Technicolor Used Real-Time Post App TechStream to Finish ‘Perry Mason’ During the Pandemic

Even prior the pandemic, Technicolor was developing a new mobile post suite app called TechStream, because remote color timing and sound mixing — particularly for episodic TV — had become too expensive and inconvenient.

Fortunately, for HBO’s “Perry Mason,” TechStream was launched just in time to finish the Depression-era origin story, starring Matthew Rhys as Erle Stanley Gardner’s legendary defense attorney.“The idea was to have a [real-time] product that was simple and flawless to operate,” said Pankaj Bajpai, Technicolor VP, finishing artist and business development.

“If you can use an iPhone, then that was the requirement that would allow people to collaborate, especially when working on episodics, where DPs can’t physically be with you in the color suites.

Now, of course, with the pandemic, all of a sudden we can’t live without Zoom and Teams.

But a year ago, the way I was doing remote grading sessions was

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