AJA's IO 4K facilitated the production of 'Gone Girl (Perdida)'

The production flow on the film was very ambitious from the beginning, as the film was shot in 6K with RED Dragon cameras.

The 4K IO device AJA facilitated 4K playback for director David Fincher's effects review on 20th Century Fox and New Regency's latest film, Gone Girl (Perdida). Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Gillian Flynn, the film stars Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, and Tyler Perry.

The production flow in Gone Girl It was very ambitious from the beginning, as the film was shot in 6K with RED Dragon cameras. Post-production engineer and CTO on the film, Jeff Brue oversaw the integration of systems to support the complex workflows required at high frame rates.

"AJA Io 4K was used as a reference grade device, as it allowed us to playback DPX frames without tearing or artifacts when reviewing all visual effects shots. The Io 4K was ultimately chosen for its level of quality, absolute synchronization and also the fact that it can run at 10-bit," explained Brue.

AJA Io 4K connects to any Thunderbolt 2-enabled device, delivering a wide range of professional video and audio connectivity, supporting the latest 4K and UltraHD workflows. In the production of Lost, the 4K IO was connected to the Thunderbolt 2 output from an HP Z820 workstation running Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro CC Pro, which was used to edit the entire film.

"When you're working on a feature film project with this high data rate, you need to have a coherent system to manage all your 6K footage, from storage to playback. You have to know that everything works and that the entire environment is highly reliable. AJA IO 4K certainly delivers this reliability, along with the absolute frame accuracy that was needed," concludes Brue.