A Few Best Men

Daniel Mulligan was hired as 2nd Unit DP for the Feature Production "A Few Best Men". The shoot was photographed on ARRI Alexa recording ARRIRAW to S.two OB1 data recorders. Pure Digital supplied all the data recording equipment plus full data workflows and back-up solutions. The shoot was London pick-ups for a Production that shot main unit in Sydney, Australia.

Mister Popper's Penguins!

Director Mark Waters and DP Florian Ballhaus have decided to use ARRI Alexa cameras and S.two’s OB-1 on-board recorder and complete file-based workflow for all principal photography on “Mister Popper’s Penguins” starring Jim Carey.

OB-1 and Alexa ARRIRW

David Cronenberg has chosen OB-1 and Alexa ARRIRAW for his new feature film “Cosmopolis” in Canada right now.
Phil Lord is also directing “ 21 Jump Street ” with OB-1 and using FlashDock workflows.
“Freelancers” with Robert DeNiro is also currently shooting with Alexa and OB-1.

Madam Butterfly 3D - Testing

Pure Digital supplies full data back-up services and OB-1 data recorders for another 3D shoot. This time we tested the F3s with 2 x Optimo Zooms recording 2 x 422 stereo feeds into 1 OB1 recorder. The shooting begins next week.

Cinegear LA 2011!

Cinegear LA 2011 : Demonstrated on the Stwo booth a full 3K solution for ARRIRAW. We can now mount the FlashMags directly into the Mistika via 400MB/S fibre allowing for instant scrub/playback of the rushes directly and full verification. This approach also allows us to start the 3K processing via our bespoke RAID arrays that give us the speeds to playback real 3K images (not 3K downconverted to HD) in real time from the processed 3K DPXs.

Its very cool, and a hell of a lot of work has gone into this by Pure Digital, S.two, Mistika, Light Illusion and Dulce. It works and works very very well :-)

Further details of our work and shoots running globally on the website/blog.

Santiago Day 4!

Santiago, Chile Day 04 : Shooting motion control all day for shots of multiple passes with action. OB-1 performed flawlessly replicating helicopter landings as seen here and the motion control in the studio. We processed the .ari ARRIRAW files to 3K DPXs for the Production which were delivered yesterday and will be delivered to print for evaluation this month.