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www.postmagazine.com 9 POST AUGUST 2014 On-Set Dailies Dailies withTranskoderoption Built on Colorfront's Emmy winning On-Set Dailies, Transkoder offers a comprehensive set of finishing tools for conform, editing, and faster than realtime transcoding to the latest codecs and package formats. Featuring Colorfront unparalleled RAW camera support and advaced color science, Transkoder is an ideal tool for VFX pulls and mastering to HEVC, JPEG2000, DCP, AS-02, and IMF packages. GPU accelerated processing enables realtime 4K 444 playback and the highest rendering perfromace across mutiple workstations. Transkoder includes the tools you need to say yes with confidence. (818) 504-6800 For more information contact ALT Systems, Colorfront's distributor in the Americas, at sales@altsystems.com CULVER CITY, CA — Kilt Studios (www.kiltstudios. com), recently provided post services for Maroon 5's new Maps music video. Writen and directed by Peter Berg, Maps is the fi rst in a trilogy of videos that Berg will have a hand in. The music video takes a dramatic, live-action look at love and loss, with Maroon 5's Adam Levine starring as the lead. It begins with Levine arriving at a hospital, where he is trying to check on a girlfriend who's been involved in an accident. It then plays back all of the sequences that led to the event, including a party, a misunderstanding and the accident itself. Kilt performed all of the color grading and VFX for the video, including composites and transitions. Levine's head replaced a stunt driver of a Porsche, who races to the hospital. His bloodied girlfriend had additional damage added to her face via VFX. The studio performed the tasks using Autodesk Smoke and Flame. "The drama of the video is all about the drama of the story," explains Matthew McManus, CEO, co-founder and EP at Kilt Studios. "And though at fi rst glance it may not look like a VFX piece, the ability to create the visual elements, such as face replacements for both Adam and his on-screen girlfriend, ensures that the viewer is never distracted from the story progression. Peter Berg is a big pro- ponent of incorporating VFX to enhance the story in an elegant way and that's what we envisioned from the fi rst meeting on this project." Kilt co-founder/creative director Andy Mac made a cameo in the video. For more on "Music Videos" turn to our feature on page 19. KILT KICKS OFF MAROON 5 TRILOGY BITS & PIECES