Bavaria Film Purchases Assimilate's SCRATCH

Bavaria Film GmbH and D-Facto Motion have purchased a company-wide site license for ASSIMILATE’s SCRATCH® finishing software and SCRATCH Lab®, its production dailies and VFX tool.
The goal of the SCRATCH purchase is for Bavaria Films and D-Facto Motion to standardise all their facilities on a single data workflow throughout its production and post-production processes.
Bavaria Film and D-Facto Motion are predicting to finish over 125 TV movies, TV episodes, and feature films in 2013.
Founded in 1919, Bavaria Films is known for its big blockbuster movies and film classics, such as “The Sound of Music” (1965), “Cabaret” (1972), “Das Boot” (1981) and “Never Ending Story” (1983), among numerous others.
Most recently, Bavaria Films and D-Facto employed SCRATCH Lab and SCRATCH for the dailies and full post-production of feature film Nils Holgersson, TV short series/episodes Tatort (distributed in over 40 countries), and TV movie Rommel.
Waheed Zamani, managing director / senior colourist at D-Facto Motion Munich, said: "SCRATCH is an amazing system with many functionalities – absolutely everything a colourist needs and beyond. SCRATCH is highly customisable, which gives us the freedom and flexibility to make changes at every stage of the entire post-production process, and enabling us to achieve the highest level of results for the content and look of each project."
Being Europe’s number one producer of TV movies and shows, Bavaria Films and D-Facto Motion faced the challenge of producing a huge number of projects simultaneously.
Günther Farrenkopf, lead technical manager at Bavaria Film Munich, commented: "Since 1919 we have rarely experienced products that have catapulted us into the future. SCRATCH is such a product. SCRATCH streamlines the workflow, beginning with dailies, and it also integrates easily into every existing pipeline. The ability to use off-the-shelf hardware makes maintenance and in-house support for SCRATCH viable, quick, and cost-effective."
Tim Lücker, colourist / head of post-production at D-Facto Motion Berlin, added: "SCRATCH delivers the speed and flexibility for working creatively – even when more than just grading is needed. It’s more than just a superb grading solution – it’s one rocket of a workflow backbone!
"Years of experience and know-how has given Bavaria Production Services GmbH their strong, well-known name in the post market. The combination of their knowledge and skills to produce high-end features, TV movies and episodes with ASSIMILATE’s SCRATCH products, enables the looks and high-quality results that have garnered many awards and that are highly valued by the German viewing audience," said Patric Breuer, CEO of Dreamwalks GmbH.
"Dreamwalks is proud to be the only ASSIMILATE reseller in DACH, working closely with high-end post production customers like Bavaria Production Services GmbH to provide the products and support they need to achieve their desired results."
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