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K-Opticom Live 4K HEVC
Transmission Via Elemental
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a p a n t e l c o K- O p t i c o m
Corporation has used
Elemental video processing for
the country's ﬁ rst live 4K Ultra
HD high-efﬁciency video coding
(H.265/HEVC) transmission.
Elemental Live systems powered
real-time video streaming of the
Osaka Marathon in a K-Opticomdesigned trial workflow.
President of K-Opticom Takao
Fujino, said: "The advanced K-OPT
optical ﬁ bre network combined
with the power and flexibility
of Elemental's software-based
architecture is vital to meeting
this demand and to enabling
this unprecedented experimental
transmission."
K-Opticom used Elemental Live

systems to provide HEVC encoding
of 4K/59.94p material acquired
from Sony PMW-F55 CineAlta 4K
cameras located at the midpoint
and ﬁnish line of the racecourse.
Each camera was mounted with
an AJA Ki-Pro Quad, which will
send source content to Elemental
systems via live 3G-SDI interfaces.
Elemental video processing
systems encoded live content
in real-time HEVC at 4Kp30 and
stream video over K-OPT optical
ﬁbre networks to an NTT Docomo
decoder with ﬁnal rendering on an
84-inch Sony 4K Bravia TV.
The public viewed 4K live
coverage of the marathon in a
special K-OPT exhibit located at
the Intex Building 2 in Osaka.

Elemental video processors powered
the 4K HEVC coverage

A subsidiary of the Kansai
Electric Power Company, Inc.,
K-Opticom (K-OPT) provides
high-quality ﬁbre optic services
for the Kansai Region of Japan,
including the prefectures of Kobe,
Kyoto and Osaka.

FilmLight Windows Version Broadens Scope
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ith the demand for perfect
colour
control
now
everywhere in the professional post
workﬂow, FilmLight has launched
its Windows version of Baselight
for Avid.
This is part of the Baselight
Editions range which delivers the
key elements of the world's most
powerful colour grading software
as a plug-in for existing post tools.
"We know that the production
and post industry is moving away
from the idea of colour grading as
a single step in the process towards
collaborative workﬂows, where a
number of people contribute to the
look of a project," said Wolfgang
Lempp, co-founder of FilmLight.
"To meet the trend, we now offer
'Baselight everywhere', with the
appropriate tools - and the same
uncompromised colour precision

Baselight for Avid supports AAF-based round-tripping

- on devices from on-set ingest to
the ﬁnal deliverables.
Baselight Editions puts the Baselight
user interface, along with its colour
processing, into a standard AVX
plug-in.
It provides unlimited primary and
secondary grades in a single layer,
including mattes, automatic object
tracking and full keyframe animation.

Baselight for
Avid supports
AAF-based
r o u n d tripping with
full Baselight
s y s t e m s ,
meaning that
no rendering
time is needed
to export grade
metadata back
into
Media

Composer.
This includes carrying over
sophisticated grading data including
secondary colour correction, shapes
and tracked objects.
Colour information can also
be exported in the FilmLight
BLG file format.
FilmLight has bundled Truelight
colour management system.

Quantel Pablo
Posts In Beijing
CHN/GBR: The Beijing Film
Academy has purchased a
Quantel Pablo Rio colour
correction and finishing system
with a Neo Nano colour panel.
The turnkey system will be
used by the school's animation
department for the post-production
of Stereo3D animation films.
The academy has also
purchased SynthIA, Quantel's
standalone software package
that provides high quality S3D
Interaxial adjustment in post.
Capable of handling 4K 60p in realtime, Pablo Rio runs on PC hardware
and exploits NVIDIA's Maximus.

Mac HitFilm 2
Ultimate Ships
GBR: FXhome has announced
that HitFilm 2 Ultimate video
editing and visual effects
software is now available on Mac.
HitFilm 2 Ultimate offers video
editing, visual effects and compositing
in one package for creative filmmakers.
It reﬂects FXhome's ethos to help
the next generation of ﬁlmmakers
by bringing professional concepts
to all filmmakers, regardless
of age, experience or budget.
Kickstarter funding allowed
the developer to complete
the Mac version.

Siegel Chooses
Leader LV5381
U S A : Aw a rd - w i n n i n g f i l m
producer and cinematographer
Matt Siegel chose Leader for a
Digital Cinematography seminar.
Siegel selected Leader's LV5381
four-input multi-SDI monitor for use
at The Maine Media Workshops.
D e s i g n e d f o r e m e rg i n g
cinematographers, the course
explained the advantages of using
digital technology.

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