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www.postmagazine.com 7 POST AUGUST 2017 BITS & PIECES MADRID — Antaviana Films (www.an tavianafilms.com), a Barcelona-based post production and digital effects facility, has finished a raft of new 4K/ UHDTV-1 projects using SGO's (www. sgo.es) Mistika Ultima system. Mistika Ultima has provided the team at Antaviana Films with key tools to bol- ster creativity and drive efficiency. "Mistika Ultima brings together ex- cellent workflow capabilities along with a great color corrector and a power- ful compositor, which fits perfectly within our workflow," says Bernat Aragonés, director of post production for Antaviana Films. "Mistika Ultima's ability to work seamlessly with HDR, HFR, WCG, 4K and UHDTV-1 whilst maintaining real-time playback and interaction is fundamental, as we are dealing with more and more projects with these complex formats. In addi- tion, the fact that we work in stereo 3D and VR projects was also crucial to choosing Mistika Ultima." Antaviana Films has recently worked on an array of international feature films, including Incerta Glòria by Agustí Villaronga, La Higuera de los Bastardos by Ana Murugarren and Non è un paese per giovani by Giovanni Veronesi. For these projects, Antaviana Films used Mistika Ultima with an Tangent Element control panel for conforming, color correction, finishing and VFX compositing. Both Non è un paese per giovani and La Higuera de los Bastardos are 4K productions with 4K and UHDTV-1 deliverables. The studio has also recently com- pleted a number of TV series for TV3, the Catalan National TV Broadcaster. "Mistika Ultima provides the workflow versatility we need with Avid integration — which is where our offline edits come from — and good communication with Nuke, which we use for compositing. In this sense, Mistika Ultima is at the very center of our workflow," say Aragonés. Antaviana Films does most final VFX adjustments in the screening room with Mistika Ultima. Composers and 3D artists export the VFX files with the necessary layers (IDs, depth, lighting, alpha) from Nuke and oth- ers, and Mistika completes the final touches with the projected image in real-time. VFX work stays within Mistika Ultima system, helpful for projects re- quiring conforming, plus those needing rotoscoping and painting, atmospher- ics like rain and fog, clean-up work, monitor replacement and other visuals. Mistika Ultima's features include timeline-based editing, conforming, finishing, color grading, image resto- ration, compositing and support for a host of media formats, including native support for the codecs of the most used cameras from Arri, Red, Sony, Canon and Phantom. In related news, SGO recently has been awarded the 2017 HPA Engineering Excellence Award for its Mistika VR, its VR focused solution with real-time stitching capabilities using Mistika Optical Flow Technology. "We're overwhelmed to have won the HPA Engineering Excellence Award for the second year running for one of our newly developed products," says Geoff Mills, managing director. The Engineering Excellence Awards recognizes companies and individuals that provide outstanding services to the professional media content indus- try. The award will be presented to SGO on November 16, 2017 at the 12th annual HPA Awards gala at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, CA. BARCELONA'S ANTAVIANA FILMS ENLLISTS MISTIKA ULTIMA FOR 4K/UHD PROJECTS for Collaborative Media Production Networks Shared Storage Solutions Facilis Web Console Control Your Facility One of Antaviana's suites