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the courtyard below, ASC associate Tim
Smith - senior advisor for film and television production with Canon - says the
piece has proven useful for HDR testing.
Canon Burbank's multipurpose
room and camera-prep room are designed
for an array of functions, including large
classes, tutorials, training sessions and
screenings. For example, the Canon Live
Learning series of presentations and gear
deep-dives - which cover everything from
preproduction through final workflows -
will continue at Canon Burbank, with multiple classes and presentations every week.
The side curtains can be drawn in
both the prep room and the multipurpose
room to completely black out any external
light. Thanks to sliding air walls, wireless
networking and 25' of cable beneath the
floor, the two rooms can also be connected
for the testing needs of longer lenses. "We
can check focus at every point on just about
every lens that we've got, except the 501,000mm," says Smith. "That's where
we're going to have to go out on the
balcony. It's going to be tough to focus at
1,000mm inside a building."
The sophisticated routing and delivery system is made by Crestron. With
control panels in every room, the network is
Wi-Fi-accessible for remote changes to
everything from room lighting to deliverables. Thanks to the networking and fibercabling, Canon can control files and edits
with immediate transfer and playback
across the Burbank facility's prep bay, editing bay, DI suite, and any of the displays
throughout the space, including in the
screening room and color-grading suite,
which feature a 4K Barco DP4K-P projector
and SGO Mistika color-grading system. In
the Multipurpose room, a Canon Realis
4K600STZ laser projector will run videos for
screenings.
With four racks of audio and digitalvideo equipment, including an AJA Kumo

64x64 3G-SDI router and a 250TB main
bank of online storage, each of the three
server rooms can support two full, uncompressed 4K streams at the same time, meaning the entire system can run six streams of
uncompressed 4K or one stream of uncompressed 8K. From HDR monitors to
consumer displays and Mac and PC
computer systems, most NLE systems -
including Blackmagic Design's DaVinci
Resolve, Apple's Final Cut Pro X, the entire
Adobe Creative Cloud suite, and Avid's
Media Composer - are available for testing
looks with footage.
"This room is all about integration,"
explains Loren Simons, senior field application engineer for Canon Burbank. He points
out Canon 4K 24" DP-V2420 and 30" DPV3010 reference monitors, as well as
consumer-grade models that allow filmmakers to check the look of their projects in
the way that most viewers will end up
seeing it. Simons also mentions that the
DPX files he was using to show off the
system were located centrally on the Canon
Burbank server.
"All of the major NLEs are on a
system here, so a filmmaker can say, 'Hey,
I've got some footage, and I want to look at
it in my workflow and my environment,'"
Simons says. "Showing them how simple it
is to integrate our products into their existing workflows is key.
"I work with the studios and the
production companies to show how we can
integrate our cameras into their existing
workflows," he continues. "Filmmakers are
a finicky bunch. They want to keep things
the way that they are comfortable and
familiar with. We want to show them that
they can use our cameras [and] they can
integrate them right into existing postproduction workflows."
Canon Burbank, Smith adds, "is
where people get a chance to really experience a camera as deep as they have to go.
We could do, in this building, a blockbuster
film, from lens to delivery. Between the edit
bays and the projection system, we're a
complete unit for that. This is big for us."
Canon Burbank is located at 3400
West Olive Avenue, Burbank, Calif., 91505.
For additional information, visit
www.usa.canon.com.
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