News and Testimonials
Please take a look at what some of our clients have had to say about Maxx Digital and our products.
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JJ Abrams and Undercovers
LightIRON Digital's new Li OUTPOST cart, powered by Maxx Digital, is on set of Undercovers, JJ Abrams new project. Michael Cioni wrote, "Light Iron is happy to be working on Undercovers with DT Brian Udoff who is manning one of our onset processing laboratories, Li OUTPOST. We make 2D and 3D versions of the system which are in use of a number of file-based projects across the globe with 32TB SAS raids custom built by the experts at MAXX Digital."
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Evo4K on the Set of Atlas Shrugged
Von Thomas is utilizing Maxx Digital's Evo4K's speed and reliability on the set of Atlas Shrugged, the movie adaptation of Ayn Rand's epic novel. In collaboration with Michael Cioni and his team over at LightIRON, Von Thomas is using Maxx Digital's DIT Cart to allow him to have all the power of a Mac Pro connected to high performance storage. The Evo4K is a RAID 5, 16 drive array able reach speeds of 700 MB/sec read and 800 MB/sec writes.
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Mobile Rocket On Set with Realtime Playback!
Christopher Karcher from Emota is one of the most recent Mobile Rocket owners. The day he received his Mobile Rocket he ran off to the set of a new Dockers project. He was happy to share this picture onset and cited “the Mobile Rocket worked great overall. We were able to review footage and grade with [the] client in real time :)” To see Christopher's work the project launches live on Dockers website, www.dockers.com, for there Super Bowl ad (2nd quarter). Also visit www.emota.com for other Christopher Karcher projects.
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RED Day
Maxx Digital was proud to have our Mobile Rocket featured at the latest RED event this past Saturday, where Jim Jannard announced that RED purchased Ren-Mar studios!
Adam Wilt wrote:
On Saturday 16 January, RED hosted three open-house sessions in Hollywood, for CML (cinematography mailing list) members, ASC (American Society of Cinematography) members, and for RED ONE owners. I attended the CML session, and here’s a quick writeup on what we learned. [updated 10:15pm PST: M-X performance details]
The sessions were held at Ren-Mar studios in downtown Hollywood. RED Leader Jim Jannard started off the presentation by announcing that RED had acquired Ren-Mar, closing the deal that very Friday—so that we were, in fact, holding the meeting in RED Studios Hollywood.
RED will have a small office at Ren-Mar RED Studios, but the bulk of engineering and business will continue in Lake Forest for the time being. RED will keep operating the facility as a studio rental space, and will use RED Studios as a home in the heart of the production community, and as a handy facility for shooting tests (and perhaps more: there was no discussion of this, but if I were Jim, I’d want a studio to use my new cameras in. I wouldn’t be surprised to see RED take a more active role in making films, not just making cameras). Read On
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Nick Kovacic from Digital Cave
The new year has brought us a new gift! We just received the first Mobile Rocket from Maxx Digital of Huntington Beach, CA. The mobile rocket has given us the ability to bring the Red Rocket on set using a laptop and one of our grading monitors playback .r3ds realtime and through rocketcine and apply one-light passes before the transcode. Just having the ability to set the one-lights to all the reels on set with the DP supervising is absolutely amazing!! But, that's not all the Mobile Rocket gives you all the benefits of the red rocket including the increased transcoding times, and the playback of 4K footage from a laptop.
First impressions:
Before the day began I installed all the necessary drives and firmware into my laptop make sure everything was working proper, and everything worked flawlessly. Only problem i had with the laptop red rocket combo was the dialog box that pops up initially on rocketcine launch warning that the rocket needs a 8x PCI to work properly, but the rocket works fine anyways. I just don't like the idea of having to explain what that dialog box means every time i fire up this rig for the DP.
Working on set:
The mobile rocket is durable, clean, and compliments a Mac Book Pro very well. The rubber feet on top the box provided a neat lift for your laptop to rest upon, and the Red Rocket badge on the front of the box is easily distinguishable as a Red product. All the necessary I/O is provided by Maxx to marry the computer to the mobile rocket to make a very well designed professional system. After setting up my 10 bit 1080p monitor to the provided red rocket HD-SDI BNC i took a step back and was just impressed with the presentation of the system, and how neat all the cables are streamline my new system looks.
Before lunch the gaffer was instructing his crew for the next setup; which gave me sometime to work with the DP on a few looks for reels that had been shot the previous day. Now i had a few minor issues with playback; when stopping a clip the frames would jump around the clip trying to find the last frame. Regardless this little hick up was not a big deal we applied one lights to 6 reels in 45 minutes; ready to transcode.
Nick Kovacic
www.digitalcavemedia.com
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Martin Jaeger with Geo Media
 Geomedia, Inc. (geomedia.com) is a production, post and VFX company in San Antonio, TX. specializing in 3D animation and motion graphics. For years we've been looking into a SAN to streamline our workflow and increase efficiency. We researched many different solutions but complexity and cost were simply too high. Enter "Final Share" from Maxx Digital. This system offered expandable enterprise-class hardware, simple GigE networking and more than enough performance for our ProRes HQ and RED workflows. Maxx Digital pre-configured our system and performed on-site installation. Seeing the system play out 1080p ProRes HQ from 5 different Final Cut Suites simultaneously for the first time was a revelation! 6 editorial/graphics suites share the SAN directly and it is accessible to our production, audio and 3D departments over the LAN. No more sneakernet. No more hassles moving projects from room to room. Final Share is the perfect solution for Geomedia's mixed editorial and motion graphics environment. Service from Maxx Digital before and after the sale has been exceptional.
 Martin Jaeger
Geomedia, Inc.
4242 Medical Dr, Suite 4200
San Antonio, TX 78229
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Gary Adcock and Mac Professionals
 Macprofessionals and independent consultant Gary Adcock have used the Evo2 HD to create the essential side of the RED workflow. Read More
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Ketch Frame Studios
 KETCH ROSSI from Ketch Frame Studios in Las Vegas has been chatting about the Evo2 on both the FredMiranda.com and RedUser.net forums. Check it out.
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Jon Thorn with AJA
 Jon Thorn, Product Manager for AJA Video Systems, took a moment to pose with the Maxx Digital Evo2 HD in the AJA booth at MacWorld. Jon has been using the Evo2 HD to playback 2K footage and display AJA products since NAB 2008. All of us at Maxx Digital would like to thank him for his support.
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Black-Magic Design
 Maxx Digital, a leading storage solutions provider for the data-intensive and high-performance digital media markets; recently announced that Blackmagic Design has certified the Maxx Digital EVO2 HD as a fully compatible solution with the entire line of Blackmagic video capture cards, which are widely used in the post production and television broadcast industries around the world. Specifically, the Maxx EVO2 HD is certified and compatible with the Blackmagic Design. The Maxx EVO2 HD can easily read and write 10 bit uncompressed HD files using the Blackmagic Decklink HD Extreme. It is also capable of sustained play back of 2K files for feature film and Digital Intermediary work. Also, BlackMagic is currently using the Maxx Digital Evo2HD at several international trade shows . Overview: The Maxx Digital Evo2HD is an affordable and reliable solution for any work flow from standard definition up to 2K DPX files.
Black-Magic Design
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D7 Studios
 When Greg Jones and Cameron Roberts from D7 got together to shot a collaborative project, in 4K with the new Red Camera, they turned to the Evo for all of there storage needs. Playing back the footage on six 50-inch plasma screens which where juxtaposed in a vertical position provoided many challanges, but the Evo was there every step of the way. Read More
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Walter Biscardi from the Creative Cow
 The Creative Cows own Walter Biscardi writes about his experience with Maxx Digital and the Evo2 HD. Read More
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Shane Ross
 The Creative Cows own Shane Ross writes about his experience with Maxx Digital and the Edit Vault on his Blog. Read More
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Peter Majtan with KETCHFRAME
 Peter Majtan went to Las Vagas to work with KETCHFRAME on a project that is looking quite intense. Shooting in both 2K and 4K formates with a verity of lighting situations he used the Evo2 HD to capture all the goods.Read More
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