| | | | Anton/Bauer powers filmmaker’s Wondrous footage of the northern lights
 Philip Clemo Captures the Celestial Light Show in Extreme Cold with Anton/Bauer DIONIC HC and DIONIC HCX Batteries
When the U.K.-based filmmaker and composer Philip Clemo traveled to the northern reaches of Norway to capture footage of the aurora borealis (northern lights) phenomenon, he needed a power system capable not only of running his camera for several hours, but able to withstand the extreme cold locations above the Arctic Circle. Shooting on an ARRI ALEXA film-style digital motion picture camera, he turned to Anton/Bauer®, part of Vitec Videocom, a Vitec Group company, and a premier global provider of batteries, chargers, lighting and other mobile power systems for the professional broadcast, video, film and healthcare technology industries, and its DIONIC® HC and DIONIC HCX batteries, confident they would stand up to the weather during the shoot.
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| | | | ARRI Inc. Taps Jeffrey A. Reyes as Director of Sales, Latin American Markets
 ARRI Inc. is pleased to announce the promotion of Jeffrey A. Reyes to Director of Sales, Latin American Markets. Reyes will now develop strategies and business in the Caribbean, Central and South America, in addition to overseeing the sales team for these territories. Reyes previously served as a Technical Sales Representative at ARRI, working closely with rental houses and customers for lighting and camera products. Fluent in both English and Spanish, Reyes has a background with over 15 years in production.
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| | | | Brant Fagan, SOC, Relies On Anton/Bauer Batteries For Film Production Around The Globe
 Cinematographer and Steadicam® Camera Operator Brant Fagan, SOC, has traveled the globe, working on countless films, episodic television programs, commercials and the occasional live event production. Working his way up through the ranks of the industry for the past 20 years, he has witnessed much technological change and evolution. And through it all, he has consistently employed batteries, chargers and Gold Mounts® from Anton/Bauer®, part of Vitec Videocom, a Vitec Group company and a premier global provider of batteries, chargers, lighting and other mobile power systems for the professional broadcast, video, film and healthcare technology industries.
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| | | | OConnor Helps Keep Up the Pace on Scandal
 It’s hard to figure out who is good or bad in the popular television series, "Scandal". That dichotomy is the force that drives the plot of the fast paced ABC hit. The last thing that cinematographer Oliver Bokelberg, ASC needs is a camera package that can’t keep up. There is no room for “good or bad” when it comes to his gear. That’s why he relies on top-of-the-line equipment, including 2575 fluid heads from OConnor, part of Vitec Videocom, a Vitec Group brand, for support.
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| | | | Emmy® Award-Winning Cinematographer Sean Conaty Selects Anton/Bauer Batteries To Help Fuel Narrative Work
 Beginning with his days as a Master’s student of cinematography at the University of Southern California, Emmy® Award-winning cinematographer of narrative and documentary features, commercials and music videos Sean Conaty has powered countless creative projects with Anton/Bauer® batteries and accessories. Thanks to the rugged build and reliability behind the company’s power solutions, Conaty can count on uninterrupted power no matter where his productions take him on-location—from the dry heat of the desert for the short film Jack and the Dustbowl to the rainy high school football field in rural Ohio for the feature film "Underdogs".
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| | | | John Toll, ASC Relies on Codex for "Iron Man 3"
 Master cinematographer John Toll, ASC recently made his first feature film foray into digital cinematography on" Iron Man 3": Revealing the Mandarin, Marvel Entertainment’s latest installment of the hugely successful Iron Man franchise. Toll, who won Oscars for Braveheart and Legends of theFall, and took home a third nomination for The Thin Red Line, teamed with director Shane Black and actor Robert Downey, Jr.
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| | | | Sound Devices Introduces PIX 240i Kit At The 2013 NAB SHOW
 Convenient Kit Includes All Necessary Equipment for Professional Video Production
Sound Devices, experts in portable audio and video products for field production, unveils its PIX 240i KIT, an all-inclusive kit that provides all the equipment needed to operate the PIX 240i in professional video production applications, at the 2013 NAB Show (Booth C2849).
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| | | | IKEGAMI and ARRI Introduce The HDK-97ARRI: Broadcast Production Camera With Digital Cinema Image Quality
 New System Represents Elite Marriage of Technologies, Combining ARRI Large Format Super 35MM CMOS Sensor with Ikegami Unicam HD Docking Style Camera
Booth #C5108 - Ikegami, leader in HD cameras and production equipment for TV broadcasters, networks, and other HD content creators, and ARRI, the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of professional motion picture camera, digital intermediate (DI) and lighting equipment, today jointly announced the availability of a pioneering new camera system: The HDK-97ARRI.
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| | | | ARRI Completes M-Series Lighting Range With New M90 Fixture
 ARRI introduces a new fixture from the award-winning ARRIMAX/M-Series, thus completing the range between 1,200 W and 18,000 W. The M90 introduces a new power class for daylight fixtures at 9,000 W - exactly half the wattage of the ARRIMAX and just over double the wattage of the M40/25.
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| | | | ALEXA XT and XR Module Welcomed By Creatives Worldwide
 Following launch events in Los Angeles, Paris, Berlin, Munich, Beijing, Milan, Mumbai and London, the new ALEXA XT cameras (Extended Technology) and XR Modules (Extended Recording) have been welcomed by cinematic storytellers around the globe for upcoming productions.
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| | | | ARRI’s Fiber Remote Option Adds More Features
 Recently employed on an exciting concert film for Coldplay and a televised recording session with Robbie Williams, ARRI’s Fiber Remote Option (FRO) for ALEXA is elevating broadcast visual design with breathtaking, cinematic imagery that the ALEXA digital camera system is known for.
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| | | | ARRI Pro Camera Accessories Bring ARRI Quality To More Setups
 With ARRI Pro Camera Accessories (PCA), cameras from a plethora of manufacturers can benefit from ARRI’s renowned ergonomic designs and robust quality. New PCA offerings complement cameras including ARRI ALEXA, Sony F5 and F55, Blackmagic Cinema Camera, Red Epic, 1DC/1DX/C Cameras from Canon, and many others.
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| | | | Rock Legends, Primetime TV And Universities Rely On Cache-A To Safeguard Their Treasured Assets
 Booth #SL11109 – Cache-A Corporation (http://www.cache-a.com), manufacturer of award-winning archiving appliances, today revealed details of how its LTFS LTO-tape-based archive appliances, are being used by major TV broadcasters, in on-set production environments, higher education and rock legends, to safeguard the increasing amounts of data and video-related media they generate. Cache-A is showing its full LTO-6 product range at NAB 2013, Las Vegas, at Cache-A Booth #SL11109.
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| | | | Sound Devices Highlights New 4:4:4 Feature For PIX 240 AND 240i AT THE 2013 NAB SHOW
 Video Recorders Can Now Record 12-Bit, 4:4:4 Content to Apple ProRes 4444
For attendees in search of the latest 4:4:4 recording solutions, Sound Devicesshowcases its latest upgrade to PIX 240 and PIX 240i Production Video Recorders at the 2013 NAB Show (Booth C2849). This new major update, available for all PIX customers free of charge, offers Apple ProRes 4444 recording from video sources over 3G-SDI (4:4:4 RGB or YCbCr). Recording 4:4:4 offers productions superior color precision for applications in chroma-keying, color-grading and multi-generational editing.
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| | | | Telline Debuts New On-Set Dailies Services With Mist
French rental camera company Telline elected MIST to integrate in their on-set dailies management services.
Marquise Technologies announced today that Telline, a dynamic company active for more than 17 years in the camera rental business in France has purchased MIST to offer on-set services.
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| | | | Anton/Bauer’s Dionic HD Battery To Make NAB Debut
 New Lithium-Ion Battery Offers Unrivalled Capacity, Longer Cycle Life and Updated RealTime Display
Anton/Bauer®, part of Vitec Videocom, a Vitec Group company, and a premier global provider of batteries, chargers, lighting and other mobile power systems for the professional broadcast, video and film industries, is pleased to make the formal introduction of its newest lithium-ion (Li-Ion) battery, the DIONIC® HD, for broadcast and digital media professionals at the 2013 NAB Show (Vitec Videocom Booth C6025). Part of the company’s Logic Series® of batteries, the DIONIC HD powers high-current applications in a lightweight and robust package, making it ideal for digital cinema cameras such as the Sony F65, RED cameras, ARRI Alexa, the Vision Research Phantom series and more.
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| | | | Anton/Bauer Invites Attendees To Walk The Red Carpet And Celebrate Academy Award® Win At The 2013 NAB Show
 At the 2013 NAB Show, Anton/Bauer® invites attendees to visit its booth (Vitec Videocom Booth C6025) to see the Academy Award®-winning CINE VCLX Portable Power System and get a glimpse of the Academy Plaque the company recently won for its contribution to the industry. Anton/Bauer, part of Vitec Videocom, a Vitec Group company, and a premier global provider of batteries, chargers, lighting and other mobile power systems for the professional broadcast, video and film industries, recently took home the prestigious Scientific and Engineering Award (Academy Plaque) from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (A.M.P.A.S®) for the design and conception of its CINE VCLX Portable Power System. Anton/Bauer Engineers Joe Murtha, William Frederick and Jim Markland accepted the prestigious award for their roles in the creation of the CINE VCLX.
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| | | | Boston-Area Rental House Receives First Fujinon PL 85-300 Cabrio PL Mount Zoom In New England
 Talamas expects strong demand for PL 85-300 and PL 19-90 Cabrio lenses for large sensor digital cameras
FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Optical Devices Division is announcing that Talamas Sales and Rentals, a broadcast equipment rental house in Boston, recently took delivery of the new FUJINON PL 85-300 (ZK3.5x85), making it the first in the region to receive the HDTV PL mount zoom lens. Talamas, which placed its order for the FUJINON Premier PL 85-300 lens when it was announced in November 2012, already owns and rents out the FUJINON PL 19-90 Cabrio (ZK4.7x19) PL Mount zoom lens.
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| | | | Clairmont In-Camera Filter System for Alexa by Schneider Optics
 Schneider Optics announces that it is manufacturing and distributing an innovative In-Camera Filter System developed by Clairmont Camera for the ARRI Alexa camera. Working closely with Schneider, Clairmont Camera’s Andree Martin and Alan Albert designed custom assemblies that hold interchangeable Schneider filters in front of the Alexa’s CMOS sensor assembly.
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| | | | Oscar Winners “Life of Pi”, “Argo”, “Amour” Captured by Codex
 Several feature productions that relied on Codex technology for digital recording and workflow management were among the winners last night at the Academy Awards. Life of Pi, which employed Codex Onboard Recorders and Transfer Stations, took home four Oscars, including the awards for Best Director (Ang Lee), Best Cinematography (Claudio Miranda) and Best Visual Effects (Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott). Best Picture winner Argo also employed Codex OnBoard Recorders, as did Amour, a winner for Best Foreign Language Film.
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| | | | Backyard's Strickland and Visit California Let Kids Be Kids
 Backyard director Chace Strickland gives tech-obsessed kids a real-life California adventure in the stylish and exuberant new :60/:30 “Kids At Play” for Visit California—California’s Official Tourism Board—out of Mering Carson, Sacramento, CA. The spot features a gaggle of youths engaging in the natural, outdoor equivalents of texting, gaming, downloading and more. The takeaway: ditch the digital world and head west.
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| | | | Boxx TV’s Meridian is Behind the Scenes on Oscar®-Nominated Films
Django Unchained, Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty Get Boost from Wireless Technology
Three of this year’s Academy Award®-nominated films chose Boxx TV’s Meridian Wireless Microwave Broadcast System for reliable, 4:2:2 uncompressed video with zero delay. The Meridian was the system of choice for Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, Sam Mendes’ Skyfall and Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, capping a busy year for the company headquartered in the UK, along with its reseller Boxx Communications in Los Angeles.
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| | | | ARRI ALEXA System Refreshed With New XT Models
 With the ALEXA XT cameras (Xtended Technology) ARRI is refreshing its ALEXA product line, incorporating new features inspired by feedback from professional users. The ALEXA XT, ALEXA XT M, ALEXA XT Plus and ALEXA XT Studio cameras will replace all previous models except for the original ALEXA. Owners of existing ALEXA cameras will be able to purchase individual upgrades that deliver most of the features of the XT configuration.
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| | | | XR Module ALEXA Upgrade For In-Camera ARRIRAW Recording
 Concurrent with its refresh of the ALEXA family with four new ALEXA XT models, ARRI is offering an upgrade that equips all existing ALEXA cameras with one of the major features of the XT configuration: the new XR Module (Xtended Recording), allows ARRIRAW – the highest quality image output from ALEXA – to be recorded in-camera to a state-of-the-art internal digital magazine. With no need for external recording devices, camera setups will be smaller, lighter, faster, more flexible, and less expensive.
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| | | | ARRI and CODEX Co-Develop XR Module For In-Camera ARRIRAW
 ARRI and Codex have co-developed a new upgrade option for all ALEXA cameras that allows internal recording of ARRIRAW up to 120 fps. The XR Module is an affordable new side panel with various in-camera recording options, replacing the current SxS Module. It allows ALEXA owners to embrace the latest advances in recording technologies without having to purchase a new camera, exemplifying the concept of modular upgradeability that was built into the ALEXA design from its very beginnings.
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| | | | Feature and Television Productions Captured by Codex Honored at BAFTA, ASC Awards
 “Skyfall,” “Life of Pi,” and “Game of Thrones” continue the Codex winning streak.
Feature film and television productions produced with Codex digital recording and workflow technology continue to rack up key technical and creative awards. At this year’s British Film Academy Awards (BAFTA) held this past Sunday in London, Skyfall took the Alexander Korda Award for Outstanding British Film of the Year, while Life of Pi won for Best Cinematography (Claudio Miranda, ASC) and Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects.
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| | | | OConnor Support is Crucial for Lonsdale on Bones
 Cinematographer Gordon Lonsdale, ASC, credits OConnor support for allowing his operators to keep moves fresh and innovative on the long running Fox series Bones. “Actually, I’ve been a big fan of OConnor throughout my career,” he says. “When I was an assistant I used the 50 and 100. Then when the lightweight 100 came out, I thought I’d died and gone to heaven.”
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| | | | Pastuhov Keeps Pictorvision Eclipse Flying
 Aerial cinematographer Phil Pastuhov is one of the busiest shooters in the business. He’s always charged with interesting jobs – and usually halfway around the world. It is, after all, a global production community these days. And, wherever he goes – it’s usually Pictorvision’s Eclipse aerial camera stabilizing system that takes him through the challenges with ease.
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| | | | Codex Travels the Globe with “Zero Dark Thirty”
 Codex recorders and digital labs support Codex/ARRIRAW workflow.
Codex digital cinema technology continues to prove its metal under the most challenging production conditions. Its latest test came on Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s gripping telling of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Codex recorders and digital labs were employed to capture, manage and process camera data for a production that traveled to remote locations, accumulated huge amounts of original camera media, and shot some scenes in near-total darkness.
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| | | | ARRI Pro Camera Accessories for Sony F5 / F55 Cameras
 ARRI continues to swiftly deliver high quality Pro Camera Accessories for the latest DSLRs and digital cameras with the release of new accessories for Sony’s new F5 and F55. Now these cameras are fully compatible with ARRI support and all industry-standard matte box and follow focus systems.
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| | | | Pomfort's Silverstack SET software now supports Canon EOS C300 camera
 Pomfort, a provider of professional software for data and color management on the filmset, released a new software update to Silverstack SET that adds data management, checksum verified copy, backup, playback and QC capabilities specifically for the highly demanded Canon EOS C300 camera. This update also includes the unique opportunity to preview recorded Canon-specific Clog media files in Rec.709.
Pomfort releases a new software update to Silverstack SET that adds data management, verified copy, backup, playback and QC capabilities specifically for the highly demanded EOS C300 camera from Canon.
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| | | | ARRI Cameras and Lighting Flourish in Oscar-Nominated Productions
Out of nine Best Picture nominees for the Academy Awards this year, seven were shot using ARRI cameras: Amour, Life of Pi and Zero Dark Thirty were captured digitally with ARRI ALEXA; Les Misérables and Silver Linings Playbook on 35 mm with ARRICAM; Argo utilized a combination of both ALEXA and ARRICAM while Beasts of the Southern Wild chose Super 16 with the ARRIFLEX 416 and SR3. Additionally, many of these productions relied on lighting equipment from ARRI.
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| | | | Anton/Bauer Honored With Academy Award® For Scientific And Technical Achievement
 Cine VCLX Portable Power System Recognized for Contributing Significant Value to the Making of Motion Pictures
Anton/Bauer®, part of Vitec Videocom, a Vitec Group company, and a premier global provider of batteries, chargers, lighting and other mobile power systems for the professional broadcast, video and film industries, is pleased to announce that its CINE VCLX Portable Power System has been honored with a Scientific and Engineering Award (Academy Plaque) from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (A.M.P.A.S®). Representatives from the company will accept this prestigious award at the annual A.M.P.A.S® Scientific and Technical Awards presentation, taking place on Saturday, February 9, 2013. Anton/Bauer engineers Joe Murtha, William Frederick and Jim Markland have been recognized for their design and creation of the CINE VCLX.
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| | | | AJA Ki Pro Helps Filmmakers Deliver the Drama for R. Kelly’s Latest “Trapped in the Closet” Installment
 The latest chapters of R. Kelly’s cult hit “Trapped in the Closet” debuted recently on IFC, garnering the network's highest ratings ever for an original production. The "hip-hopera" served up more of its signature rhymes and plot twists after a five-year hiatus in the series which first debuted in 2005. Approaching production again after several years, longtime “Trapped” co-director/editor Jim Swaffield decided to adopt AJA Ki Pros to optimize and simplify their camera to edit workflow.
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| | | | Codex Fuels 3D Workflow for “Life of Pi”
 Codex recorders capture stereo streams from paired Arri Alexa cameras used to shoot the 3D movie.
Codex technology occupied a key position in a groundbreaking 3D workflow used in the production of Life of Pi, the new, epic adventure film from 20th Century Fox and Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee. Codex recorders were used on the set to capture dual streams of data from pairs of Arri Alexa cameras used to shoot the movie. Additionally, Codex digital laboratory systems were employed near-set to manage and back-up the enormous amount of data generated by the stereo production.
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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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| | | | Hula Post Production Travels the Globe to Serve “Life of Pi”
 Supplies editorial to Ang Lee’s 3D production while shooting in India, Taiwan and Canada.
In a project that spanned nearly four years and half the globe, Hula Post Production supplied editorial systems and support for Life of Pi¸ the new 3D film from 20th Century Fox and director Ang Lee. One of the industry’s leading suppliers of editorial systems for film and television production, Hula Post Production set up and maintained editorial operations in Taiwan, India, Canada, New York and Los Angeles.
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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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| | | | MTI Film Releases Cortex
New family of on-set/near-set dailies solutions supports all camera systems and features tools for playback, color, synchronization, metadata and transcoding.
MTI Film announces the release of its groundbreaking Cortex line of software-based dailies solutions. Developed from the ground up to support today’s file-based production workflows, Cortex provides an all-in-one solution for digital media management with simple but powerful tools for playback, color, audio synchronization, metadata management and transcoding.
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| | | | Encore: Baselight Helps Hollywood Facility Reinvent Television Post-Production for the Digital Age
 Encore is one of the busiest full-service post-production facilities in Hollywood. Part of Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, the company, which also has facilities in New York, Vancouver and London, has built its reputation primarily through its work in episodic television. It services such shows as Body of Proof, Castle, CSI: Las Vegas, CSI: NY, Enlightened, Glee, Hawaii 5-O, Justified, Magic City, Mob Doctor, Nashville, NCIS, The Newsroom, Raising Hope, Last Resort and Revenge, providing near-set dailies, colour grading, editorial finishing and visual effects. It also boasts one of the industry’s most efficient file-based workflows and was the first to implement an ACES workflow for television.
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| | | | "Cuban Fury" Streamlines On-Set Workflow With Codex's The Vault
 StudioCanal comedy is one of the first film productions to use new standalone workflow solution.
The move to digital acquisition has transformed many film and television sets into something akin to the control center for a moon launch as they have taken on a hoard of high-tech equipment for capturing, storing, processing and backing-up digital camera data. Not so with Cuban Fury, StudioCanal’s new romantic comedy, which was among the first film productions to use The Vault, Codex’s new on-set digital laboratory solution that reduces the technology required to manage camera data to a single box the size of a small suitcase.
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| | | | Anton/Bauer Introduces New Lithium-Ion Battery With Unrivaled Capacity
 DIONIC HD Offers Longer Cycle Life, Updated RealTime Display
To continue meeting the growing power needs of professionals utilizing the latest digital cinema cameras, Anton/Bauer® has introduced the new DIONIC® HD battery. This is the newest lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) battery from Anton/Bauer, part of Vitec Videocom, a Vitec Group company, and a premier global provider of batteries, chargers, lighting and other mobile power systems for the professional broadcast, video and film industries. Part of the company’s Logic Series® batteries, the DIONIC HD powers high-current applications in a lightweight and robust package, making it ideal for digital cinema cameras such as the Sony F65, RED cameras, ARRI Alexa, the Vision Research Phantom series and more.
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| | | | Cooke Optics S4 lenses capture ‘World Without End’
 - Cooke lenses bring warm, filmic quality to digital production -
Lenses by Cooke Optics were used to capture a sweeping vision of the Middle Ages for ‘WORLD WITHOUT END,’ a new eight-hour epic television drama produced by Tandem Communications and Take 5 Productions in co-production with Galafilm and in association with Scott Free Films.
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| | | | Change of ownership at ARRI
Robert Arnold, the son of one of the co-founders, is selling his 50 per cent share to the grandchildren of co-founders Richter/Stahl. Both families have shared responsibility for the company since it was founded 95 years ago.
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| | | | Colorfront Wins Emmy Award For On-Set Dailies
 Colorfront On-Set Dailies continues to dominate file-based production on major motion pictures and episodic TV shows
Academy Award-winning developer Colorfront today announced it has been awarded a 2012 Primetime Engineering Emmy from the Academy Of Television Arts And Sciences for Colorfront On-Set Dailies, the market-leading on-set dailies system for motion picture and TV production.
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| | | | Sound Devices PIX 240 Reaches New Heights with Aerial Photo Specialist Patrick Longman
 Portable Recorder Takes to the Skies to Provide Powerful Recording and Monitoring Capabilities in a Compact File-Based Unit
When Patrick Longman, cinematographer and aerial specialist at Active Camera Systems, an aerial cinematography and rental company based in Florida, was looking for a portable recorder that would fit into his helicopter's aerial photography system and provide the high-quality recording and monitoring capabilities he was looking for, he turned to Sound Devices PIX 240 recorder.
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| | | | Otto Nemenz Supplies Anton/Bauer Batteries To Power Award-Winning Films And Popular Television Series
 Batteries Used by Cinematographers on Fox’s Bones, HBO’s The Newsroom and NBC's Community
Anton/Bauer®, part of Vitec Videocom, a Vitec Group company, and a premier global provider of batteries, chargers, lighting and other mobile power systems for the professional broadcast, video and film industries, is the battery supplier of choice for Otto Nemenz International, Inc., a Los Angeles-based motion picture equipment rental company. For the past four years, the company has employed Anton/Bauer DIONIC® HC batteries and CINE VCLX-CA batteries to power the vast array of cameras it carries, ensuring its clients experience dependable operating times as well as a highly secure camera connection with seamless power.
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| | | | New FSI Features: 12 bit, XYZ, Camera Record Tally, & Much More
The Best Value in High Quality Professional Monitoring Just Became A Whole Lot Better
Flanders Scientific is pleased to announce that the latest monitor firmware version (9.47-1830) is now shipping on all units and is also available as a FREE firmware download to all FSI customers. This exciting new release includes the official addition of the 12 bit signal support and processing announced earlier this month at IBC as well as many other useful updates.
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| | | | ARRI Wins Three Technological Awards at Cinec 2012
 ARRI products have won three awards at the 2012 Cinec show in Munich. The ALEXA Studio camera and the L-Series lighting range both received Cinec Award statuettes (collected by ARRI Product Managers Marc Shipman-Mueller and Ryan Fletcher), while the Wireless Compact Unit WCU-4 received a Special Award in the form of a white lion trophy (collected by ARRI Product Manager Hendrik Voss).
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| | | | cinecAwards 2012 - the winners
After two very lively days at the cinec, many exhibitors and guests gathered in the Kaisersaal of Munich’s Residence last night. They celebrated the winners of the cinecAward during a festive state reception.
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| | | | Codex Powers ARRIRAW Workflow for French/Italian Thriller “The Lookout”
 The Lookout (Le Guetteur), the new French-language crime thriller from Italian director Michele Placido (Crime Novel, Angel of Death) is a riveting tale of bank robbers, a sniper and hard-nosed cops that plays out in the meanest streets of Paris—it’s also one of the latest films to employ the Codex/ARRIRAW workflow.
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| | | | MTI Film Solves Post for “Major Crimes”
 Picking up where it left off on “The Closer,” Hollywood post facility handles post work for Shephard/Robin’s new digitally-captured crime drama.
In the continuation of a highly successful partnership begun last year, MTI Film is providing final color grading and other post-production services to Shephard/Robin Company and Warner Bros. Television for the inaugural season of the new prime-time drama Major Crimes. MTI Film first teamed with Shephard/Robin ten months ago, midway through the final season of The Closer, when that show made the switch from 35mm to digital capture.
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| | | | ASSIMILATE’s New SCRATCH Lab v7 Fuels Advanced Dailies Revolution
 The ultimate in shot management and dailies production, with full ACES compliance, married with powerful look creation and color correction, in one truly affordable tool
The RAI – ASSIMILATE, the leading provider of dailies and DI tools for digital cinema and broadcast workflows, has announced the next generation of its production dailies software, SCRATCH Lab® v7. In the rapidly evolving world of digital dailies, where the lines are blurring between production and post-production, SCRATCH Lab v7 empowers DITs and video engineers with the ultimate shot management and dailies workflow tool, enabling them to work at top efficiency and productivity at an amazingly affordable price.
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| | | | ALEXA Shines On The Biggest Screens
 With IMAX and 4K DCP releases for The Avengers and Skyfall, ALEXA passes the ultimate test of image quality. This year has seen an increase in ARRIRAW recording for big-screen blockbuster movies, with filmmakers praising the efficient workflow and testifying that ALEXA images look incredible on even the largest IMAX cinema screens.
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| | | | ALEXA – The Most Complete Digital Camera System Ever Built
 ARRI’s five ALEXA models have built a reputation as the most powerful digital camera systems in the industry, enabling a new era in visual storytelling for a variety of productions. Recent award-winning features like Hugo, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Anonymous, Amour and Melancholia relied on ALEXA for image capture. The camera was also behind-the-scenes on this year’s box office champion, The Avengers -- the third highest grossing film of all time.
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| | | | ALEXA Updates: Sup 7.0, Extended Warranties & ARRIRAW Tools
The latest free-of-charge software update, as well as new extended warranty options and third party ARRIRAW tools, see ALEXA continue as the most advanced and versatile digital camera system on the market, offering a predictable cost of ownership and a long-lasting return on investment.
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| | | | ALEXA Fiber Remote Option Brings The Cinematic To Broadcast
 Now the breathtaking images seen in blockbuster and critically acclaimed Hollywood films are obtainable for the broadcast world through the ALEXA Fiber Remote Option. With a high sensitivity over two stops more compared to typical 2/3’ camera systems, the image quality and dynamic range of ALEXA (progressive and interlaced mode, up to 1080/60) can be applied to typical multi-camera broadcast studio or OB van productions. The shallow depth of field and excellent color rendition achieves higher production value for telenovelas, soaps, sitcoms, events, music concerts, talk shows, magazines, sport specials and more.
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| | | | New ALEXA Support Accessories Available
 The ALEXA M D-Bracket provides additional mounting options for the ALEXA M camera head. Now the ALEXA M body can be attached to the head in a 435 camera style. Available in October, The ALEXA M D-Bracket is priced at 212 €.
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| | | | ARRI And Carl Zeiss Mark 75-Year Collaboration With New Anamorphic Lenses
 ARRI and Carl Zeiss have partnered for three-quarters of a century in a cooperative effort that is unmatched in the film industry. As we celebrate this commitment, ARRI is pleased to unveil our latest collaboration – the new ARRI/ZEISS Master Anamorphic lenses. Especially developed for the ALEXA Studio, ALEXA Plus 4:3 and ALEXA M cameras - all equipped with a 4:3 sensor and hence perfectly suited to true anamorphic capture - the Master Anamorphics expand creative opportunities for today’s image-makers.
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| | | | New ARRI L7-T Tungsten LED Fresnel And Active Cooling Options Added To L-Series
 Fresh off the rapid adoption by the industry of the color-controllable L7-C, ARRI introduces a new addition to the popular L-Series LED Fresnels in a dedicated tungsten model -- the L7-T. As a single-color, 3200 K tungsten version of the popular L7-C, the L7-T provides in excess of 30% more light while maintaining the same size and weight. It offers the same calibrated color quality at a more affordable price than the L7-C, and is particularly suited to applications requiring maximum intensity for a given fixture size.
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| | | | ARRI Wet Gate Arriving In Italy
 L’Immagine Ritrovata, one of Europe’s leading film restoration and conservation laboratories, has purchased an ARRI Wet Gate system to enhance the archive and restoration capabilities of its ARRISCAN film scanner.
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| | | | Lumières Numériques Acquires ARRISCAN Archive Package
ARRI is pleased to announce that Lumières Numériques is the first facility in France to purchase the full ARRISCAN Archive package. The sale includes an ARRISCAN 4K with all available archive options like the ARRI Wet Gate, and Kodak Digital ICE system. In addition, the Lyon-based post house is the first in Europe to purchase ARRI’s stabilization function. Lumières Numériques plans to implement the ARRISCAN into their workflow for restoration of 35 mm full-length films along with 16 and 35 mm short films.
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| | | | AJA Introduces New Storage and Dock Accessories for Ki Pro and Ki Pro Rack
 A New Line of USB3-Enabled KiStor Drives and KiStor Dock with Thunderbolt™ and USB3 Connectivity Announced at IBC 2012; Firmware Update for Ki Pro Rack and Ki Pro Mini Also Announced
AJA Video Systems today announced several new enhancements to its Ki Pro family of tapeless video recording devices available in both portable and rack-mountable form factors. At the International Broadcasters Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam, AJA is introducing a new line of USB3-enabled KiStor drives for Ki Pro and Ki Pro Rack, along with a new KiStor Dock with Thunderbolt™ and USB3 connectivity. The AJA Ki Pro family of products enables fast and efficient workflows that interface traditional analog and digital acquisition formats into simple edit-ready files.
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| | | | Marquise Technologies announces M I S T solo for dailies on-set
 M I S T solo is the most affordable, fast and reliable software solution for dailies on-set monitoring, storing and transcoding.
Marquise Technologies announced today a dedicated software solution for the on-set management of RAW dailies. M I S T solo has been designed to help all productions, regardless of their size, for feature films, commercial or TV series, in the control and security of their dailies footage, in a professional way.
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| | | | Cache-A Archive Appliances Go On-Set
 Cache-A safeguards camera assets for motion picture, broadcast and commercials productions
Cache-A Corporation, manufacturer of award-winning archiving appliances, has revealed details of how motion picture, broadcast and commercials producers are utilizing its LT0-5 tape-based archive appliances, with the latest LTFS capabilities, in on-set production environments to safeguard the increasing amounts of data and video-related media they generate daily. Cache-A is showing its full product range at IBC 2012, Amsterdam, at Booth 7.E06.
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| | | | ARRI Introduces Ready to Shoot Kits for Blackmagic Cinema Camera
Blackmagic Design today announced that ARRI, the world’s largest manufacturer and distributor of professional motion picture equipment, has introduced Ready to Shoot Kits for Blackmagic Cinema Camera.
Blackmagic Design today announced that ARRI, the world’s largest manufacturer and distributor of professional motion picture equipment, has introduced Ready to Shoot Kits for Blackmagic Cinema Camera.
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| | | | "Lawless" Captured on Codex
 Annapurna Pictures employed Codex recording and workflow technology during the production of Lawless, the new film, directed by John Hillcoat and starring Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy, about a bootlegging operation in the Depression-era South. The film is slated for release August 29th by The Weinstein Company.
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| | | | Anton/Bauer Is A Constant Source Of Reliable Power For VMI On Past, Current And Future Projects
 CINE VCLX Supports Production of Olympics-Inspired Films
For more than a decade, VMI Limited (VMI), a premier broadcast equipment provider for the United Kingdom’s television and film industry, has led the industry in providing high-performing, reliable broadcast equipment. Instrumental to the company’s reputation of reliability has been its reliance on a dependable, trusted source to power its gear. Anton/Bauer®, part of Vitec Videocom, a Vitec Group company and a premier global provider of batteries, chargers, lighting and other mobile power systems for the professional broadcast, video and film industries, has been the go-to power solution for VMI since 2003.
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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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| | | | Emmy-Nominated Production Sound Mixer Casts Sound Devices for Game of Thrones
 Sound Devices is a Staple in Ronan Hill’s Production Sound Rigs
Emmy-nominated Production Sound Mixer Ronan Hill, currently on set for the third season of HBO’s Game of Thrones, has once again tapped digital audio recorders from Sound Devices to help record dialogue and ambiance for the fast-paced dramatic series. The company’s 788T recorder has become a mainstay in his cart-based and portable sound rigs.
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| | | | Anton/Bauer To Highlight Portable Power Solutions For Production Professionals At BIRTV 2012
 Anton/Bauer®, part of Vitec Videocom, a Vitec Group company, and a premier global provider of batteries, chargers, lighting and other mobile power systems for the professional broadcast, video and film industries, will demonstrate its latest portable power, lighting and transmission products to attendees at BIRTV 2012 (Videocom Booth 8B15). The company will highlight its new AB-HDRF transmitter system, CINE VCLX battery system and new Gold Mount® solutions for the Canon C300/C500 and RED EPIC digital cinema cameras.
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| | | | Framewright/Codex On-Set Color Solution Used on “Hope Springs”
 As more and more film and television productions move to digital acquisition, directors and cinematographers have increasingly sought simple means to “pre-visualize” color on the set in order to have better control over the look of their footage from dailies through post production.
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| | | | New Chief Executive for the ARRI Rental Group
 ARRI, the world’s largest manufacturer and distributor of professional motion picture equipment is pleased to announce the appointment of Martin Cayzer as Chief Executive of its global network of camera and lighting rental operations. In this new role, Cayzer will have global responsibility for ARRI’s diverse rental businesses and service capabilities, with plans to extend global reach, grow the customer base and enhance market leadership.
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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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| | | | “Bayonet” Captured on Codex
 Independent short uses Codex Onboard recorder to create “studio quality” look.
Bayonet, a short political thriller from Bergen Films and Director Gregory Horoupian, recently completed principal photography using digital recording technology from Codex. The short was shot by cinematographer Lyle Vincent using an ARRI Alexa Studio camera paired with anamorphic lenses and a Codex Onboard M recorder.
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| | | | Ntropic Kicks Their Innovative Talent Into High-Gear For The New 2013 Ford Escape
 Collaborating closely the ad agency creatives at Team Detroit, Ntropic created five beautifully crafted spots that highlight the new features of the 2013 Ford Escape. Currently live on the Ford web site and scheduled to be showcased at a series of automotive trade shows this year, the successful collaboration was spear-headed by Ntropic Creative Director/Director Andrew Sinagra. Under Sinagra’s leadership, Ntropic tapped their creative abilities to showcase the power and elements of the brand-new 2013 Ford Escape.
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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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| | | | Hollywood DI Completes Two 3D features Using New Cost-effective Stereo Workflow
Hollywood DI, Globalstor Data Corporation and Maya Digital Studios, Pvt. Ltd. in conjunction with PNY Technologies, Inc. deliver cost-effective solution for 3D color correction and finishing.
Hollywood DI announces the completion of the world's first 3D feature films to be color corrected and finished on Globalstor's ExtremeStor-DI 3D capable systems. Leveraging the power of multiple NVIDIA® Quadro ® 6000 by PNY professional graphics boards and DaVinci Resolve, Hollywood DI delivered stereo 3D grading and finishing for STATIC and SHOLAY 3D. By combining 3D visual effects and 2D to 3D conversions from Maya Digital Studios with the incredible performance of Globalstor's hardware and NVIDIA Quadro by PNY graphics boards, Hollywood DI was able to provide high-end 3D finishing at considerable cost savings over traditional expensive heavy-iron systems.
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| | | | Cooke brings its latest lenses to IBC 2012 as demand for PL glass continues to grow
 - Prototypes of new focal lengths on display -
Cooke Optics, the premier manufacturer of precision lenses, will bring lensesfrom its three ranges - S4/i, Panchro/i and 5/i – to IBC 2012, including a prototype of a 65mm lens for the Panchro range. The company also continues to expand its production capacity with more new hires at its Leicester factory to meet increased global demand for PL glass.
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| | | | NBC Universal Chooses MTI Film's Control Dailies
 Studio also boosts restoration pipeline with additional purchase of MTI Films’ Correct DRS™
NBC Universal has selected MTI Film’s Control Dailies Enterprise and Cortex::ControlDailies as its solution for processing digital camera dailies. The company has also increased its digital film restoration capacity through the purchase of additional seats of MTI Film’s Correct DRS™.
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| | | | Pixine Relies On Anton/Bauer Cine VCLX Batteries To Power Through Productions In Extreme Environments
 Pixine Relies On Anton/Bauer Cine VCLX Batteries To Power Through Productions In Extreme Environments
For the last 12 years, film and digital cinema camera rental company Pixine has relied on power solutions from Anton/Bauer®, part of Vitec Videocom, a Vitec Group company, and a premier global provider of batteries, chargers, lighting and other mobile power systems for the professional broadcast, video and film industries. When the company saw an increasing number of clients shooting with the ARRI ALEXA, it turned to Anton/Bauer’s CINE VCLX battery to help match the camera’s power demands and hold up to the tough environmental situations its users face around the world.
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| | | | Volker Bahnemann Cinematography Awards Honor Pepe Avila Del Pino and Hunter Baker
ARRI is proud to announce the second annual Volker Bahnemann Cinematography Awards have been presented to Hunter Baker (undergraduate division) and Pepe Avila Del Pino (graduate division), two talented cinematography students of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television. The honorees were selected by faculty based on rigorous criteria, keeping in mind Bahnemann’s legacy, which has become synonymous with excellence in cinematography.
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| | | | |  Articles and Tutorials: NAB 2013: ARRI Upgrades Alexa & Shows Off Anamorphic LensesARRI made good on its promise to plan a long-life path for Alexa; at NAB 2013, the company offered the XR Module and several components of the Alexa XT configuration as upgrades. The first three focal lengths of the ARRI/ZEISS Master Anamorphic lens series are slated to ship next month, and ARRI showed a 10-minute film shot with the 50 mm MA50 lens. Also on tap were Pro Camera Accessories for the Sony F5/F55, new Alura LDS Extenders, lightweight matte box LMB-6, and the new Cage System II.Read Article Subscribe Killer Dailies: The Walking Dead & Vampire DiariesUndead hits The Walking Dead (shooting on film) and The Vampire Diaries (shooting with ARRI Alexa) are both shot near Atlanta, GA, and both rely on Crawford Media Services for dailies for two very different workflows, one revolving around the ARRI Alexa, the other around Super 16 film.Read Article Subscribe Codex Digital Offers Full Support for ARRI Alexa StudioCodex Digital now offers full support for ARRI's Alexa Studio with Codex ARRIRAW Plus and the Codex Onboard recorders, which can record up to 48 frames per second of ARRIRAW from the Alexa Studio in 4:3, using Codex' new high speed Data Packs. The company is also readying the debut of the Codex Vault at NAB 2012.Read Article Subscribe DFT FLEXXITY Includes Native Support for ProResDFT Digital Film Technology recently added native support of ProRes files on the Linux OS to version 1.2 of its FLEXXITY suite of software applications, which includes Dailies, Playout and Archive -- which speaks especially to ARRI Alexa output.Read Article Subscribe Behind the Lens: Bobby Bukowski, CinematographerBobby Bukowski offers an inside look at one of the first features shot with ARRI Alexa ProRes, and how the camera completely reshaped the cinematographer's approach to 360-lighting. Bobby also talks about the DP's role as one of the characters on a set where actors don't rehearse, and preparation is the key.Read Article Subscribemore articles » Blogs: NAB 2013 - Day 3 - 5 PMThe traffic on the NAB floor show is usually much lighter than Monday and Tuesday, but today the aisles were still as crowded as the first two days of the show. That's a surprise, and a pleasant one, especially since this is not a "big news" NAB. Thursday is traditionally...Read Blog Subscribe Wow. IBC was a dud if you were looking for anything new Wow, After 10 years of going to the IBC show in Amsterdam, I am used to seeing a fair number of products announced at NAB to be finally shipping. Yet there is usually a good number of new products that are released on the European market too. But IBC 2012,...Read Blog SubscribeZacuto's just released "Revenge of the Camera Shootout" is a must watch Since I joined Creative Cow few things I have worked on have garnered as much interest as my work on the Zacuto Shoot Outs. I have been lucky enough to have once again asked to join Steve Weiss, Jens Bogehegn, Scott Lynch, Mandy Rodgers and the Zacuto Team for their...Read Blog Subscribemore blogs »Related Tags | | | | |
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