News: AJA KONA 3 Helps Fuel Edit Platform For 'Burn After Reading' Video Capture and Playback Cards Provide Robust I/O and Conversion for the Latest Feature from the Coen Brothers
AJA Video Systems, a leading manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, announced today that its KONA 3 video capture and playback cards were in use during editing of Ethan and Joel Coen's latest comedy thriller, "Burn After Reading," to streamline the film's Final Cut Studio editorial pipeline.
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News: Alien Skin Software Announces Blow Up 2 Photo Resizing Plug-in for Photoshop Cutting edge algorithm enlarges photos while keeping them clear and sharp. New user interface simplifies cropping and resizing. Batch processing saves huge amounts of time when working with large numbers of photos.
Alien Skin Software today announces the immediate availability of Blow Up® 2, the new version of its photo resizing plug-in for Adobe® Photoshop® and Photoshop Elements.
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News: Telestream Acquires Live Production and Streaming Specialist Vara Software Award-winning, real-time video production products position Telestream for explosive growth in Internet-based content delivery
Telestream, the provider of Flip4mac, Episode and FlipFactory content repurposing and workflow automation products, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of European-based Vara Software Ltd., a privately-held company.
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News: Zacuto Announces Exclusive Dealer Of Letus35 Elite Pre-Order Now Available On Zacuto's Webstore
ZACUTO USA, in cooperation with the Letus Corporation, announce the creation of the Letus35 Elite and Zacuto as the exclusive dealer of this new depth of field adapter.
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News: Broadcast Pix Adds Industry Veteran Michael “Aussie” Holten as Senior Workflow Engineer
Broadcast Pix™ Inc. today announced the addition of Michael “Aussie” Holten as Senior Workflow Engineer. Michael Holten is an accomplished video producer, editor, theatrical sound designer and software designer, who will further enhance the streamlined workflow inherent in Broadcast Pix’s highly integrated live video production systems.
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News: Cine-tal Systems Taps Ray Agnew to Lead Sales Effort
Cine-tal Systems, a leading manufacturer of image processing, display, color management and collaboration solutions for digital cinema and video production, has hired Ray Agnew as Director of North American Sales.
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News: Avastor Helps UK-Based Bottletop Charity Raise Funds With Brazilian Music Project
Bottletop, a UK-based charity that empowers young people worldwide through sexual health education and HIV prevention, has chosen Avastor’s HDX800 triple interface FireWire drives to store all of its London-based recordings for its Brazilian influenced CD.
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News: Encore Hollywood Evokes the Seventies for CBS' "Swingtown" Facility Posts Retro Drama Lensed with Viper Camera
Encore Hollywood is currently providing final post production services for Swingtown, the new CBS drama about life in suburban America during the 1970s.
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News: SAE Institute take on current and future students from liquidated college With the recent announcement that London-based Gateway School Of Recording has gone into liquidation, SAE Institute extend scholarship scheme to all Gateway students
Due to the recent announcement that Gateway School Of Recording have gone into liquidation, SAE London are extending an invitation to all students – both present and future – to complete their studies at the newly completed SAE London campus in Hoxton.
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News: DNP Studios Answers the Challenges of the Film and Video Production Industry They Re-brand, Build State-of-the-Art Studio and Emerge as Production Powerhouse
DNP Studios has a new name, new studio, just filmed a documentary in Israel, national television commercials for SUBWAY® Restaurants and its fourth feature to be released this fall.
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News: Smoke & Mirrors New York Cut To The Funny For Lenovo
VFX Supervisor/Lead VFX Artist Nic Seresin of Smoke & Mirrors New York creates the stunning, yet purposefully retro VFX for two amusing :30 spots highlighting the Thinkpad and Ideapad of Lenovo's line of products.
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News: Universal Studios Sound Streamlines Workflow with Studio Network Solutions
Studio Network Solutions , a premier provider of post production storage systems for video and audio, announced today that Universal Studios Sound has deployed SNS storage solutions in its television and feature sound mixing stages including the Hitchcock Theater.
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News: ALFACAM and EURO1080 Employ Complete Graphic Stations from VIZRT
ALFACAM, the leading European HDTV provider and EURO1080, a member of the ALFACAM Group installed Vizrt graphics software solution in ALFACAM’s and EURO1080 HDTV OB vans for coverage of the Summer Games.
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News: Maximum Throughput Delivers Third Sledgehammer HD!O System to Aardman Animations New system to be used for production of animated commercials, establishing a more efficient workflow to increase productivity and reduce project times
Maximum Throughput Inc., developers of multi-user media management and editing applications and high-performance media servers and storage solutions, announces that Aardman Animations, a world leader in animation for feature film, television series and commercials, has taken delivery of its third Maximum Throughput Sledgehammer HD!O file server and real-time, multi-format video device.
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News: Wohler RM Series Confidence Monitor Supports PCTV's Breakthrough HD Broadcast of "Mujeres Asesinas"
PANORAMAdtv, the video products division of Wohler Technologies Inc., today announced that its new RM-3270W-HD dual-screen HD/SD-SDI monitor was used by Mexico City's Productora y Comercializadora de Televisión S.A. for the breakthrough HD broadcast of the telenovela "Mujeres Asesinas" in an episode featuring one of the genre's most celebrated leading ladies, Daniela Romo.
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News: Fotolia Welcomes Its Four Millionth Image Leading source for legal, low-cost imagery announces milestone image with spotlight on photographer Christopher Völlmya
Today, Fotolia, one of the world's leading sources for legal, low-cost imagery welcomes its four millionth image, titled "Hot Air Balloon" and uploaded by Christopher Völlmya, a Fotolia contributor from Switzerland.
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News: With A Twist Studio Adds Compositing Supervisor Eric Bruneau
Eric Bruneau, a compositing specialist, has joined With A Twist Studio. Bruneau will serve as Compositing Supervisor and will focus on feature film projects, but will also be available for commercial and other broadcast work.
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News: Harris Corporation Announces Strategic Alliance with Freescale Semiconductor for New Range of TV Transmitters Freescale LDMOS Technology Allows Harris to Manufacture its Most Compact and Power-Efficient UHF Transmitters
Harris Corporation , an international communications and information technology company, announced that it will integrate technology from Freescale Semiconductor, a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors, into its new TV transmitters for terrestrial broadcasters.
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News: jumP and Manic Get Lost With 10 Cane Premium Rum
Luis Moreno of NY-based edit company jumP cuts a 21-spot campaign for 10 Cane Rum via Mother New York featuring VFX and post production courtesy of Manic titled 10 Cane Super Premium Films.
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News: S4 Studios Puts Pedal to the Medal for Chiller Summer Olympic Games Promos
Thanks to S4 Studios, the nations of the netherworld were well represented at the Beijing Summer Olympics. The studio designed and animated a package of opening and closing IDs for the “Chiller Summer Games,” promoting NBC Universal HD cable station Chiller Channel’s programming slate during the Olympic Games.
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News: rhinofx Completes VFX For Mercedes' Summer of Love Campaign
rhinofx recently collaborated with Merkley + Partners and Oscar-nominated director Mehdi Norowzian of Joy Films to create the VFX for a series of :30 spots for the Mercedes-Benz Summer of Love campaign.
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News: Abaltat Ships Muse 2.0 Enhanced Composition Engine; Seamless Integration with Apple Final Cut and Avid Editing Applications
Abaltat ™, a developer of innovative audio workflow solutions for postproduction and broadcast markets, announced the release of Abaltat Muse 2.0. Abaltat Muse 2.0 enables anyone, regardless of musical ability; to compose royalty-free, multi-part soundtracks that are perfectly timed and aligned to the users’ edited video.
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News: RingSide Creative Hires Editor Chris Randolph Veteran Commercial Editor Skilled in Online, Offline, VFX
RingSide Creative has brought on senior editor Chris Randolph. Randolph brings more than 20 years of post production experience to RingSide, all in the Detroit market, and is a multi-talented artist, skilled in off-line and online editing, visual effects, compositing and graphics.
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News: IRIDAS Brings RealTime RAW 2.0 to NVISION 08 See GPU-Based De-Bayering at PNY Booth
IRIDAS, the world leader in RAW playback technologies, is bringing RealTime RAW 2.0 to the crowds at the San Jose Convention Center for NVISION 08 this week.
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News: Avid DS 10 Speeds Creative Hi-Res Online Process Integrated solution enables facilities to enhance creativity, turn projects around quicker and complete entire post process in one system
Avid Technology, Inc. today launched Avid® DS version 10: a solution designed to save customers time and money by offering professional editing, compositing, keying, image retouching, paint and graphics capabilities in one application.
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News: Ambric Announces H.264 Acceleration Support for Apple Mac OS X Leopard Ambric Now Shipping the Am2045 GT Video Reference Platform With Significant Acceleration for Apple Mac Pro and MacBook Pro
Ambric® has released software for production that utilizes its Am2045™ massively parallel processor array on the Mac® OS® X Leopard platform.
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News: FrameCycler Goes Stereo 3D DualStream Now Included Standard for All Playback Applications
IRIDAS, which first introduced its stereo 3D playback technology five years ago, has announced that DualStream will now be included standard with all versions of FrameCycler, starting with the 2008 versions.
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News: Jack Olesker Named President of KEN Creative Studio
Producer/director/writer Jack Olesker, creator of the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers television series, has been named President of KEN Creative Studio, the India/U.S. production arm of KEN Group, the Bangalore, India-based multinational conglomerate.
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News: GenArts To Showcase Sapphire Plug-Ins At IBC 2008 Company to demonstrate its VFX plug-ins on a wide range of products on stand 7.K41
GenArts, Inc., a leading provider of visual effects plug-ins for the film, broadcast and video industries, will be showcasing Sapphire Plug-ins at IBC 2008, being held September 12-16 at the Amsterdam RAI.
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News: How Do You Cram a Black Hole into a GPU? Find Out at NVISION 08 NVISION 08 CUDA Developer Conference Focuses on Parallel Computing Using CUDA Technology
Just as a black hole pulls everything toward it, the NVISION® 08 event in San Jose next week is pulling in experts and practitioners in the field from all over the world.
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News: Pluto Taps Edelman to Lead New Sales Drive
Pluto, a provider of editorial, motion graphics, visual effects and audio services for advertising, has hired Celeste Edelman as Director of Sales and Marketing. The move is part of a new effort by the company to attract more work from Detroit-area advertising agencies, and to gain a foothold in other markets around the country.
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News: Stock Footage To Pave The Way In The Creative Industry Ribbit Films, A New Creative Industry Leader
Ribbit Films, the leading provider of pre-keyed stock footage, announces clips that can be downloaded and used immediately in a pre-packaged format that’s convenient, cost-effective and ready to use.
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News: Engine Design Launches with Graphic Novel Inspired Promo for the Return of HBO's Entourage Innovative Model Matches Independent Design Directors with Powerhouse Production at Engine Room
This week marks the official launch of Engine Design, a new hybrid broadcast design experience that pairs leading design directors with the power of sister visual effects and animation company Engine Room.
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News: Telestream Announces Availability of AdManager for Cable Product streamlines the way cable companies move and manage commercials and other media received from digital delivery services and other sources
Telestream® today announced availability of a new workflow automation product which targets the cable industry. With the increase in national and regional commercials, VOD content, infomercials and other media being delivered as digital files to cable ad operations centers, the need to automate the process continues to grow.
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The Non-Broadcast Production issue is filled with many great stories and techniques spanning a wide range of productions, including in-stadium sports television on massive HD screens, archiving 14 terabytes of classic Elvis video at Graceland, museum five-screen projections with dioramas, working with XDCAM HD at England's Wembley Stadium, creating the stage show for Journey's latest world tour, making cutting edge medical videos, creating top-notch real estate productions and many other projects. This issue's bonus feature is Creating HBO's The Wire, with a look at camera and shooting tricks and strategies -- along with many other techniques that went into creating this five-season HBO masterwork series.
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