Technicolor Asia Selects da Vinci Resolve® R350s for Feature Film, DI Projects
August 28, 2008
da Vinci Systems announced that Technicolor Asia, part of the services division of Thomson S.A., has selected two of the company's highly advanced Resolve® R350 digital mastering suites to provide color grading and digital intermediate (DI) finishing for feature films made throughout Asia. Technicolor Asia is a full-service post-production facility located in Bangkok, Thailand...

CEDAR Audio to be inducted into the Audio Technology Hall Of Fame
August 28, 2008
On 4 October 2008 at the Moscone Centre in San Francisco, the CEDAR System - alongside fourteen other products - will be inducted into the Audio TECnology Hall Of Fame...

RUSHES INVESTS IN MOTION GFX KIT AND SUITE REVAMP
August 27, 2008
Rushes’ Motion GFX Department has benefited from a revamp of its suite, hardware and software to increase the range of workflows available to this award-winning creative department...

Studio 37 and Fletcher Chicago Build Sonnet Fusion™ R400Q SATA Storage System Into Mobile Cart for HD Acquisition
August 27, 2008
Fusion R400Q Enables Fast, Flexible, Secure On-Set Storage of Content, Simplifies Data Management in Tapeless HD Acquisition Workflow...

Universal Studios Sound Streamlines Workflow with Studio Network Solutions
August 26, 2008
Studio Network Solutions (SNS), 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...

ABALTAT SHIPS MUSE VERSION 2.0
August 26, 2008
Enhanced Composition Engine; Seamless Integration with Apple Final Cut and Avid Editing Applications..

How to Manage Video Post-Production Workflow - A Series of How-To Videos
August 25, 2008
Learn how to manage a video post-production workflow with expert tips and advice on film, media, movies, and cinema in this free video series...

da Vinci Systems at IBC - Stand 7.C31
August 25, 2008
da Vinci will show the impact of its technology innovation, C.O.R.E. (Cuda™ Optimized Resolve® Engine), by introducing new color finishing products based on this high-performance platform...

Deluxe Chooses Signiant to Help Bring Hollywood Motion Pictures from Script to Screen
August 20, 2008
Deluxe has chosen its Digital Media Distribution Management Solution (DMDMS) to automate, accelerate and secure the distribution of post-production materials for motion pictures from major Hollywood studios and broadcast companies...

PROOF-it-ONLINE Launches inMotion, Approval Management & Collaboration Software for Rich, Interactive Media
August 20, 2008
PROOF-it-ONLINE unveiled inMotion, the industry’s first technology to move video, Flash, animation and Web design through the creative process faster, easier and with more control. The new technology leverages the Web to accelerate project cycles, improve communications and bring control to the approval process. Early users include a global advertising agency and several top media entertainment companies...

FilmLight Boosts Engineering Staff in Asia
August 20, 2008
Senior will provide installation assistance, technical support and training for the entire FilmLight product range - Northlight film scanners, Baselight colour grading and finishing systems, and Truelight colour management technology. Based out of FilmLight's office in Singapore, he will support clients throughout the Asia-Pacific region...

CinePostproduction Atlantik Film Hamburg installs end-to-end tapeless workflow with help from DVS
August 20, 2008
The core of the new, tapeless workflow is a DVS-SAN for use as an online and near-line storage system, complemented by a SpycerBox. Existing and new systems are integrated via switches and fast data connections...

Industry Vet Gary Demos Joins Lowry Digital
August 20, 2008
Pioneering motion picture technologist Gary Demos has joined Lowry Digital as senior algorithm scientist, reporting to Chief Technology Officer John Lowry. ...

TV Pro Gear Performs First Installation of Blackmagic's Post Production / Broadcast Videohub Router
August 19, 2008
TV Pro Gear, a leading systems integration and mobile solutions provider for the broadcast, production, and post industries, recently became the first company to successfully install Blackmagic's new Broadcast Videohub router...

Imagica Showcases O-gi at IBC 2008
August 19, 2008
At IBC 2008, Imagica will demonstrate now shipping O-gi, a new set of image quality enhancement plug-ins for Autodesk Inferno, Flame, Flint, Fire, and Smoke systems...

Park Road Post Production purchases Neo
August 15, 2008
The Neo panel will be brought straight into front line service to carry out the full DI on Peter Jackson’s forthcoming film ‘The Lovely Bones’. Three further full DI projects are already booked in before the year end, including Alex Proyas’ feature ‘Knowing’, which is shot entirely on the RED camera....

Sweden's Filmgate Builds SCRATCH-RED Workflow
August 15, 2008
Swedish vfx house Filmgate has expanded business by adding a range of digital intermediate (DI) services for the post production of films. ASSIMILATE's SCRATCH Digital Process Solution is at the core of Filmgate's new digital pipeline....

Atlantik Film chooses eQ - Hamburg-based post house purchases Quantel finishing quality for feature film post
August 15, 2008
The eQ is configured with 9 hours of HD workspace and equipped with Quantel’s powerful new MME (multiple Media Engine) technology, dramatically speeding processing-heavy tasks....

Ciprico files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection
August 14, 2008
Ciprico Inc., a St. Louis Park data storage company, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection because it ran out of cash before new products could be introduced...

Autodesk Announces Stitcher Unlimited 2009 And ImageModeler 2009 Software Products
August 14, 2008
Autodesk have announced Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited 2009 and Autodesk ImageModeler 2009 software products. These are the first versions of the former REALVIZ products to be released as part of the Autodesk product portfolio..

Cintel at IBC - Stand No. 7.B18
August 14, 2008
Cintel will be showing a new, faster 4K workflow utilising a dataMill film scanner and DVS’ Clipster running at 5fps (frames per second). This very high rate of 4K data is transferred using the HSDL interface which is widely recognised as the most cost effective and efficient method of data transfer...

IMAGICA TECHNOLOGIES CORP. RELEASES O-gi AT SIGGRAPH 2008
August 13, 2008
O-gi is a set of powerful noise reduction and clean-up filters designed to help improve a range of image quality problems typically faced by post production facilities...

Interra Systems at IBC2008 - Automated Content Verification System and Media Analyzers - Stand No. 7.J45
August 13, 2008
Interra Systems has been a pioneer in providing just the right software tools needed for ensuring content readiness. At IBC2008, Interra Systems will showcase its flagship products Baton and Vega...

SOUND IDEAS DELIVERS SOUND EFFECTS LIBRARIES TO POST-PRODUCTION INDUSTRY WORLDWIDE ON AVASTOR HDX HARD DRIVES
August 13, 2008
Sound Ideas, the world's largest publisher of professional sound effects for the broadcast and post-production markets, is making its new Ultimate SFX Collection available on Avastor HDX800 Triple Interface Hard Drives....

eyeon Releases New Linux Unified Platform System
August 13, 2008
This release has been extensively updated to include many more distributions and solidifies eyeon’s goal to produce Fusion for multiple operating systems with the same image quality and third party support from a single code source...

MAXON Delivers Fully-Loaded CINEMA 4D R11
August 13, 2008
MAXON Computer today unveiled CINEMA 4D Release 11 (R11), the next generation of its highly acclaimed 3D animation software suite...

AMD Launches World's Fastest Graphics Card
August 12, 2008
AMD today announced the world's fastest graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, advancing visual computing ever closer to eye-definition computing gaming and cinematic experiences and delivering a whopping 2.4 teraFLOPS of processing power...

Red Giant Software Acquires Digital Anarchy Plug-Ins
August 12, 2008
Digital Anarchy is known for its high-quality creative software for broadcast designers and 2D animators. The acquisition will add six new products to Red Giant Software’s roster, which will be repackaged under Red Giant Software’s own product names...

DVS Press Release: DVS at IBC 2008 - SpycerBox with ingest option - Stand No. 7.E21
August 12, 2008
Post production houses can integrate the SpycerBox, with its 24 TB capacity, into their workflows as a central NAS (Network Attached Storage). The new ingest option can be used to import uncompressed image sequences. ...

ENVY Post Standardizes on ScheduALL for Comprehensive and Integrated Project Booking and Resource Allocation
August 12, 2008
ScheduALL enables ENVY to track and manage all video content and associated business data throughout the facility for smoother, more efficient project management and billing...

The Pixel Farm Announces PFTrack 5.0
August 12, 2008
Just 12 months after the groundbreaking release of version 4.0, PFTrack 5.0 reasserts itself as the most advanced camera tracking and motion analysis solution available...

New Camera Shake, Jitter, and Noise Removal Tool
August 12, 2008
The stabilizer function removes unwanted camera movement which can be distracting and disturbing to viewers..

Autodesk Launches Toxik 2009 Visual Effects Software
August 12, 2008
Toxik 2009 offers high-performance compositing and visual effects capabilities, particularly for large-format digital film and television projects..

Digital Vision Announces RED One, Film Master Workflow
August 12, 2008
With the release of RED’s SDK, users of Digital Vision’s Film Master will be able to grade native REDCODE RAW files, improving the workflows of feature film, broadcast programs and commercials shot on the RED One camera..

Pandoras Box From coolux Media Systems to Receive Engineering Honors at 2008 Primetime Emmy Award Ceremony
August 11, 2008
Pandoras Box is a turnkey solution that perfectly unites state-of-the-art rendering technology with intuitive media control..

Digital Ordnance announces live stereo 3D presentation for SIGGRAPH
August 11, 2008
We will present live stereoscopic 3D on our booth at SIGGRAPH using a ReadyStor on set capture and playback system working in uncompressed HD and 2K...

Noise Industries Releases Fx Factory for AE
August 11, 2008
Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast markets announced
the availability of FxFactory 2.0.4; offering native integration with Adobe® After Effects® CS3 software....

ActionBacks Releases Three New Animation Collections in HD
August 11, 2008
Suite Imagery, LLC has announced the release of three new royalty free animation volumes in the ActionBacks product line...

MTI Film Debuts RED Camera Support for CONTROL Dailies
August 8, 2008
MTI Film will bring its Control Dailies workflow to productions using RED cameras, announced MTI CEO Larry Chernoff...

MEDIA DISTRIBUTORS LAUNCHES "WORKFLOW & TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS GROUP" AS A NEW COMPANY DIVISION
August 7, 2008
The new division will work in conjunction with the company’s "Rental Station" division, which allows Media Distributors the ability to provide Apple products, including Apple’s Final Cut Pro and Apple’s Mac Pro, to the Hollywood/entertainment community....

John B. Birchell Hughes responsible for International Workflow Development at CinePostproduction
August 7, 2008
Ex-XDC Digital Cinema Employee - by retaining John B. Birchell Hughes as Senior Vice President – International Workflow Development, the CinePostproduction team has at its disposal a technically versed and commercially successful industry expert for digital production and distribution workflows...

Boris FX Announces Boris Blue 2.5 for Windows Vista; New Pricing Announced
August 7, 2008
Boris FX announced new pricing and special offers. Boris Blue 2.5 is now available for $595, a crossgrade for Avid FX or Boris RED users is $199, and a crossgrade for Boris FX or Boris Graffiti users is $299..

eyeon To Show Fusion 6 At SIGGRAPH 2008
August 7, 2008
Steve Roberts, co-founder and CEO of eyeon Software, created Fusion to solve some of production’s biggest VFX problems...

Cine-tal Systems Completes Acquisition of cineSpace
August 6, 2008
Cine-tal Systems, a leading manufacturer of image processing, display and collaboration solutions used in digital cinema and video production, has completed its acquisition of the cineSpace color management technology...

SonicPool Opens "Superior" Room for HD Finishing Including 2K and 4K Capabilities
August 5, 2008
SonicPool, one of Hollywood's leading post facilities, specializing in audio and video finishing, edit suite rentals, and full post-production services, has opened its new "Lake Superior" Room...

The Emmys come to Cape Town
August 5, 2008
Penguin Films, the Cape Film Commission and Waterfront Studios hosted the semi-final round of judging for the Asia/Africa/Middle East region for the 2008 International Emmy Awards...

OmniReliant purchases Clearwater film studio
August 5, 2008
OmniReliant Holdings Inc. has purchased a 33,000-square-foot facility in Clearwater it will use to help bolster its infomercial, commercial and high-end video and audio productions...

Alioscopy -- to introduce state-of-the-art 3DHD-40 autostereoscopic display technology at SIGGRAPH 2008
August 4, 2008
Alioscopy USA, a leader in 3D display technologies, today announced it will introduce its new, state-of-the-art, 3DHD-40 autostereoscopic (no glasses required) 3D LCD display technology at SIGGRAPH 2008..

Cinnafilm Ships Cinnafilm HD1, the Industry’s First All-in-One Format Conversion Platform
August 4, 2008
Immediate availability of Cinnafilm HD1, the industry’s first all-in-one format conversion platform designed specifically for film simulation and unlimited frame rate conversion of digital video...

Digital Vision To Showcase Film Master and Phoenix To Visual Effects Community at SIGGRAPH 2008
August 4, 2008
New features include the ability to process in full 32bit floating point per channel without any clipping. All tools have been implemented in floating point including noise reduction, aperture correction as well as grading and isolation tools..

DarbeeVision - DVn v.1.1 Beta now available
August 4, 2008
DarbeeVision (DVn) has unleashed their unique realism and depth enhancement technology for digital images..

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