Production Equipment for
"06 : The Big One"

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3D-HDTV edit on a laptop

3D-HDTV onsite : postproduction on the road.

At the end of the production process, we had to cope with a couple of 3DTV laws. First, you have to make the final cut of a 3DTV movie, including final 3D-CG renderings, for you must render both eyes and mix them in a coherent stereoscopic storyline, in the very room you'll show it. Second, the rendering time is at last trice the regular rendering time. As a result, we had to move to Sacramento State Capitol Museum.

Our edit suite included :

• A Quad-G5 Mac as a main After Effects compositing computer
• Two Dual Proc PCs, as primary Maya stations, secondary After Effects and Maya/AE render nodes
• The Dual Xeon 3DTV server, as main encoding station and AE render node.
• My laptop on steroids, to edit and render secondary content, like credits and intermission.
• Two terabytes of Hard Drives.
• A gigabyte ethermet network

This equipment, along with advanced production workflows (See Cross-OS renderfarming, Split Rendering, Split Encoding, In-stream Edit, ) allowed us to cut down rendering times and meet the deadlines.

Bernard Mendiburu
Multimedia R&D Officer - New Media Director
3554 Sawtelle Blvd , Los Angeles, CA 90066, USA
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