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Bits & Pieces Cinelicious acquires High Hat Post Dell expands workstation portfolio H R OLLYWOOD — In a move to support its growing film restoration and remastering department, Cinelicious has acquired LA-based boutique film restoration company High Hat Post. The deal comprises all aspects of High Hat's business, equipment, and talent, including principal Craig Rogers, who will serve as Cinelicious' lead restoration artist. "It's incredible to have Craig Rogers as part of our team," says Cinelicous founder, Paul Korver. "His precision and technical mastery for restoration and remastering make him among the top professionals in this important part of our industry. Like Cinelicious, High Hat was built with celluloid in its DNA and an obsession with image quality and beauty. It just made sense to combine forces." Rogers brings years of large format film experience. During his 12-year tenure at IMAX, he was responsible for quality control and supervision of final film recording for over 50 IMAX releases, including The Dark Night, Avatar, and the Harry Potter series. "At High Hat we had very advanced digital restoration tools, but typically outsourced our film prep and scanning," explains Rogers. "Cinelicious has a stellar reputation, and being here affords me the opportunity to be involved in the entire 4K preservation pipeline, from beginning to end.Their Scanity and new Lasergraphics scanners are absolutely incredible. I'm like a kid in a candy store." Cinelicious (http://cinelicious.tv), which has locations in Hollywood and Santa Monica, also offers 4K color grading and review via its 4K DI theater, which is equipped with a Barco 4K projector. The studio can provide 4K DCP, 4K film out, and YCM Separation Masters for deliverables. Stormy Weather on Super 35mm and HD StormStock® The world's premier storm footage library. (817) 276-9500 www.stormstock.com 8 Post • October 2013 www.postmagazine.com OUND ROCK, TX — Dell (www.dell.com) has expanded its workstation portfolio with new mobile and tower releases. The Dell Precision M4800, M6800, T3610, T5610 and T7610 are designed to run leading content creation software and have been updated with the latest high-performance, workstation-class processors, graphics, storage, and display technology. The Dell Precision M4800 brings a 15.6-inch Quad HD+ IGZO panel to the workstation market, with higher resolution than the Apple MacBook Pro Retina display. The M6800 mobile workstation can be configured with an optional 10-finger Wacom multi-touch 17.3-inch display. Dell is also offering WiGig wireless docking and has improved audio performance with Waves MaxxAudio Pro integration. The new mobile workstations also deliver high performance, with up to 16GBs of 1866MHz memory, fourth-generation Intel Core i5 and i7 processor options up to Core i7 Extreme Edition, and either AMD FirePro or Nvidia Quadro professional graphics. Both systems offer long battery life with a secondary slice battery. Dell's new tower workstations are designed for demanding software applications and include next generation workstationclass processors and professional graphics, Windows 8 factory installed, new Intel Cache Acceleration Software, PCIe SSDs, and updates to Dell's Precision Performance Optimizer. The new tower portfolio includes the Dell Precision T1700 Small-Form Factor and Mini-Tower; the T3610, with advanced single CPU performance; the T5610, a high-power, dual-processor workstation in a small footprint; and the T7610, which the company touts as "the world's most powerful tower workstation." The T7610 will offer up to 512GBs system memory and power up to three high-end graphics cards, including up to two Nvidia Quadro K6000s cards. The new Dell Precision tower and mobile workstations are now available, with US prices starting at $1,099 for the T3610; $2,729 for the T5610; $3,059 for the T7610; $1,249 for the M4800; and $1,599 for the M6800.