NAB 2013 - Rohde & Schwarz DVS Helps Harbor Picture Company Deliver Award-winning Slate of Films to Sundance

At NAB 2013, Rohde & Schwarz DVS GmbH (DVS) announced the following news: Harbor Picture Company, one of New York’s fastest growing production and DI post facilities, delivered a slate of three films to the 2013 Sundance Film Festival - Very Good Girls, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, and The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete. Ain't Them Bodies Saints, graded by Harbor Picture Company colorist Joe Gawler, was awarded the festival’s Excellence in Cinematography Award. 

Hanover/Las Vegas. “As a new company, Harbor was thrilled for the opportunity to finish three films for Sundance this year,” said Gawler. “All three were terrific experiences and we are particularly proud that Ain't Them Bodies Saints was awarded Best Cinematography. Using the DVS SpycerBox Flex gave us the speed and bandwidth to be able to conform, grade and master all three features simultaneously.”

Harbor Picture Company President, Zak Tucker, noted, “We were so grateful to have the opportunity to collaborate on three Sundance features this year, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, directed by David Lowery, Very Good Girls, directed by Naomi Foner, and The Inevitable Defeat of Mr & Pete, directed by George Tillman, Jr. Because Harbor is an artist-driven post studio for studio and independent feature projects we are dedicated to ensuring a seamless and robust technical infrastructure so that our artists and collaborators can focus on the creative. The SAN offering from DVS is unparalleled in reliability and performance when it comes to perfect, on-time delivery.” 

The DVS SpycerBox storage platform, tuned specifically for high-bandwidth, high-reliability film and video workflows, is built around a “SAN-in-a-box” concept, combining RAID-5 SAN storage, metadata server, open file system, and a network file server all in one 5U chassis. With unmatched flexibility, SpycerBox provides high-speed, low-latency block-level access to Mac, Windows, and Linux workstations via 8 Gb Fibre Channel and the StorNext file system, while simultaneously providing CIFS/SMB and NFS network access via 1/10/40 Gb Ethernet. Apple Mac fibre channel clients running Lion or Mountain Lion get the added benefit of using the Xsan client license included in the operating system at no extra cost. The solution comes in two configurations, SpycerBox Flex and SpycerBox Ultra. The high-performance SpycerBox Flex delivers five simultaneous streams of uncompressed 2K and up to 40 simultaneous streams of 220 Mbit/s compressed video, at all given times. SpycerBox Ultra delivers a high-capacity configuration up to 96 TB. Multiple SpycerBoxes can be easily managed with the DVS-exclusive Spycer® content control software. Spycer® offers unique browse and search, high-speed copy, defragmentation and many other tools for managing media files.

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