'The Jungle: A Good Day to Die' premieres in Kuwait with two AJA Pri Pro

Two AJA Pri Pro singles, a Barco projector and a Yamaha MC7 mixer make it possible to preview The Jungle: A Good Day to Die in front of the American troops deployed to Kuwait.

Recently AJA delivered AJA Ki Pro portable tapeless recorders to the production team of The Jungle: A Good Day to Die Hard to facilitate the preview of the film before the North American troops stationed in Kuwait.

Bruce Willis returns to be the protagonist of The jungle: a good day to die, reprising his legendary role as John McClane; The film was released in theaters on February 14.

Dan Zimmerman, long-time AJA customer and editor of The jungle: a good day to die, has traveled to Kuwait to stage the preview together with the USO production team. “The Ki Pro is so small, portable and flexible that I was able to travel to Kuwait with a single backpack as carry-on luggage carrying two Ki Pros so we could conduct two simultaneous high-quality previews of our film for over 1,100 troops,” said Zimmerman.

“With just one Ki Pro we were able to simply plug the device into a projector Barco and a mixer Yamaha M7CL and the movie and sound quality was amazing. It turned out to be the easiest preview we have ever done. Any other setup would have been much more complicated,” he highlighted.

In addition, Zimmerman and VFX editor Ryan Chavez also used AJA's T-TAP Thunderbolt-based adapters to enable a seamless editing process while filming on set in London, Budapest and Los Angeles during production of Die Hard. T-TAPs were used to perform on-set playback from laptops to show the director how new shots were being incorporated into the film and to provide a rough facsimile of how scenes were being put together to allow the director to review them and make editing decisions while filming.

“I've been a professional editor for over ten years, and I'm constantly testing and evaluating everything that comes out, from editing software to video cards for recorders and converters,” Zimmerman said.

"There is nothing on the market that works as easily or is as compatible with a wide variety of file formats and workflows as AJA video cards, recorders, I/O devices and converters. AJA products are equally reliable in the editing studio as they are in the field because the reality is that they simply work perfectly."