[Tig] Worldwide Grading Facilities

[Rob Lingelbach]

On Jul 2, 2008, at 3:17 AM, warren eagles wrote:

> What year did "World Telecine" numbers peak?
> Have you still got that info Rob?

Unfortunately, though I've tried to find it in web archives, it's not  
there.  Since it was in a database that wasn't backed up, I can only  
rely on memory and mine's only as good as the last session :]

> I would quess around 2003, because since then some older machines
> have been replaced with Scanners?

yes but a lot of older machines that weren't parted out gained new  
life doing yeoman work at volume facilities.

> Also what about the most TK bays in one building (not group)
> I would expect somewhere in LA to top this list, for London I
> would say TVI with 7 rooms and in Australia Videolab with 5??

I think in LA Company 3 still would be at the top, with 7 Spirits, and  
in NYC with 5, and both with nonlinear, and an iQ in LA.  But there  
are some X factors, like Fotokem, Technicolor, Warner Bros., .. the  
"one building" qualifier would tend narrow it down because these are  
big corporations now.

It would be nice to get a new table going for grading facilities, for  
several reasons: it can publicize availability; freelancers can be  
associated with particular systems; colorists and engineers can know  
what's out there to work with.   And the TIG shifts its acronym to  
Things Involving Gamma (or more seriously Telecine/Image Grading).

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