 | Workflow Benefits for Ascent 142, London, with new BrightDrive Media Recording System
Reno, Nevada, USA, November 28, 2008, www.4bright.com: Bright Systems, Inc., developer of disk recording and data infrastructure technology, has installed a BrightDrive
media recording system at Ascent 142, one of London's busiest and biggest digital post
facilities.
Ascent 142 spent nearly a year studying the different options for building its new data-
centric infrastructure before choosing BrightDrive. The new system has two online
workspaces for multiple realtime 2k clients, and one nearline workspace for data IO and
staging projects. All of the company's DI systems are connected to the BrightDrive,
providing a highly powerful and flexible workflow.
"Our new DI pipeline is extremely efficient," explains Laurent Treherne, Digital Film Technical Director, Ascent 142. "For example, we can dust-bust at the same time as we are
working on the grade, as BrightDrive allows all the operators to work concurrently on the
same data. Everything is directly attached. We are also able to allocate more resources as
required for a short period without having to move any data between our different dust-
busting, conforming or grading systems. Using this approach makes the entire DI process
flexible and highly collaborative. The operators can access the media and work on the same
files without waiting for each other to finish which is a huge bonus."
Ascent 142 ingests data into the nearline workspace with 2 ArriScan film scanners and by
importing VFX with BrightDrive TxP transportable drives which means the data is
immediately backed up. Data is moved to the online workspaces accordingly as required by
the project. Conforming is done directly from the online using Autodesk Smokes, and
despotting is carried out using MTI or Diamant directly from the online. Colour grading
operators use da Vinci Resolves, and they render the different graded version to the online
for QC before copying the graded versions on the nearline. Finally, data is available to
Ascent 142's two Arrilaser recorders for film-out.
The first projects Ascent 142 carried out on BrightDrive were the Bond movie Quantum of
Solace, Lesbian Vampire Killers and 44 Inch Chest.
Bright Systems was founded in 1999 to design and develop advanced infrastructure systems for data-intensive
environments. Based in Reno, Nevada, a centre associated with important milestones in the development of
video disk recording, Bright Systems provides a range of extremely high-performance file servers capable of
record/playback of real-time uncompressed video and data streams. With its unique expertise in advanced
engineering and facility integration/workflow, Bright Systems is able to deliver a significant competitive edge to
the post production industry. www.4bright.com
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