Converting footage from any Cinema Camera for any format or platform.

Whilst Sonic Films offers Editing and Grading services we recognise the need for our clients to be able to take their footage anywhere they want. Sonic can therefore create offline versions of footage for any NLE as well as output anything from Standard Def (SD) to 4K at the highest possible quality. We can offer faster than realtime conversion of red files to Dpx or quicktimes. If you have hours footage our machines can create Avid HD mxf files or Apple Pro res hd files helping you on your way to deal with your rushes in the most effecient manner.
Sonic has done file conversion for many of the largest post houses in the United Kingdom. We have also created dailies and offline files for multi cameras shoots with hours of footage shot everyday.

Conforming 4K Red Camera Files to an edit using EDL's and Assimilate Sratch

As one of only a handful of companies adopting Assimilate Scratch in the UK, Sonic Films is able to offer our clients the most advanced, professional, rapid and cost effective method of conforming footage shot on the RedOne Digital Cinema Camera.

Scratch is a complete DI system capable of primary and secondary colour grading and outputting DPX files for recording to film.

Scratch allows us to conform to the original 4K R3D files recorded by the camera. Editing offline using Final Cut Pro and conforming in Scratch offers the quickest turnaround with the Red Camera although there are methods of working with Avid and other NLE's that are also very quick.

Scratch is the only system that can colour grade Red files in their native RedCode format. By grading the cameras RAW footage we have the ability to use all of the information that is recorded by the camera's 4K Mysterium sensor giving us the greatest amount of flexibility in post.

LTO Tape used for storing an exact camera copy of footage shot on the Red One Camera.

LTO tape is a standard in many industries where large volumes of data need to be stored for long periods and as such it has an estimated shelf life of over 50 years. The beauty of LTO compared to HDCAM and DigiBeta is that we retain an exact digital copy of what the Red One camera recorded, including the 4K resolution and RAW colourspace. Other tape based archives require the footage to be scaled down in resolution and have the colourspace baked into it, giving you less options in the future. Storing footage on harddrives can lead to problems such as "Sticktion" which is an issue that effects harddrives that have not been powered for long periods of time.

LTO is also very cost effective for our clients. Data backups and archiving are done in house and with strenuous checks taken to ensure complete and reliable copying.


	LTO Tape is a file based tape that can store an exact copy of what the camera created.

2K/1080p Playout to Tape

Sonic Films can now offer our clients the ability to playout to tape directly from the original Red footage with no need for timely processing. We can play out to a range of tape formats including HDCAM SR.

Sonic films is a Red Camera Rental and Post Production company

0207 016 2284 • Colm@sonicfilms.co.uk • 10-11 Percy Street , London, United Kingdom