| | | | Small Tree Shared Storage Plays Vital Role in Boutique Post-Production Company’s Rapid Growth
Company’s Flexible Storage Solution Handles Workflow Requirements
Originally founded in 2012 to handle post-production on two feature film projects, Prodigi House in Jakarta soon acquired additional clients – including Samsung and Honda – seeking support with TV commercials. With additional projects and tighter deadlines, the company installed a Titanium16 shared storage system from Small Tree, the leader in simple, affordable and powerful Ethernet-based shared storage solutions for professionals engaging in the creation, management and delivery of electronic media and entertainment content.
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| | | | Post Factory NY Upgrades to Baselight TWO from FilmLight
- New York based facility adds Baselight TWO to state-of-the-art screening room -
Post FactoryNY, which has served the film, TV and commercials markets for more than 15 years, recently upgraded its state-of-the-art screening room on 6th Avenue with two Baselight TWO colour grading systems from FilmLight.
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| | | | Colorworks Aids in 4K Restoration of “Richard III”
 A few months before the bones of Richard III were discovered below a parking lot in Leicester, England, the infamous British monarch was the focal point of a very different type of reclamation project halfway around the world in Culver City, California. There, Colorworks, Sony Pictures’ digital intermediate facility, applied the finishing touches to an exhaustive 4K restoration of "Richard III", Laurence Olivier’s 1955 film adaptation of the Shakespeare play.
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| | | | Red Echo Post Expands Service Offering with FilmLight’s Baselight
 - Cincinnati editorial house adds in-house colour grading to deliver full service offering to clients -
Top editorial facility Red Echo Post, which has long served leading advertisers from its base in Cincinnati, has moved to round out its offering with a Baselight ONE colour grading system from FilmLight. The addition of the Baselight means that the company can add top end colour grading services to its clients.
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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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| | | | Nice Shoes Expands with New Color Suite and Baselight TWO Systems
 As an independently owned creative studio, Nice Shoes is able to expand and evolve quickly to meet the ever changing needs of its clients. In 2012, the studio added several editorial suites, and built a custom suite and post-production workflow for a massive seven-screen film. To kick off 2013, it has added a pair of Baselight TWO systems, one of which will form their brand new color suite.
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| | | | Sony Pictures Colorworks Launches 4K Television Post-Production Facility
 Colorworks, Sony Pictures Entertainment’s digital intermediate facility, has opened a new facility focused on 4K television post-production. Located in the Capra Building on the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City, Colorworks 4K Television will provide post-production services for original programming shot in 4K and re-mastering services for film-originated media. It will deliver both HD masters for current distribution and 4K masters for future use.
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| | | | LipSync invests in Blackmagic Videohub as part of facility expansion
 As part of LipSync Post’s recent investment program, the full service post-production facility has installed a Blackmagic Videohub 288 routing switcher to connect and manage the increasing amount of post-production equipment, including LipSync’s recently purchased Baselight grading suites.
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| | | | FilmLight’s Baselight Used to Grade Sony’s “Hotel Transylvania”
 Hotel Transylvania, Sony Pictures Animation’s monster hit comedy that already broke records at the U.S. box office, went through final colour grading and stereo finishing in full 3D on Baselight. Completed at Colorworks, Sony Pictures Entertainment’s digital intermediate facility, DI Colourist John Persichetti used Baselight to apply the finishing touches to the film prior to its worldwide release.
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| | | | London’s LipSync Grows Grading Resources with FilmLight’s Baselight
LipSync Post, the award winning London-based full-service post-production facility, has significantly added to its colour grading resources through the purchase of two Baselight systems from FilmLight. When fully operational by year’s end the Baselight systems will serve as the facility’s primary grading tools, enabling LipSync to offer a total of five grading suites that can work flexibly to suit client requirements.
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| | | | Finish Adds Grading via FilmLight’s Baselight
 Award-winning London post house Finish, a specialist in 2D and 3D visual effects for commercials, has broadened its service offering to include high-end colour grading through the purchase of two Baselight systems from FilmLight.
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| | | | FilmLight Releases Baselight for Avid
 High-end colour grading for Avid Media Composer or Symphony under US$ 1,000.
FilmLight today announces the release of the latest product in its Baselight Editions line, Baselight for Avid® (Mac). Developed in association with Avid, this exciting new product makes the world’s most powerful colour grading toolset available within Avid Media Composer® or Symphony®, the editing software that is the preferred choice among film and television professionals. It’s also a further instance of FilmLight’s commitment to provide solutions for managing colour at every stage in production and post.
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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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| | | | FilmLight announces Baselight ONE ‘ACCESS’ package
 Industry leading grading and finishing system at less than US$50K
FilmLight is helping boutique post-production facilities to step up to high-end colour grading by offering its award-winning Baselight system at the lowest price ever. The Baselight ONE ACCESS package can now be purchased for less than US$50,000, and includes the latest Baselight 4.3 software, complete installation, FilmLight’s industry-leading technical support and on-site operational training.
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| | | | Filmworkers Grades “Revenge of the Great Camera Shootout”
Event produced by Zacuto and Kessler includes side-by-side comparisons of cameras made by Sony, Arri, Alexa, Canon and others.
Filmworkers recently took part in a unique event testing the performance of the current generation of digital motion picture cameras, from leading edge camera systems used to shoot Hollywood blockbusters to the humble iPhone. The Revenge of the Great Camera Shootout was produced by camera dealer Zacuto and crane manufacturer Kessler Cranes. Like similar events produced by Zacuto in the past, RGCSO features side-by-side tests of camera systems made by Sony, Arri, Red, Canon, Panasonic and Apple. Filmworkers provided color grading services necessary to make direct comparisons between the output of the cameras. Grading was performed by colorist Jimmy Cardenas with additional grading by colorist Brian “Crash” Carlucci.
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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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| | | | FilmLight Unveils Revolutionary Control Surface: Blackboard 2
 Unique soft-key design for Baselight
At NAB 2011, FilmLight launches Blackboard 2, an entirely new control surface for its award-winning Baselight colour grading system. The unique and revolutionary design of Blackboard 2 promises to transform high-end finishing for feature films, television and advertising.
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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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| | | | Prime Focus Posts ‘9/11 STATE OF EMERGENCY’ for Nutopia
Two-hour special includes interviews with Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and General Richard Myers
Prime Focus London has provided full post production on a major new feature length documentary for groundbreaking production company Nutopia.
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| | | | Mwnci Chooses Filmlight’s Baselight HD
Mwnci, the leading Cardiff-based TV post production company, has invested in a Baselight HD colour-grading system and Baselight Kompressor from FilmLight, to complement its existing Avid editing workflow.
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| | | | NAB 2010: The Mill, New York, Adds Second Baselight
 At NAB 2010, FilmLight today announces that The Mill, New York, has purchased a Baselight FOUR colour grading system—its second. The move is a response to the great success The Mill has enjoyed with its first Baselight FOUR, which has proven to be extremely popular both among the facility’s colourists and its advertising clients. The new Baselight will replace an existing linear colour grading system giving the company more flexibility in its workflow and greater access to Baselight’s powerful toolset.
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| | | | FilmLight Wins Four AMPAS Scientific and Technical Awards
Company’s Development Team Honoured for Northlight, Baselight and Truelight
Eight years is all it took for FilmLight to grow from a very small start-up to the brand leader in digital film technology. The reward for this has now arrived - an unprecedented sweep of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Sci-Tech awards, recognising the achievements of ten of FilmLight's founding engineers in every one of the company's three main product lines.
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| | | | Sony Pictures Entertainment Selects FilmLight's Baselight for New Post Facility
Installation includes three Baselight EIGHT systems for new 4K DI grading theatres
FilmLight today announces delivery of seven Baselight colour grading systems to Sony Pictures Entertainment. The systems will be installed at its newly-built digital intermediate facilities on the Sony Studios lot in Culver City, California, and connected to the studio's Digital Backbone.
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| | | | Weta Digital buys Nuke site licence
Leading visual effects software developer, The Foundry, today announced that Weta Digital, New Zealand’s premier multi-award winning VFX studio, has purchased a site licence of Nuke to enhance its in-house pipeline.
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| | | | Industrial Light & Magic Purchases Site Licence Of Nuke
Leading visual effects software developer, The Foundry, today announced that Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Lucasfilm Ltd’s multiple Academy Award-winning visual effects studio, has purchased a site licence of Nuke to complement its in-house pipeline.
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| | | | Frantic Films Software at NAB 2009
Deadline 3.1 Announced; Prize Giveaways and Call for Participation for Awake Beta-Testing Program
Frantic Films Software, the R&D arm of award-winning visual effects company Frantic Films VFX and a division of Prime Focus Group, will be showcasing its software products at NAB 2009 April 20th - April 23rd from booth #SL4430.
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| | | | The Foundry returns to Autodesk Sparks programme
The Foundry, a leading developer of visual effects, image-processing and compositing software, announced today that, under an exclusive arrangement with Autodesk®, it can once again offer support for the Autodesk Sparks range of its Tinder, Furnace and Keylight products.
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| | | | Foundry slashes Sparks prices as Autodesk revokes Development licence
The Foundry, a leading developer of visual effects, image-processing and compositing software, announced today that effective immediately, it has significantly reduced prices on plug-ins for Autodesk® advanced systems, as it is no longer part of the Autodesk Authorised Developer Network programme and can no longer guarantee continued development or support.
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| | | | Prime Focus Group Companies Help Steal the Show for 'The Maiden Heist'
Frantic Films VFX and Prime Focus London Contribute Effects; Post Logic Studios Completes DI
Frantic Films VFX, Post Logic Studios and Prime Focus London, all Prime Focus Group companies, completed visual effects, the main title sequence and the digital intermediate for the forthcoming feature film "The Maiden Heist" from Yari Film Group Releasing, LLC.
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| | | | Ocula 3D Stereo Plug-ins from the Foundry Now Shipping
Pixel-level control removes the headache from stereo post production
Leading visual effects software developer The Foundry (www.thefoundry.co.uk) is now shipping Ocula – the unique collection of plug-in tools that solve common problems with stereoscopic imagery, boost productivity in post production, and ultimately help to deliver a more rewarding stereoscopic viewing experience.
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| | | | The Foundry - IBC 2008 Preview (Stand 7.F28)
The Foundry expands VFX capabilities with new product releases
There have been many exciting developments at The Foundry during the last twelve months, across all areas of the company’s product portfolio.
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| | | | News: Scratch Gets Fully Plugged-In
The Foundry announces full OFX support for ASSIMILATE’s SCRATCH system, plus ground-breaking demonstrations with Creative Bridge
Leading visual effects developer The Foundry today announced full OFX support for the latest version of ASSIMILATE’s SCRATCH Data-Centric Workflow Solution for post production/DI. This new development gives SCRATCH users access to The Foundry’s complete range of visual effect and image processing plug-ins.
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| | | | News: More Facilities in NY and L.A. Adopt FilmLight Systems
PostWorks New York, Captive Audience Productions, and Hollywood Intermediate/MDI Add Truelight, Northlight, and Baselight
FilmLight Ltd., a leading provider of digital filmmaking technology, announced today that PostWorks, New York and Los Angeles-based facilities Captive Audience Productions and Hollywood Intermediate/Matchframe Digital Intermediate (MDI) have purchased its digital systems for film scanning, colour grading, colour calibration, and 2K playback.
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| | | | News: FilmLight and Avid Technology Collaborate To Develop Integrated Colour Management, Editorial and Grading Workflows
FilmLight announced at the NAB show in Las Vegas that it is collaborating with Avid Technology to develop integrated colour management and colour grading workflow capabilities for post production professionals. FilmLight and Avid plan to develop a comprehensive workflow strategy that will enable customers to leverage FilmLight’s colour management and grading systems with Avid’s industry-leading nonlinear editing and finishing systems for SD, HD, and 2K/4K Digital Intermediates (DI) projects.
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