Monday 30 November 2009

Lab Consultancy for Dolby and Technicolor

At the end of November we were asked to provide consultancy services to Technicolor on behalf of Dolby Laboratories to check and ensure the operation of the optical sound camera installed at the Technicolor Pinewood Site. The visit was part of Technicolor's ongoing program with Dolby to maintain the highest quality of soundtrack photographic processing on motion picture film and is carried out as part of Dolby Laboratories' Lab and Camera Certification program.

We provided a full check and test of the optical sound camera along with process control training for Dolby personnel resulting in an improvement to the already high quality soundtrack reproduction. A full report was provided for the certification records and future reference.

Friday 27 November 2009

Business of the Month Award

Today, Dreambase Studios was presented with the Business of the Month Award, sponsored by Marriott Hotels. We were very happy to receive this award after only 3 months of trading. It was a pleasant surprise and we were delighted for the recognition. We were treated to a wonderful 3-course meal and champagne reception.

Thursday 5 November 2009

Wootton Bassett Repatriation

A grey mist hung over the market town of Wootton Bassett and seemed to match the mood of the people who lined the High Street. Click here to read the full article:

Filming this particular repatriation, the plan was to turn around a newscast edit in the same day using Sony's EX1 tapeless workflow. We were able to work quickly and efficiently ingesting the XDCAM clips into the workstation and edit seamlessly. We also discovered a neat little add-on for the firefox browser that allows you to capture flash content from websites such as YouTube. We used the Flash Video Resources add-on to capture some stock footage for the newscast. We then up-scaled the footage to HD using MPEG Streamclip which worked well.