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| | | | Light Iron Chooses Christie Solaria Projection For Postproduction Needs
Only Manufacturer Offering Integrated Media Block and HD-SDI Inputs
Light Iron, a leading postproduction house based in Los Angeles, has expanded its use of Christie Solaria® Series digital cinema projectors offering rich, saturated color, high brightness and sharp, 4K resolution to its ever growing clientele.
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| | | | Calibrated Software Delivers Native MXF Editing for Final Cut Pro X
Calibrated{Q} MXF Import Lets Users Import and Work with a Wide Range of MXF Files Directly in Final Cut X 10.0.6
Calibrated Software, an innovator of applications and plug-ins for post-production workflows, announced today Calibrated{Q} MXF Import with native MXF editing support for Final Cut Pro X 10.0.6.
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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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| | | | 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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| | | | New Wacom Cintiqs Paint a Pretty Picture
 The Cintiq 24HD touch and Cintiq 22HD provide an immersive and natural pen-on-screen experience for professional creators of digital content
Tailored around the increasing demands of creative professionals, Wacom® announces two new members of the Cintiq® family of interactive pen displays, the Cintiq 24HD touch and Cintiq 22HD. Artists and designers now have two new options for working directly on screen. As with the Cintiq 24HD, Wacom's latest Cintiqs feature best-in-class widescreen HD displays, ultra-wide viewing angles and premium color performance. To give professional artists and designers enhanced focus on their work and creativity, Wacom introduces the powerful combination of a precision pen and natural multi-touch. With the addition of these models to the Cintiq lineup, anyone, from freelance industrial designers sketching in a small studio to Hollywood animators creating the next blockbuster movie, can find a Cintiq that best fits their workflow.
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| | | | Titanic 3D: CLIPSTER®, FUZE provide James Cameron with a seamless means to monitor stereo conversion
 Lightstorm Entertainment uses multiple CLIPSTER/FUZE digital cinema mastering systems in Los Angeles, Malibu and Sydney to playback and review uncompressed stereo media with unprecedented speed and flexibility.
Before sailing back into theaters, newly and spectacularly rendered in 3D, Titanic went through final inspection via leading edge digital mastering and stereoscopic technology from DVS. Director James Cameron and his team from Lightstorm Entertainment used DVS’s CLIPSTER® and FUZE systems to review scenes from the movie in stereo as it was undergoing the 3D conversion process. CLIPSTER and FUZE facilitated the playback of uncompressed (2K) media in stereo allowing Cameron to view the film on a big screen in precisely the same form as audiences will see it in cinemas.
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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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| | | | 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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| | | | 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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| | | | Framestore Integrates IKinema into its Motion Capture Pipeline
 New Plug-in Enables Users to Create or Retarget Data Inside Maya in Real-time
Bringing a new age of motion capture processing to the industry, IKinema™ LTD announced today that the leading VFX house in London, Framestore, has incorporated IKinema technology into its motion capture production pipeline. Chosen for its powerful, fast and remarkably controllable design, IKinema’s inverse kinematics (IK) solver is now the key motion capture solving and retargeting tool that Framestore uses to create special effects and animation for both its broadcast and VFX projects.
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| | | | OptiTrack V120:Duo and V120:Trio Tracking Bars Ship
6DoF Object Tracking Systems for Virtual Reality, Animation and Medical Visualization
Bringing innovative and affordable motion capture technology to the desktop, NaturalPoint® today announced the immediate availability of the OptiTrack™ V120:Duo and V120:Trio tracking bars. Offering an out-of-the-box motion capture solution, the new OptiTrack tracking bars incorporate optical tracking technology that is accurate, flexible and very simple to use.
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| | | | Barco showcases integrated broadcast visualization solutions at NAB 2011
On display at this year's NAB show, will be a visually rich wall of content enabled by Barco's latest event projectors and LED displays, driven by recently upgraded display presentation systems.
Visualization pioneer Barco is set to impress the broadcast industry with an expanded array of visualization products designed to optimize and deliver content for a variety of applications. Offering superior brightness, contrast and color rendition, as well as enhanced presentation capabilities, Barco's projectors, LED displays and image processing tools seamlessly mesh with broadcast production platforms to enable single-point control and programming flexibility for live and taped shows.
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| | | | OptiTrack Demonstrates Desktop Motion Capture with new V120:Duo and V120:Trio Tracking Bars at GDC 2011
 Showcases Comprehensive Six Degrees of Freedom Motion Capture Systems for Under $2,000
As the role of motion capture in virtual production expands, OptiTrack™ continues to offer game developers and animation studios optical tracking technology that is priced to meet an independent budget, but powerful enough to drive AAA development. GDC 2011 marks the release of a new advancement in accessible motion capture: the OptiTrack V120:Duo and V120:Trio tracking systems.
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| | | | Boris FX Releases Boris AAF Transfer Version 2
 Bidirectional Sequence Transfer Tool for Apple Final Cut Pro and Avid
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today announced the availability of Boris AAF Transfer Version 2, a set of two Apple Final Cut Pro plug-ins for transferring sequences between Final Cut Pro and Avid editing and finishing systems. One of the plug-ins exports Avid-compatible AAF format files from Final Cut Pro to Avid editing and finishing systems. The other plug-in imports AAF format files from Avid editing and finishing systems to Final Cut Pro.
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| | | | Big Pic Media Brings State-of-the-Art Digital Workflow to BVE 2011
Introducing the Technologies that are Transforming Film and Broadcast Production
Big Pic Media, a worldwide resource for industry-leading postproduction products and services will be exhibiting at the BVE Expo in London on Feb. 15-17 (Stand L.52). BVE is Britain's largest film and broadcast tradeshow. In 2010, BVE drew well over 12,000 visitors and nearly 250 distributors, manufacturers and resellers.
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| | | | MTI Film Debuts New Facility
MTI Film has recently moved to a new, larger facility and expanded its services offerings to include Television, Film and Commercial Post-Production. CEO Larry Chernoff has put together an experienced team of experts to oversee the cutting-edge technology MTI has assembled to create a unique all-digital workflow.
published 3 years ago read more | | | | |
| | | | Media 100 Suite Version 1.6 Now Available
Expanded Support for Tapeless Digital Formats, New Support for Adobe After Effects CS5
Media 100, a leading provider of advanced editing systems for the corporate, broadcast, postproduction, and new media industries, today announced that Media 100 Suite Version 1.6 is now available.
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| | | | Calibrated Software Introduces AVC-Intra Decoding Tool
New Product Expands AVC-Intra-Based Post Production by Providing Easy, High-Quality Solution for Viewing and Working with AVC-Intra Files on Multiple Platforms
Calibrated Software, an innovator of applications and plug-ins for video, asset management and mobile platforms, today introduced Calibrated{Q} AVC-Intra Decode, the most recent solution in the Calibrated{Q} product family of QuickTime components that enhance professional video workflows.
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| | | | Cine-tal announces cineSpace version 2.8
 Colour management software suite for Acquisition, DI, Post-Production, Video Game Development and Exhibition offers new tools, new technology and increased support for 3rd party hardware and software. Available March 31st.
Cine-tal Systems, a developer of image monitoring and colour management solutions, announces a new release of the film and television industry's most widely adopted and flexible colour management solution, cineSpace v2.8.
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| | | | Colorfront Team Wins Academy Award®
Award-winning team now focusing on fresh challenges in streamlining motion picture production and post
Colorfront, one of the world’s most advanced digital intermediate (DI) and post production facilities, based in Budapest, Hungary, has announced that its software development team is to be honoured with a Scientific and Engineering Award® from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences®.
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| | | | Calibrated Software Announces Importing and Decoding Tools to Speed HD Camera and Editing Workflows
Product Suite Bridges Post-Production Gaps with Native Editing of MXF and MP4 Files from Popular HD Cameras and Cross-Platform Viewing for Proprietary-Format QuickTime Media
Calibrated Software, an innovator of applications and plug-ins for video, asset management and mobile platforms, today announced an enhanced family of cross-platform tools to streamline and speed the process of viewing and using high-definition camera and other video files within popular post-production systems and editing packages.
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| | | | The Studio Acquires VICON T10 Motion Capture System
New York Design Facility Specializes in Animatics; Plans Expansion into 3D Animation with Advanced Mocap System
VICON, developer of Academy Award®-winning motion capture systems, today announced the sale and installation of its T10 motion capture system at graphic design and 2D animation company The Studio, located in New York City.
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| | | | Panasonic Announces High-Resolution BT-LH2550 Premium 25.5" LCD HD Monitor
1920 x 1200 Resolution Monitor Offers Wider Color Gamut with Six Color Settings, Ideal for Print, Graphics as well as Broadcast and Production Environments
Panasonic announced the immediate availability of its new high-resolution BT-LH2550 LCD HD production monitor. With a full 1920 x 1200-pixel In-Plane Switching (IPS) panel, the 25.5” LCD production monitor features an expanded color gamut, exceeding the NTSC standard, to ensure vivid, true-to-life color for critical monitoring at a cost far less than premium-priced reference monitors.
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| | | | Cine-tal’s Cinemage Helps Breathe Life into “Open Air”
Display System Used for On-Set Monitoring & Color Previsualization for Indie Drama
Cine-tal’s Cinemage HD calibrated display system was recently used during the production of Open Air, a political drama from Arcady Bay Entertainment, to perform instant review of data captured by a Sony F23 digital cinema camera and to apply color grading LUTs in real time on the set.
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| | | | IRIDAS and Partners to Present End-to-End RAW Workflow at NAB 2008
Integration and Efficiency: Realizing the Promise of Digital Filmmaking Technologies
IRIDAS, an industry leader in integrative filmmaking technologies, will join a group of pioneering companies at NAB 2008 to present the "End-to-End Digital Workflow," demonstrating start-of-the-art RAW pipeline tools for production, post, and finishing.
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| | | | News: Cintel unveils new technology at IBC2007
Cintel, a leading provider of film scanning solutions, will be showcasing its latest technological advances at IBC this year and unveiling several products new to the global market on stand number 7.118.
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| | | | News: SPIN Turns to FrameCycler 2007 for Uncompressed Playback
Site License Installed at Award-Winning VFX Facility's Toronto Location
IRIDAS, who introduced the first software-based solution for uncompressed playback in 2001, announced that SPIN Productions has added a universal site-license of FrameCycler Professional 2007 at its facility in Toronto.
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| | | | News: Cine-tal releases Cinemage software version 2.1 and SDK
New software release adds DVI and Standard Definition inputs--Now supporting 3D LUTs from Quantel iQ, Discreet Flame, Assimilate Scratch Kodak CMS, and FilmLight--Software Development Kit (SDK) provides extensible platform for custom software applications, automation and integration into existing software packages
Cine-tal, a leading developer in image processing, display and collaboration solutions, announced the release of version 2.1 software for the Cinemage intelligent display server. Cinemage 2.1 provides a host of new features and a software developer’s kit. An important new feature is the DVI input. With the DVI input Cinemage provides a calibrated desktop monitor and an HDSDI/SDI reference monitor integrated into a single package. Cinemage version 2.1 adds compatibility with standard definition video formats. Both standard definition and 720p video formats may be viewed pixel to pixel or scaled to full screen for optimum viewing accuracy.
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| | | | News: Divergent Media Introduces ScopeBox
The First Full-Featured Video Monitoring and Disk Recording Software Suite for the Mac
Divergent Media announced today the immediate availability of ScopeBox™, the first ever high-end suite of Mac-based image monitoring, capture, and analysis software for video production and post production. This unique solution replaces thousands of dollars of traditional hardware waveforms, vectorscopes, preview monitors and direct-to-disk recording tools.
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| | | | News: IRIDAS Comes Onboard at Industrial Light & Magic
Legendary Facility Standardizes on FrameCycler Professional for Uncompressed Playback
IRIDAS the industry leader in uncompressed playback and review technologies today announced that Industrial Light & Magic has purchased universal site licenses of FrameCycler Professional 3.5 for their facility in the Letterman Center in San Francisco, Lucasfilm Animation in Singapore, and the Skywalker Ranch in San Rafael. Now artists at all three locations will have immediate access to uncompressed frame-based playback for review and analysis of their work on every workstation.
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| | | | Avid Announces New Versions of Media Composer Adrenaline HD and Avid DS Nitris
HD, DI, and Tapeless Workflow Capabilities Broaden Creative Choices for Film and Video Postproduction Professionals
Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced the latest versions of the industry's leading postproduction solutions for advanced film and video professionals - the Media Composer® Adrenaline™ HD 2.1 system and the Avid® DS Nitris® 7.6 family.
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| | | | |  Articles and Tutorials: Serious Magic's Ultra2CreativeCOW.net contributing editor Joaquin 'Kino' Gil writes a review on Serious Magic's ULTRA 2 Professional Keying Software with Vector Keying Technology and tells readers, ''[Before ULTRA2] each matte had to be calibrated separately and the values adjusted almost on a frame by frame basis in order to get details like loose strands of hair, bluish shadows and reflections, grains of sand and other minutiae. Yes, it took forever [and] no motion tracking software, either. All of that effort, [and hours of work] very seriously done, is made moot today with this software tool from Serious Magic. ... The key is perfect to the extreme of perfectly keyed fine strands of hair, transparency and translucency.''Read Article Subscribemore articles » Blogs: Workflow Update: iMac, Adobe and the "X" FactorApple iMacs As I noted in my previous blog, the iMacs are fast becoming my machine of choice and the newest models are even more impressive than the two we have running. At this time, barring any major announcement from Apple that changes my mind, my plan is to replace...Read Blog SubscribePost Production is NOT an afterthought. So why do so many clients treat it that way?Why is it that Producers treat Post Production as an afterthought? As in, “I need to spend all my money on Production so it looks great, but the editing we can do on the cheap.” The editor is the LAST person to touch your film. As in the person who...Read Blog Subscribe Calibrated {Q} Another native MXF importerHere's something interesting. An app that gives you native MXF in all QuickTime applications including FCP. Calibrated Software's unique solution successfully joins the separate video and audio P2 MXF files so that Final Cut Pro sees them all as ONE file - complete with TimeCode and Reel Name. PullDown can...Read Blog Subscribemore blogs »Related Tags | | | | |
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