Duckling Installs FrameCycler with DualStream for Stereoscopic Review

"You don’t choose stereo, stereo chooses you"

Copenhagen: November 6, 2007 ... IRIDAS, the industry leader in uncompressed stereoscopic playback technologies, has announced the sale of multiple seats of FrameCycler 2007 with DualStream to Duckling|Supersonic, a vfx and audio facility specializing in high-end commercial and feature work based in Copenhagen. Now artists at Duckling can check stereoscopic content right at their workstation and teams can hold daily review sessions of longer stereo sequences with FrameCycler DDS.

"I've used FrameCycler for a long time and it's always been great," said Craig Clarke, VFX supervisor at Duckling. "It works with the other tools we use, support has been excellent, and the integration with cineSpace ensures that everything we watch in FrameCycler is correctly calibrated."

"When I came to Duckling for this new stereo project, I showed them FrameCycler and SequencePublisher [IRIDAS' workflow automation application] and it really opened their eyes to a new way of working with digital content."

Doing stereo adds a whole new level of complexity to postprodution work. "Bill Reeves, the DP on this project, once told me 'you don't choose stereo; stereo chooses you,' and he was right" recalled Clarke. "I remember the first stereo job I did, an animation feature for IMAX. We had to go down to the IMAX theater every morning to review one-minute loops of film, just to check our progress. I can't believe we got through it. Now I just press play in FrameCycler and away we go."

The current project, a large-scale corporate piece, called for new tools at Duckling. Now, with the IRIDAS applications, the facility has a full digital workflow in place. "We use FrameCycler Professional for Mac here on our artists' workstations. We use SequencePublisher on a Windows machine to prepare shots for daily review session with our FrameCycler DDS system. All of our FrameCyclers are equipped with DualStream for automatic stereo playback."

FrameCycler Professional and FrameCycler Digital Daily System (DDS) run on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, and are a part of the FrameCycler family of uncompressed playback applications. For more information on FrameCycler 2007 or DualStream, contact IRIDAS at +49 89 330 35 142, IRIDAS USA at (818) 951-8927, or visit www.framecycler.com.

About Duckling|Supersonic
Duckling and Supersonic CPH joined in 2006. Duckling is a postproduction facility offering Visual Effects, Editing, Color Grading, Project Coordination, Commercial Versioning and Mastering. Supersonic CPH is a sound studio offering everything in audio from Sound Design, Music and Radio. The new company offers a laid-back atmosphere with unlimited creativity and exceptional results. Visit www.duckling.dk to learn more.

About IRIDAS
IRIDAS pioneered desktop film-resolution playback in 2001. Its FrameCycler products are now the industry standard for frame-based image review. In 2003 IRIDAS introduced the first non-destructive color correction application. Today SpeedGrade and FrameCycler provide the critical links in an end-to-end pipeline for uncompressed content and color metadata. IRIDAS' applications are used by filmmakers around the world and most major animation and postproduction houses. IRIDAS is an independent, privately held company headquartered in Munich, Germany. For more information, visit www.iridas.com.