SD CINEMATOGRAFICA was formed in 1961 as a production company. Since its founding, the company has produced Films, Variety Programmes, and Science and Cultural documentaries for the Italian public broadcaster RAI and other leading international television companies. In recent years the company has focused on wildlife, Science and History documentaries with such success that it now counts National Geographic Channels, Discovery Channels, TF1, ARTE, NHK, TSR, ARD/BR, PBS and ZDF, as well as RAI and Mediaset, among its clients. Many SD documentaries have won major international prizes at the world’s leading festivals, including Academy Award, Emmy and Banff nominations. Today SD Cinematografica has over 800 hours of programming to its name. [abs]
SD Cinematografica has 6 video postproduction suites, 5 in High Definition:
- N. 1 AVID ADRENALINE – Full HD
- N. 3 AVID NITRIS – Full HD
- N. 1 AVID Mojo SDI
- N. 1 FINAL CUT - Full HD
All systems are connected through EditShare to a storage of 16 TB.
EditShare includes a two HD channels Ingest system (Flow Ingest) and an Archive System (ARK) on LTO 5
For video postproduction we use internal personnel as well as highly qualified freelancers.