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Studio l’Equipe’s Mistika system in action (Courtesy of Studio l'Equipe)

Studio l’Equipe
Picks Mistika
Colour Grading
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s part of the on-going expansion
of digital acquisition, Brusselsbased post-production facility
Studio l’Equipe has invested in
SGO’s Mistika to meet the demands
of a rapidly changing and highly
competitive feature ﬁlm market.
Studio l’Equipe has installed a
Mistika 4K system with a Mistika
Assist station, to help accelerate
the post-production process by
allowing simultaneous access to
Mistika projects for ingest, online
functions and the creation of
deliverables, without disturbing
the master Mistika system. Both
Mistikas are connected to a 72TB
SAN storage system.
Marking its 50th anniversary this
year, Studio l’Equipe is the only full
service post-production studio in
Belgium to offer comprehensive
post-production facilities at a
single site. The company’s various
departments consist of state-ofthe-art ﬁlm, rushes and digital labs
offering editing, colour grading,
sound, subtitling and screening
services. There are three branches;
one in France and two sites in
Belgium. The Film and HD rushes
lab provides complete digital dailies
solutions that integrate the storage,
back-up, transcoding and quality
control of rushes.
To keep up with fast-growing
industry trends, Studio l’Equipe
required a versatile tool that
could go well beyond colour
grading, and made the decision to
invest in Mistika.
CEO of Studio l’Equipe, Philippe
Bosman says: “We have literally
acquired one of the best colour
grading systems around from

SGO – the Mistika, as used on
high profile international film
projects that include Spielberg’s
‘The Adventures of Tintin’; Peter
Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit’ trilogy and
closer to home ‘Asterix and Obelix:
On Her Majesty’s Service’.
“The past ﬁve years have brought
a signiﬁcant change in the industry,
with increasingly advanced highend digital cameras, and the
challenges that come with them,
which include ﬁle capture and colour
space formats. Digital projection
has also taken over from 35mm at
tremendous speed, bringing new
exciting developments such as 48
or 60 frames per second and 4K
technology, where Mistika leads
in this area.”
Bosman adds: “With Mistika, we
have a powerful system that has the
capability to fulﬁl many functions
that include compositing, DCP
creation, exporting video formats,
carrying out 3D colorimetric and
geometric corrections and, above
all, handling most capture formats
in native form. Mistika is a complete
system capable of responding to
the current and future changes in
our profession and is truly unique.”
Films and documentaries currently
being post-produced using Mistika
at Studio l’Equipe include ‘Welcome
to Fukushima’, ‘Le Prix du Pain’,
Algerian feature ‘Titi’, ‘Chez Nous’,
‘C’est 3’, Dutch feature ‘Zwarte Zee’
and short film ‘Eliot’.
The company has worked on many
other feature ﬁlm projects including
‘Number Station, A Perdre la Raison’;
‘Little Black Spiders’; ‘Sammy 2 3D’
and ‘Maddened by his Absence’.

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