"If a journalist in the field were using a mobile device they could browse and edit content directly and in real-time, whether in wireless range or not."Īlthough currently optimized for Avid's new production platform iNews and its asset management system Interplay, Interplay Central is open to links with third party systems, such as those from Quantel or Apple.
"In the past, there were rigid tools for news production, but this breaks the mold and enables media professionals to access a single user interface on a laptop or mobile device and tap into newsroom systems," explained Christine Viera, Avid's vice president for product and segment marketing. However the mobile app is released only for Blackberry phones initially - not iPhone or iPad, which are owned by Avid's arch rival Apple. Interplay Central is described as a web-based portal offering workflow tools for the creation, management, and distribution of media held locally or centrally. It is also the first in a much wider plan by the company to offer products based on an IP framework.
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Targeted first at mobile newsgathering it could also serve applications in fast turnaround genres such as sports or reality TV shows.
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That remains the case today, but Avid has begun to take the sector to its logical next step by freeing software from the PC all together.Īt NAB, Avid has debuted Interplay Central, a web-based production portal for PCs, laptops, and mobile phones.
A decade ago the software was liberated from bespoke hardware to run on standard PCs and prices were slashed leaving Avid, Apple and Adobe as the main vendors. At its height there were between 20 and 30 competing non-linear edit systems. Fifteen years ago non-linear editing systems were packaged as turnkey products bundling software into expensive hardware processing platforms. They are airbrushed out and replaced with a tree or a phone box from another shot.The third great theme at NAB2011 aside from 3D and 4K imaging is that of cloud based content production and management.Ī growing number of solutions are emerging from new players and traditional video developers taking advantage of aspects of cloud hosting.Īmong them is a framework from Avid whose core business is editing systems. The editor lifted patches of white water from one part of the picture and duplicated them elsewhere to build a raging torrent.ĭomino even allows film crews to deal with onlookers who spoil expensive location shots by waving at the camera. The river was also a lot less wild than it looks. The film editor used Domino to get rid of the wires with an electronic airbrush. When Meryl Streep tackles white water rapids, her boat is actually safely suspended by wires from a helicopter hovering overhead. The hardware costs $1.6 million.ĭomino was used recently in The River Wild, which is currently on release in the US. Domino stores two minutes of motion at a time, held on a bank of magnetic hard discs. Each frame eats up 16 megabytes of computer storage space, while specialised computer chips are needed to process the data fast enough to display smooth motion on the editor’s screen.
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To achieve the high-definition needed for the big screen, Domino takes images which have been shot on movie film and converts them into a video format by breaking each of the 24 frames per second into a mosaic of 3000 × 2000 picture points. Stargate is the blockbuster Quantel has been waiting for. Since Quantel announced the development of Domino (Technology, 14 December 1991), film-makers have been cautious, only trying the system out on a few scenes in relatively low-budget movies. Domino enables film makers to play the same tricks without reducing the quality of the pictures seen by cinema-goers. Over the past twenty years, Quantel has changed the face of television with its electronic video editing systems – Paintbox, Harry and Henry. When the mechanism failed, Domino saved the day. The producers had initially spent $150 000 on a model pyramid which was supposed to open up mechanically. The image was fed into the special effects system, and then electronically manipulated. But the audience is actually watching a computer-animated sequence that started out as a still photograph of a model.
In one scene, a giant pyramid opens like a flower. The film recouped its $60 million production costs within a month of its release in the US. Stargate, a sci-fi movie, uses the British company’s electronic wizardry to conjure up more than seventy scenes.
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THE FIRST film to make full use of the computerised special effects generated on Quantel’s Domino system will open in Britain on 6 January.
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