A sharp-eyed reader noted that the Q&A with Peter Doyle left out some important info-the crew and hardware used on the latest Harry Potter installment. The director is David Yates, the DP is Slawomir Idziak, lead colorist is Gabriel Dedic, and operations manager is Grace Lan.

Based at Leavesden Studios, the 70-seat facility is "purpose-built" and features a 30-foot screen, a Barco DP100 projector, FilmLight's Northlight Baselight 8, with 46 TB of storage, with a "heavily customized" version of the Baselight GUI and interface and several color and scripting plug-ins. Truelight is used for color management. Data management is based around Linux-based IBM servers, running Apple X-RAIDs with proprietary control and management code written by Niklas Aldergreen and Martin Pengelly-Phillips. The room was built to handle up to  8,000 feet of fully graded rushes per day, with a Sohonet feedback of Avid Media and dailies to Warner Bros. in Burbank.

Cinesite (Europe) is handling scanning and recording using their Super2K process; film negative and print processing is by Technicolor London; log telecine using Spirit 4K was by Technicolor Creative Services, London with colorist Maria Chamberlain.

"What this shows, of course, is it's not about the hardware and it's never just one person to make something like this happen," said Doyle. "Whilst it may border on being an industrial process in the sheer amount of data and processing involved, it is still a craft that requires an extraordinary degree of diligence and empathy for the creative process and, frankly, intellectual stamina from the crew."