| | | | | Restored “Lawrence of Arabia” Wins FOCAL International Award
 4K Restoration of David Lean’s Masterpiece Receives Top Honors; Sony Pictures’ Grover Crisp Recognized for “Outstanding Achievement in Restoration”
The newly-restored, 50th Anniversary Directors Cut of David Lean’s 1962 masterpiece Lawrence of Arabia took home the award for “Best Archive Restoration/Preservation Title” at the tenth FOCAL International Awards held May 2nd in London. The 4K restoration of the film was completed last year by Sony Pictures Entertainment under the direction of Grover Crisp, EVP of Asset Management, Film Restoration and Digital Mastering for SPE. Crisp also received a special, individual award for “Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Film Restoration and Preservation.”
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| | | | Actua Films Relies On Studio Technologies Live-Link Remote Camera Interface Units For Sng And Production Trucks
 Live-Link Provides Streamlined Setup and Reliable Service for Breaking-News Applications
Actua Films, a facility service provider for local and international TV stations, corporations and TV networks with offices in Geneva and Paris, relies on the Studio Technologies Live-Link Remote Camera Interface System for its satellite news-gathering (SNG) and production trucks. The company provides services ranging from a fleet of trucks deploying camera crews for news and sporting events across Europe, to editing facilities for post production, 4K and HD feature film/documentary production, through its sister company, PointProd. Actua employs the Live-Link system for breaking news and time-sensitive interview applications, where high reliability and a speedy setup are imperative.
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| | | | FilmLight Launches New Products to Provide Professional Colour Control at Every Stage
 - New control surface, grading platforms and peripherals deliver fast, flexible creativity and efficiency -
FilmLight is further enhancing its integrated colour pipeline with new products to be introduced at NAB 2013 (booth SL 3928, LVCC, 8–11 April). The range ensures that colour workflows can start on-set and run right through to final post and delivery, staying true to the vision at every stage. It delivers unrivalled productivity and creative control, giving facilities a real edge in delivering uncompromised results.
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| | | | Matrox Announces 4K Output Card for Developers — Matrox DSX LE3 4K
 Support for 3G SDI Level A and B at 4096 x 2160/60p lets OEMs create full 4K broadcast workflow solutions
Matrox® Video today announced a new addition to the Matrox DSX™ Developer Products family—the Matrox DSX LE3 4K card. Matrox DSX LE3 4K enables realtime monitoring and output of video footage at resolutions up to 4096 x 2160 at frame rates up to 60 fps. This new 4K output card, in conjunction with the industry-leading Matrox DSX Software Development Kit and 4K codec support for ProRes and XAVC, lets equipment manufacturers create graphics systems, editing solutions and playout servers in native 4K resolutions. At the 2013 NAB Show, leading broadcast equipment supplier Vizrt will preview the breakthrough 4K rendering capability of its Viz Engine using the Matrox DSX LE3 4K card.
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| | | | Digital Vision Brings Image Technology Innovations to NAB 2013
Technology Demonstrations, New Features Unveiled for Colour Grading, Archive, Stereo and Image Processing
Digital Vision will bring its range of image technology solutions to NAB 2013, including the Nucoda 2013 colour grading product line which features many new tools and enhancements, and the latest version of Phoenix restoration software. In addition the company, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, will present the first technology demonstration of Thor, a soon-to-be-released dedicated hardware product for advanced image processing.
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| | | | NAB2013: Vizrt Brings IP Workflow, 4K Rendering, and Integrated Workflow for Video and Graphics
 See us in Las Vegas, April 8th – 11th 2013. Booth SL3305
NAB is the world's largest event covering the development, management and delivery of content across all mediums. At this year’s show, representatives from Vizrt’s worldwide offices will be on hand to demonstrate the company’s completely integrated graphics and video workflow. Vizrt technology enables operators to distribute and monetize content to mobile devices, web portals and any screen. Highlights within the Vizrt booth will be its recent advancements for media asset management (MAM), broadcast graphics, as well as online and mobile video delivery.
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| | | | Mistika Performs A Starring Role At London’s BTV Post To Bring Shakespeare To Life From Open Air Stage To Cinema Screen Across Different Genres
 “Mistika's fantastic “digital printer lights tool” proved a great asset in restoring balance to the image...One of the most beneficial features in Mistika throughout this project is the “selection ganging” feature of the storyboard.” Ian Grey, Mistika VFX Artist and Colour Grader, BTV Post
Soho-based BTV Post is currently using Mistika for the grading, online finishing and digital mastering for all platform deliveries of Shakespeare's Globe's fourth season of filmed live theatre performances of The Taming of the Shrew, Henry V and Twelfth Night for an international Shakespeare experience.
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| | | | 4K leads the way at BVE 2013
- AJA, Canon and RedShark share their 4K expertise -
2013 is the year of 4K, with many of the major global broadcasters testing the format for mainstream broadcast. BVE is therefore delighted to be able to be in partnership with AJA, Canon and RedShark to bring visitors a dedicated theatre set up with the highest quality projection equipment and present the latest content being delivered in 4K. The theatre will also introduce debates on what 4K means for the wider industry, discussing the latest camera technology and workflows while looking at how to integrate these new technologies into current working practices.
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| | | | Studio l'Equipe relies on Mistika to introduce cutting-edge colour grading toolsets to Brussels for feature films
 As part of the on-going expansion of digital acquisition, Brussels-based Studio l’Equipe, one of Belgium’s leading post production facilities has invested in SGO's Mistika to meet the demands of a rapidly changing and highly competitive feature film market. Studio l'Equipe has installed a Mistika 4K system with a Mistika Assist station, to help accelerate the post production process by allowing simultaneous access to Mistika projects for ingest, online functions and the creation of deliverables, without disturbing the master Mistika system. Both Mistikas are connected to a 72TB SAN storage system.
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| | | | Europa Sound & Vision embraces SGO Mistika to add high-end colour grading, on-line finishing and DCP creation facilities in Sweden
 Leading Swedish post production house Europa Sound & Vision has significantly boosted its facilities and workflow with the purchase of three Mistika systems providing deliverables up to 4K. The investment consists of a Mistika for high-end colour grading, another for real-time compositing, online finishing and DCP creation, combined with a Mistika Assist workstation, all sharing a 96TB SGO SAN in a collaborative workflow environment. The primary focus is on 2D projects but the systems can easily be upgraded to Stereo 3D and High Frame Rate (HFR) when required.
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| | | | ASSIMILATE Ships Support For a Wave of New Cameras and Formats in SCRATCH and SCRATCH Lab
Sony F5/F55, Canon C500, CinemaDNG and Dramatically Faster ARRIRAW Debayering Highlight New Release
ASSIMILATE, the leading global provider of DI and dailies tools for digital cinema, episodic television, commercials and spot workflows, announced today a significant upgrade to its SCRATCH™ and SCRATCH Lab™ software. Following quickly on the heels of its November 2012 delivery of version 7, ASSIMILATE has significantly expanded the SCRATCH arsenal for on-set and post-production professionals as they strive to push the boundaries of digital cinema, TV and commercials.
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| | | | Qube Cinema Delivers HFR 3D Technology for World Premieres of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
 Qube XP-I Server and Xi Integrated Media Blocks Used at Wellington and London Premieres
Qube Cinema provided the High Frame Rate (HFR) server technology for the world premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, a production of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM), on the Titan XC screen at the Reading Courtenay theater in Wellington, NZ on Nov. 28. The Qube equipment was also used for the London premiere at the Empire Leicester Square on Dec. 12. The Qube XP-I server was chosen to stream a high bit rate DCP at 48 fps stereoscopic 3D to two Qube Xi Integrated Media Blocks (IMBs). The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is the first film to be distributed at this new higher frame rate, among all of the standard formats.
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| | | | 4K London chooses Leader LV5330 and LV5380 test instruments
 4K London, one of Britain's most active providers of digital cinematography support services, has invested in Leader LV5330 and LV5380 multi-standard video signal analysers for integration into its high-specification electronic imaging systems. The sales were made via Leader's UK reseller Thameside TV which is based in Shepperton.
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| | | | Company 3 and EFILM Collaborate on Comprehensive Post Pipeline for James Bond Feature "Skyfall"
Award-winning post houses Company 3 (CO3) and EFILM joined forces to provide Eon Productions' newest James Bond feature "Skyfall"--the first digitally-shot film in the franchise--with a complete, integrated workflow, ensuring consistency from dailies through to digital intermediate (DI). Based on this model, the companies have branded their collaborative location service as EC3, which leverages the technology and personnel of both post houses.
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| | | | Sony brings broadcast and production expertise to BVE North 2012
- Popular masterclasses and seminars return following acclaim for 2011 programme -
At BVE North 2012, which takes place at Manchester Central on 13-14 November 2012, Sony will once again bring together a group of experienced industry experts to demonstrate how it is accelerating change in the media and broadcast industry, and how its products and technologies can cater for every budget and production requirement.
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| | | | The 56th BFI London Film Festival
 The programme for the 56th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express launched on Wednesday 5 September under the new creative leadership of BFI’s Head of Exhibition and Festival Director, Clare Stewart, bringing a rich and diverse programme of international films and events from both established and upcoming talent over a 12 day celebration of cinema. The Festival will screen a total of 225 fiction and documentary features, including 12 World Premieres, 12 International Premieres and 35 European Premieres*. There will also be screenings of 111 live action and animated shorts. A stellar line-up of directors, cast and crew are expected to take part in career interviews, master classes, and other special events. The 56th BFI London Film Festival will run from 10-21 October 2012.
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| | | | Prasad Corporation announces acquisition of DFT Munich
Award winning, multi-national company Prasad Corporation based in India, with offices in Mumbai, Chennai, Los Angeles and London, are proud to announce the acquisition of the “Scanity & Flexxity" product manufacturing company Precision Mechatronics GmbH based in Weiterstadt - Germany and its sister Sales & Marketing subsidiary DFT Munich GmbH.
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| | | | Codex Announces Onboard S Support For Canon Cinema RAW
 Codex, the leading developer of digital media recorders and media management systems for film and television production, today announces that its compact Onboard S recorder supports Canon Cinema RAW. Codex will demonstrate the Onboard S (and other products) at IBC 2012 in Amsterdam (Stand 11.F41). It will be the first time that the Onboard S will be seen at a European tradeshow.
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| | | | Air Racers 3D Narrated by Paul Walker To Fly High This September at Cinemark Century Theatres in Reno (NV)
3D Entertainment Distribution's latest film gets an exclusive two-week engagement in conjunction with the Reno National Championship Air Races
3D Entertainment Distribution today announced an agreement with Cinemark Holdings, Inc. to present Air Racers 3D, narrated by actor Paul Walker (The Fast and the Furious, Takers), in Reno (Nevada) exclusively at Cinemark Century Theatres from the 7th to the 20th of September. The two-week theatrical engagement will coincide with the 2012 National Championship Air Races at Reno-Stead Airport, which will see the intrepid young star of the 3D film, pilot Steven Hinton, in competition for the fourth consecutive time.
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| | | | About Time For 4K London
- Specialist agency provides on-set support for new Working Title film -
4K London, the digital cinematography specialist agency, is providing digital imaging services on About Time, written and directed by Richard Curtis and produced by Working Title Films. 4K London has also recently finished working on another Working Title project, I Give It A Year.
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| | | | FilmLight and The Pixel Farm Provide an End-to-End Restoration Workflow
 Baselight|PFClean integration supports all DI workflows, including ACES, and allows grading and restoration to proceed in parallel.
FilmLight and The Pixel Farm have formed a strategic partnership to jointly market FilmLight’s Baselight colour grading system and The Pixel Farm’s PFClean™ restoration software as a complete, fully-integrated and affordable workflow for digital cinema restoration. As a result, a branded OEM version of the PFClean restoration and remastering suite equipped with the Baselight integration option will be available to FilmLight customers to purchase directly through the company’s worldwide reseller network.
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| | | | FilmLight at IBC 2012
 Unique pipeline for managing colour from script to screen.
At IBC 2012, FilmLight will demonstrate its latest solutions for refining looks and managing colour at every stage in production. Several new products from FilmLight’s expanded product line will be on view for the first time in Europe, each designed to address a different point in file-based film and television workflows, and together constituting an integrated, end-to-end colour pipeline.
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| | | | Burbank’s FILMLOOK MEDIA and POST Adds Colour Grading via FilmLight’s Baselight
 In a move to significantly improve and expand its services, Burbank post-production facility FILMLOOK Media and Post has purchased a Baselight colour grading system from FilmLight. The new system, which includes FilmLight’s revolutionary Blackboard 2 control panel, allows FILMLOOK, for the first time, to provide its television clients, who include Disney Channel, Fox, CBS, ESPN and HBO, with colour grading services in a file-based workflow. It also allows the company to initiate a new service: DCP mastering for feature films.
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| | | | Cinegear 2012: Codex to Showcase Recording and Workflow Solutions
 Codex Delivers 4K Workflow for Canon Cinema EOS Digital Cameras
Cinegear Booth 48A – Codex Digital will showcase its latest digital media recorders and media management systems for film and television production at Cinegear 2012 in Los Angeles. Featured products will include the Codex Vault S, Codex’s next generation, modular, location-based media management environment, which has begun shipping.
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| | | | Nucoda Colorist Aidan Farrell Wins BAFTA Special Award
 Renowned Nucoda Colourist Aidan Farrell was presented with BAFTA's Special Award at the British Academy Television Craft Awards. The award recognises his outstanding creative contribution to the industry and his extensive work and accomplishments in his field.
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| | | | Film Chest Builds End-To-End Restoration Pipeline with Digital Vision Tools
Innovative Company with Extensive Classic Film Library Unearths and Restores Media Gems with Golden Eye III and Phoenix
Digital Vision has announced that Film Chest has chosen the Golden Eye III film scanner and Phoenix, the industry's premium film, video and digital restoration and mastering solution, to power their expanded pipeline for television and motion picture restoration and distribution. The Golden Eye III film scanner and Phoenix restoration software were installed earlier this year in Film Chest's Bridgeport, Connecticut facility. Film Chest Media Group was founded by Philip E. Hopkins and Ralph E. Stevens, who helm the company.
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| | | | Nucoda Helps Film Factory Make Mirror Mirror The Fairest Of Them All
Digital Vision Tools Propel the Glorious and Vivid Imagery of the Snow White Tale
Digital Vision returns in a supporting role to the Paris-based Film Factory, a global post-production company, in the finishing of Relativity Media’s Mirror Mirror. The beautifully stylized retelling of the Snow White tale, featuring Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen, is a visual feast, pushing post production and visual effects fully to express the filmmaker’s colorful vision. The project, which was directed by Tarsem Singh and shot by Brendan Galvin on the Sony F35, was completed at the Montreal-based facilities of Film Factory. Lionel Kopp, Founder of Film Factory and one of the world’s leading colorists, worked closely with the project’s creative visionaries, assisted by the expertise within Digital Vision to execute a dynamic color pipeline.
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| | | | Colorfront Previews On-Set Dailies 2012 Summer Release
Next On-Set Dailies release extends industry-leading 4K dailies performance
Academy Award-winning developer Colorfront is previewing On-Set Dailies Summer 2012 release, the next version of its Award-winning on-set dailies system for motion picture and TV production, at NAB 2012. With this new release Colorfront continues to raise the quality bar, extend realtime 4K dailies capabilities, and broaden the reputation of On-Set Dailies as the dominant solution with the most advanced feature set of any dailies product.
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| | | | Codex Announces Support For Canon Cinema EOS Cameras
Codex Delivers 4K Workflow for Canon Cinema EOS Digital Cameras
Codex, the leading developer of digital media recorders and media management systems for film and television production, today announces that its Onboard Recorders will support both the Canon Cinema EOS C300 and the new Canon Cinema EOS C500 and C500 PL digital cinematography cameras, which are currently under development.
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| | | | DFT Introduces New SCANITY Features at NAB 2012
DFT Digital Film Technology, provider of high-end film and digital post production solutions that preserve, manage, and deliver your pictures, announces at set of enhanced features for the SCANITY 4K/2K film scanner, which make it an even stronger scanning solution for the archive film market. The new features will be demonstrated at NAB 2012, booth C11145.
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| | | | Digital Vision to Show Nucoda "ACES" Workflow and Key Software Enhancements
Digital Vision has announced significant enhancements to its Nucoda color grading platform, providing increased workflow capabilities and additional tools for grading, pre-grading and stereoscopic projects. At NAB the company will unveil the Nucoda Film Master ACES workflow, a new end-to-end solution developed by the Science and Technology Council (STC) of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS).
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| | | | Digital Vision Announces Phoenix Video Delivering Powerful Videotape Restoration
Digital Vision has unveiled a unique, powerful, single restoration system at NAB 2012, answering the needs of content owners housing millions of hours of material stored in videotape archives. Solely targeted at the video restoration market, Phoenix Video provides broadcasters and archive owners with a highly cost-effective image restoration software solution that allows content stored on videotape to be fully restored ready for distribution across multiple platforms.
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| | | | Digital Vision Restored
Isoz Named CEO and Bolah Appointed Managing Director
Image Systems has announced the return of the iconic Digital Vision name to its highly regarded restoration, colour grading, and mastering business.
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| | | | ASSIMILATE Is First 3rd Party To Support REDgamma3 and REDcolor3 Color Science
Continuing its trend of being first to market to support new RED technology, ASSIMILATE today announced both SCRATCH® and SCRATCH Lab® support for REDgamma3 and REDcolor3, the latest advancements in RED’s Color Science. With RED’s latest color science update, SCRATCH and Lab artists – DITs, video engineers and DI artists -- will see dramatically improved image quality in the monitoring path, and a richer environment for color grading, even when using older REDCODE RAW images.
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| | | | Final Frame Helps Oscar Nominees Hit the Finish with Nucoda
 The New York Facility Extends its Track Record of Oscar Caliber Work on "Hell and Back Again" and "If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front"
The Nucoda Film Master was the system of choice for Final Frame in finishing Academy Award® documentary contenders "Hell and Back Again" and "If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front".
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| | | | 14 Academy Award-Nominated Movies: One Thing in Common
Digital Artists Worldwide Used Autodesk Digital Entertainment Creation Software to Create 2011's Most Celebrated Movies
Digital artists devoted days and years behind the scenes to help create the movie magic seen in many of this year's Academy Award-nominated films. In the categories for Best Visual Effects and Best Animated Film (Feature and Short) in particular, many artists relied on the same set of tools -- Digital Entertainment Creation (DEC) software from Autodesk Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK).
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| | | | MTI Puts Third Nucoda Film Master into the Equation
 Top Hollywood Facility Relies on Nucoda for Versatile Workflow
Image Systems - the leading manufacturer of image enhancement and mastering systems for post production - has announced that MTI Film in Hollywood, California, has installed its third Nucoda Film Master into its state-of-the-art facility. Opened in 2010, MTI Film is a full service post production facility providing high quality dailies, editorial, visual effects, color correction and assembly for film, television and commercial projects. MTI is currently at work on a number of projects, including AMC's Hell on Wheels, CW's Ringer, Good Christian Belles on ABC, and for TNT The Closer, Dallas, and Rizzoli & Isles, as well as a number of feature and restoration projects.
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| | | | Assimilate announces "Cyber Monday" promotion at expanded online store
Innovative new purchasing channel offers even more third-party workflow tools with special reduced-pricing offer
ASSIMILATE, the leading provider of powerful post-production tools for digital workflows, has announced “Cyber Monday”, a 24-hour sales event on 28th November 2011 at its online Store, when significant price reductions will be offered across a range of ASSIMILATE and third-party products.
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| | | | Nucoda and Film Factory Create Immortal Images
 Nucoda Film Master Key to Innovative Color Pipeline for Mega VFX Movie
Image Systems supported Paris-based Film Factory, a global post production company, in finishing Relativity Media's The Immortals. The visual effects-heavy movie, releasing in 2D and 3D, required cutting-edge looks and the right tools to create a strong graphical vision for the story. To help bring the visually rich film to fruition, Film Factory Senior Colorist and Post-Production Supervisor Lionel Kopp collaborated with the filmmakers to create a unique dailies-to-DI process built around the Nucoda Film Master. The Nucoda grading and mastering solution provided Film Factory with the advanced toolset necessary to achieve the surreal look, and streamlined the workflow, which included some 12-plus VFX houses around the globe.
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| | | | Assimilate launches innovative online store for SCRATCH
 Innovative New Channel for SCRATCH Lab, Third-Party Products and Logo Merchandise Now Available in One Convenient OnLine Store
ASSIMILATE, the leading provider of powerful post-production tools for digital workflows, today announced the ASSIMILATE Store, an online marketplace where artists can discover, trial and purchase the popular new SCRATCH Lab™ workflow tool for production and VFX dailies, as well as third-party software and selected hardware accessories that support the entire SCRATCH® product line.
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| | | | Globalstor Extremestor-DI Runs Assimilate’s New Scratch Six Demonstrations At IBC 2011
Globalstor® Data Corporation, a premier OEM integrator of high-performance custom workstations and servers as well as a wide range of data storage products for OEM and ODM customers worldwide, is delighted to announce that its ExtremeStor-DI was chosen as the video storage and playback system for demo’s of ASSIMILATE’s new SCRATCH Six system at IBC 2011, (ASSIMILATE Hall 7, Stand H11).
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| | | | FilmLight’s new products prove an immediate success
 Our Blackboard 2 grading control surface and Baselight TWO colour grading systems, can be seen for the first time in Europe at IBC 2011. Both new products are already enjoying record sales among broadcasters, post houses and production facilities worldwide.
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| | | | FilmLight at IBC 2011: Stand 7.F31
Blackboard 2 | Baselight 4.3 | Baselight for Final Cut Pro & NUKE | Truelight On-Set and AatonK
We will be giving the first European presentations of Blackboard 2, our revolutionary new grading control surface. Blackboard 2 caused quite a stir when it debuted at NAB, and since then, it has evolved into a market ready product.. Your eye is drawn to the visually stunning design, but the secret to Blackboard 2 is what we call Adaptive Key Technology—every key is programmable in infinite ways. No grading surface is faster, more ergonomic or, frankly, cooler than Blackboard 2.
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| | | | Image Systems’ Nucoda Platform Colours New Worlds in HBO’s "Game of Thrones"
 Image Systems, formerly Digital Vision, has today announced that its Nucoda Film Master DI grading and finishing solution and Nucoda Compose preparation and delivery station has been used by Dublin-based post facility Screen Scene to grade the first series of HBO’s hugely successful television fantasy drama "Game of Thrones".
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| | | | Digital Heaven releases free plug-ins for Final Cut Pro X and Motion 5
Digital Heaven, one of the leading third party developers for Apple Pro Apps, today announced the release of DH_GridX and DH_WideSafeX, two new freeware plug-in generators for Final Cut Pro X and Motion 5. Both plug-ins are built using Apple’s latest FxPlug 2 architecture to take full advantage of GPU rendering and 64 bit processing.
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| | | | FotoKem's Keep Me Posted Adds Third Nucoda Film Master to its Lineup
Nucoda Supports Integrated Avid and Color Pipeline For Post Facility
Image Systems, formerly Digital Vision, has announced that Keep Me Posted (KMP), a FotoKem company, has expanded its commitment to the Nucoda Film Master in the facility, with the purchase of a third system. The need for an additional system is in response to growth in the television and promo business at KMP.
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| | | | Éclair Restores Les Enfants Du Paradis with Image Systems' Phoenix
 Image Systems, formerly Digital Vision, has today announced that its Phoenix Refine restoration system was used by Éclair, one of the world's leading film and digital laboratories, to restore 1940s French classic Les Enfants du Paradis in 4K. Directed by Marcel Carné the film was shot in Paris and Nice during World War II's German occupation of France. In 1995 it was voted "Best French Film Ever" in a poll of 600 French critics and professionals.
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| | | | Phoenix Finish Puts Powerful Restoration Tools in Criterion’s Corner
Image Systems (formerly Digital Vision), leading developers of high-resolution image processing, film scanning and motion analysis solutions for the entertainment, defense and automotive industries, has announced that The Criterion Collection has purchased a Phoenix Finish system, which will become central to its restoration activities of classic and iconic films.
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| | | | Codex Digital, Assimilate to Demonstrate ARRIRAW Workflow at NAB
At NAB 2011, Codex Digital and Assimilate will conduct joint demonstrations of a new on-set workflow for ARRIRAW. The demonstrations will employ Codex’s Onboard Recorder and Transfer Station and Assimilate’s SCRATCH Lab, and will show the processing of ARRIRAW files (recorded with an ARRI Alexa camera) with visual quality checking, primary color grading, deliverables production, file back-up, and project management.
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| | | | Point.360 Digital Film Labs preview Visionary Archive at NAB
Sean McKee, Director of Restoration & New Technology at Point.360 Digital Film Labs, will be giving a technology preview of the soon-to-be released Visionary™ Archive system in the FilmLight hospitality suite - the Paramount Room at the Renaissance Hotel. Demonstrations will be available all day April 11th and 12th, and by appointment on the 13th and 14th.
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| | | | Image Systems’ Product Lines Cover the Post Production Pathway for Digital Intermediate, Restoration and Archive
Unique End-To-End Tools to be Highlighted at NAB
Image Systems, the company formed from Digital Vision’s acquisition of Image Systems AB, will present an expanded, end-to-end product line at NAB 2011. As announced earlier this week, Image Systems, will manage solutions across three customer business units: media and entertainment, defence, and motion, with research and development shared across all units. Within the media sector Image Systems is now uniquely positioned to support end-to-end DI and restoration workflows with a range of products including the Golden Eye film scanners, Nucoda colour grading and finishing systems, and Phoenix image media restoration and mastering software solutions.
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| | | | Company 3 proves RED Epic 5K 3D stereo workflow with SCRATCH On "Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides"
SCRATCH reinforces its cutting-edge leadership for RED camera workflows
SCRATCH®, the end-to-end digital cinema and broadcast imaging tool for post production workflows from ASSIMILATE, is at the forefront of the latest innovations from RED Digital Cinema, with the news that leading post house Company 3 successfully deployed SCRATCH to process 3D stereo RED Epic 5K footage for "Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides". The breakthrough news reinforces SCRATCH’s reputation for continual cutting-edge leadership in supporting set-to-post workflows for RED Digital Cinema camera systems.
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| | | | Digital Vision Completes Acquisition of Image Systems; Introduces New CEO, Company Name, Organizational Structure
 Combined Product Lines and Expertise Across Industries Positions Company for Expanded Focus
The Board of Directors of Digital Vision (STO:DV), leading manufacturers of image enhancement and mastering systems for film and television post production, have finalized the acquisition of Image Systems, completing a process that began earlier this year. Image Systems is a major player in motion analysis and film scanning within the archive, restoration, defence and automotive industries. The acquisition increases Digital Vision's stronghold in the post and restoration markets, and creates new opportunities for growth in the automotive and military markets serviced by Image Systems. The joining of company efforts ensures the synergies across product, channel and Research-Development, while creating efficiencies that support cost savings and increase profitability.
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| | | | Film Scanning evolution at Rushes Post Production
Rushes Post Production, London, have announced the purchase of a diTTo evolution film scanner from Cintel International. The diTTo evolution will scan 35mm 2, 3 and 4-perf. film as well as 16mm film to 2K and 4K data for grading in the Resolve Colour Correction suite.
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| | | | The Mill Chooses Nucoda Fuse to Manage Data Conform and Stereoscopic Playback
Digital Vision has today announced that cutting-edge Soho based VFX studio The Mill has installed two Nucoda Fuse systems to manage all footage that travels in and out of The Mill TV and Film Studio. Recent projects utilising Nucoda Fuse include Doctor Who, Merlin, Primeval and stereographic CG shots for the new Narnia film, The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The systems are housed in the new Mill TV and Film state-of-the-art suites in its Clipstone Street premises.
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| | | | Fancy Film Expands with Nucoda HD
Growing Boutique Looks to Digital Vision for Top Notch Tools and Collaboration
Digital Vision, leading manufacturers of image enhancement and mastering systems for film and television post production, has announced that Fancy Film Post Production, the Silver Lake, California based post boutique and consultancy, has purchased a Nucoda HD system to complement its existing services. Fancy Film offers start-to-finish post services that include creative editing, consulting and finishing for television and features. In addition to supporting the post workflow already in place, the Nucoda HD will anchor one of the most innovative and efficient workflows that Fancy Film is developing.
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| | | | Schel Kuehnert to Lead Sales for Digital Vision Americas
 Senior Executive Joins Digital Vision in Expansion of Operations
Digital Vision, the leading supplier of color grading, finishing, mastering and restoration solutions for the broadcast, film, and commercial industries, has announced that respected technical sales expert Schel Kuehnert has come onboard to manage Digital Vision's growing U.S. presence.
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| | | | Hydraulx Builds Innovative DI Workflow for "Skyline"
Digital Vision OpenEXR Is Essential Element in New VFX and DI Pipeline
Digital Vision, the leading supplier of color grading, finishing, mastering and restoration solutions for the broadcast, film and commercial industries, has announced that its award winning OpenEXR/HDR work was an essential component in the innovative workflow developed at Hydraulx.
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| | | | Light Iron Uses Quantel Pablo to Grade “The Social Network”
Fincher’s new film about the founding of Facebook is the first feature to have originated on the RED One 4K Mysterium-X sensor.
Quantel’s Pablo 4K was recently used to perform final color grading and editorial finishing for David Fincher’s “The Social Network,” the first film originating on the RED One Mysterium-X sensor.
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| | | | FotoKem Selects Baselight for New Post Production Facility in Budapest
FilmLight today announced that FotoKem has installed Baselight EIGHT and Baselight HD colour grading systems at its newly-built post production facility in Budapest. The systems will anchor two Digital Intermediate theatres with Baselight Eight used for 2K/4K grading of conventional and stereoscopic films.
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| | | | FotoKem's Keep Me Posted Puts Nucoda Film Masters Into Fully Integrated Post Pipeline
Digital Vision Becomes a Critical Piece of Avid Integrated Workflow for Television Episodics with Two Film Masters
Digital Vision, provider of powerful image enhancement, color correction and restoration systems for a wide spectrum of content, announced today that FotoKem's Keep Me Posted (KMP) has expanded their commitment to them with a hardware, storage, and software upgrade to their existing Film Master.
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| | | | Digital Vision Delivers New Grading and Restoration Products
Digital Vision is proud to announce the shipment of its new Nucoda grading and Phoenix restoration product range including the latest 2010 software release, showing its continued commitment to deliver premium products on-time at highly competitive price points.
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| | | | Close-Up Global Entertainment Brings Russian Classic Back To Life
Film Restoration Experts Rely on Digital Vision to Save Cinematic History
Digital Vision, provider of powerful image enhancement, color correction and restoration systems for a wide spectrum of content, is well known for its category-leading restoration tools, like DVO (Digital Vision Optics), which has earned a best of breed reputation in facilities around the world.
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| | | | ARRI Archive Workshop brings industry together
ARRI has hosted its first major workshop on the rapidly growing market for archive and restoration technologies. The two-day event at the company's headquarters in Munich attracted more than 80 attendees from a diverse range of backgrounds and companies, including four national film archives, post houses, broadcasters and manufacturers.
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| | | | Hungary’s Focus-Fox Debuts New Grading Theatre with Baselight FOUR
 Cinemix facility offers unique combination of colour grading and sound mixing.
FilmLight today announces that Focus-Fox Studio, Budapest, the largest provider of post production services in Hungary, has installed a Baselight FOUR colour grading system in its newly-opened Cinemix digital intermediate grading and sound mixing theatre.
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| | | | IMAGICA implements FilmLight’s Baselight Colour Grading
Leading Japanese post production company chooses Baselight
IMAGICA, Japan’s most established and respected post-production company, has chosen to deploy a Baselight FOUR colour grading system from FilmLight into one of its existing Digital Intermediate (DI) suite at IMAGICA’s Tokyo Imaging Centre. Baselight FOUR provides IMAGICA with conform, file and colour management, fast storage, grain reduction and non-linear colour grading in a comprehensive, high-performance DI solution.
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| | | | Digital Vision and Arri Announce Partnership for Digital Dailies
Digital Vision has today announced a partnership with ARRI, the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of motion picture camera, Digital Intermediate (DI) and lighting equipment. Unveiled today at NAB the agreement between the two companies will see the launch of a jointly developed state-of the-art digital dailies product tailored to the ARRISCAN digital film scanner.
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| | | | On Sight opens world’s first Stereoscopic 3D suite using dual cineo82 projectors
London-based production, post-production and distribution services company responds to market trend with pioneering 3D post production suite
Embracing the industry’s growth in 3D production, post production and delivery, On Sight opens its doors to its esteemed International creative broadcast, production, cinema and film making clientele.
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