Video Assist

Here is how this works in practice. Hungary's video-help bench is concentrated around the five vendors that ship the country's day-to-day playback inventory. Pannonia Cine Service Budapest, Origo Film Group's in-house video department, Cinegrid, Movi Hungary and Stúdió Etyek. And our operator roster pulls from the techs who crew with those houses on a rotating basis. That means our video-village operators arrive pre-trained on the exact monitor and wireless-transmission stock the production will receive. SmallHD 503, 703 and 1703 OLED on-camera monitors, SmallHD Cine 7 director feeds.

Here is the short of it. Plus Atomos Shogun Connect 7 record-deck monitors for proxy capture and live-mark playback. Wireless video is Teradek Bolt 4K and Bolt 4K Max LT for long-range feature and stunt-unit work, with Hollyland Mars 4K stock filling the multi-monitor commercial and episodic slate. NMHH range planning is filed for each Teradek and Hollyland link before crew call so the wireless RF plan clears the daily scan. Bilingual EN/HU and EN/DE communication with directors and editors is standard.

Here is the breakdown. In practice our operators handle the largest stage footprints in Europe. Korda Studios Etyek Stage 6 at 6,000 square metres needs video-village range planning that ordinary 1080p wireless stock cannot cover. Plus our Teradek Bolt 4K Max LT deployments are routinely rigged to carry feature-stage director and DP feeds across that distance without dropout. Origo Studios' eight-stage tricky demands multi-feed routing that our senior operators have built and torn down repeatedly across the Hollywood tentpole slate (Witcher Netflix S3, Black Widow, Hellboy 2019, Atomic Blonde, Inferno, The Martian, Munich).

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Inside the village we run multi-monitor director, DP, client and script-supe feeds with calibrated LUT pipelines that match the DIT cart's working colour space, proxy recording with timecode-locked Atomos units to back up A-camera takes and supply post with same-day proxies. Plus remote-streaming setups for off-site producers and executives where the production calls for it. We match operator and kit list to brief on stage footprint, camera count and language pair.