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New digital studio just opened........ videography.com Transoft Networks Coppola's ZB Facilities Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope recently opened ZB Facilities, Ltda., a sister all-digital postproduction company in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Kim Aubry, VP of Engineering and Technology at Zoetrope and lead ZB facility designer, and Aldo Mussi, GM of ZB, placed Transoft's high-speed Fibre Channel network at the heart of its system. Developed to offer Rio clients a one-stop-shop approach, ZB is outfitted with eight Macs: four running Avid nonlinear editing systems, two running Digidesign Pro Tools, and two graphics workstations. All eight computers share 500 gigabytes of storage. "Transoft's FibreNet system allows a unique level of creative collaboration between all departments on a given project," explains Aubry. "We no longer need to make tape copies of edited material for graphics designers or sound editors. Now we can telecine transfer raw film images and sound directly into our Avids, allowing graphics, visual effects, and sound post crew access to manipulate them, and return them to the cut project." ZB Facilities' first editorial project is a 52-episode TV documentary series entitled 500 Years of Brazilian History produced by ZB Co-founder Guilherme Fontes. "The Transoft solution offered the type of data sharing that was required of this project," commented Mussi. "All of the editors and artists need to access shots from the same footage simultaneously for the documentary project. The Fibre Channel network not only offers them a huge advantage, but it is also a great benefit to all of the clients coming here for a soup-to-nuts postproduction solution." Information: www.transoft.com