Lasergraphics Debuts World's Only QuickTime-to-35mm Film Transfer.Entertainment Editors/Business Editors IRVINE Irvine, town, Scotland Irvine (ûr`vĭn), town (1991 pop. 32,507), North Ayrshire, SW Scotland, on the Irvine River estuary. Industries include iron and brass foundries. Other products are chemicals, electric goods, and clothing. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2004 Lasergraphics Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of film recorders A device that takes a 35mm slide picture from a graphics file, which has been created in a CAD, paint or business graphics package. It generates very high resolution, generally from 2,000 to 4,000 lines. , has dramatically streamlined the post production workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle. by integrating QuickTime into its CineProducer film recorder software. Further improving the flexibility of its Producer series of cine film cine film (Brit) n → Schmalfilm m recorders, Lasergraphics' Producers are now the world's first and only film recorders to output 35mm film directly from a QuickTime movie file. Steve Klenk, Lasergraphics' Vice President of Marketing and Sales said: "If you can watch it in QuickTime Player The media player software that comes with QuickTime for the Mac and Windows. See QuickTime. , you can now record it out directly on our film recorders. It is that simple." "QuickTime," said Frank Casanova, Apple's senior director of QuickTime Product Marketing, "is resolution independent and features an open and extensible file format which allows digital media to be moved seamlessly across multiple applications making it the multimedia content creation and delivery platform of choice for film professionals. Lasergraphics now makes the post production workflow process more efficient by enabling professionals to output 35mm film directly from QuickTime." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Klenk, more and more post production professionals are utilizing Apple's QuickTime because it is the native file format of the most popular editing tools and it simplifies image file management. For reasons such as this, QuickTime is fast becoming the movie file format standard for uncompressed HD and SD. Until now, projects were converted into individual digital files before being recorded onto film, with approximately 130,000 image files requiring conversion for a typical 90-minute feature film. This step added unnecessary complexity, typically delayed filmout by 100 hours of processing, and wasted enormous amounts of disk space. By recording directly from QuickTime, Lasergraphics has successfully eliminated this step, dramatically speeding up the post production process. Lasergraphics' CineProducer user interface enables a QuickTime movie to be easily inserted into a project, after which sequential frames, time codes, image previews and intensity histograms are immediately displayed. Users can adjust color correction Altering the colors in an image in order to print or display it properly or for special effects. Depending on the application, color correction can be a significant problem if the resulting image must be approved or a purchase is made because of color choice. , black level, white level, gamma, color saturation saturation, of an organic compound saturation, of an organic compound, condition occurring when its molecules contain no double or triple bonds and thus cannot undergo addition reactions. , and sharpening For image sharpening, see . Sharpening is the process of creating or refining a sharp edge on a tool or implement. The term has a wide application but can be expressed as the creation of two intersecting planes which produce an edge that is sharp enough to cut through the target prior to final filmout. In addition, the bundled PrintView feature allows customers to fully preview the final print before they even start exposing the negative film. "With CineProducer," Klenk said, "we eliminated the need for our customers to hire film recording experts. Then with PrintView, we took the guesswork out of film recording with the industry's first integrated color management system Software that translates the colors of an original image into the truest representation obtainable on the output device. Color management works from a profile of the output device, typically a digital printer or offset press, and works backward to the source of the material such as a for film recorders. Now with QuickTime integration, we have reengineered the filmout process." With over 25,000 film recorders sold since 1981, Lasergraphics of Irvine, is the most experienced film recorder manufacturer in the world. The first Lasergraphics film recorders exceeded the 4K, 8K and 16K ultra-high resolution requirements of their military, medical and digital photography customers. In 1999, Lasergraphics developed leading edge film recorders for the equally demanding motion picture industry by combining their wide-ranging experience, state-of-the-art technology, and a customer-defined user interface. The results were the affordable and easy to use Producer Plus and Producer 2 cine film recorders - rock-solid technology for film professionals. |
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