Markee Magazine, February 2005High Definition Portfolio"Our edit suites are available with or without an editor," notes Panning. "Our uncompressed room supports HDCAM, D-5, DVCPro HD, Digital Betacam, DVCPro50, Beta SP, and DVCAM. A Sony digital HD-SDI monitor, 50-inch plasma screen, and Apple 23-inch cinema display with HD-Link round out monitoring needs. Our compressed room supports Panasonic's native compressed HD format via FireWire. Both rooms are loaded with standard graphics software."/p>
Available on the premises are 2D and 3D graphics animation by freelance designer Brian Check. Check employs a render farm of five Mac G4 and G5s to handle complex animations quickly./p>
Chicago HD's work is "seen on broadcast and cable channels and in theaters near you," Panning says. "As a service bureau we do lots of in/out work for theatrical commercials and for cable. We were hired for the I/O and mastering of the show open for Rescue Me on the FX channel. The client shot on film and telecined to HDCAM and Digital Betacam. They provided us with an off-line EDL, we pulled selects from the HD sources and transferred the media to external drives. The editor came back with their HD image sequence and we recorded their HDCAM masters. The process was simple and effective for the client. Most clients don't have the resources to do their own HD conforming. They leave that job to us."/p>
Chicago HD serves clients nationwide; its creative editorial customers include commercial and corporate producers and independent filmmakers. The company is currently off-lining a feature-length drama by Chicago-based Whateverfilms to be mastered in HD 24p this spring. Chicago HD just wrapped on-line editorial, graphics and DVD authoring for a series of poker videos featuring world champion poker players and host Vince Van Patten./p>
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