Pandora International

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Pandora International is a maker of hardware and software. Pandora International devices are able to color-correct video and 16 mm and 35 mm motion picture film transferred through its devices. Pandora International is based in Greenhithe, Kent, England.[1]

Pogle color corrector

Pandora Int. was the maker the Pogle color corrector controller. The Pogle can control a telecines, like the FDL60 the first digital telecine. New models could control FDL 90, Quadra and Spirit DataCines[2] Pogle used customized external control panels. Pogle has a CPU rack and a telecine interface rack. The first Pogles controlled the telecine's internal color corrector. The Pogle also has a very good edit controller, that gives accurate 2/3 editing to tape (like the TLC). Original Pogles used the operating system ANDIX which ran on PDOS; the program and list are stored on a SCSI hard disk, with backup to a 3.5" floppy disk. Video display is to a multi-sync monitor. The newer operating system updated to a Silicon Graphics (SGI) platinum operating system ran on a SGI Indy computer and later an SGI O2; these replaced the internal CPU and video cards in the Pogle controller rack. The Indy computer and O2 computer's backup is usually to an external zip Drive or ext. floppy. The O2 has an internal CD-ROM. Pandora's DCP external color corrector is a Rec. 601 digital box that would not work on a FDL 60 without extra interfacing.[3]

DCP

DCP or Digital Color Processor was a standard-definition digital video processor controlled by a Pogle. With the DCP, color correction and secondary color processing could be done outside the telecine. Standard definition processing was of NTSC and PAL video.[4][5]

PiXi

The PiXi was Pandora's own digital color processor; it replaced the DCP. The newer system able to process HDTV also.[6]

MegaDEF

In 1999, Pandora came out with the MegaDEF system. MegaDEF uses two PiXi systems with a multiplexer rack. The MegaDEF could be used on both the Spirit DataCine and on the Specter VDC-2000 virtual telecine. MegaDEF was controlled with a Pogle Platinum controller. MegaDEF digital color processor could color correct 2k display resolution data in real time. On the virtual telecine this data was playing off a Storage area network - SAN through the VDC-2000.[7][8]

  • Specter - VDC - Virtual DataCine. In 1999 Philips introduced the Specter the first virtual telecine. It is able to color correct, re-size and grain reduce 2k DPX files in real time. Used in DI work and to make multiple video formats off one film transfer scan (PAL, NTSC, Pan scan, letter box…). This was accomplished by playing the DPX files back through the Spirit Datacine’s process electronics and a Pandora MegaDef Colour Correction system.[9][10]
  • The 2000 movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? was scanned with Spirit Datacine, color-corrected with a VDC-2000 using a Pandora Int. Pogle Color Corrector with MegaDEF. A Kodak Lightning II film recorder was used to put the data output back to film. This process changed the greens to a green-yellow color.[2]

Current product

Revolution is the current product; it is a non-linear data grade system.[11]

Photo gallery

  • Pogle control panel and soft knob display

  • Pogle SGI monitor display

  • Pogle control panel and keyboard

  • Pogle display close up of telecine control menu

  • Pogle control panel joyballs

  • Pogle MegaDEF: Two PiXi systems with a multiplexer rack

  • Pogle control rack, CPU and Telecine inferface

  • Silicon Graphics 02 use to run Pogle software

  • Silicon Graphics Indy use to run Pogle software

  • Bosch Fernseh FDL 60 Telecine Film Deck and Lens Gate

  • Quadra Telecine Film Deck

  • SDC-2000 Spirit DataCine Film Deck

See also

References

  1. ↑ pandora-int.com contact
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 thameside.tv Spirit DataCine
  3. ↑ Pogle history web site
  4. ↑ patentgenius.com DCP patent
  5. ↑ pandora-int.com DCP
  6. ↑ pandora-int.com Manual
  7. ↑ kodak.com "Restoration of an impeccably preserved old negative"
  8. ↑ pandora-int.com manual Megadef
  9. ↑ theasc.com, © 2003 American Cinematographer, DI by Debra Kaufman
  10. ↑ American Cinematographer A flex Finish
  11. ↑ pandora-int.com Revolution

External links

Post-processing
Special processing
24 to 30 fps conversion
30 to 24 fps conversion
  • Inverse telecine
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