ABC’s Family Channel GRΣΣK Workflow: Super 16mm film → HDCAM → AVID
Todd Ulman Associate Producer on ABC Family Channel’s hit show GRΣΣK is responsible for designing the post workflow and making sure that it remains efficient. He explains the workflow: Cast of ABC’s GRΣΣK  Todd Ullman “GRΣΣK shoots on 16mm [using Kodak’s Vision 2 stock] because it enables us to create the look that the executive producers are going for. Transferring to HDCAM allows us to continue the process and take advantage of the efficiencies of a standard HD workflow and delivery. Our production team shoots the film footage, Laser Pacific develops and telecines to an HDCAM master, and then we have them digitize the dailies using Avid DNxHD 36 onto a portable hard drive. The dailies are loaded, at the editing offices, into our Avid workstations (three Media Composer Soft 2.8 seats, a Nitris DX 3.0, and a Mojo SDI 3.0) using a Unity 5.01 storage array with 8 TB of capacity.    After picture lock, we output via the Nitris DX to HDCAM with the DNxHD 36 source material. That tape is used as a chase cassette by Laser Pacific during the online process, where they assemble from the original HDCAM Masters via their supercomputer assembly. We color-correct on a da Vinci system and do final layback to Sony HDCAM SR tape so that we have the 12 audio channels available for audio layback from the final mix.” |
See the full article by Michael Grotticelli at HD Studio here
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