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tions and real-time

Tape to Film
Filmout Express,

a

division of

Lumeni Productions located in Glendale,

California, offers theatrical quality tapeto-film transfers

through its proprietary

software. Transfers

can

be made from

any tape format, including digital video,
as well as directly from computer files.

Both NTSC and PAL

fully supported in
all aspect ratios. The price includes a
first-generation picture negative, optical
sound negative (Dolby SR in the case of
35mm) and first trial print with sound.

accounting can be
anywhere in the world.
Vendors are from all categories, from
costume rentals and catering to rental
houses and postproduction houses. All
vendor bids for a job are confidential, so
no vendor can see what a competitor has
done from

offered.
www.Filmtrust.com.

35 & 16 mm film, video and
indoor Zeppelin for video or film

Open for Telecine
Colorist Jais Thierry Lamaire and
producer Julie Airali have opened a new
telecine company in Santa Monica,

4128 LP LEXM0ND
(tom
THE NETHERLANDS
Tel: 8031-347-342382
Fax: 0031-347-3:2316

Visit the Filmtrust Web site at

are

The video for transfer is first

captured into a dedicated bank of
computers. The proprietary software is
then used to de-interlace the signal,

Mini Helicopters, Radio Control

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California, called Bobine Video, Inc. The

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frames per second, and increase the
resolution. It is then transferred frame by

company's focus will be on high-end
postproduction telecine services using
state-of-the-art equipment such as the
Philips Spirit and the DaVinci 2K color

frame

corrector with nine Power Windows in

convert the frame rate from 30 to 24

directly to 35mm or 16mm film
using Filmout Xpress's H-RIS (High
Resolution Imaging System), which elim¬
inates the jitters and stutters that plague
many conversions, even on panning shots.
Filmout Xpress is so confident in
its work that it offers a guarantee: the
company will do one to two minutes of
tests at cost. The filmmaker only covers
laboratory and stock fees. If the project is

standard definition,

high definition and

2K data.

Lamaire and Airali have

previ¬
ously worked at Pacific Ocean Post,
Encore Video, and most recently 525
Studios

on numerous

commercials and

music videos.

Bobine Video, Inc. is located a few
blocks from the beach at 701 Santa

taken elsewhere for transfer, Filmout

Monica Blvd. #200, Santa Monica, CA

Xpress will refund the cost of the tests.
Filmout Xpress, (818) 956-1185,

90401. For

Web site: www.filmout.com.

more information, contact
Bobine Video at (310) 451 -2207, fax (310)
451-2208.

Post Combination

Cybermarket
Filmtrust.com is

an

Internet-based

New York-based visual-effects

business-to-business
procurement and production budgetmanagement service for the television,

and

film,

forces to form MP 13

provider

of

music video

and

commercial

production industries. Using Web tech¬
nology, Filmtrust streamlines the
purchasing, approval and invoicing
processes. Studios, production compa¬
nies and other buyers can save time and
resources
by taking advantage of
Filmtrust's growing network of more than
500 vendors through a fully automated
"req2check" process - the process
from when the requisition order is placed
to the time a check is cut for

payment to

vendors.
Filmtrust

provides a central loca¬
negotiations, transac¬

tion where vendor

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design studio Manhattan Transfer
feature-film post house Post
Production Playground (PPP) have joined
and

-

Manhattan

Playground 13. Though the two compa¬
nies have held a creative partnership
over the past six years, the formal
announcement cements the strategic
alliance between the two firms.
In

making
Transfer provides

MP 13, Manhattan
solid technical infra¬

up
a

structure and dedicated creative talent in

its colorists and editors, while PPP's vast

experience in long-format postproduction
complete the equation. As MP 13,
the two companies will be able to further
streamline their workflow and strengthen
the principles that guided their relation-

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