![]() There where a lot of options for posting early RED footage as long as you wanted to use Final Cut Pro and/or Assimilate Scratch. They are airbrushed out and replaced with a tree or a phone box from another shot.It seems like only a year ago that doing post-production on the RED ONE camera was a confusing imbroglio of what to do and what tools to use to do it. The editor lifted patches of white water from one part of the picture and duplicated them elsewhere to build a raging torrent.ĭomino even allows film crews to deal with onlookers who spoil expensive location shots by waving at the camera. The river was also a lot less wild than it looks. The film editor used Domino to get rid of the wires with an electronic airbrush. When Meryl Streep tackles white water rapids, her boat is actually safely suspended by wires from a helicopter hovering overhead. ![]() The hardware costs $1.6 million.ĭomino was used recently in The River Wild, which is currently on release in the US. Domino stores two minutes of motion at a time, held on a bank of magnetic hard discs. Each frame eats up 16 megabytes of computer storage space, while specialised computer chips are needed to process the data fast enough to display smooth motion on the editor’s screen. To achieve the high-definition needed for the big screen, Domino takes images which have been shot on movie film and converts them into a video format by breaking each of the 24 frames per second into a mosaic of 3000 × 2000 picture points. Stargate is the blockbuster Quantel has been waiting for. Since Quantel announced the development of Domino (Technology, 14 December 1991), film-makers have been cautious, only trying the system out on a few scenes in relatively low-budget movies. ![]() Domino enables film makers to play the same tricks without reducing the quality of the pictures seen by cinema-goers. Over the past twenty years, Quantel has changed the face of television with its electronic video editing systems – Paintbox, Harry and Henry. ![]() When the mechanism failed, Domino saved the day. The producers had initially spent $150 000 on a model pyramid which was supposed to open up mechanically. The image was fed into the special effects system, and then electronically manipulated. But the audience is actually watching a computer-animated sequence that started out as a still photograph of a model. ![]() In one scene, a giant pyramid opens like a flower. The film recouped its $60 million production costs within a month of its release in the US. Stargate, a sci-fi movie, uses the British company’s electronic wizardry to conjure up more than seventy scenes. THE FIRST film to make full use of the computerised special effects generated on Quantel’s Domino system will open in Britain on 6 January. ![]()
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