QuVIS and 'Still Life': an Award-Winning Combination.Company Provides 130 Digital Screenings, Including Golden Lion Award Winner - a Historic First at the Venice Film Festival TOPEKA, Kan. -- QuVIS, Inc., designated the preferred provider of digital cinema mastering and playback services at the 2006 Venice Film Festival, would like to congratulate director Jia Zhang-Ke and producer Chow Keung on their feature film 'Still Life' for winning the festival's coveted cov·et v. cov·et·ed, cov·et·ing, cov·ets v.tr. 1. To feel blameworthy desire for (that which is another's). See Synonyms at envy. 2. To wish for longingly. See Synonyms at desire. Golden Lion Award for the best film. 'Still Life', a Chinese film about ordinary people's lives set against the giant Three Gorges Dam Three Gorges Dam, 607 ft (185 m) high and 7,575 ft (2,309 m) long, on the Chang (Yangtze) River, central Hubei prov., China, 30 mi (48 km) W of Yichang. The largest concrete structure in the world, the dam was constructed from 1994 to 2006. project, was the Festival's surprise winner -- and the first Golden Lion awarded film in the Festival's history to be presented digitally. "Our screening was perfect, beautiful," said producer Chow Keung. "I am very pleased with the assistance QuVIS provided us in Venice, as well as the excellent support given to us in China during the mastering process." 'Still Life' was one of two offerings at the Festival from the team of Keung and Zhang-Ke. The production company turned to the Beijing Film Academy and its state-of-the-art production equipment to master both presentations. Using a QuVIS Acuity, students and faculty mastered "Dong" and the Golden Lion Award winner 'Still Life'. The digital packages were then delivered to Lido on a hard drive, and the QuVIS site team loaded the files to a QuVIS Cinema System for multiple screenings. The triumph of 'Still Life' completed a highly successful Venice Film Festival for QuVIS. Thirty-five films were digitally mastered for the 11-day marathon, with assistance from Impianti Televisivi Cinema, QuVIS' Authorized Distributor in Italy. QuVIS Cinema Systems flawlessly provided images of unsurpassed quality for 130 screenings. "This year's Festival was terrific," said Venice Film Festival Director Marco ME-ller. "With the increase in digital presentations, we turned to one of the most trusted pioneers in the digital cinema industry, QuVIS. Their technical expertise, along with their amazing image quality, made for a spectacular and incident-free display of the world's finest World's Finest may refer to:
"We are very proud to have supported 'Still Life' and the Venice Film Festival," said Jim Graham, QuVIS' VP of Sales and Marketing. "We've been preparing for this job for almost a year and the on-site effort was almost 30 consecutive days, non-stop. Technically, the real-time on-site mastering and multiple screenings, some simultaneous, went off without a hitch -- it was a complete success. As the senior digital cinema system provider, this is a testament to the quality and reliability of our commercial-grade equipment." QuVIS has provided the digital cinema mastering and playback systems for production companies, post houses, and theaters since 1999. QuVIS' Digital Cinema System's architecture also supports digital cinema mastering with the QuVIS Acuity and QuVIS QuStudio Digital Cinema Mastering system. Offering a simple and scaleable DCI (Display Control Interface) An Intel/Microsoft programming interface for full-motion video and games in Windows. It allowed applications to take advantage of video accelerator features built into the display adapter. compatible mastering platform, in addition to 2K and 4K DCP DCP - definitional constraint programming creation, the QuVIS Cinema Mastering System also offers exhibitors a complete solution for advertising and alternative content, supporting more than 50 varieties of SD and HD content. About QuVIS, Inc QuVIS Inc., is the leading provider of hi fidelity high-resolution motion imaging technology. The QuVIS line of servers, recorders and players provide guaranteed image quality using Quality Priority Encoding, (QPE (language) QPE - 1. A two-dimensional pictorial query language. ["Pictorial Information Systems", S.K. Chang et al eds, Springer 1980]. [Q-systems. A. Colmerauer, 1969]. 2. A rewrite system with one-way unification, used for English-French translation. [TM]). QuVIS also offers optional JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. 2000, MXF (Material EXchange Format) A file format from the Pro-MPEG Forum for the interchange of video production information. MXF files include audio/video content and related meta-data (production notes, camera settings, time code positions, etc. , Thomson watermarking, secure encryption and key management for a complete end-to-end digital cinema solution. QuVIS offers servers for real-time mastering and recording of content for SD through 4K for production, postproduction, digital dailies, digital cinema exhibition, simulation and large screen displays. The ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. version of QPE, embodied in the QuVIS Digital Mastering Codec (QDMC QDMC Quantum Discrete Memoryless Channel [TM]), offers new capabilities for the image storage, analysis and communication industries and is available for OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and and licensing applications. For information contact QuVIS, Inc., 2921 Wanamaker Drive, Suite 107, Topeka, KS 66614, (785) 272-3656, or visit www.quvis.com. |
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