The Lady of Elche
Archaeological documentary produced with ProHD
Taller Digital, at the University The Alcudia University Foundation for explains. “We captured HDV via FireWire
of Alicante, Spain, is a production
Archaeological Research manages a wide and used HDMI Intensity Pro Black Magic
house, dedicated to creating,
archaeological site, which gathers remains card - the result was perfect. We will use
organising, presenting and linking
and materials from Iberian, Roman and
the same working methods for our next
projects.”
information across multiple digital
Visigothic monuments, including houses,
solutions. Some of their famous
baths, temples, public buildings from the
The Taller Digital team used JVC’s
4th millennium B.C. to the 8th century C.E.
documentaries are based upon GY-HD201E with Sennheiser mics, tripod
historical Spanish writers, such Visitors of the site can view the historical
and lighting equipment. For the editing,
as Benito Pérez Galdós, Emilia remains, which are located close to the
an Apple Mac Pro was used with Final
Pardo Bazán, Leopoldo Alas
Palm Forest and El Hondo Natural Park
Cut Studio and JVC’s BR-HD50E recorder.
‘Clarín’, José Mª de Pereda
and, at this location, the famous sculpture
and Mariano José de Larra, and
of the Iberian art was discovered: The Lady “The result was perfect.
have been filmed using the JVC
of Elche.

We will repeat the same
procedure in our next project”.
GY-HD201 camcorder.
Taller Digital have produced a cultural

documentary entitled, La Alcudia, luz para

Ilici, which was beautifully captured on
“The 720/50p footage was captured
JVC’s GY-HD201 at 720p/50 on location
through the BR-HD50 on Final Cut Pro
at La Alcudia (Elche), the Museum of via HDMI BlackMagic Intensity Pro card
Archaeology and History of Elche, site in Apple ProRes, and it looked fantastic.
of Portus Ilicitanus (Santa Pola) and
We also worked with Adobe Photoshop
Archaeological Museum of Alicante.
for the preparation of maps, time charts
and bars, credits, ancient picture
“The key advantage of the camera –
apart from the excellent picture quality,
recover, using the Motion function and
progressive capturing and recording – is
other particular effects,” Javier Cabrera
that we can still use our existing equipment,
continues. “Finally, we used Adobe Encore,
including batteries, tripods, microphones
producing a Blu-ray DVD and creating
and bayonet lenses,” Javier Cabrera, Flash and Windows Media versions for
Director of La Alcudia, luz para Ilici, posting over the Internet.”
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