FilmLight announced that Dolby has taken delivery of one of the first Baselight X
systems. Baselight X will be used in the Dolby Vision mastering suite in the
company’s Burbank facility.
The system combines six processing GPUs plus a seventh GPU for the user interface
and real-time waveform monitors and vectorscopes. It provides real-time playback
and processing, across multiple layers with complex grades, effects and matte
channels.
Baselight X also incorporates a large storage system that connects directly to the
internal image processing components, addressing Dolby’s requirement to play 4k
4096 x 3112 16bit film scans and cache the results to disk at the same time.
Dolby and FilmLight have a long history of collaboration, with Baselight being the
first grading system capable of mastering for Dolby Vision. Dolby has four Baselight
suites in its R&D departments, and upgraded an existing Baselight EIGHT system to
Baselight X. This gives Dolby’s colourists and colour scientists ultimate real-time
control over high-resolution, high-bit depth HDR grading and finishing.
