News: broadcastGEMs introduces broadcastGEMs Volume02: AEPro Series
broadcastGEMs introduces it's second volume of highly customizable Adobe After Effects project files. These project files are uniquely designed by producers and designers to ensure that you get stuff that works in the real world.
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News: Film Workshops International to launch career training programmes in the UK and Mallorca
The introduction of new digital and high definition technologies and software, along with the availability of many more content distribution avenues have created an expanded need for advanced training for creative professionals. To meet this demand, The Film Workshops International established 30 years ago in the USA by David H. Lyman, is taking a programme of professional workshops to Liverpool and the island of Mallorca this coming year.
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News: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 by PNY with 4GB of Frame Memory Delivers the Ultimate Graphics Technology for Workstation and Cluster Performance New NVIDIA Quadro® FX 5800 by PNY and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 by PNY provide state-of-the-art, high-demand graphics performance for a wide range of intensive styling, oil and gas exploration, broadcast and film, and scientific applications
PNY Technologies® today announced the immediate availability of its new ultra high-performance graphic boards, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 by PNY and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 by PNY. Both of these highly scalable GPU accelerated solutions are also available in Genlock/framelock and HD-SDI versions.
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News: Smith Micro Software’s Consumer Group Announces Manga Studio 4.0 for Mac and Windows World’s Leading Comic and Manga Art Software Offers New Cutting Edge Color, Vector and Special Effects Tools for Professional, Ready-to-Publish Comic Art
Smith Micro Software, Inc. Consumer Group today announced the availability of Manga Studio™ Debut 4.0 and Manga Studio™ EX 4.0, the world’s leading manga and comic art software used by professional artists and hobbyists to create professional, ready-to-publish comics and print cartoons from start to finish.
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News: NewTek TriCaster™ Selected by SportsLink to Produce and Live Stream Coverage of U.S. Army All-American Bowl Week Events Students to produce and live stream first Football University Youth All-American Bowl showcasing nation’s top seventh and eighth-graders
NewTek Inc., manufacturer of industry-leading video and 3D animation products, today announced that SportsLink, a leading sports-marketing and management company, selected TriCaster™ portable live production system to produce and stream extended live coverage of the U.S. Army All-American Bowl Week.
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News: Apple Supports AG-HMC150 AVCCAM Camcorder's Highest-Quality PH Recording Mode With FCP 6.0.5 Update
Panasonic announced that Apple’s new Final Cut Pro version 6.0.5 software now incorporates support for the professional PH recording mode offered in its AG-HMC150 handheld AVCCAM camcorder. The enhanced PH recording mode is exclusive to the AVCCAM HMC150 and provides exceptional quality 1080 and 720 recording in an AVCHD format at bit rates up to 24Mbps.
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News: Matrox Introduces PowerDesk for Mac Software Features Enhanced Desktop Management Control Across Multiple Displays
Matrox Graphics Inc. today announced the availability of PowerDesk for Mac, a new desktop management software for Graphics eXpansion Modules used with Apple® Mac systems.
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News: MXF4mac launches first wave of Avid MXF support
For the first time native media files from Avid systems are directly accessible by QuickTime in Mac OS X. The new release of MXF4QT Import provides extensive support for various Avid OP-Atom formats including all DNxHD variations.
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News: NVIDIA Releases Version 2.1 Beta of the CUDA Toolkit and SDK
NVIDIA has announced the availability of version 2.1 beta of its CUDA toolkit and SDK. This is the latest version of the C-compiler and software development tools for accessing the massively parallel CUDA compute architecture of NVIDIA GPUs.
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News: DAZ 3D Boosts Performance with Carrara 7.0 Updated Features Enhance All-in-one 3D Solution for Realistic Figure Posing, Animation, Modeling and Rendering
As the demand for an efficient, feature-rich and cost-effective 3D toolset expands, DAZ 3D™ responds with the release of Carrara 7.0™ , the latest version of its popular all-in-one 3D modeling, animation and rendering solution.
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News: da Vinci Appoints Industry Veteran Russ Chesley to Director of Worldwide Strategic Accounts
da Vinci Systems, a subsidiary of JDS Uniphase Corporation , announced today that Russ Chesley, a 30-year entertainment industry veteran, has joined da Vinci as director of worldwide strategic accounts. Chesley will help da Vinci respond to emerging trends and challenges within the industry and will work to strengthen the company's strategic partnerships and accounts.
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News: LaCie Ethernet Disk: Up to 6TB in a Rack-Mounted Backup Appliance
LaCie today introduced a new version of its award-winning Ethernet Disk, a network-attached storage device featuring a capacity increase of up to 6TB in a 1U 19" rack form factor. Designed by Neil Poulton, it is the most compact all-in-one rack-mounted backup appliance operating in heterogeneous ecosystems.
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News: Digidesign Ships Pro Tools 8 Software Provides everything needed to create, compose, score, record, mix, produce and broadcast in single application.
Digidesign®, a part of Avid Technology, Inc. , today announced the immediate availability of Pro Tools 8 software, the company’s highly-anticipated, next-generation music creation and audio production software.
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News: Noise Industries Rolls Out FxFactory Awards Competition Editors and Visual Effects Artists submit their best FxFactory projects and win BIG!
Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast markets, announced the launch of the FxFactory® Awards 2008 contest. Designed to showcase the best in FxFactory visual effects design, contest applicants can submit their favorite visual effects projects via the Noise Industries web site starting December 15, 2008.
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News: Digital Ad Pioneer Jason Zada Shoots Adidas Soccer Campaign With P2 HdD Cams Director Teams AJ-HPX3000s and AJ-HPX500s on Wide-Ranging Ads Featuring adidas-Sponsored Major League Soccer Teams
San Francisco-based director/writer Jason Zada, whose prominence among digital content marketing producers dates back to the early days of the Internet, shot a five-episode web series and three 30-second broadcast spots for adidas with AJ-HPX3000 native 1080p P2 HD and AJ-HPX500 2/3” shoulder-mount P2 HD camcorders.
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News: Holiday Movies Twilight, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Others Come to Life With Autodesk Technology Visual Effects Enhance Storytelling in Fantasy Films, Historical Dramas and Animated Movies
Across multiple movie genres and filmmaking techniques, this year's holiday blockbuster movies demonstrate the wide-range of entertainment that is shaped with Autodesk, Inc. software. Filmmakers are using Autodesk's animation, visual effects and color grading tools to enhance their creative process and enable sophisticated storytelling.
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News: Paragon Studios Brings Sound And Picture Editing Under One Roof Nashville Audio Post-Production Facility Unveils New Picture Edit Suite
Paragon Studios, an industry leader in audio, broadcast and film post-production, recently put the final touches on its brand new state-of-the-art picture editing suite. This addition creates a multi-faceted studio that now allows for all picture and sound post-production needs to be completed at one single location.
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News: Avid Introduces Next-Generation Avid Active ContentManager Version 3.0 creates more efficient news workflow by extending news content to Web and wireless devices
Avid Technology, Inc. today unveiled Avid Active™ ContentManager 3.0, a solution for broadcasters looking to simplify multi-channel news workflows and create more revenue opportunities by broadening the delivery of content to the Web, wireless devices and other IP-based distribution points.
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News: Small Tree Communications to Introduce GraniteSTOR abcSAN at Macworld Expo 2009 Shared Storage Technology Ideal for Final Cut Pro, Pro Tools and Photoshop Users
Small Tree Communications, designer of cost-effective networking and shared storage products for professional video and audio editors, will introduce abcSAN, the second member of its GraniteSTOR family of shared storage products, at Macworld 2009 .
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News: Autodesk Now a Member of Epic Games' Integrated Partners Program Autodesk HumanIK Animation Middleware and Autodesk Kynapse AI Middleware Integrated into Epic's Unreal Engine 3
Autodesk, Inc. and Epic Games, Inc. today announced that Autodesk has become a member of Epic Games' Integrated Partners Program . This has allowed Autodesk to integrate its Autodesk HumanIK animation middleware with Epic's Unreal Engine 3 .
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News: Sonnet Fusion™ DX800RAID Includes SAS Expander; Supports RAID 5 and RAID 6 8-Drive Video Storage System Supports Fast, Cost-Effective Expansion to 16 Drives and More
Sonnet Technologies today announced the immediate availability of the Fusion™ DX800RAID, a high-performance, eight-drive RAID SATA storage system with a built-in SAS expander that enables connection of up to 16 eight-drive enclosures to a single Sonnet RAID controller.
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News: Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld
Apple® today announced that this year is the last year the company will exhibit at Macworld Expo. Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will deliver the opening keynote for this year’s Macworld Conference & Expo, and it will be Apple’s last keynote at the show.
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News: ATTO’s ExpressSAS H30F SAS/SATA Host Adapter named a YES CERTIFIED by Novell ATTO Delivers SAS Connectivity Solution for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Open Source Environments
ATTO Technology, Inc., a global leader of storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments, today announced that the ATTO ExpressSAS H30F SAS/SATA II Host Adapter has received the Novell® YES CERTIFIED compatibility designation with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, Service Pack 1.
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News: NVIDIA First to Offer Full Support for OpenGL 3.0 Drivers Provide Developers with Full Support for OpenGL 3.0 API and GLSL 1.30 Shading Languages
Further demonstrating its leadership and commitment to OpenGL and the standardization process, NVIDIA® today released fully supported drivers for OpenGL® 3.0 for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux on its select GeForce® and Quadro® solutions.
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News: UCLA Deploys da Vinci Revival™ to Restore Award-Winning TV Classics for DVD
da Vinci Systems LLC, a subsidiary of JDS Uniphase Corporation , today announced that its Revival™ image restoration system enabled the UCLA Film & Television Archive to restore episodes from two classic television series, "The Shari Lewis Show" and "Mister Peepers."
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News: New York Jets Gear Up for Wide-Ranging Production with Panasonic AJ-HPX3000 Master Quality 1080P Camcorders
Enjoying an outstanding season, the New York Jets are now documenting their panoply of successes on and off the field with Panasonic master-quality P2 HD camcorders. The team’s Broadcasting and Multimedia Production department recently purchased two AJ-HPX3000 native 1080p one-piece camcorders, along with P2 drives and media and a DVCPRO HD VTR, all of which will serve a new post-production facility located at the Jets’ Florham Park, NJ headquarters and training center.
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News: Small Tree Communications Provides Shared Storage for Post-Production on Nickelodeon's "My Family's Got GUTS!" Technology Increases Performance While Saving Production Company Tens of Thousands of Dollars
Small Tree Communications, designer of simple-to-install, cost-effective networking and shared storage products for professional video and audio editors, recently provided an inexpensive workflow solution to Five Alts Productions for post-production on Nickelodeon’s new extreme sports competition show, “My Family’s Got GUTS!”
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News: RE:Vision Effects releases DE:Noise for OFX now available for Nuke, Fusion and Toxik!
RE:Vision Effects today released its acclaimed DE:Noise plugin set for Nuke, Fusion and Toxik. DE:Noise is a plugin set that removes excessive noise and artifacts in one easy-to-use tool. It handles spurious frame-to-frame defects ranging from fine digital and electronic noise to blotchy spots .
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News: Telestream’s Episode Desktop Media Encoder Now Available for Windows Episode Version 5.1 release introduces cross-platform support, enabling fast, high-quality, easy-to-use transcoding between virtually any format – for both Mac and PC users
Telestream today announced an important milestone for its Episode® Series media encoding software products. Previously only offered on the Mac platform, version 5.1 extends Telestream’s Episode and Episode Pro desktop encoding products to the Windows operating system.
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News: Canon’s professional 3-CCD HD camcorders are a top choice for affordable HDTV program production
Inspired storytelling, superior HDTV production values, and prudent budgeting are essential elements in the competitive world of producing innovative programming for today’s cable networks. For Varuna Entertainment, achieving these goals is made easier by using Canon’s XH G1 HD Camcorders to capture dramatic, challenging, and often dangerous footage for two of their latest cable “reality” series.
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News: Prime Focus Group Companies Help Steal the Show for 'The Maiden Heist' Frantic Films VFX and Prime Focus London Contribute Effects; Post Logic Studios Completes DI
Frantic Films VFX, Post Logic Studios and Prime Focus London, all Prime Focus Group companies, completed visual effects, the main title sequence and the digital intermediate for the forthcoming feature film "The Maiden Heist" from Yari Film Group Releasing, LLC.
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News: ATTO Technology Announces Immediate OEM Availability of Industry’s Highest Performing SAS Host Adapters ExpressSAS Host Adapters to Power Data-Intensive IT and Digital Media Applications
ATTO Technology, Inc., a global leader of storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments, announces the immediate availability of the ExpressSAS H608 and ExpressSAS H680, the industry’s only 6-Gb/s SAS host adapters.
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News: Pyro AV Now Shipping Turbo eSATA™ Controllers Three New eSATA Cards for Mac and PC
Pyro AV® announced today the launch of 3 new eSATA add-on controller cards for Macs and PCs. The new family of Turbo eSATA™ products leverages Pyro AV's experience in high-speed bus connectivity solutions.
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News: Bollywood Meets Hollywood In The Era Of Digital Production NVIDIA Spices up Visual Effects Creation with Hardware, Software and Education
Renowned for a rich culture dating back thousands of years, India is building a new cultural legacy-the movie business. Popularly known as Bollywood, the Indian film industry annually releases 1,000 films, approximately 10 times what Hollywood produces each year.
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News: Corel to Lead Digital Art Discussion at Macworld Conference & Expo 2009 Corel® Painter™ Product Management and Corel Painter Masters to Discuss Evolution and Future of Digital Art
Corel Corporation today announced that the company will participate alongside members of its Corel® Painter™ Master program as part of a Macworld 2009 Conference & Expo® panel entitled "Digital Art Pioneers and Trendsetters.”
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News: Big Stage Entertainment Unveils “PortableYou” Proprietary 3-D Facial Modeling System For Use in Video Games, Virtual Worlds and Web Sites Virtual World Companies Icarus Studios and The Venue Network Integrate PortableYou For Realistic 3-D Avatar Creation
Big Stage Entertainment, Inc., a media technology company that lets consumers project themselves photo-realistically into the digital realm, is opening its proprietary 3-D facial modeling system to third parties for seamless integration into video games, virtual worlds, Web sites, mobile apps, kiosk-based systems and more.
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News: Streambox Releases HD/SD Encoder Ideal for Broadcasting and Video Post-Production New Streambox® SBT3-9200 HD/SD Encoder Offers Exceptional Quality and Performance in a Single Integrated Solution
Streambox, Inc. today announced the launch of the Streambox® SBT3-9200 HD/SD Video Transport Encoder, the company's next-generation solution for HD/SD newsgathering, broadcasting, and video post-production.
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News: CafeFx Announces 2009 Production Slate, Art Department Expansion CafeFX’s Emmy Award For “John Adams” Is A Highlight of 2008
Award-winning visual effects facility CafeFX has announced an impressive 2009 visual effects production slate. CafeFX has been awarded work on some of the industry’s most highly anticipated films from such notable directors as Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann, Stephen Sommers and Brad Silberling, as well as a major theme park attraction. To meet the creative needs of a production pipeline in high gear and to provide accessibility and convenience for its Westside clients, CafeFX has expanded its art department to the fourth floor of the building it shares with The Syndicate, its Santa Monica-based sister company.
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News: Pyro AV Turbo 1394b Solutions Now Shipping with Unibrain ubCore™ Full Support for 800 Mbps Bus Speeds
Pyro AV® today announced that it is now shipping its Turbo 1394b PCI and Turbo 1394b PCIe controller cards with Unibrain ubCore™ drivers for Windows. Including ubCore™ with their line of 1394b products, Pyro AV provides a complete solution out-of-the-box, allowing end users to take full advantage of 1394b's 800 Mbps transfer speed.
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News: IRIDAS Releases MetaRender Workflow Automation Application Provides Transcoding and Rendering
IRIDAS, a leader in digital cinema workflow technologies, today released MetaRender 2008.
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The visual effects issue of Creative COW Magazine is filled with ideas, inspiration, techniques and projects from the world of visual effects. Featuring some of the top artists from television and film, the issue takes you inside the incredible visual feast that you see in Warner Bros' ``Pushing Daisies`` -- arguably the most beautiful television world ever created. Then go into the world of invisible effects, looking at the magic created that the audience will never see -- and why these kinds of effects are often more important than the visual and special effects that wow audiences. Also in this issue is an artist who shows how to improvise effects in the production crucible of on-set production -- meeting the needs of the production that weren't planned or storyboarded. Learn the power of shadow effects in your lighting. And in this issue, you will also learn about depth of field converters and the state of Blu-ray production today. This may be our very best issue yet. You decide.
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