New York facility Final Frame Post provided the digital intermediate services for Peter and Vandy a feature written and directed by Jay DiPeitro and based on his award-winning play. Peter and Vandy is about a young New York couple’s relationship that unfolds in a non-linear fashion and told in non-chronological order. It opened in limited release last month. Will Cox Final Frame Post co-founder and colorist conformed graded and digitally color corrected the material on their Digital Vision Nucoda Film Master system and Rising Sun Research’s CineSpace for color management. The data-centric workflow of the DI and the use of LUT’s allowed frame-by-frame interaction and great control over the look of the feature ensuring precise calibration of the post production process. By incorporating the latest finishing technology practices and techniques Final Frame was able to offer DiPeitro the flexibility to satisfy his creative goals. The content was stored on a 4GB SAN with Infortrend Arrays managed by metaSAN software. The SAN allowed Final Frame Post to color correct the 2K files natively and avoid proxies which allowed them to dust bust and grain reduce at the same time. Peter and Vandy was shot on Super 16mm film using 35mm lenses was scanned on an Imagica scanner and output to 2K DPX files. “After doing the DI for five other films at their facility it was a no-brainer bringing Peter and Vandy to Final Frame Post ” says Geoffrey Richman Peter and Vandy editor. “The director had a very specific color scheme in mind to identify different stages of the characters' relationship and Final Frame delivered it beautifully from the initial color correct to the added scratch removal grain reduction and compositing work they did. It's always a relief handing a cut over to Final Frame knowing that the film will look its best no matter what the style or format of the footage is.” Peter and Vandy marks Jay DiPetro’s feature-film directorial debut. Final Frame www.finalframepost.com Peter and Vandy www.peterandvandy.com
