Digital Vision, the leading supplier of color grading, finishing, mastering and restoration solutions for the broadcast, film and commercial industries, has announced that its award winning OpenEXR/HDR work was an essential component in the innovative workflow developed at Hydraulx. Hydraulx is the uniquely designed, award-winning post-production facility based in Santa Monica, California, operated by Greg and Colin Strause, The Brothers Strause. Their innovative company has built an extensive list of blockbuster visual effects credits including Iron Man 2, Avatar and Wolverine. The Hydraulx team set out to create an end-to-end DI workflow that mimicked the image quality of a visual effects pipeline. Hydraulx relied upon Digital Vision's Nucoda Film Master throughout the post-production process for their highly anticipated Sci Fi thriller, Skyline.
To facilitate high-quality manipulation of images, the Nucoda Film Master was used in 32bit floating point processing mode, utilizing the OpenEXR "float" file format. This innovative "Half Float" pipeline, as used by the likes of Pixar, allows the intended quality envisioned by the creators to be retained and delivered. Hydraulx has built a meticulous quality control process for the pipeline they've designed by implementing custom, proprietary software that completely automates the process of tracking visual effects shots. "Our tools and process push our accuracy past our competitors and support a powerful workflow for thousands of VFX shots," explained Greg Strause
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