Video Assist

Here is how this works in practice. Our Irish video-help (digital-image-technician) operator roster covers the senior on-set playback-and-monitoring bench that anchored Vikings six seasons at Ashford Studios Wicklow (the multi-camera Lough Tay-and-longboat coverage with HD-and-4K wireless distribution to director and DP), Game of Thrones across Titanic Studios Belfast and Paint Hall (the multi-thousand-extra Battle-of-the-Bastards multi-camera playback that supported the multiple Primetime Emmy outstanding-cinematography wins). Foundation across Troy Studios Limerick on Apple TV+ (the 320,000 sq ft stage Trantor-sites multi-cast multi-camera village-villages-monitoring).

Here is the short of it. Penny Dreadful and The Tudors at Ardmore Studios Bray, the Star Wars Skellig Michael units (the JJ Abrams and Rian Johnson director-monitoring precedent at the UNESCO-island shoot). Plus the recent Banshees of Inisherin Achill Island and Inishmore unit (the Martin McDonagh director-monitoring on cold-October Atlantic exterior), Belfast 2021 (the Kenneth Branagh autobiographical director-monitoring in black-and-white-and-color), Normal People HBO Sligo-and-Trinity, The Wonder, and the An Cailín Ciúin Gaeltacht units.

Here is the breakdown. Workflow runs QTake HDx (the prestige-feature and prestige-series video-help standard with multi-camera recording, instant-replay, color-management, and remote-monitoring). Atomos Shogun Connect and Ninja V+ for portable 4K HDR ProRes recording. Cinedeck Extract and RX for on-set offload. Teradek Bolt 4K Max wireless video transmission (the prestige-feature standard for director-and-DP-and-video-village distribution), Vaxis Atom 1000 wireless secondary distribution, plus Decimator MD-HX SDI-to-HDMI conversion. Monitor coverage Flanders Scientific DM250 and XM310K for color-managed director-and-DP village, SmallHD Cine 24 and Cine 32, plus the Sony BVM-HX3110 4K HDR mastering monitor at studio-base village.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Section 481 32% tax credit qualifies video-help spend through Irish-resident hires plus the 40% regional uplift on named-area shoots. SIPTU union compliance, EUR Eurozone with GBP NI dual-currency, plus the Atlantic-maritime-climate weather-discipline (rain-cover-and-cover-set workflow that Banshees, The Wonder, and Quiet Girl shoots demanded).