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Rohde & Schwarz is named official supplier for the 67th
Berlinale
The
Munich-based
company
supports the festival as an official
supplier. This year, Rohde & Schwarz
is providing three R&S CLIPSTER
mastering stations, one four-
channel R&S VENICE 2U ingest and
playout platform and its reliable R&S
SpycerBox Cell storage solution. The
systems will be installed at the Colt
Technology Services data processing
center as part of the core of the
Berlinale’s digital workflow. R&S CLIPSTER quickly and reliably
generates digital cinema packages (DCP) for the screenings,
ensuring that the quality of the videos keeps festival guests
spellbound.
About 1100 films in total will be played at the Berlinale,
including the European Film Market screenings. Some of
the film material will be delivered in file formats other than
final DCP, a few will even be delivered on reels. The R&S
VENICE ingest and production server digitizes such material
and exports it for further processing. R&S SpycerBox Cell
buffers the video files to ensure that R&S CLIPSTER is able to
quickly and efficiently process the immense amount of data.
The mastering station supports a number of video formats,
allowing previously digitized films to be quickly converted and
processed. The mastering station generates high-quality DCPs
faster than in realtime, so last-minute adjustments such as
subtitle changes are easy to make.
Ove Sander, Technical Manager – Digital Cinema, Berlin
International Film Festival: “Once
again this year we are placing our
trust in the systems from Rohde
& Schwarz – especially due to
the hectic environment during
the festival. The VENICE servers
help us by reliably digitizing the
various input media and preparing
them for further processing. With
its incredible speed, the CLIPSTER
mastering station lets us generate
all DCPs in plenty of time before the festival starts.”
Stefan Weidner, Director of File Based Media Solutions at
Rohde & Schwarz: “It’s our pleasure to partner with the
Berlinale and to demonstrate the reliability and quality of our
products to a wide audience of professionals. We have a close
bond with the German film industry and want to express that
with our dedicated involvement.”
The Berlinale is one of the international film industry’s
most important events. Ticket sales hover around 325,000,
and more than 20,000 industry visitors are expected from
124 countries, including some 4,000 journalists. The public
program shows around 400 films each year, most of which
are world and international premieres. Films of all genres,
lengths and formats are presented in the various sections of
the festival. The European Film Market (EFM) is the business
epicenter of the Berlinale and one of the world’s most
important international film markets. Up to 800 more films will
be presented during the EFM.
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