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Digital Bedrock to Archive, Preserve Soderbergh’s ‘Logan Lucky,’ ‘Unsane’

Los Angeles-based digital preservation service Digital Bedrock has announced an agreement with director Steven Soderbergh and his company Fingerprint Releasing, which will see Digital Bedrock preserving the digital masters for Soderbergh’s films “Logan Lucky” and “Unsane.”

To preserve the 2017 heist-comedy film “Logan Lucky,” Digital Bedrock analyzed roughly 50 TB of data, covering a variety of file formats, including four versions of OpenEXR image sequences, production sound, final sound mixes, DCPs, and ProRes masters. The company extracted both technical and embedded metadata to make it searchable, validated formats to help identify obsolescence vulnerabilities, and created SHA-512 checksums (a unique file “fingerprint”) for every file. Nearly 800,000 files were ingested, processed, and indexed.

Files were first collected by Technicolor PostWorks using Digital Bedrock’s curation package tool, and Digital Bedrock will perform ongoing preservation maintenance on the “Logan Lucky” data to ensure its future viability, the company announced.

”I’ve admired Steven Soderbergh’s work and creative and technical risk-taking since he began making films, and I’m delighted his team has entrusted Logan Lucky’s preservation and on-going care to us,” said Linda Tadic, Digital Bedrock founder and CEO. “This was truly a group effort; the post team was highly organized and understood the importance and need of this new detailed type of preservation work.”

Larry Blake, Soderbergh’s post-production sound supervisor, added: “PostWorks’ regular LTO backups during production kept us confident that the film’s data would remain safe during the post-production process. With Linda and her team now ‘curating’ our archival process, methodically preserving and verifying checksums for every file, doing periodic fixity checks, and providing our team with 24-7 access to information on each project’s files, we’ll have unprecedented clarity and confidence going into the future.”

Digital Bedrock will provide similar services for Soderbergh’s 2018 thriller “Unsane,” which hits theaters March 23 in the U.S.