MUMBAI: A few days ago a Digital Intermediate and Film Restoration Seminar was organized by Shemaroo.

The firm also launched its new studio facility exactly performing the same functions of DI and film restoration. There were speakers from DaVinci (USA), Digital Vision (Sweden), Thomson (France), Laser Grpahics (USA) and Bright (USA).

They addressed the guests on new developments in digital technology for film post-production business. People from the film fraternity - producers, cameramen, film editors, directors and rechnicians were present.

Shemaroo says that Shemaroo Studio is devoted to post production for telecine transfer, DVD/ VCD authoring and graphics set-ups - is well known for their in house state-of-the-art complete studio facilities. They have now incorporated solutions with Thomson "Spirit 4K" Datacine, Davinci "2K Plus", Digital vision 2K DVNR, Bright systems Storage area network (SAN and NAS), Digital Vision - Nucoda "Film Master" suites for DI and DaVinci "Revivals" for Film Restoration and Lasergraphics Film Recorder "P4".

In visual effects and graphics area Shemaroo says that it has all infrastructure that needs to achieve: unlimited layers, compositing, chroma work, wire and rig removal, CGI, credit titles, supers, graphics, animation, 3D modelling etc using shake, combustion, smoke, after effects, 3D Max & Maya. Shemaroo also claims to be HD ready. This can offer HD Telecine, editing, noise reduction,colour grading and HD archiving on Panasonic D5 or Sony SRW format or on any data tapes.

Shemaroo Entertainment VP studio Hemant Karani says, "We belong to this entertainment industry and have grown with it. We would like to return back to this wonderful industry by being a facilitator of state-of-the-art studio facilities. After visiting umpteen international facilities we have selected the best equipment brands today and the best configurations to delight our film industry customer friends.

"We can fulfill all their demanding requirements and are in a position to give them the best technical and professional services."