Working within a new data-centric infrastructure the BrightDrive is connected to all of the company's DI systems and allows all the operators on a project to work concurrently on the same data.
“Our new DI pipeline is extremely efficient,” explained Laurent Treherne, digital film technical director at Ascent 142. “For example, we can dust-bust at the same time as we are working on the grade. Everything is directly attached.
"We are also able to allocate more resources as required for a short period without having to move any data between our different dust-busting, conforming or grading systems. Using this approach makes the entire DI process flexible and highly collaborative.”
The new system has two online workspaces for multiple realtime 2k clients, and one nearline workspace for data IO and staging projects.
Ascent 142 ingests data into the nearline workspace with two ArriScan film scanners and by importing VFX with BrightDrive TxP transportable drives which means the data is immediately backed up.
Data is moved to the online workspaces accordingly as required by the project.
Conforming is done directly from the online using Autodesk Smokes, and despotting is carried out using MTI or Diamant directly from the online.
Colour grading operators use da Vinci Resolves, and they render the different graded version to the online for QC before copying the graded versions on the nearline.
Finally, data is available to Ascent 142's two Arrilaser recorders for film-out.
The first projects carried using the BrightDrive were the Bond movie Quantum of Solace, Lesbian Vampire Killers and 44 Inch Chest.
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