Zentropa picks DVS Clipster

Hanover / Copenhagen – Denmark’s largest film production company Zentropa has selected a DVS Clipster as its DI workflow system. Aside from RAW workflows in real time, the purchase of the DI workstation enables DCI and HD mastering as well as DPX screening.

Due to its unique hardware platform and the specially developed hardware accelerator, Clipster manages to decode and demosaic RAW files in full quality at 4K 12 bit RGB mode in real-time. RAW data (e.g. from RED or Phantom cameras) can be directly displayed, edited in the timeline and played out in parallel in 4K. Furthermore, Clipster creates all necessary DCI steps from DSM (digital source master) to DCP (digital cinema package) in a single system, thus preventing time-consuming transfer processes through the use of many different components.

Lars Dela, technical director at Zentropa said, “We are impressed with Clipster’s multifunctionality and versatility. We carry out all essential steps to the finished DCP, check the DPX files, edit RAW material in real-time and apply Clipster for HD mastering. On Lars von Trier’s latest project Melancholia RAW data from the Phantom camera is being processed on DVS’s DI workstation: it is incredibly fast, reliable and definitely more than a one trick pony.”