With the multitude of formats now available in New Zealand choosing the right one for your project is increasingly difficult.  When looking for a camera format for 13 episodes of the 1 hour drama series Go Girls for South Pacific Pictures; producer Chris Bailey and DP DJ Stipson looked at all the options and P2 came out trumps and chose Images & Sound as their post partner.

“Go Girls was the first series we had worked on that used the HPX 3000,” said Images & Sound’s Grant Baker. “There was a copious quantity of data that needed to be handled every day over a five month shoot – about 200 gigabytes of material a day,” “As a result our team had to come up with a solution that allowed us to cut at low res and match back to the native files for the Smoke online and Baselight colour grade…”

The high speed network infrastructure at Image & Sound allowed for quick transfer times through out the post process. With more and more clients shooting on data cameras we’re perfectly set up. “approximately seventy- five percent of our work is now completed in HD,” says Baker.

“I thought the process was fantastic, and the results in terms of picture quality and look are better than I could have hoped for” says Chris Bailey.