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007 - QUANTUM OF SOLACE

An MGM, Columbia Pictures, Danjaq, Eon Production and United Artists production. Dir. Marc Forster. DP Roberto Schaefer ASC, consulting VFX cinematographer David Stump ASC.

Quantum of Solace, the next film in the 007 James Bond franchise, features a technically remarkable visual effects sequence that involved eight Codex Recorders capturing the raw 4K output from eight shutter-synchronized DALSA Origin 4K cameras. The use of Codex systems enabled the production to take full advantage of the uncompressed, high- resolution output of the DALSA cameras, and to extract the maximum amount of detail from the scenes in post production. 007 harnessed eight Codex Recorders for a 4K VFX shoot.

The shoot, resulted in over 40Tb of data being recorded in a single day. The Codex provided instant playback and on-set delivery of files for the VFX department to verify that everything was working - eliminating guesswork and hope. Then the Codex disc packs were delivered to Sohonet in London for back-up, after which the RAW 4K files were delivered to Double Negative in Soho for rendering and final compositing.

The Codex systems were also used to generate HD proxies of every shot, enabling the editorial department to assess which shots would be used in the final effects sequence and making sure that only the necessary shots had to be rendered. Quantum of Solace is scheduled for release on November 7th in the US.