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Universal Television Cable contributes to shows like USA Network���s long-running Psych. ���Automation, and any way you can eliminate a step is a way to save money and speed the process up. My primary goal is to see [where there is] a slow down and find another way to attack it. That���s the fun part for me. How do we use new technology to make [things] better, faster and more cost effective, and stronger without sacrificing anything to save time and money?��� THREATS: ���As you get reduced and further automated, you need to have a post house or very tech savvy group of individuals that you are working with. If one day you bring it all in-house, you need to have people who understand the process and what if something goes wrong, and something does every time. There are plenty of times that our DIT or dailies assistant has to call the post house at 4am to say something is not working. These files are coming out black. What am I doing wrong? If I don���t have someone knowledgable on the back-end to troubleshoot and fix that problem, I am a day behind again.��� OUTLOOK FOR 2013: ���The world is changing every day. We are going to test a new system on Dallas, and perhaps the suitcase system for Longmire. It���s going to give us fully-automated syncing and the ability ��� if we choose ��� to provide on-set to editorial dailies without the need to go through the post house. The suitcase system will allow you to be on-set��� We could have colored synced dailies right off the stages without the need to go through a colorist or a post house ��� right to editorial. I���ll probably never do that because I like to have someone properly coloring our footage every night. Never the less, the capability will be there.��� RYAN SHERIDAN VP of Digital Cinema Otto Nemenz International http://ottonemenz.com Los Angeles Otto Nemenz International specializes in the rental and maintenance of film and digital cinema cameras, lenses and accessories. They offer the Sony F65 and F35, Arri Alexa and Red Epic, as well as high-speed cameras and film cameras. They also rent Zeiss Master Primes, the Zeiss Ultra Prime lenses, and Cooke S4 prime lenses, as well as Leica and Fujinon lenses. STRENGTHS: ���A few different things are at play: cost versus time, talent versus equipment, and physical logistics. For shows in metro areas like New York and Los Angeles, on-set dailies is strong but trending more toward data management. There is a slow gravitation to true on-set dailies. We���re seeing that slowly build. One component that has trumped all of that is security ��� archiving and back-up. There���s been a trend for last two years to use commodity, off-the-shelf hardware, including Mac towers and RAIDS.��� WEAKNESSES: ���The only big weakness you see with on-set is generally the talent pool. There are some amazing, smart people that are freelancers, and there���s the standard post house. But there are weaknesses with on-set talent. There are people that are so good at it, but there are people that make you cringe. That���s the real pitfall ��� data mangement and talent.��� OPPORTUNITIES: ���I think the biggest opportunity is security. www.postmagazine.com Post���������December���2012��� 31