French media group CMC-Digimage has installed four Euphonix System 5 consoles in a newly opened TV-film post production facility located in the south of Paris. A division of CMC- Digimage, Digimage-Cinema will offer hi-end HD as well as the biggest color grading room in Europe.
The new facility consists of two large stages each equipped with 56 faders Euphonix System 5 Hybrids dedicated to feature film mixing and two smaller stages each equipped with 32 faders Euphonix System 5 Hybrids to be used to for TV projects or to start film projects.
Serge Arthus, Director of this project for Digimage designed the facility’s specifications, while systems integrator, 44.1, delivered a complete turnkey installation. Identical A/V equipment and cabling as well as a network of workstations including Pro Tools, Pyramix, and VCube and the four Hybrid consoles allow projects to be easy moved between rooms.
“The majority of French film mixers enjoy working on the System 5 finding the control surface and automation extremely intuitive and easy-to-use so it just made sense to equip the new facility with four Euphonix System 5’s,” explained Arthus. “And from a business point of view, I find the reliability of the system and the level of customer support unrivaled.”
The Euphonix System 5 has become the industry standard for the French feature film mixing community. As an all-in-one packaged audio mixing system the System 5 is designed to meet the needs and budgets of modern mixing facilities that require a professional mixing console that can handle a large number of tracks with the quality and reliability of DSP channels, professional monitoring, plus the ability to control DAW tracks directly from the console surface.
Additionally the System 5 hybrid option features EuCon, a high-speed Ethernet control protocol designed by Euphonix to allow control of any software application. The System 5 also features a new expandable DSP SuperCore which provides DSP channels, each with EQ and dynamics processing, delay, and surround panning to multi-format mix, group and aux buses.
“We are proud that Digimage Cinema has chosen Euphonix and 44.1 to provide them with the product, support and expertise they require to get everything online,” said Paul-Henri Wagner, 44.1 systems integrator manager.
