Case Studies

Printing RED to Film
Lensed by David Mullen, the Polish Brothers’ The Smell of Success (aka Manure), presented the difficult challenge of replicating a particularly delicate digital negative on a 35mm print.
Onsite 3D Post Production
With OUTPOST 3D, the Light Iron Team led by DIT Steve Freebairn provided 100% of the image processing on set.
3D Digital Intermediate & Mastering
Light Iron's stereoscopic workflow for offline through finishing made making a 3D feature with multiple delivery formats financially achievable for the film.
File-based Tape
Currently, many television networks prefer tape as the acquisition format of choice, but that doesn’t mean programs should feel compelled to employ antiquated post production offline and online techniques.
Effortless Conforms of Complex Lists
The online web series from Step Up 2: The Streets and Step Up 3D’s Jon M. Chu showcases some of the most complicated dancing on the planet.
IFC
Tapeless HD Offline
LIGHTIRON provides a powerful tape and file-based offline combination that is centered around working and monitoring entirely in the IFC delivery format, HD 1920x1080 59.94i.
Change Lists and DI
Quantel Pablo’s unique archive andre-conform capabilities allowed all of the original source media, color, visual effects, and titles to be maintained and used as a base for rebuilding the project.
Compressed Digital Intermediate
One of the most popular tools in today’s independent film world is the RED One digital cinema camera. Cut lists must be linked back to the original 4K R3D source files in what can be a time-consuming and costly data conform process.
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