Thanks to New Tax Incentives, NY HD is Alive and Well

Thanks to new tax incentives from the New York State Governor's Office for Motion Picture and Television Development, New York City is once again enjoying an increase in the number of television productions being shot in and around the five boroughs. Most of them then continue production and post in Los Angeles.
Implemented two years ago, the Empire State Film Production Credit program has saved productions thousands of dollars and resulted in a record 10 network television pilots being shot in New York this year. Of those, eight worked with PostWorks, New York for some part of their post-production workflow. Of those, two-Gossip Girl, for the CW network, and Damages, for cable’s FX Networks-were shot and posted in HD. All the others used 35mm film.

Gossip Girl was shot with the Panavision Genesis camera and recorded to HDCam SR VTRs. PostWorks adapted the production's LUT to PostWorks' color system, taking Gossip Girl's 1D LUT and creating a 3D LUT that was applied to their HD dailies.

Through its main facility and film lab, PostWorks also provided custom finishing services for the 1080i-acquired drama pilot Damages.

The Gossip Girl and Damages pilots have been picked up for a fall and summer debut, respectively.

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