HEURIS Cohen Communications Demonstrate Digital Dailes

HEURIS and Cohen Communications Demonstrate New Digital Dailies Technology

at Directors Guild Theater

New Digital Dailies process shown at screening of "The Mothman Prophesies" saves money, saves time and offers greater artistic control.

Los Angeles, CA, February 1, 2002—A recent screening of "The Mothman Prophecies" at the Director’s Guild Theater in Los Angeles also served as the public debut of a new method for handling dailies. This method displays dailies in High Definition digital formats rather than the traditional film or low-resolution video. Because film positives or prints are not required, the digital dailies process offers significant time and cost savings—an average of over $300,000 in film stock costs alone. Yet it offers a high-resolution image similar to film—allowing directors, producers and actors to clearly assess the day’s shoot.

At a question and answer session, held after the screening at the Director’s Guild Theater, Steven Cohen, Digital Cinema Consultant, described how a digital dailies system was used during the creation of the "Mothman Prophesies."

A panel of professionals involved of the creation of "The Mothman Prophesies" including Director--Mark Pellington , Editor--Brian Berdan, Sound Designer—Claude Letessier, First Assistant Editor—David Reale and Steven B. Cohen--CEO, Cohen Communications raved about their experience with the new digital dailies process. "I’ll never go back to doing it [dailies] the old way again," stated Mark Pellington, Director of "Mothman Prophecies." "I just loved it," he said.

In addition, Steven Cohen, Digital Consultant and Brian Quandt, President of HEURIS Logic demonstrated a prototype of the next generation in digital dailies. This new version of the digital dailies technology promises to make digital dailies accessible to a wider audience of film and video professionals.

"HEURIS’ new technology is an important step forward in the movie making process," said HEURIS President, Brian Quandt. "Lower costs means that digital dailies are accessible to a wider audience including producers, directors and actors. Higher resolution means that everybody can see all the picky details from makeup and hairdressing, to set dressing to camera angles and lighting. Ultimately this results in finer artistic control over the movie making process and better movies."

About HEURIS

Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, HEURIS is the developer of the most widely used professional software MPEG encoder, MPEG Power Professional. This award winning, cross platform software product is the first MPEG encoder to deliver the features and encoding quality demanded by professionals, without the expensive hardware. HEURIS has been working with MPEG since 1991, and its customers include: Walt Disney, Sea World, Apple Computers, The Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Taco Bell Corporation, The Home Depot, AT & T Labs, IBM, Boeing, Vanderbilt University, Boston Museum of Science and the U.S. Military. HEURIS can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.heuris.com.

About Cohen Communications

Cohen Communications was created to facilitate new services and capabilities that founder Steven B. Cohen wanted to share with the entertainment industry at large. These services include Electronic Cinema Previews and the linking of studios, labs, post production facilities and digital content creators to each other. Cohen Communications continues to provide important services to the entertainment industry including high definition screening rooms, remote collaboration systems, electronic cinema preview systems, post production or production technology and facilities design.

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