cineSync used on The Shaggy Dog

Wednesday, 01 February 2006

Millimeter Magazine is running an article on the special effects created for Disney's The Shaggy Dog. Here is an excerpt:

As with any significant visual effects project, Rosenbaum, his vendors, Beristain, and director Brian Robbins had to frequently conference on not only colour issues, but all aspects of the digital effects shots. Rosenbaum says the production's solution for accomplishing that with many of the participants routinely in different locations was to use the cineSync remote collaboration system from Rising Sun Research. "It has probably made me give up satellite transmission systems forever," he says.

"Essentially, we would upload a QuickTime file, usually at 1K resolution, in the new H.264 codec – a small file but without tons of compression," he says. "Then, everyone could download it and work on the same synchronised file during a session. We can play it between multiple computers in different locations, and we can all use a mouse pointer and mark up the sequence and interact in a direct way with the vendors."

You can read the full article here.