Film and Digital Media @ Messiah

Keith Collea, co-writer and producer for The Gene Generation, also served as technical supervisor for the project. He used AJA’s Io HD as an integral part of a fully portable movie projection system that allowed the film to be projected on a Sony 4K digital cinema projector at the American Film Institute’s Mark Goodson Theater without the use of tape-based VTR for playback.

AJA Video’s Io HD was used to facilitate both test and cast-and-crew screenings of the indie sci-fi feature, The Gene Generation. Io HD, the first device to natively support Apple’s newly introduced ProRes 422 postproduction format in hardware, delivers HD editing to the MacBook Pro and Mac Pro via its unique FireWire 800 (IEEE1394b) interface. Starring Bai Ling (The Crow) and Perry Shen, with a supporting role by Faye Dunaway, The Gene Generation premiered in the spring of 2008.

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