Digital FX Design | Production | Post

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.

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.

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

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.

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.