Digital production studio Digital Domain has standardized on Tweak’s RV and RV-SDI software to enable a common collaborative viewing experience from desktops to screening rooms for image sequence and 2K stereo dailies review throughout its studios. “Digital Domain has artists facilities and partners all around the world. Our goal was to create a unified and universal user experience for watching dailies and conducting collaborative reviews. Artists can be at their desks doing one-on-one reviews with colleagues at other locations or in conference rooms or in screening rooms doing group reviews – anything is possible ” says Digital Domain technology project manager Ryan Mayeda. “With RV and RV-SDI we were able to create that experience not only within studios but across them remotely. It’s like having one big screening room.” RV enables easy review of images and sequences through a flexible dailies workflow and an advanced media architecture that can automatically combine media of different resolutions frame rates color spaces and audio sampling rates. RV-SDI provides dual link SDI output with embedded audio to handle 2K stereo playback/review in screening rooms and theatres. While artists at Digital Domain had been using RV for desktop playback the studio had a different solution for its screening rooms. “Tweak adding support for SDI was the missing piece ” says Mayeda. “SDI is the only way for us to watch 2K stereo. It feeds into the projector effortlessly and you get perfect artifact-free playback. RV also has a number of nice features for stereo viewing allowing supervisors to make stereo adjustments live in the screening room.” Digital Domain also tapped RV’s open API and SDK to integrate RV tightly with its proprietary DMX dailies system. The result is a seamless experience for users during dailies whether they are in one room or remotely connected from different facilities. “One of the key reasons RV was such a good solution for us was because it’s extensible by our developers – it gave us everything we needed to easily link it into our dailies system ” says Mayeda. “And now that RV is going to support Python it’s going to get even easier.” RV and RV-SDI are fully integrated into the pipeline at Digital Domain’s Venice and Vancouver studios and were used recently for digital production on Thor X-Men: First Class Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Real Steel. On Transformers: Dark of the Moon Digital Domain even set up a remote system with fast connectivity to director Michael Bay’s office so he could use RV to review work draw annotate start and stop playback and talk to artists and supervisors via video conference. RV deployment is in initial phases in the studio’s Florida and San Francisco studios. Digital Domain http://www.digitaldomain.com Tweak Software www.tweaksoftware.com
