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Blackwater Digital Services

Blackwater Digital Services

Creative and technical solutions for digital media

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Mastering & Deliverables

Regardless of your film’s final destination, the most important choice you can make is who you’ll trust to handle the final mastering. Your master, from a technical standpoint, will be your film’s “starting point.” For that reason, it’s extremely important to get it right…the first time. Blackwater Digital Services has a proven track record and sterling reputation as a leading mastering and quality control facility.  We also offer a wide spectrum of sub-mastering and deliverable creation services such as:

Mastering to File, Disc or Tape

  • SD (NTSC or PAL), 1080, 3D, 4K
  • XDCAM HD422, ProRes, DNxHD, Uncompressed
  • Digital Cinema Packaging
  • Blu-ray Authoring
  • DVD Authoring
  • Beta SP, Digital Betacam, D5, HDCAM, HDCAM SR and legacy formats
  • LTO-7 and LTO-8
  • Archiving Services
    (Video Tape to File, File to LTO)
International & Domestic Deliverables

  • Transcodes, Conversions and Encodes from Tape
  • Closed Captions, SDH and Subtitles
  • CCSL, ABS, Dialogue Lists and Transcripts
  • Disc and File-based screeners (watermarked or clean)
  • Quality Control Reports
  • Quality Control Fixes
  • Localization & Reversioning
  • Hard drive, USB Stick, LTO, DVD-R and BD-R copies
Conforms, Conversions, and Audio Laybacks

  • Standards conversions (60i to 50i, 50i to 60i, NTSC to PAL, PAL to NTSC)
  • Video Down conversions (4K to HD, HD to SD, 3D to 2D, etc.)
  • Video Up conversions (HD to 4K, SD to HD, etc.)
  • Aspect ratio conversions (including pan & scan)
  • Frame rate conversions
  • Foreign language or alternate mix laybacks
  • Audio speed conforms / Audio sync
  • Audio remapping
  • Stereo Audio Upconversion (Stereo to 5.1)
  • 5.1 Audio Mixdown / Fold-down (5.1 to Stereo)
Secure Delivery for VOD and Broadcast

  • Compression and Conversion
  • Transcoding and Packaging
  • Physical delivery on hard drive (formatted for Mac, PC, or Linux), worldwide
  • Physical delivery on USB Stick or Disc (DVD-R or BD-R), worldwide
  • High-speed, secure internet delivery, worldwide
Restoration and Digital Remastering

  • Encode from legacy or archival media, like tape, to modern-day formats
  • Scan from 8mm, 16mm and 35mm film to digital file
  • Digital stabilization of film scans
  • Color Correction
  • Digital removal of film damage, hair, scratches, dirt
  • Digital removal of video and audio hits
  • Upconversion from SD to HD

Helping with that last mile

Blackwater is here to help, bridging the gap between post-production and distribution.

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(678) 208-3377

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