The Power of Tapeless Post

Panasonic's P2 HD infrastructure is by far the most cost effective and efficient way to elevate productions with limited budgets.

ProRes HQ
Apple's ProRes HQ is the first in the modern day wavlet-based codecs for high resolution offline editing. Replacing older MPG4 codecs, ProRes is a variable bit rate codec that processes in 1920x1080 square pixels at 10bits. Because it is higher quality than HDCAM and D5, ProRes replaces the need for the online re-assembly these formats previously required.

Dailies
At PlasterCITY, dailies are digitized from HD source and/or telecine media at the ProRes HQ codec to the PlasterSAN in real-time. This media will now serve as final online 10bit media and not require the expense, time, and complications associated with a tape-to-tape re-conform.

Visual Effects
Speed effects, compositing and/or green screen shots can be re-captured as uncompressed image sequences for loss-less VFX work, then rendered out ProRes for cutting back into the color timed master.

Storage
The efficiency of ProRes is approximately 25 megabytes per second, well under the 60 megabyte ceiling of FireWire 800 drives. This allows clients who cut out of house to store and edit approximately 55 hours of ProRes HQ on a 2 terabyte firewire 800 drive and monitor full raster media at 1920x1080 square pixel.