Fremont, CA – November 17, 2020 – Blackmagic Design today announced that Chinese dark comedy “Billion Coward” was edited and graded by post production artists with Guangzhou Red Cube Film Co., Ltd. using DaVinci Resolve Studio.
Based on a play of the same name, “Billion Coward” was produced by Jiang Haibo, the producer of the hit comedy film “Goodbye Mr. Loser,” and stars popular comedians including Zhang Zidong, Yu Shasha and Huang Cailun. It follows a cowardly man, who gets involved in a complicated robbery when he comes across his ex girlfriend in Thailand. The film was premiered on Chinese streaming website Tencent Video.
The post production of “Billion Coward” was completed by a team of editors and colorists headed by post production director Pang Xiwen, who had worked as editor, DIT or technical director for films including “Chasing the Dragon,” “Racer Legend,” “Choy Lee Fut Kung Fu,” “Once Upon a Time in Shanghai,” "Xiang Jiu Xiao,” and “The Dawn of Chinese Soviet Republic.”
“Since I joined Pearl River Film Studio as a film editor in 2006, my editing tools have evolved from splicers to nowadays software apps. My team switched to a DaVinci Resolve workflow in 2018 to improve our workflow efficiency because Resolve had become a versatile tool capable of editing, all the way through color grading and VFX compositing, and most of the colorists we had been working with used DaVinci Resolve,” said Pang.
“Billion Coward” particularly needed an efficient workflow as it was going to be screened in theaters and usually at least half a year is enough for posting a feature film for theaters. But we only had three months for this project,” he said. “Thanks to the fact that both our editors and colorists use Resolve, it eliminated the conforming work, which is a huge time saver compared to workflows using third party editing apps.
“Sending over the edit timeline to the colorist doesn’t mean the end of editing work. Changes might be asked by the director, DP, producers or the film bureau, which means the timeline often has to be sent back and forth between the editor and colorist. Without Resolve, even a small tweak of a few seconds would take an assistant editor two or three days to align the edit points, let alone the many changes scattering across the timeline, which means a huge waste of time. With Resolve, it would save a large amount of costs and time,” revealed Pang.