Brazil. O2 Post is in the process of installing 80 licenses for Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve on different workstations, including three specialized studios, thus becoming one of the most ambitious structures for implementing the program globally.
Davinci Resolve serves the company's production and post-production processes, so that colorists, editors, special effects experts, producers, directors and customers will have the ability to share and modify work files simultaneously from anywhere within the facility.
O2 Post is the largest production and post-production studio in Brazil and is part of the O2 conglomerate of companies belonging to the film and television industry. The company, which was initially created in order to provide services to the subsidiaries of O2 Filmes, currently carries out projects for all types of productions in Brazil and other countries.
For this purpose, it has an internal staff made up of more than 100 professionals scattered in its headquarters of 8,500 m² located in São Paulo. As a result of the new work configuration, the digital color grading of all O2 projects will be carried out using DaVinci Resolve.
The DaVinci-based post-production procedure, which will be implemented gradually, includes three digital color grading studios and 77 licenses for computers with Mac or Windows operating systems. All workstations will be connected by a SAN network that will cover the entire headquarters and will allow the creation of exclusive databases, so that up to 40 people can access the same project in parallel.
Also, since all processes revolve around DaVinci Resolve, both O2 staff and clients will be connected to the network and will have the possibility to open, modify or play the project files from different locations.
Paulo Barcellos, CEO of O2, has been in charge of designing and managing the creation of the new infrastructure: "Although O2 was a pioneer in the processing of content in digital format, our post-production studio used to implement cumbersome solutions that were not very conducive to this purpose and hindered the workflow. This shortcoming greatly limited our ability to expand. For example, only colorists in charge of the project or persons authorized to enter the studio could have contact with the coloring process. Alternatively, one of them could be asked for the rendered file. On the contrary, by focusing our post-production processes on Resolve and using Mac computers, we enjoy better features, more teamwork possibilities and greater speed for deliveries. Indeed, productivity has tripled compared to the old system."
So far, 14 DaVinci Resolve licenses have been installed and three color grading studios have been arranged. Completion of the entire project (80 licenses) is expected by the end of 2015.
