Avatar and cineSync II

Monday, 11 January 2010

The editing of Avatar was a massive task. To effectively review VFX shots as they were coming in, editors John Refoua, A.C.E., and Stephen Rivkin, A.C.E turned to cineSync.

In an interview with Editor's Guild Magazine, John Refoua and Stephen Rivkin talk about the review process:

Jim [Cameron] did a video conference with ILM and the other visual effects vendors every day from his editing room. When we moved the cutting rooms to Fox for the last three months of mixing and finishing, we converted the Robert Wise Mix Stage into a cineSync facility for face-to-face meetings with effects vendors. Jim could review current renders of shots that could be seen simultaneously on our screen here and theirs. The room also doubled as a color-correction facility for the da Vinci Resolve system.

You can read the rest of the quite in-depth article here.