It is the difference between changing the oil in your car yourself and trying to maintain an Indy 500 race car. LPAC does the digital mastering for top of the line movies and TV shows, not just little video clips or minicam news reports.
I don't know this industry well but I know enough to say that LPAC works with industry customers, not your home Apple user. That's what makes it so valuable.
Good luck..
"Laser-Pacific Media Corporation, formed in September 1990, is a provider of a broad range of post-production services to the Hollywood motion picture film and television industry. These post-production services include technical and creative services to the producers of prime-time network television series and television movies, services for the creation of digital masters for high definition and standard definition television, home video, DVD as well as other master delivery formats. In addition, the Company provides motion picture film processing, technical and creative services for visual effects, digital sound editing and mixing and other ancillary and related services that assist in the preparation of film, television and digital content for a variety of distribution methods.
Motion Picture Film Processing
The Company operates five negative processing machines at its Pacific Film Laboratories facility, located in Hollywood, California. These machines are used to develop customers' negatives after photography, with the capacity to develop approximately two million feet of film per week.
Telecine Transfer
The Company operates eight telecine suites that are used to transfer customers' film to videotape for subsequent post-production processing. These telecine suites are used for daily transfers for electronic post-production as well as video masters of completed motion pictures. Currently five telecine suites are used for digital standard definition and three are used for both digital standard definition as well as digital high definition.
Editing
The Company operates nine editing suites, five in its Hollywood facility and four in its Burbank facility, for preparing broadcast quality videotape masters for its customers. These editing suites primarily are used for assembly of television programs, visual effects, and adding titles and graphics. Two of the rooms are equipped exclusively for high definition editing. Additionally, the Company's Emmy Award winning Super-Computer Assembly system provides the show assembly capability equivalent of four or five additional conventional editing rooms.
Color Timing
The Company operates five timing suites that are used for the final color balancing and image enhancement of customers' programs. Two of these suites are equipped specifically for digital high definition programs.
Digital Graphics and Visual Effects
The Company's Visual Effects Department, located at the Burbank facility, is equipped with several digital video effects systems specifically designed to create graphical elements, special effects, titles and other specialized work for television and motion pictures.
Sound Editing and Mixing
The Company's post-production sound department, Pacific Sound Services, includes ten digital sound editing systems, a sound effects and dialogue recording studio, and a re-recording studio for accomplishing the final sound mix of customers' programs.
Digital Compression Services
Using an IBM SuperComputer and other specialized computer systems, the Company provides digital compression and related services, which results in the creation of data recordings for use in CD-ROM, digital file servers and video-on-demand applications. The Company also provides digital compression and "authoring" services for the new DVD format. "Authoring" is the industry term that describes the creation of disc navigation and interactivity capability in a DVD replication master, including DVD menu design and formatting.
Duplication and Other Services
The Company provides duplication, restoration, digital file conversion, screening, and a variety of other services at its Hollywood and Burbank locations to fulfill the production and delivery needs of its customers." |
