| | | | 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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| | | | WeLovePost Grades Filipino Film “El Presidente” with DaVinci Resolve
 Blackmagic Design today announced that DaVinci Resolve color correction was used by Manila based post production company WeLovePost for “EI Presidente,” a biopic film about General Emilio Aguinaldo, the first president of the Philippine Republic. The film tells the story of how the Philippines achieved independence and stars E.R. Ejercito in the lead role, with Cesar Montano, Christopher de Leon, Nora Aunor and Cristine Reyes in supporting roles.
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| | | | FotoKem Automates nextLAB Integration with PIX System
 Improved Process Powers “House of Cards” Dailies
The latest version of FotoKem’s award-winning nextLAB™ software for advanced media management now automates the transfer of dailies to PIX System’s industry-leading digital collaboration service. nextLAB transcodes the source media files, and immediately uploads the material and over 60 fields of searchable metadata per take directly into PIX. This strategic relationship increases the efficiency of a dailies workflow, and makes it easier for productions to securely access and leverage not just their media, but all the associated production data.
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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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| | | | 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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| | | | MTI Film Appoints Storm FX as Reseller for Australia and New Zealand
MTI Film has added Storm FX Distributions Pty Ltd, a Sydney, Australia-based distributer of design, modelling and finishing solutions, to its international network of value-added resellers. Storm FX will represent MTI Film’s full product line, including its newly-introduced Cortex family of products, throughout Australia and New Zealand.
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| | | | Company 3® Completes Grading for Multiple Versions of "Prometheus" with DaVinci Resolve
 Blackmagic Design today announced that Company 3 used DaVinci Resolve for color grading four different versions of 20th Century Fox's, "Prometheus." One of the most anticipated features of the summer, the science fiction thriller was directed by Ridley Scott, the visionary filmmaker behind "Alien" and "Blade Runner," who chose Company 3 to help enhance the stunning visual style for "Prometheus," shot by renowned cinematographer Dariusz Wolski, ASC.
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| | | | "Marvel’s The Avengers" Employs Codex/ARRIRAW Workflow
Director Joss Whedon and Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC recently employed ARRI Alexa cameras in a Codex/ARRIRAW workflow to capture principal photography for "Marvel’s The Avengers". Produced by Marvel Studios, the eagerly-awaited Super Hero saga is slated for a May 4th release in the U.S. by Walt Disney Studios.
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| | | | MAXX DIGITAL Announces Production Dailies Cart System Based on SCRATCH Lab Digital Dailies Software
MAXX DIGITAL is proud to announce that they have teamed with ASSIMILATE and offer a turnkey Production Dailies Cart System, built around SCRATCH Lab®, the industry’s most powerful end-to-end production dailies software. Designed to meet the needs of DITs and Video Engineers who produce dailies on-set for television shows, commercials and feature films, the new turnkey Cart provides image acquisition, data management, look refinement and dailies deliverables with support for all popular cameras formats such as ARRI Alexa, Sony F65, and RED Epic and Scarlet.
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| | | | Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve 9
 Blackmagic Design today announced DaVinci Resolve 9, a major new software update with a completely overhauled user interface for an extremely elegant and modern look, while optimizing the workflow for speed. DaVinci Resolve 9 will be available in July as a free of charge update for all Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve customers.
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| | | | Company 3 Completes 3D and Color Grading for “Underworld Awakening” with DaVinci Resolve
Blackmagic Design today announced that Company 3® used DaVinci Resolve with Resolve Control Surface for color grading the 2D, 3D and IMAX 3D versions of Screen Gems and Lakeshore Entertainment’s, in association with Sketch Films, "Underworld: Awakening". The film, directed by Mårlind and Stein, shot by Scott Kevan, based on characters created by Kevin Grevioux, Len Wiseman and Danny McBride, and with story by Len Wiseman, John Hlavin and screenplay by Len Wiseman, John Hlavin, J. Michael Stracynski and Alison Burnett, is the latest in the hugely popular and visually stunning vampire themed "Underworld" series.
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| | | | Chicago’s Optimus Uses Baselight to Craft an American Icon
 A new campaign for American Family Insurance evokes the company’s association with heartland values through finely crafted images of factory workers, motorcycle riders, newborn babies and kids diving into swimming pools. Conceived by Ogilvy & Mather, Chicago, the campaign involved a seven day shoot in Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan. Post work was completed at Optimus, Chicago, through a workflow anchored by FilmLight’s Baselight colour grading system.
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| | | | 20th Century Fox purchases Pablo PA for 'Chronicle'
Quantel's software assist station delivers speed, efficiency and quality for major 2012 movie
20th Century Fox has purchased Quantel's Pablo PA conform, preparation and workflow software and put it into immediate service on the post production of the ARRI Alexa-shot movie 'Chronicle', slated for release on 3rd February 2012. Executive Producer James Dodson reports that Pablo PA has helped him to address three big issues - "speed, efficiency and quality".
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| | | | ARRI Look Files and Look Creator for ALEXA
As of ALEXA Software Update Packet (SUP) 4.0, ALEXA cameras can apply user-defined looks to customize the rendering of video images for different applications and individual preferences.
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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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| | | | Manhattan Edit Workshop Provides Free Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Training Session For Filmmaking Community
Expert colorist and editor Patrick Inhofer to deliver 2.5 hour lecture on utilizing the DaVinci Resolve’s powerful color correction capabilities
Manhattan Edit Workshop (Mewshop), the cutting-edge authorized digital training destination, in cooperation with Blackmagic Design, will host a free DaVinci Resolve for Mac® presentation on July 20, 2011. The complimentary 2 _ hour session, hosted by expert colorist and editor Patrick Inhofer of Fini, will take attendees through the DaVinci Resolve for Mac – the world’s most advanced non-linear color correction system - showcasing proper set up and integration tips, providing how-to’s, and detailing key Resolve features and capabilities.
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| | | | Band Pro to Sell MARVIN in US and Europe
Helping Filmmakers to Practise Safe Capture with Automated Data Management on Set
Band Pro Film & Digital has signed an exclusive sales agreement with MARVIN Technologies to sell MARVIN systems in the United States, Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
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| | | | MTI Film to Debut New Solution for Processing Digitally-Acquired Dailies at NAB
 DA Head works with Control Dailies, Control Color and Convey to form a "true" tapeless environment for data.
At the upcoming National Association of Broadcasters Convention, MTI Film (www.mtifilm.com) will debut a new option for its award-winning Control Dailies solution. The DA Head module for Control Dailies enables the faster-than-real-time power of Control Dailies to facilitate the processing of digitally-acquired dailies from virtually any source. Control Dailies for Digital Acquisition (DA) supports Red One,Panasonic P2, Panavision Genesis, Viper FilmStream and Arri D-21 digital cinema cameras, as well as media in DPX file format.
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| | | | Silicon Imaging Announces Integrated 3D Technology Preview
Suite of New Features and Accessories for the SI-2K Digital Cinema Platform at NAB 2008
Silicon Imaging, together with it's partners P+S Technik, CineForm, and IRIDAS, announce a host of platform enhancements to the SI-2K, improving the user experience behind the camera, and enabling a more streamlined post workflow that blurs the line between pre-production, on-set and post-production, creating a powerful non-linear workflow solution that covers the gamut from the initial concept to final delivery.
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| | | | IRIDAS Adds Real-Time RAW Support for DALSA Camera
4K Playback, Grading, and Conform of RAW Footage in SpeedGrade
IRIDAS, the industry leader in real-time RAW playback, today announced support for the DALSA RAW 4K format. This advance allows filmmakers using SpeedGrade to take full advantage of the pristine image quality of the DALSA Origin camera with instant real-time review, conform, re-framing, and grading of native 4K RAW footage.
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| | | | |  Blogs: Summer's back, FCPX turns 1, ProFusion2012 Ok, I am back once again. Those that know me, understand that some of my clients are reticent to having me posting/ blogging while working on their long term projects, so if I periodaclly fall off my blog here on the Cow, know that I am working, not just avoiding...Read Blog SubscribePost NAB - The NLE Wars between the "A's" will continue, much to the users benefit.Apple: SInce NAB 2011 the NLE market has been aflutter. Apple announced release of FCPX was heralded until the new version of the App hit the street and Apple, in my humble opinion, placed that product on the market about a year too early for the majority of users to...Read Blog SubscribeMore on Log vs Lin. Ok, So this alexa thingy is really gaining ground, and I have been bombarded by questions about Log vs Lin and how the signals actually look on screen and on a scope, so I did test shoot with my wife working away on her glass jewelry. So lets look at...Read Blog Subscribemore blogs »Related Tags | | | | |
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