How did IRIDAS help?

This began as a dream for me and it’s companies like IRIDAS that made it possible for it to come together. I can’t say enough about Steve [Crouch, Director of IRIDAS USA].

At one point I’d lined up an engineer to help me with something but he didn’t show up for our appointment. So I called Steve on the spur of the moment and he spent four hours on the phone with me walking me through the set-up and operation of the software.

What applications are you using?

We’re using FrameCycler VenueSystem to play the frames and SpeedGrade for color correction. I am a perfectionist when it comes to color and image. I worked hard to keep it all in HD. Everything went through a DI process – this never touched a tape.

I did a shoot-out using the same sequence and projector to compare uncompressed frames, using FrameCycler VenueSystem, and state-of-the art encoding of the same data. As the size of the projected image grew, it was clear that uncompressed HD was meatier, had more texture, more detail. The image had more life to it. The point is that the IRIDAS approach allows me to hold onto my data.