Border Town Post Workflow
Postproduction for Border Town started with scanning the film using a Spirit DataCine equipped with a DaVinci 2K Color Corrector. The footage was transferred to both an HDCAM master tape and to a 1920 x 1080, 10-bit uncompressed, 4:2:2 QT movie file using a Kona3 card. The telecine work was performed at MatchFrame Video in Burbank.

Brian Amandus, of MatchFrame, helped us select an HD workflow that would deliver superior results within the budget constrictions of the project. Initial color grading was also carried out at MatchFrame by in-house colorist Kelly Reese
Back at Don Fito's studio the QT movie was loaded onto a 2.8 TB Apple XServe Fibre Channel RAID-5 for editing in Final Cut Studio on a dual 2.7 GHz G5 Power Mac equipped with 4.5 GB of RAM.
Visual effects for selects was done using Apple's Shake 4.1. Rafael Rivera, the Director of Border Town, had decided during preproduction

that Shake would be one of the key elements for this project, and said that Shake's Optical Flow technology alone made this the easiest decision of all. Indeed, Shake proved to be an irreplaceable tool and was used for all VFX shots including camera stabilization, rotoscoping, tracking, rig removal, clean plate generation, color correction, motion blur, and film-grain generation

Once all VFX were completed, work started on the creation of a Sounds Effects track using Apple's Logic Pro, and then laid back onto the picture to achieve the final sound mix.
Final color grading was done using Final Cut Studio's built-in tools to match the visual mood to the Director's original concept. All post work was done at full 1920 x 1080, 10-bit uncompressed HD resolution, resulting in a gorgeous Edit Master with the potential to be output to any format

So check out Border Town and enjoy

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