Baobab: Highlights

Baobab Goes Full-Tilt Digital!

OTTAWA, November 1, 1997 -- With the installation of a new Fast DVMaster video capture/editing system, Baobab Productions Inc. has become one of the world's first, fully DV digital, production houses. "This puts us right at the leading edge and gives us the ability to produce technically superior, broadcast video at a reasonable price," says Baobab President, David Mowbray. "We can stay digital from field to master tape, with absolutely no picture quality loss during the edit. Almost no one else in the world is doing that!"

Baobab bought one of the first DV cameras in Canada but until now had to make analogue copies of the digital tapes in order to edit them. This necessarily degraded picture quality. The new technology moves the digital data from DV field tapes directly to computer hard drives for editing. It is just a transfer of numeric data from tape to disk.

In addition to the better-looking pictures, for Baobab's clients the new gear also means a much closer link between off-line edits and the final rendering. In the past Baobab had to create Edit Decision Lists that other editing systems could understand. It did not always work as well as expected. The new gear eliminates that step completely. Now for clients, "what you see is what you will really get."

In addition to using the digital production centre for its own work, Baobab expects to rent the facility to outside producers and Non Governmental Organizations (NGO's).

Baobab Productions Inc. is one of the world's leading producers of material about research in the developing world. For more information, contact Marlene Bedford: mmowbray@baobab.net.

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