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18 Post • October 2008 www.postmagazine.com C OLUMBIA, SC — Genesis Studios (www.genesisstudiossc.com) has opened here and is ser ving as the production site for the independent feature 1.8 Days. The $13.5M horror film is being produced by Movie Tao Productions with Chuck Fallaw directing. Genesis president Cliff Springs says the studio aims at keeping large-budget film produc- tion in the state of South Carolina. The studio en- compasses 15,000 square feet of space, including a 70x60-foot main stage. There is also a large chroma key insert stage. For acquisition, Gene- sis uses Panasonic SDX 900 DVCPRO 50 cam- corders, Panasonic HDX 900 DVCPRO HD cam- corders and Sony XDCAM HD cam- corders. HD and SD edit- ing is via Final Cut Pro HD running on Macs equipped with two 3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors. Four Intel Quad Core cus- tom PCs are equipped with Adobe's Premiere Pro, After Effects and Photoshop for visual effects and compositing. And NewTek's VT5, running on a dual Intel Xeon Quad Core PC, is available for live switching. Sound capabilities include an ADR/audio booth. An in-house theater offers digital pro- jection, stadium seating and 7.1 surround sound. S EATTLE — Isilon (www.isilon.com) introduced its fifth-generation clustered stor- age solution at the IBC show. OneFS 5.0 is a turnkey system that takes advantage of commodity hardware along with Isilon's own clustered storage software. Each node is a 2RU server with 12 drives. A minimum system features three nodes and offers 6TB of storage and can scale as high as 96 nodes with up to 2.3 Petabytes of storage in a single file system and single volume. Also new from Isilon is Ac- celerator-x, which combines the OneFS 5.0 operating sys- tem software with 10 Gigabit Ethernet networking, dual quad-core processors and 32 GB of cache, delivering 400MBps of single stream per- formance and 700MBps of concurrent performance from a single node. Enterprise cus- tomers who want a perfor- mance boost can add Acceler- ator-x to an Isilon cluster, turbo charging total system performance up to 20GBps of ag- gregate throughput. Genesis begins in South Carolina for production, post Isilon offers next generation of clustered storage N E W S Genesis offers SD and HD editing via Final Cut Pro. Accelerator-x combines the new OneFS 5.0 OS with 10 Gigabit Ethernet networking and more. 1080P HDMI Over CAT5 Is Here! Patented New Technology from Laird Makes it Possible. • Daisy-Chain Distances up to 1,600 Ft. • 1080p, 1080i and WUXGA • Unique DA & Repeater Features The Laird PhatCat Platinum Series of HDMI extenders is the only available system to offer uncompressed 1080p HD digital Video & Audio over a single CAT5e/CAT6 UTP cable. ■ True ASIC Hi-Def 1080p Over a Single CAT5 Cable ■ Exclusive DA / Repeater Functions up to 1,600 Feet ■ Unique Daisy-Chain Feature for Over 2,000 Units - Feed Your Entire Facility Solution ■ HDCP Compliant ■ Video & Audio without Compression ■ 1080p, 1080i, 720p, 480p Video ■ Computer Resolutions up to WUXGA(1920x1200) ■ 1080p Distances to 150 Feet ■ WUXGA(1920x1200), UXGA(1600x1200) Distances up to 200 feet Laird PhatCat Systems Available From: Laird is Distributed in the USA by TecNec Distributing www.tecnec.com ANIMATION VIDEO STORAGE FILM D-CINEMA STUDIO Buenos Aires, Argentina's Steinbranding (www.stein- branding.com) completed a redesign for MTV India in Mumbai, helping the net- work return to its van- guard status. The chal- lenge was to create a look that declares: "It's my MTV." The main concept shows the world of the young as it exists inside their heads — surrounded by a metaphysical network of different influences. The palette was created based on contrast, with a con- centration of strong colors on specific areas over a dark background. The rounded typography is easy to read in the noisy environment. The studio relied on Adobe's After Ef- fects and Photoshop to complete the job.