daisies" earned trophies for TV color grading for the episode "The Fun in Funerals," with the prize going to Joe Hathaway of LaserPacific Media, and for TV editing for its "Pie-Lette" episode, edited by Stuart Bass.
Jaguar's "Xf Hush" took home awards for commercial color grading for Alex Bickel of Outside Editorial and commercial editing for Neil Gust of Outside Editorial.
Engineering Excellence Awards went to Quantel, FastSoft and Panasonic.
The event at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles also honored Elizabeth Daley, dean of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, with its Charles S. Swartz Award for outstanding contribution in the field of postproduction and Ron Burdett with its Lifetime Achievement Award.
"Daisies" earned trophies for TV color grading for the episode "The Fun in Funerals," with the prize going to Joe Hathaway of LaserPacific Media, and for TV editing for its "Pie-Lette" episode, edited by Stuart Bass.
Jaguar's "Xf Hush" took home awards for commercial color grading for Alex Bickel of Outside Editorial and commercial editing for Neil Gust of Outside Editorial.
Engineering Excellence Awards went to Quantel, FastSoft and Panasonic.
- 11/7/2008
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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