Goldcrest Post buys Pablo Rio and Pablo PA for 4K

Goldcrest Post buys Pablo Rio and Pablo PA for 4K 20 November 2014

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Leading USA East Coast creative boutique, Goldcrest Post, has invested in two Quantel Pablo Rio 4K color and finishing systems and Pablo PA conform, preparation and workflow software to provide the ultimate post production workflow at 4K and beyond.

Located in New Yorks West Village, Goldcrest Post is a market leading supplier of picture and sound post production services for award winning film and television. Goldcrest Post provides picture post services including on-set and near set dailies, creative editorial, color grading, finishing and full DCP creation services. Goldcrest will migrate from its Quantel Pablo systems to Pablo Rio and Pablo PA to take advantage of the 8 gig fibre SAN access, extended Codec File creation, real time playback and grading of soft-mounted virtualized full resolution media, and sophisticated AMA conforms of Avid Projects directly into the Quantel, preserving speed changes, resizing, and key framing.

Pablo Rio is Quantels high quality color and finishing system that provides the ultimate productive post workflow. Pablo Rio runs on high performance PC hardware and exploits NVIDIA Maximus multi-GPU technology to deliver true interactivity and maximum productivity, with realtime performance at 4K 60p and beyond. Pablo Rio is available as software only and as a range of Quantel-backed turnkey systems.

Goldcrest Post New Yorks choice of the Quantel Pablo Rio platform, per Tim Spitzer, Managing Director, "was based on the fact that our existing Quantel systems have served us very well providing us for many years the most advanced editorial and color grading toolset available. However, we now want the expanded processing power, speed, and expanded toolset of Pablo Rio to both service and stay ahead of our industrys on-going migration to ever higher resolution, higher bit depth, and wider color gamut including ACES and eventual Rec.2020 workflows. Pablo Rios feature set provides us with an all-in-one post package to deliver the highest quality deliverables to our feature, episodic, and restoration clients".

Quantel Sales Director, Martin Mulligan, said, "Goldcrest Post is widely acknowledged as one of the top and most successful post houses on the East Coast, so we are delighted that they have chosen Pablo Rio as their system of choice for high-end color and finishing.

About Quantel

Quantel is a world-leading developer of innovative, high performance content creation and delivery systems for News & Sports production and high quality Post. Quantel fast-turnaround production systems give broadcasters the creative, productive and flexible workflows they need to stay ahead in todays competitive global media market. Quantels post production systems deliver the quality, resolution and performance post houses need to capture high margin, high value work.

Also part of the Quantel Group is Snell, a world leader in enabling broadcasters and media organizations to process and manage their valuable media content. Snells expertise empowers customers to achieve greater efficiencies and increase revenue while delivering their content to multiple distribution platforms. Snell TV Everywhere and Live TV products bring tangible benefits throughout the production chain.

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