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Production summary

HoBSoft setup

HoBSoft responsibilities

Production system

HoBSoft was responsible for tying together all 3 studios in the production, EuropaCorp/Pumpkin3D, Walking the dog and Mac Guff Ligne.

Pumpkin3D had a production database in place which were designed to work within one studio only.

When the production expanded to work in more studios HoBSoft was hired to implement automatic transfers of assets and animation to Walking the Dog in Brussels based on the data in the Pumpkin3D database.

HoBSoft implemented custom techniques to synchronize the databases.

Once HoBSoft was in place it was simple to include automatic sending of stereo packages to Mac Guff for Stereo Compositing.

File structure

HoBSoft, in co-operation with the local CG Supervisor, designed a filestructure that would fit Lighting, Rendering, Compositing(2D) and delivery for Stereoscopy.

The first step in organizing the file tree is a good specification, but without enforcement there is a high probability that it becomes chaos.

If the file tree is not correct, it will not be possible to create automatic procedures. Automatic procedures can save massive amounts of money reducing the trivial repetitive workload substantially.

The automatic HoBSoft system created all necessary files according to the specification, and then automatically enforced the file naming all throughout all the studios in the production.

Editing setup

HoBSoft set up the amazing automatic update of the Final Cut Pro editing stations in Walking the Dog and Europacorp/Pumpkin3D.

Whenever something was marked ready in Paris or Brussels the footage would automatically be updated in the Ready track in the FCP.

When Approved the Approved Track would also be updated.

Like this the FCP in both studios would always reflect the true state of the film.

Approvals are made easy and all footage is seen in full resolution and with hookups according to the current edit.

Call up the collaborating studio. Look at Ready track, time code 01:25:03:12, there you see the problem in modeling/animation...

Security

HoBSoft implemented automatic transfer of files secured by strong certifcate based authentication and encryption.

This ensured that no footage from the production leaked from the transfering of files, unlike e-mail and ftp.

HoBSoft never uses insecure channels to transfer data.

Trailer

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