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Facilities
A tour of the best studio in LA
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News
The latest word from our studio
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Team
What you need to know about us
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Technology
Our industry-leading tools
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Awards
They're overflowing our break room
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Testimonials
They actually said this stuff about us
With more equipment, designers, and technology than any other studio in the region, we had to find some place to house it all. A 15,000 square-foot studio seemed to fit the bill. Our studio is complete with:
- Digital Lab for RED, Phantom, and Arri Footage
- VFX Studio with 90’ Hard Cyc
- Avid and Final Cut Suites
- Lustre Suite
- Flame 2K VFX Suites
- Smoke 2K Editorial Suites
- 4 Compositing and Visual Effects Suites
- Offline Editorial Facilities and Production Offices
- Audio Editing, Mixing, Playback, ADR, Foley
and Mastering Suite - Digital Intermediate Suite
- 2K Theater
And that’s just a sample of everything our facility has to offer. We haven’t even mentioned the ping-pong table or Nintedo Wii room yet.
News To the Top ↑
Digital FX Tops In TV At Addy Awards
Adding to its already overflowing stash of Addy awards, Digital FX produced work once again led all entrants in the television categories winning 19 awards, including a Best of Show TV.
Digital Intermediate (DI) for Cinetel Films
Cinetel Films of Los Angeles recently tasked us with post production work on the upcoming Anchor Bay feature film I Spit On Your Grave. The company chose to utilize our Digital Intermediate (DI) suite, the only such facility in the Gulf region.
Digital FX Again Dominates Addy Awards
Adding to what has become an annual event, our work once again garnered the bulk of Addy awards for television productions in the Baton Rouge AdFed’s Addy Award ceremony held Saturday. Our work received 22 total awards for our clients.
Upgraded to the RED M-X Sensor
Adding to our aresenal of high-end video and filmmaking technology, we are now the first in the region to adopt the RED Mysterium-X Sensor upgrade – providing even greater range and image detail to the RED One camera.
DVS Clipster added to our Growing Arsenal
Clipster is now the heart of our DI workflow, replacing the need for multiple products. The system offers online editing of film data, conversion to multiple output formats, color correction and film restoration. Clipster is also capable of handling any resolution, including 4K. Since the system functions in real time, the normal delays in a DI workflow no longer hold up a project.
In the Press
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Growing the Digital City
1012 10.09 -
The FX of Change
225 Magazine 07.09 -
See Red Spots
Post Magazine 06.09 -
Elite film production company calls Baton Rouge home
Business Report 04.09 -
Batoon Rouge
Business Report 04.09 - More Articles
Team To the Top ↑
Greg Milneck
Technology To the Top ↑
SANfx
We house Louisiana’s first and only full-service 2K and 4K pipeline for motion picture digital intermediate (DI) workflows. At the heart of our DI workflow is the region’s largest and fastest SAN. Our system can handle 1.5 GB/s with 8 simultaneous 2K streams to any suite in the studio. We can edit, manage and share 2K content in real time from multiple workstations. With that kind of capacity and speed, we can handle any feature film project in a real-time digital environment.
With our DI workflow, we can playback in real time at full resolution and respond immediately to any changes necessary. Additionally, during this process you can compare online to offline via real-time and split screen views, make full color corrections and repair images.
When all is said and done, our DI workflow allows almost unlimited flexibility without the need to process film. And, since you can see, in real time and at full resolution, changes as they are made, the finished quality of your project is guaranteed. The process saves time, money and the integrity of your film or video.
Smoke 2K
Digital FX houses the region’s only Smoke 2K suite. Autodesk’s Smoke is the industry leader in high-end creative editorial finishing. Smoke allows 3D compositing, keying and color correction, workflow and productivity, tracking and stabilization, title creation and animation and much more. When combined with our Flame 2K suite, you’ll have access to the world’s premiere systems for online visual effects, compositing, and editorial.
Lustre
Adding even more exclusive technology to the FX arsenal, Autodesk’s Lustre software provides our clients access to the very latest in color grading technology. With Lustre, you have precise, real time, control over color and lighting effects for your projects. Combined with Flame and Smoke, Lustre’s addition to our digital workflow gives us unprecedented control, productivity and efficiency with all our television and film projects.
Flame
Digital FX is the only studio in the region with a Flame 2K visual effects suite. Autodesk’s Flame 2K is the industry leader in high-performance 3D visual effects, design and finishing. The software gives clients unprecedented interactivity when experimenting with various effects and design. When combined with our Flame 2K suite, you’ll have access to the world’s premiere systems for online visual effects, compositing, and editorial.
Clipster
We are the only post-production house outside of New York and Los Angeles with the Clipster system. Clipster is at the very heart of our DI workflow and replaces all the steps we used to take in our workflow with one system, one product. Online editing of film data, conversion to various output formats, color correction, film restoration, DCP creation and many other features all at full resolution (up to even 4K) in real time. It can handle uncompressed 4K data in real time and even provides DCI mastering in real time.
Complete RED Integration
Clipster offers complete RED integration. So not only are we saving time in our DI workflow, we’re saving time in our RED workflow as well. Clipster provides decoding and debayering of 4K REDCODE in real time. The speed of the Clipster system with RED data will allow us to offer clients dailies in one step in full quality in real time.
Key Features
- Hardware accelerated real-time RED workflow
- 3D stereoscopic DCI Mastering
- Support of DVP/IMF workflows
- Sophisticated DCI Mastering
- Conform and edit SD, HD, 2K and 4K material
in real time - Realize a large variety of DI steps ranging
from capturing to DCI mastering - Process uncompressed data, such as DPX , TIFF 8/10/12 or 16 BIT in real time
- Implement a future-proof workflow that supports HDTV 50/60p or Digital Cinema (DCI)
- Benefit from excellent interoperability
with third-party applications
Final Cut Pro
Digital FX has utilized Final Cut since its inception. Our experience with Final Cut, our talent and the support hardware we provide (such as the region’s largest and fastest SAN) make Digital FX a regional leader in Final Cut editing. And, unlike some of our competitors, we have experienced artists and designers in our Final Cut suite, not just technicians or button pushers. The result is plain to see.
Avid
If there’s a standard in video editing, it’s Avid. How much experience do we have with Avid? Honestly, that’s a little like asking how much does New Orleans love the Saints. More than you can possibly imagine. In fact, we probably have more awards from work we’ve done on the Avid then most companies have total projects. And, just as with all of our post suites, we don’t use technicians to create art — we use artists.
QTake HD
Digital HD Video Assist
- Touchscreen UI
- Instant Record & Playback
- RED ONE Support
- Red Mag Synchronization
- Extensive Clip Database
- GPU Image Processing
- Visual Shot Browser
- Stereoscopy
- Realtime Composite
- Render Output
- 3D LUTs
- Import & Export
- On-set Editing
- Video Output
SoftImage XSI
Our 3D team utilizes SoftImage, a 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and compositing solution that has enabled our artists to create jaw-dropping animations and effects. With the most experienced 3D team and the largest Render Farm with 128 processors, 50TB storage and custom render management software, Digital FX is the premiere 3D team in the region. Our work for National Geographic Television, Discovery and numerous features have earned the team multiple awards including 14 Emmys.
Awards To the Top ↑

If there’s anything we’re a greater authority on than post-production, it’s got to be awards. Come by and visit the office sometime and you’ll quickly realize that you’d have to spend a week just trying to locate every award tucked away in every available nook and cranny in the office. So how many awards do we actually have? Honestly, we haven’t bothered to take the time to count them all. We’re too busy creating award winning work.
220+ Addys
Including:
- Best in Show, Broadcast ’04-09
- Best in Show, Mixed Media ’10
- Best in Show, Art Direction ’03, ’06
- Best in Show ’04
20+ Emmys
Including:
- Emmy for Directing ’01-03
- Emmy for Camera ’02, ’99
- Emmy for Lighting ’99, ’00, ’02
3 New York Festivals
- World Medal for Film & Video ’99
- World Medal for Non-Broadcast Media ’96-97
20+ Tellys
Including:
- 4 Golds ’00
- 5 Golds, 4 Silvers ’99
- 4 Golds ’98
Oscars
Were working on it…
Testimonials To the Top ↑
The people and facilities at Digital FX are first class. They did everything we asked and more. They really understand the demands and nuances of the DI process – technical and aesthetic. Our production dollars were well spent in Louisiana.
Adam Driscoll
The team at Digital FX fall into that “best in class” category. RED camera rentals, post, 3D animation and VFX – these are the guys down South. We’re excited to continue to build a relationship with his company – and very excited about the new sound stage.
Mark L. Pederson
We have used Digital FX for all of our video production needs for many years and have found their work to be outstanding. We can turn the project over to them and know that it will be done right, on time, and on budget.
Gerald Garrison
They bring the highest level of professionalism, creativity and innovation to every project they work on for us. If there’s a technical challenge in something we’re doing, Digital FX will figure it out, trust me. Plus, they’re always a lot of fun to work with.
Stuart Feigley
Many, many thanks for your help today at the camera prep and helping get the drives ordered. Thanks for a very warm welcome and your professional advice. Thanks especially for providing lunch for us all…my first gumbo! And for putting up with last minute deletions and additions.
Graham Berry
The team at Digital FX is a pleasure to work with. Whether they are working on a 3 day commercial shoot or a brief internal company video they give the same attention to detail. There is a genunine williness to involve the client in the process so the end product is both creative and meets expectations.
Nicole Hidalgo
Greg, and in fact, his entire crew at Digital FX were delightful to work with and extremely professional in every aspect and detail of visual communications…Impressive production and post capabilities!
Chip Culpepper
Everyone at Digital FX delivered when it came to my vision for the film. We chose FX not only because they have a state-of-the-art DI facility, but also because of their creative talent and attention to detail. They delivered on every front.
Neil Lisk
This is the best QC we have have ever received on one of our features! This is a testament to the hard work of the team at Digital FX.
Adam Driscoll
Greg, Just wanted to thank you all your support and for David. He is one the best AC’s I have ever worked with. He kept after it when much was going wrong and kept his cool around an awful lot of grizzly bears. Congratulations on having employees of this caliber. The EPIC camera is amazing. Thanks again and I will be looking forward to the next time we can work together with you.








