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NEW! Baselight Transfer

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Hi,

Thought some of you would be interested in a new product FilmLight launches today. Below is the press release.

Full specifications will be posted on the FilmLight website tomorrow.

Rgds,
Mike Grieve
FilmLight
www.filmlight.ltd.uk

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FilmLight Launches Baselight Transfer

A complete, high performance digital telecine solution for RED-based projects

London. 18 February 2009 - FilmLight, a leading provider of digital film and video technology, today announced the introduction of Baselight Transfer (BLT), a low cost near-set and post-production solution for rapidly viewing, grading, and transferring REDCODE RAW camera content, to editable dailies or online conforms.

Consisting of a 5U 12TB RAID5 chassis, the BLT is a standalone system and incorporates Baselight’s powerful conform and primary grading toolsets, 16 CPU cores, GPU acceleration, three Compact Flash (CF) card readers and Truelight colour management.

BLT can be used near-set to instantly view REDCODE RAW camera rushes, to confirm ‘shot’ or ‘take’ integrity. It can also be used in a post-production environment to enable rapid conversion of REDCODE RAW content into either graded dailies or a conformed online.

Mike Grieve, Sales Director at FilmLight commented “BLT was designed to address the four most common requirements that our customers requested from a RED workflow; immediate real-time playback, near real-time DNxHD MXF disc deliverables, metadata maintained regardless of output, and fast problem-free conforms. We added a fifth; a low price tag!”

BLT key features include:

- real-time 2K (‘half-res’) decode and review from CF cards, Firewire drives, or file-system based disk packs
- plays R3D natively on the timeline, in real-time, with simultaneous real-time GPU grading
- plays 2K DPX in real-time with Truelight profile
- highly configurable ‘multi-insert’ capability for rapidly populating a timeline with hundreds of shots
- ability to edit all RED decode parameters (including reading RSX files) on a per-shot basis, allowing ‘group grading’ of multiple shots simultaneously
- configurable alarms for visualising top end / bottom end clipping
- creates DNxHD MXF, Quicktime, 1:1 MXF, TIFF etc. content direct from R3D – no intermediate processes required
- outputs DNxHD MXF content on a portable drive that can be directly copied into an Avid – no ALE required
- both types of RED timecode fully available during conform, metadata display, rendering, and VTR layoff
- Supports CMX, AAF, and XML using Baselight’s statistical file based conform engine

Baselight Transfer is completing Beta phase at selected FilmLight customers and is scheduled to ship mid March 2009. Prices start at Euro 29,995 for the base BLT system which includes - 5U chassis, 16 CPU cores, GPU, 12TB RAID 5, 3x CF card readers, Baselight 4.1 software with Truelight colour management.

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One of the options supported is a JL Cooper Spectrum panel. We don't support the Tangent Wave currently.
 
So this has a software only limitation to a primary grade, right? Can this be upgraded to a full grading station (secondaries etc.)?

BTW, check your PMs Mike, please.

Regards,
Igor
 
The BLT is limited to primary colour grading only. Other than this it has a full Baselight toolset inside. The intention is to keep the BLT as a stand-alone device. So if customers have a BLT, and want a full Baselight system, then they would buy an additional BaselightHD (for example).

Frankly, there would be no real saving upgrading a BLT to a BLHD, and of course you'd lose the parallel capability of having one box processing the dailies, whilst another does the client-attended grading.

Having said that, all main Baselight grading systems will get the same RED toolset as the BLT, so for those companies that 'need' to process dailies and grade in the same system, they can.
 
We've just completed the BLT DataSheet which all the sales guys now have. This will also be downloadable on the FilmLight website tomorrow. If you're really desperate, you can e-mail any of the sales team (if you know them), or me (mikeg at filmlight.ltd.uk), and we'll send it to you as an attachment.
 
Noah, yep we know what a BLT is, I'm eating one now ! Maybe you missed my test posting a few days ago ... 'Sandwich'.

Baselight Transfer is its real name, BLT is what you'll probably remember though.
 
If you know what a BaselightHD chassis looks like, the BLT is the same, except 6 of the 24 1TB drives on the front are removed, and 3 CF card readers are inserted instead.
 
Baselight Transfer #1 has just been sold ... into Europe !
 
Hi Scott, its designed for more than R3D. Generally, any codec that has Linux OS support, and has significant numbers of owners/prospects asking for it, stands a good chance of making it in.
 
Hi Sven, not sure I completely understand what you mean by a 'RED specific grading station'. All Baselights are capable of handling R3D with the same toolset as the BLT, and all can output to SD/HD/2K/4K/DCP/codecs.
If you mean 'will there be a very low cost Baselight that only ingests R3D and outputs say 1080P HD', the answer is no'. This would be way too limiting on a post company; having to reject work on the basis that the input and output formats didn't match your grading system's capabilities.
There are certainly lower cost R3D capable grading solutions on the market, but ultimately you get what you pay for.
 
I didn't mean exactly to only be able to output to hd, but if you don't require all the hardware capable of doing 4k dpx realtime, if their could be a baselight where the uneeded power is changed over to optimisation of the red raw codec.

with the dcp, do you mean you always can export encrypted cinema ready packages???
 
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