BONES DAILIES SYSTEM BEING USED ON 'WOLVERINE'
Bones Dailies was designed for managing rushes on a movie project, and controls the Spirit DataCine for film scanning at up to 4K resolution. In HD or 2K, the Spirit under Bones Dailies control can ingest material at up to 25 percent faster than realtime. It synchronizes the picture with sound and, in conjunction with other Bones components, allows a color correction pass with the metadata captured using the ASC color decision list (CDL) format to form the basis of the final grade later in the post cycle. Bones Dailies is able to output in standard definition or HD at up to HDCAM SR 10-bit 4:4:4 quality.
Cutting Edge installed two Bones Dailies systems in January of this year as part of a major upgrade to its post facilities in Sydney and Brisbane. Only days after the installation, Bones Dailies was put into action on the feature film Wolverine.
"Fox Post was keen to see how Bones Dailies could save time in editorial and improve the quality of the material viewed by both the production and the executives at Fox in LA," notes John Lee, president and founder of Cutting Edge. "At the end of a session, fully logged and synchronized dailies are ready to be played out from Bones within 10 minutes of the final lab roll being captured, with Bones performing logging and sound syncing on one roll at the same time as the colorist is grading the next," Lee notes. "This is a huge savings in time and effort on the part of the editorial team, who are given DNxHD media and full metadata immediately after our first Bones playout pass. With Bones Dailies we have been able to create a set of deliverables that have never been possible before due to time or technical restrictions with the equipment."
Bones Dailies divides the workflow of making dailies into five processes: audio ingest and logging, image ingest and logging, sound synchronization, color grading, and finally playout for multiple deliverables. On Wolverine, Cutting Edge was asked to make two different versions of each day's dailies: a "print all" version for editorial and production, and a "circle takes only" version for the studio executives in LA. Without Bones Dailies, creating the second version would have meant loading the "print all" version into a nonlinear editor, cutting the select takes and conforming the edit back out to tape. With Bones Dailies this stage has been eliminated.
"Thanks to Bones Dailies, Cutting Edge was able to create a first generation HDCAM SR circle takes only tape to send to the studio with synchronized audio, specific burn-ins, masking and watermarks" notes Aaron Downing, post executive for Fox.
Bones Dailies can operate as a single seat system on locally attached storage or as a multiple seat system on a shared access SAN.