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www.postmagazine.com 8 POST DECEMBER 2014 BITS & PIECES NEW YORK — Technicolor-PostWorks, New York completed editorial con- forming and fi nal color grading for Disney's new fi lm, Into the Woods. The facility was selected, in part, because of New York State's generous tax in- centive for post production, as well as for the studio's experience in manag- ing large and complex features, such as Noah and The Giver. Into the Woods' picture and sound editorial teams set up shop in the same Manhattan building, allowing director Rob Marshall, a New Yorker himself, to oversee grading and work with the sound and picture editors. Elements arrived from a variety of locations. Original Arri Raw camera fi les were processed at Technicolor in London, where the fi lm was shot, and were shipped to New York on LTO drives, along with a full instance of the media on a NAS device. VFX arrived from MPC, Montreal, the lead house, and from a half dozen secondary suppliers. Conforming and grading were done at 3K using 2,880x2,160 DPX fi les derived from the camera source material and supplied VFX. The facility employed Autodesk's Flame and Lustre for conforming and grading respec- tively, a tandem that allowed conform editor Eric Leverenz and colorist Tim Stipan to work from the same data fi les. "Our workfl ow is very fl uid in terms of keeping up with editorial chang- es and visual eff ects updates," Leverenz reports. "Whenever I received a change, I'd drop it into the timeline and it would be available in the color session almost immediately. That helped us keep track of the various ver- sions of visual eff ects and ensured that Rob Marshall and DP Dion Beebe, who were downstairs in the DI theater, were seeing the latest material and didn't get any surprises." To speed delivery of VFX elements, Technicolor-PostWorks set up a dedi- cated high-speed network connecting MPC and other vendors with editorial in New York. "QuickTimes were sent to editorial; editorial cut them in and provided an EDL to Eric; Eric cut in the DPX fi les, published a new sequence and de- livered it to color," explains post supervisor Jennifer Lane. "We had a very good system and it worked well." For more on Into the Woods, turn to our "Edit This!" column on page 20. INTO THE WOODS POSTS AT TECHNICOLOR-POSTWORKS NY Learn more at: www.aja.com/cion Science of the Beautiful TM CION is the new 4K/UHD and 2K/HD production camera from AJA. Shoot vivid detail with vibrant colors at any resolution. Effortlessly unite production and post by shooting directly to edit-ready Apple ProRes 4444 at up to 4K 30fps, ProRes 422 at up to 4K 60fps, or output AJA Raw at up to 4K 120fps. CION ships with PL mount; EF, B4, and F-mount options available from third parties. Unrivalled monitoring output options put CION at the heart of production. www.postmagazine.com 8 POST DECEMBER 2014 4K sensor with 12 stops of dynamic range 4444 ProRes Recording Ergonomic and lightweight Open Connectivity The picture and sound editorial teams set up shop at NYC's Technicolor-Postworks.