Our Services:

Color Grading

Advanced color grading via DaVinci Resolve 8. Supervised or unsupervised sessions.

Image Processing

  • Real-time performance with multiple secondary corrections.
  • High-precision floating point color space.
  • Unlimited power windows and qualifiers.
  • Advanced 3D tracker.
  • Blur, mist, sharpen, image stabilization and noise reduction features.
  • Pan/tilt/zoom for reframing. Uses full resolution of input format.
  • Support for anamorphic footage and arbitrary aspect ratios.
  • Multiple video tracks with alpha mattes and composite modes.
  • Optional addition of real scanned film grain to digitally originated files via CineGrain.

Formats/Workflow

  • DPX/Uncompressed HD/ProRes input and output in 4:4:4/4:2:2, 1080p/2K/4K.
  • Native Red/Epic (R3D) support including support for camera look metadata.
  • Support for Alexa Log C, ARRIRAW, Phantom and DSLR footage.
  • Seamlessly mix input formats in a single sequence.
  • EDL or XML ingest from major editing software.
  • Automatic shot detection for grading flattened files.
  • Optional round-trip into Final Cut Pro 7.

Suite

  • Proven hardware-calibrated monitoring — numerous projects graded in suite have been screened at major DI facilities and festivals.
  • High-quality sync sound playback during grading.
  • Seating for up to four people in addition to operator.
  • 50” plasma client monitor.

Transcoding

Transcoding to DPX, ProRes, DNxHD, Uncompressed HD, H.264 and other formats.

  • Rocket-accelerated maximum-quality Red/Epic transcoding to most formats in real time.
  • Alexa transcoding, including ARRIRAW support and conversion from Log C ProRes via standard or custom LUTs or Alexa look files.
  • Phantom CineFile transcoding.
  • High-quality web and mobile/set-top device encoding via our custom-built x264-based encoding pipeline.

Tape Archiving

LTO 4/5 data tape archiving.

  • Archive original camera footage, dailies, deliverables.
  • Up to 1.5 TB native data capacity, 3 TB compressed data capacity per LTO 5 tape.
  • True archival medium with shelf life of up to 30 years.
  • Insurable media.

Digital Dailies

Optimized dailies pipelines for Red and Alexa footage.

Editorial Dailies

  • ProRes for Final Cut Pro or DNxHD for Avid systems.
  • Optional syncing of dual system sound via custom timecode sync tools, automated waveform matching, or manual sync.

Web Dailies

  • Easy to use web interface developed in-house.
  • High-quality 720p video created by x264, the world’s premiere web video encoder.
  • View on desktop/laptop or on iPad, iPhone 4 or Apple TV.
  • User management system to control access.
  • Password-protected podcast feed (can be enabled/disabled on per-user basis).
  • Optional watermarking.

Our unique parallel transcoding pipeline uses multiple computers to generate editorial and web dailies simultaneously.

Red/Epic/Alexa Rental

Nice Dissolve was among the first 5% of Red customers world-wide. We are Red/Epic camera and workflow experts.

  • Complete camera packages.
  • Workflow consulting.

Digital Workflow

  • Full workflow consulting/coordination services.

Blu-Ray/DVD

  • Encoding workflows using the industry’s best H.264 and MPEG-2 encoders.
  • Custom menu design or straight play.
  • Stereo or 5.1 surround sound.
  • In-house short-run replication.
  • High-quality full-color on-disc printing.
  • Optional watermark burn-in for screeners.

Deliverables

  • Closed captioning.
  • Video signal QC with timecode-based error reports and custom QC profiles.
  • Supervised or unsupervised creation of pan & scan versions.
  • Standards conversion.

Screening Room

  • Seats eight.
  • 1080p projection.
  • 92” screen.
  • 5.1 surround sound.
  • Blu-ray/DVD/Netflix/Hulu access.
  • Direct feed from online edit workstation.
  • Free limited use included with most feature packages.