Deadgirl
Dirs. Marcel Sarmiento, Gadi Harel. DP Harris Charalambous.
This independent feature, shot in L.A., had a completely tapeless pipeline. A Codex system captured the uncompressed output from a Thomson Viper FilmStream camera, enabling the production to take advantage of the camera’s full dynamic range – particularly important for the numerous low-light scenes.
Again Codex provided a central hub for the production’s workflow, enabling instant review and comparative playback on-set. All of this helped the filmmakers to make rapid decisions as to what worked best; to avoid many separate and expensive functions; and bring in an ambitious production for a minimal budget.
The originals of each day's shooting were transferred from the Codex by network to backup storage as full-resolution DPX files. QuickTime files (plus metadata), were produced by the Codex and used for viewing, before being transcoded for the edit in Final Cut Studio.
