Live show production service for
PUSSYCAT Dolls Concert at Venetian Arena


The DE/Digital Entertainment Person of the Year


A GDC Server EN1000 is installed in i-Magic

New Force, and a New Dimension
Young team forming a new force with the Cinematic magical world.





Directors/ Producer


開心家庭篇 -- Happy Family


Our Animation World / 我們的動畫世界 ....

Solo Indonesia HD location filming support:


RED 3D Stereoscopic half way mirror for rent Create 3D live filming




3D Stereo Vision Production

Tele-prompter for location works

3D stereoscopic filming by Film Magic

HD Service in Film Magic

 
 


Film Magic News and Notes

FEB 2011
 
Congratulations to Director Bao Trung Le and the team of "Funny Ghost" !!
1. Director and Producer of the 1st 3D Stereo Movie produced in Vietnam
2. Being the Number 1 Box Office in 2011 Spring festival in Vietnam
3. The most Extensive Digital Cinema 3D DCP release in Vietnam
We wish him every successes to come..
Hong Kong team are: Percy, Karlo, Cyrus, Gary, Jackie, Lik, Kennie and Anna







 

SEP 2010

Digital Cinema Mastering and DCP services
   2D DCP
   3D Stereo DCP
   DCP with 7.1 Audio
   KDM keys
   DCDM Post work for mastering
   Engineering set up and consultant
    
DCDM production from various source
Re-master of the Sources, from DCP, DI master, Film or HD master
      ...Able to handle various image and audio formats 
   Censorship edit
   Tilting
   New Audio tracking replacement, dubbing tracks
   Re-purposing for Advertising, event, and Live works
 
DCP production for Hong Kong, Taiwan, China
   Full readiness Machine Certificates  
DCP production for Worldwide, hub-to-hub, hub-to-point
Special DCP production for Competition, Event, Film Fair, and Promotion
 
KDM Keys for conditional access of content
   Time and schedule
   Numbers of Events/Shows
   Reporting
 
In-House DCI rated Digital Cinema Servers
   Dolby, GDC and Qube
 
In-House 7.1 ready DCI reviewing grade Digital Cinema
   Audio preview and reviewew and review
   5.1 and other New media sound config
 
Other forms of deliverables
    IMAX Cinema 2K screening
    DCP 4K
    4K post and mastering
 

June 2009
《2009 TVB最受歡迎電視廣告大獎》

Congratulation to our Film Director Ah Fai, and Film Magic team

香港吸煙與健康委員會製作的電視宣傳片「贏上門篇」,榮獲電視廣播有限公司主辦的《TVB最受歡迎電視廣告大獎2009》綜合類別之「最受歡迎電視廣告」獎項。

委員會於2008年以「戒煙」及「無煙家庭」為主題,分別製作了兩輯電視宣傳片「贏上門篇」及「好男人篇」,以「戒煙一定贏」為口號,向全港市民展示戒煙對個人及社會的好處,從而鼓勵市民積極支持家人及身邊人戒煙,共同投入無煙的健康生活。以上兩輯宣傳片均成功晉身《TVB最受歡迎電視廣告大獎2009》綜合類別之「最受歡迎電視廣告」最後五強,並公開接受廣大觀眾投票,選出最受歡迎電視廣告。最後,「贏上門篇」脫穎而出,榮獲綜合類別之「最受歡迎電視廣告」,可見此電視宣傳片成功引起觀眾注意及關注吸煙問題的嚴重性。


 


June 2009
RED is TED.. on this Saturday, June 06, 2009
Ted of RED visiting Digital Magic, and met students of APA's School of Television and Motion Pictures, Academy of Performance Art. A mini seminar and study on RED ONE Production and Post production workflows.
Can you found RED's the Scarlet in the pictures??
Welcome and thanks to Dan,
Zach, Anna and Lik



 

March 2009
Mobile phone creative content competition winners from Digital Magic


 

At Filmart 2009, our booths displayed
the RED ONE 3d Stereo solution.
Sony's flagship F35 Camera system
BaseLight Digital Intermediate system
Depth Q single projector active 3D display
q-Mobile and Mobile games projects




 


March
2009
TVB Most Popular TV Commercial Awards 
Congratulations to Ah Fai!!
2 out of the 5 Finalist's API category works, of the TVB's Best Hong Kong TV commercials/ 
TVB最受歡迎廣告
are Directed by Ah Fai
Congratulations!!!
Produced by Film Magic under Anna!!!
Animation and Post by Digital Magic, and directed by Cheong Gor!!!
Many thanks to Triangle Pacific for the creation of the concept, supervisions, and awarded us with this opportunity in filming and post-production


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OejP9-9eAA0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqMr36tnGVM --
director version


March 2009
Sony F35 Camera system
in Action, in Hong Kong

Initial test with HDCam SR HQ 880/Mbps, under Sony's S-Log imaging technology
We believe this would be the best Digital Film Making technology available for Cinematic release woks
 
Post processing towards Digital Cinema and Film Movie projection test in progress,
under Film Magic, Digital Magic, i-Magic and Heavy Optical
See the result at Digital Magic Film Show on 24th March 2009 at Filmart. 10AM at Theatre ONE
F35 and XDCam PDW700 Camera system display at Filmart's 2009 Digital Magic's Booth

 

Jan 2009
A Canon 5D Mark HD shot by Kenneth and Karlo,
       a visual story of Tong Yie Tang in Cheung Chui,


 

Dec 2008
Canon HD qaulity filming in Action

Canon 5D Mark II in Hong Kong with Film Magic Crew
Day Night                                                        Tungsten:
 
 
One of the first owners of the new Canon EOS 5D Mark II in Hong Kong
we observed..
21 mega-pixel SLR with H.264 1080P 60 capability
30P only, 25/24P is not enabled
you can't control the iris or ASA easily.
use of fully manual lenses such as those from Zeiss.
 
5D Mark II camera "burst mode" at 3.9 shots per second,
at 5616 x 3744 resolution JPEG mode,
Maximum of 310 frames
 


Dec 2008
Latest TV commercial promoting Urban Renew Consultation process,
for Hong Kong SAR Development Bureau, under the creative supervision of Triangle Pacific
 
Here is Fai.., directing and filming with RED ONE
The Director's dream of a Film style shoot with all Movie PL Arri Primes
 
Film Magic's RED ONE on location with PL mounted Shift and Tilt lens
 
RED ONE crew and DIT at work, a Data centric workflow
 
RED ONE Post with Assimilate Scratch's .r3d conform and RAW color workflow,
additional compositing with Flame 2009,
and additional enhancement Da Vinci 2K Plus
 
Here is the TV Commercial a week after the shoot, Post and CG by Digital Magic
Link:........

Aug 2008
XDCam EX1 with Film lens adopter

Arri PL lens on LetUS35 Mount, T1.3 and T2 set
We have a set of 2 XDCam EX1 adopted for budgeted 3D stereo filming



 

May 2008





April 2008

Prime lens adoptor LETUs35 in action with Film Magic, for
1. Sony XDCam EX,
2. Panasonic HVX200,
Lens mount include:
a. Arri PL mount
b. Nikon mount
 


Live show production service for PUSSYCAT Dolls Concert,
and new year countdown at Venetian Arena, Macau.
Multi-camera coverage, and live multiscreen display


Dec 2007

Another ArriLaser to arrive in Hong Kong
 
Heavy Optical has committed with Arri in purchase of an Arri Laser for quality 35mm Film work.
The industry has ask for it, and we listen.
Heavy Optical, the largest and eldest digital film service provider in Hong Kong, has provided to the industry over 30 years of quality film post production service. Servicing most part of Asia, and extending our works to Europe and America.
 
We work with Film productions, post-production and renowned visual effect house to create the best digital film production pipeline, meeting today's Digital Intermediate workflow.
 
Arri Laser ordered will include some of the special features, which will push the quality of digital film work to a higher level, these included:
a. 35mm Internegative film output
b. 35mm film negative work, specially design for CG and Animation master.
c. Work seamlessly with Kodak Cineon Genesis Plus
d. Special HD module, handle 1920 resolution files for full aperture 35mm release
e. Advance ArriLaser Interactive configuration Editor, ALICE, to enhance video based
    film works
f. Arri Cube color management system
h. Full service Platinum package will be acquired from Arri, to assure performance
 
We have all the resources and experience of CRT film work, Arri Laser would be a good addition to our batches of film systems to ensure your work to be on schedule and to meet various industrial needs
 
Heavy Optical working along with Digital Magic in Hong Kong, will also provide
a. Millennium 2 pin-registered scanning+ DVS Clipster, for 2K/4K scan and image files
b. Da Vinci 2K Plus, Da Vinci toolbox 2 color creation
c. Digital Vision DVNR 2K/HD444 grain control, dirt and scratches concealment
d. Da Vinci Revival for restoration.
e. mastering on HDCam SR 444 
f. Flame 2007, and Smoke 2007 for conform, your 2K and HD444 workflow
g. 2K DLP cinema Barco/ Dolby/ JBL screening room
h. Deliverables, HD mastering, D-Cinema DCP, and QC service
 
To contact with Heavy Optical, please call 852-25715432
Jackie, production coordinator, jackie@heavyoptical.com.hk
Percy, technical consultant, percy@heavyoptical.com.hk
Francis, chief engineer, francis@heavyoptical.com.hk
 
Heavy Optical, www.heavyoptical.com.hk, is a subsidiary of the Film Magic group, partner with Digital Magic, www.digitalmagic.com.hk, and i-Magic, www.i-magic.com.hk, to serve the Asian motion picture industry
 

Full HD, FHD

Most of the early HD equipment are not full complied to the 1920x 1080 display.
Full HD will offer true 1920 x 1080 operation and display
The other level we would like to look into is 4:4:4 display of color
HDCam SR 4:4:4 also carried 12 channels of Audio
 
Digital Intermediate 2K
According to the early Kodak Cineon specification, this is based upon 2048 x 1556 for a full-gate 35mm film scan, or as adjust for full screening aperture for 1:2.35 anamorphic display at 1828x 1556. 10 bit log .dpx.cin is commonly use for effective post-production work
 
Ultra HD, UHD
Camera designed to operate higher than HD quality.
Like RED, with her 4096x 2304 is an UHD camera, employ RED code, a Wavelet base 12 bit 12:1 visually lossless compression
Peter Jackson test film has rated RED at 250 ASA at 24fps
A good digital perform to built single camera dual lens Stereoscopic vision work.
 
UHD 8K
7680x 4320 which has to stream 32 million pixels at 24Gbit/sec., 16x resolution of HD, comparable or said to be better than IMAX's 15 perf 70mm film work. Initial standard design to have 22 channels of audio, a NHK research project, this reminded me of a visit made 33 years ago to NHK research center, where I had experiment with prototypes of Plasma and HDTV.
 

Specialist with HDTV production, and reseller of HD image library
- HD WMV with China, 01, Guelin [WM9 282K]
- HD WMV with China, 02, Shanghai [WM9 282K]

Dec 2005
HK SMPTE 2005,

Digital Intermediate and Color Management

Digital Entertainment Conference Asia 2005
HDTV mastering, and Digital Cinema

Pictures of camera under Beta test Sony F23 Digital Cine Camera
HD XDCam, CineAlta, with Variable frame rate, direct on to
Blue ray Disc

   

JVC HDV100