Judging from recent North American sales, London's Root6 Technology has
made inroads in Hollywood and elsewhere with its ContentAgent XR
"universal encoding platform." Creative Bridge has purchased an XR
system for its mobile DI lab, where it transcodes DPX files to whatever
formats are necessary for dailies and other critical-viewing
applications like on-set color-correction, eFilm uses the system as
part of its digital-dailies workflow, and Turner Studios in Atlanta
puts it to work authoring one-off DVDs for presentation and
approvals.
ContentAgent is designed to take the pain out of repetitive tasks in
production and post. Whether you're recording data from a film scanner
or a digital camera, ContentAgent will pull the data off your storage
and manipulate it according to parameters you've set up in software. At
NAB, Root6 showed the system transcoding 2K and 4K DPX files into
commonly used file formats, such as Avid MXF, with data burn-in from
the DPX header as an option. That means it can be used as an efficient
way to get data out of, say, the Dalsa Origin, and into a facility's
systems in a format that those systems understand.
The XR can make high-definition DVDs using Windows Media encoding and —
here's a cool trick — can also be set up to deliver files via an RSS
feed — log on to a secure Web site and download H.264-encoded dailies
directly to your iPod automatically, as soon as they're ready.
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