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POSTINGEPISODICS right through to delivery to TNT. The company's Cortex transcoding engine supports all popular inputs and outputs to facilitate the creation of file-based deliverables for every phase of post, from DVD and Blu-ray review copies to network delivery. NEW GIRL New Girl is a single-camera sitcom that follows the same post workflow as a one-hour drama, from dailies to delivery, says Hawk Hamilton, a VP at Keep Me Posted in Burbank (www. kmppost.com). The facility, Fox's New Girl, a half-hour sitcom, follows the same path as a one-hour drama, from dailies to delivery. — two to three hours, including approvals, enabling the editors to tweak cuts up to the last minute. "It's part of our holistic approach to gather all the metadata and have all the files on the SAN and available to the customer; we do as much as possible upfront to automate the back end," says McClure. "We consider man- agement of the data a core part of the entire process, instead of a wrangling step at the end." MTI Film follows a file-based workflow FotoKem company, has worked on the Fox series since its pilot. FotoKem's NextLab file-based dailies soft- ware plays a key role in the process. DP Russ Alsobrook, ASC, records 4:2:2 HQ Log C with an Alexa. His SD cards are copied and arrive from the set; once the shuttle drives are deliv- ered to Keep Me Posted, the facility taps Next- Lab to have dailies ready by 8am. "We don't get LUTs or reference frames, because the overall look was set early on with executive producer Jake Kasdan and Russ [Alsobrook]; we've taken it from there," says Hamilton. "It's almost an old-school film dailies process: dailies colorist Billy Roskilly takes Log C and creates beautiful dailies by eye every night." Alsobrook is "so comfortable" with NextLab dailies that he doesn't feel the need to request a special high-res file for viewing, thus eliminat- ing a step from the process. Keep Me Posted transcodes all the dailies a to Avid DNxHD 36 files for offline editorial and the circle takes to DVD for Fox execu- tives. All the Log C source media is archived to LTO and remains on the facility's SAN for the online conform. After the editors finish cutting on the Fox lot, they furnish Keep Me Posted with an Avid bin. "The NextLab software creates a manifest of every shot and clip of video that comes in," Hamilton explains. "We ingest the Avid bin into the NextLab system, and it pulls all the clips we need and automatically transcodes source footage to Avid uncompressed MXF media, which our digitizer copies to our Facilis TerraBlock for the Avid Symphony and color bays. By using uncompressed Avid media and onlining in the Avid Symphony, we get a 100 percent conform: Every blow-up, reposition, BRING YOUR VISION TO LIFE. FASTER. NVIDIA® FOR ADOBE® CREATIVE SUITE® QUADRO® BY PNY 6 Bring your vision to life faster in Adobe® Suite® 6 with the power of NVIDIA® Creative Quadro® by PNY professional graphics solutions. NVIDIA Quadro GPUs deliver the fastest, most fl uid experience across the widest range of Adobe CS6 creative imaging and video production tools. Take advantage of Adobe certifi ed NVIDIA Quadro by PNY graphics boards to accelerate your workfl ow. Get The Advantage· To learn more go to www.pny.com/AdobeCS6 © 2012 NVIDIA Corporation. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, Quadro are trademarks or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the United States and other countries. The PNY logo is a registered trademark of PNY Technologies, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. Copyright © 2012 PNY Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 26 Post • October 2012 www.postmagazine.com