Codex Digital debuts on-set lab for RED, ARRI and Sony

NAB Expo Feature at Creative COW

Debra Kaufman Santa Monica California USA ©2011 CreativeCOW.net. All rights reserved.

Article Focus: Thousands of members of Creative COW were at the 2011 NAB Show, and we are pleased to bring you some of their reports. In this entry, Debra Kaufman found at NAB 2011, Codex Digital unveiled The Vault, a standalone solution with its own internal drives, providing a single, standardized workflow for productions employing multiple camera systems. IIF/ACES dailies workflow also demonstrated.

At NAB 2011, Codex Digital unveiled The Vault, an on-set laboratory solution for review, dailies and deliverables production that supports digital cinema cameras made by RED, ARRI, and Sony, among other manufacturers. The Vault is a standalone solution with its own internal drives, providing a single, standardized workflow for productions employing multiple camera systems. The system can also produce deliverables in all formats required for dailies review, post production and archival purposes. Other key features include support for RED drives, CF cards and SxS cards; high-speed, secure data transfers; data management and metadata server; and capability for iPad dailies.




Codex Vault with RED


Codex Digital also demonstrated a dailies workflow for TV and film based on the new IIF/ACES post production process. The demonstration used Codex Digital's Onboard Recorder and Desktop Transfer Station to produce deliverables, with IIF/ACES dynamic range, for editorial, post production and dailies review. Developed under the auspices of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Science and Technology Council, the IIF/ACES process is an effort to establish a standard format for digital production.




The new Codex Vault


It's great news that companies like Codex Digital are pushing IIF/ACES forward through the development of actual gear that can be used in the production/post production process. Stay tuned to Creative COW for user stories as this process gets going in Hollywood.

Finally, Codex Digital reached an agreement with ARRI to manufacture a CODEX ARRIRAW recorder for use with ARRI's ALEXA and ARRIFLEX D-21 film-style digital cameras. The new recorder will be marketed both directly and through ARRI's worldwide reseller network. ARRI and its resellers will also be selling Codex camera mounts, data packs and transfer stations. The entry-level recorder will feature single-channel ARRIRAW recording; users will be able to upgrade at any time to a fully featured Codex recorder.




The workflow will employ a Codex Digital Onboard Recorder in tandem with an ARRI Alexa camera to record ARRIRAW data files. The files will then be processed by a Codex Transfer Station for Mac which will make the files directly available to an Assimilate SCRATCH Lab in Avid DNxHD and ProRes 422 formats via Codex's proprietary Virtual File System. To download a sample of an ARRIRAW workflow, visit Codex Digital


Codex recorders have been used in combination with the ALEXA camera on several film productions, including Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Warner Bros./Paramount), Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Fox), The Wettest County in the World (Benaroya Pictures) and Gravity (Warner Bros.).

 

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