Deluxe Chooses DaVinci Resolve

Milpitas, CA, May 6, 2010 -- Blackmagic Design Inc. today announced that Deluxe Digital Media, a subsidiary of Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, has purchased and installed the company’s high-end Linux GPU-based DaVinci Resolve system at its Sherman Oaks facility.
 
Deluxe Digital Media is one of the leaders in providing digital technology to the worldwide film industry. Deluxe provides a wide range of digital workflow solutions from HD telecine dailies to video mastering and is among the top companies offering telecine and digital cinema services.
 
The Resolve will provide the ability to color correct in the 4K environment, and will be added to their existing suite of Resolve 2K systems. Resolve also handles real time grading of raw RED files. The addition of the new Resolve upgrade will allow Deluxe’s Sherman Oaks facility to improve workflow efficiency and productivity between projects working within different resolutions.

“Our relationship with Blackmagic and their products has been excellent.  The Resolve has allowed us to significantly enhance our flexibility and provide services we did not offer previously,” said Gray Ainsworth, Sr. Vice President of Operations for Deluxe Digital Media.
 
About DaVinci Resolve
DaVinci Resolve is the industry standard for color correction and 3D grading technology, supporting more real time color correction than any other system. Eliminating performance barriers by using a cluster of computers with high performance GPU cards, DaVinci Resolve handles real-time performance demands of color grades when using dozens of primaries, secondaries, power windows™, multi-point tracking, blurs, and can work within the industry’s newest digital workflows. Also, DaVinci Resolve can easily handle new workflows needed for full stereoscopic 3D, offering the ability to grade and view two eyes simultaneously, in real-time with no rendering and no proxies.

Press Photography
Product photos of the DaVinci Resolve and DaVinci Revival, as well as all other Blackmagic Design products, are available at www.blackmagic-design.com/press/images.

About Deluxe
Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc., is the leading provider of a broad range of entertainment industry services and technologies to major Hollywood Studios and an international client base. Services include motion picture film processing, printing and distribution; EFILM® digital intermediates; post production and subtitling services; titles design and digital VFX; DVD compression, encoding and authoring; digital cinema services, digital asset management, digital distribution; marketing fulfillment services and intellectual property security systems. Deluxe operates facilities around the world. For more information please visit www.bydeluxe.com.

About Blackmagic Design
Blackmagic Design creates the world’s most advanced video editing products, video converters, routers, color correctors, film restoration software and waveform monitors for the feature film, post production and broadcast industries. Blackmagic Design’s DeckLink, Mini Converters, Videohub routers and UltraScope waveform monitoring products revolutionize the television industry by making advanced post production tools affordable to thousands of creative professionals. Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Emmy™ award winning color correction products continue to dominate and lead the industry with ground breaking innovations including stereoscopic 3D and 4K workflows. Blackmagic Design has offices in the USA, UK, Japan, Singapore and Australia.