MTI Puts Third Nucoda Film Master into the Equation

Feb. 7, 2012 - PRLog -- Top Hollywood Facility Relies on Nucoda for Versatile Workflow

(Los Angeles, CA/London, UK)     Image Systems - the leading manufacturer of image enhancement and mastering systems for post production - has announced that MTI Film in Hollywood, California, has installed its third Nucoda Film Master into its state-of-the-art facility. Opened in 2010, MTI Film is a full service post production facility providing high quality dailies, editorial, visual effects, color correction and assembly for film, television and commercial projects.  MTI is currently at work on a number of projects, including AMC's Hell on Wheels, CW's Ringer, Good Christian Belles on ABC, and for TNT The Closer, Dallas, and Rizzoli & Isles, as well as a number of feature and restoration projects.

MTI installed its first Nucoda Film Master in 2010, as the facility prepared to open their Hollywood facility.  Barbara Marshall, Executive Producer at MTI, noted,  "The Nucoda is central to the way we work with our customers, whether they come to us with a feature, or a network or cable program.  Its interoperability with Avid and the versatility of the toolset is crucial to our work and underpins our entire pipeline.  We have found it to be an incredibly powerful creative tool."

Steve Porter, Senior Colorist, noted, "Nucoda's color grading toolset enables us to be gutsy when necessary and subtle when needed. It is ergonomic and intuitive.  The fact that we can do a show like Hell On Wheels, which is extremely vivid, and turn right to Ringer, an elegant, female-driven show, says a lot about its capabilities. Our focus is to support the story and the filmmaker, and Nucoda is an essential part of that."

The built-in effects in Nucoda Film Master have been extremely useful.  Jeremy Sawyer, Colorist at MTI, noted that, "In addition to the great color grading tools, all of the other plug-ins and effects that come straight out of the box are outstanding.  They are great for beauty work, the grain tools are top of the list, and the visual effects tools are truly powerful.  In television, we 're often up against a tight deadline, and the tools in the Nucoda are extremely beneficial to us in hitting our schedule."

MTI is busy with television projects but has a history of quality restoration services.  The Nucoda Film Masters have been involved in a number of recent remastering projects, including classics; In Like Flint, Our Man Flint, and The Flight of the Phoenix for Twentieth Century Fox, among others. All of these iconic titles were remastered at 4K in MTI's DI theatre.

Larry Chernoff, President of MTI concluded, "A year ago, we started with Nucoda Film Master at the center of our color operations.  Since then, we've found our decision was more than validated by the consistent development, support and innovative ideas coming out of Image Systems, and we are delighted to continue our work with them.


About Image Systems
Image Systems Media Unit, formerly Digital Vision, is a division of Image Systems AB, which specializes in high-resolution image processing, film scanning and motion analysis solutions. Headquartered in Linköping, Sweden, Image Systems has offices in Stockholm, London and Los Angeles. The company has three business units: Media, Defense and Motion, managed via a global network of qualified distributors. Its Nucoda and Phoenix image grading and restoration software solutions and Golden Eye range of scanners provide innovative tools to create and master media in HD, 2K/4K and stereoscopic 3D. The TEMA software platform provides a range of user friendly, high-speed motion analysis solutions for the automotive industry and other industrial test and design applications. The TrackEye system provides image analysis solutions for the military reconnaissance and testing markets. For additional information, visit www.imagesystems.tv.

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About MTI
MTI Film is a full service Post Production facility providing high quality dailies, editorial, visual effects, color correction and assembly for film, television and commercial projects.  MTI Film's talented staff of seasoned industry veterans have served a number of high-profile projects including Rizzoli & Isles, Ringer, The Defenders, Through the Wormhole, Hell on Wheels and Dallas.  As a leader in post-production technology, MTI Film's facility is state-of-the art.  With MTI Film's award-winning Control Dailies at the head of the workflow, MTI Film offers unparalleled flexibility in the production's choice of cameras, preferred editorial platform and deliverables formatting.  MTI also boasts a brand new DI theater that is fully calibrated and capable of 4k playback.  For more information visit www.mtifilm.com.

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