JAPAN - Sony PCL, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation, has launched a hybrid editing room that combines linear and nonlinear editing functionality and uses Bluefish444's HD|Lust and HD|Iridium cards. Sony PCL concentrates on high-end post for TV and films, as well as content and events production.
With the appearance of HD media, digital broadcasting and the Blu-ray Disc, and the increase in the digital data processing in visual effects and animation work, Sony PCL felt the time had come to create a hybrid editing room which enables an optimal editing workflow and offers an efficient editing environment corresponding to a broad range of creative content.
The system consists of a virtual VTR and NLE/compositor running Final Cut Pro, Premiere and Combustion; an HD|Lust turnkey system; Sony SRW, DVW and DSR VTRs; a Sony multi-format production switcher; and a Sony BVE-9100 editing system.