Tapeless Worflows

Tapeless workflows for 2009 : Buttons talks...

Please read here two articles on tapeless aquisition for 2009, one for the Oscar winning Benjamin Buttons and another from Digilab - London discussing tapeless images. Also link below to a new Quicktime movie from Peter Mavromates, the Post Supervisor on Benjamin Buttons, where he talks about the tapeless workflows employed on Buttons.

Download Benjamin Buttons pdf     Download Digilab pdf

Rogue Element Films and F35 tapeless workflows for 2009

Rogue Element Films has been working with Digital Film and tapeless workflows now for a number of years starting with the Viper and now the new Sony F35 & F23 Digital Film cameras.

This enables Rogue and with its digital lab to continue pushing current advances in the latest technologies to offer clients the very best in tapeless workflows for cameras such as Rogues F35/23 and Vipers and the new SI-2K systems just being delivered.

Rogue has been advocating tapeless workflows now for a number of years and has developed a strong reputation in the industry create a wonderful resource for supplying not only consultation on tapeless workflows but also fully qualified technicians and personnel who understand the equipment required to shoot digital film at its very best and most efficient.

Read below the articles that Dan Mulligan, MD of Rogue, has written on tapeless workflows and its clear benefits.

Download Maturing Workflows - NAB2008 Special pdf     Download Data Mining pdf

..and some quotes here from the Production team working on Benjamin Buttons as to the advantages of a tapeless workflow :

"Not only was it easier it was cheaper too...overall the crew was much less than any other film going through at that time".
Cean Chaffin, Producer

"....you have reduced crew numbers, you have faster workflow than a film shoot and you have a product that looks like film."
Cean Chaffin, Producer

"We always prefer to shoot without compression so we shoot directly to hard drives."
Peter Mavromates, Post Supervisor

"As a Post Supervisor our dream is to capture on set at full resolution, back it up then load it at full resolution on to a server so I would only go back to the back up tapes (LTO) if something went wrong."
Peter Mavromates, Post Supervisor

Quotes taken with kind permission from Buttons article "film in reverse" in HD Magazine www.definitionmagazine.com

We currently now have all these tapeless workflows in place plus a rentable server to store your project live on a SAN at full resolution to pull your EDL as native DPXs, instantly.

E-mail or call Rogue Films for further consultation on tapeless workflows and for shooting F35/data for the ultimate image quality availbale today.