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| Gov. Perdue of North Carolina Signs Film Incentives Bill |
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Gov. Bev Perdue Thursday signed Senate Bill 943 allowing production companies a 25 percent tax credit for film projects in North Carolina, up from the previous credit of 15 percent. The bill also sets minimum spending and hiring requirements for qualifying film companies working in the state.
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| Marquis Debuts Parking at IBC 2009 |
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 Parking is a new media archive product for digital post and broadcast workflows and will be on show at IBC 2009 Stand 2.A58.
Parking provides a simple and fast 'one click' method of moving projects from dedicated editing storage to archive or generic low-cost storage.
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| The New SCANITY from DFT Digital Film Technology now Shipping |
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DFT Digital Film Technology is using IBC 2009 as the official launching pad for the new SCANITY film scanner - Booth no. 7.E39.
SCANITY is already building momentum in the marketplace with commitments from leading facilities including Sony Pictures Technologies in Hollywood and Digimage Cinema in France. Read on... |
| Light Illusion LUT Builder Adds More Features - Gains Global Sales |
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Specialist digital film consultancy, Light Illusion, has gained further global sales for its 3D LUT Builder
and added new features and capabilities to simplify digital imaging workflow for production and postproduction.
The addition of the new direct LUT import allows LUTs to be loaded into LUT Builder software in their native LUT text format.
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| Spy Post purchases Pablo 4K color correction system |
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Spy Post, the San Francisco post house known for its work in commercials and feature film post production, has purchased a Quantel Pablo 4K non-linear color correction system.
Pablo has been purchased as part of the major expansion program put in place at Spy Post following its recent acquisition by FotoKem Read on... |
| MAXON Unveils CINEMA 4D Release 11.5 3D Animation Software Suite |
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 CINEMA 4D Release 11.5 is a comprehensive upgrade to MAXON's 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering software.
It features a substantially re-tooled and accelerated render engine, an all-new Picture Viewer, enhanced interoperability with leading compositing applications, and a major upgrade to its popular MoGraph module, which features an integrated Dynamics Engine and a host of new additions. Read on... |
| Prime Focus Technologies Deploys Front Porch Digital's DIVArchive at Three Sites |
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Prime Focus Technologies (PFT), a visual entertainment services company, is relying on Front Porch Digital's DIVArchive system to provide distributed video storage and archiving for clients' media content located at three locations, two in Mumbai, and one in Los Angeles.
At PFT, DIVArchive works under the direction of a hosted digital asset management platform, CLEAR, to move digitized media files from nearline to long-term archiving and storage. Read on... |
| Caipirinha Productions Relies on GraniteSTOR shared storage technology from Small Tree |
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Small Tree's GraniteSTOR shared storage technology with its OS X networking capabilities supporting multiple Ethernet ports, tightly integrated with Apple's built in file sharing system, provided Caipirinha editors with a shared storage Gigabit Ethernet network where all media is available to everyone simultaneously.
Prior to the installation, Caipirinha's editing team, consisting of three editors, two assistant editors and interns, was utilizing multiple 2 TB FireWire drives during post-production. With 7 TBs of production footage and archival, keeping all of the drives up to date with each other had become an enormous challenge. Read on... |
| HD EXPO - Createasphere Presents Renowned Cinematographer Lance Acord, ASC in A Keynote Conversation |
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 On September 17th, 2009, at HD EXPO - Createasphere in New York, noted cinematographer Lance Acord will join American Cinematographer magazine's East Coast contributing writer Patricia Thomson in a far-ranging discussion about creativity, cinematography, collaboration and directing. |
| The Foundry Ships Nuke 5.2 |
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 Nuke 5.2, now shipping, features new pre-comp tools that facilitate structured and collaborative workflow through referencing of external scripts; Python improvements for the creation of custom user interface panels and script driven actions; metadata support direct in the node graph; and the ability to register multiple 'Viewer Process' Gizmos for user-defined viewer processing, including new GPU support for 3D LUTs and GLSL shaders. Read on... |
| RED & Assimilate show Rocket Science at IBC |
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| SCRATCH is supporting RED's latest RED colour science and the latest update from RED - the RED ROCKET board with Quad DVI and Dual Link HD-SDI.
RED's Ted Schilowitz and ASSIMILATE's Lucas Wilson are presenting the latest in high-res imagery and the first showing of RED ROCKET in action with SCRATCH. Read on... |
| IBC 2009 - New Product News |
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 Visit our sister publication, the Broadcast Equipment Guide for the latest updates on new products being launched at IBC 2009.
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