As for its postproduction services, Taurus Film Studio is focused on broadcasting formats.
We have at our disposal three well-equipped MAC-based editing suites, offering Off-Line and On-Line editing, grading, graphic effects, subtitling and other services.
Our studio also offers format conversions, while digitizing cassettes of all formats, producing broadcasting copies and duplicating DVDs etc. Specifically, Taurus Film Studio also provides conversions among the Adobe Premiera – Avid – FCP7 – FCPX – DaVinci editing formats.
Final Cut Pro 7 – very popular /regrettably no longer supported/ editing software in which most broadcasting formats: such as XDCam, P2, AVCHD, can still be processed.
Final Cut Pro X – new, state-of-the-art 4K editing software, processing all the current broadcast formats, including records from photo cameras, telephones, GoPro, DJI, hidden (spy) cameras etc.
Avid Media Composer – classical editing software used in all Czech TV stations.
DaVinci Resolve Studio 14 – postproduction software, destined mostly for grading as well as for editing and sound mixing.
Editing Room Mac 01
Mobile: notebook MacBookPro 2017 featuring the following software: FCP7, FCPX, Avid, DaVinci, and many conversion programs.
Equipped with fast mobile link LTE and SSD ext. disk 1TB with Thunderbolt interface 3/USB-C.
Used primarily for HardNews, this set is capable of editing and subsequently dispatching reportages to clients in a very short time indeed.
Editing Room Mac 02
MacPro 2010 with Motu V4HD hardware capture and playback.
The editing room is equipped with all tape video recorders: VHS, S-VHS, U-Matic LowBand, U-Matic HighBand SP, Betacam SP, DV, DVCam, HDV, Digital Betacam, XDCam PDW-U1.
Captured materials are digitized and then edited in this workstation.
Editing Room Mac 03
MacPro 2012 with Motu HDX hardware capture and playback.
The computer comes complete with the following installed software: FCP7, FCPX, Avid, DaVinci, and many conversion programs, all in the latest available versions.
All formats can be processed here in both Off-Line and On-Line regimes.
Thanks to the connected EIZO monitor, editing as well as grading can be performed.
Editing Room Mac 04
MacPro 2013 – /dustbin/ with Avid Artist I/O /Blackmagic/ hardware capture and playback
The computer comes complete with the following installed software: FCP7, FCPX, Avid, DaVinci, and many conversion programs, all in the latest available versions.
All formats can be processed here in both Off-Line and On-Line regimes.
Thanks to the connected monitor IIYAMA 4K, grading in 4K can be performed here in addition to editing.
Conversion into all codecs, including the interlaced H264, and also into the new H265/HEVC, is performed in our editing rooms, which are interconnected within a 1GB network connection.
Application Soundtrack Pro is used for processing audio files and audio recordings, for sound and video synchronization and production of sound effects.
In order to complete a project´s audio component in different software, e.g. ProTools, it is exported in the AAF or OMF formats.
Blackmagic Design´s DaVinci Resolve Studio is a top-notch solution for color corrections and video/audio editing.
The software supports real-time operation with RAW (.ari) camera sets ARRI Alexa™, including support of V3 firmware, R3D sets of cameras RED One™, including RED™ color3 and REDgamma3, and also R3D camera sets RED EPIC, complete with 5K definition and HDRx support. Models Blackmagic Cinema Camera, cameras Phantom™, GoPro™, Canon C300 and 5D, Sony™ F65/F55/F5 and many others are also supported!
Virtual make-up automatically detects faces, allowing for easy application of complexion smoothing, adjustment of skin tones etc. A rich offer of functions for motion stabilization, tracking masks and integrating effects into finished shots is also available.
Commentaries for documents, radio and TV spots and other formats are produced in the studio.
Different language versions as well supplied foreign-language programs /voice-over/ are also prepared.
Our studio cooperates with many experienced speakers.
Supplied foreign-language programs are subtitled in our studio, while translations, including subtitling adjustments, are also furnished.
Broadcasting copies of programs produced either in our studio or made externally and destined for TV stations in keeping with their standards are made as well. Broadcasting copies are supplied either as an exported file in the MXF format or as an XDCAM carrier. This involves adjustment of the video (broadcastsave) as well as audio (EBU-R-128 LUFS -23) components.
Software and hardware of older MAC computers are upgraded in Taurus Film Studio.
Other services include exchange of hard disks for SSD, RAM extension, exchange of batteries, installation of latest operating systems and editing programs.
We can provide material import from these formats:
VHS, S-VHS, U-Matic LowBand, U-Matic HighBand SP , Betacam SP, DV, DVCam, HDV, Digital Betacam, XDCam PDW-U1. Do všech kodeků, např.: ProRes, XDCamHD, DNxHD, IMX, DV, HDV, DVCProHD, H264, H265, Mpeg4 a další.
Professional equipment Disc Publisher PRIMERA Technology – can duplicate / burn media (CD,DVD) including printing in CMYK.