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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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| | | | 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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| | | | 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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| | | | Four Best Picture Nominees Captured by Codex
 Oscar nominees relying on Codex recorders and workflow systems include “Amour,” “Argo,” “Zero Dark Thirty,” “Life of Pi,” “Skyfall,” “Kon-Tiki” and “The Avengers.”
Four of the nine films nominated for this year’s Academy Award for Best Picture relied on Codex technology for digital recording and workflow management. They include Amour (Michael Haneke, director; Darius Khondji, cinematographer), Argo (Ben Affleck, director; Rodrigo Prieto, cinematographer), Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, director; Greig Fraser, cinematographer) and Life of Pi (Ang Lee, director; Claudio Miranda, cinematographer).
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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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| | | | "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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| | | | 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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| | | | 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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| | | | "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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| | | | 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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| | | | 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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| | | | Cinegear 2012: Codex to Showcase Recording and Workflow Solutions
 Codex Delivers 4K Workflow for Canon Cinema EOS Digital Cameras
Cinegear Booth 48A – Codex Digital will showcase its latest digital media recorders and media management systems for film and television production at Cinegear 2012 in Los Angeles. Featured products will include the Codex Vault S, Codex’s next generation, modular, location-based media management environment, which has begun shipping.
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| | | | Codex And ARRI Continue Successful Partnership
Codex, the leading developer of digital media recorders and media management systems for film and television production, and ARRI, the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of motion picture camera, digital intermediate and lighting equipment, have had an incredible year with the ARRI ALEXA camera and the Codex ARRIRAW recorder.
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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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| | | | Codex And ARRI Continue Successful Partnership
Codex, the leading developer of digital media recorders and media management systems for film and television production, and ARRI, the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of motion picture camera, digital intermediate and lighting equipment, have had an incredible year with the ARRI Alexa camera and the Codex ARRIRAW recorder.
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| | | | Codex Digital Offers Full Support for ARRI Alexa Studio
Codex 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.
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| | | | Codex and ARRIRAW Mark a Breakthrough Year in 2011
 50 feature films shot with the ALEXA/CODEX/ARRIRAW workflow.
Codex Digital, the leading developer of digital media recorders and media management systems for film and television production, today announced that Codex Onboard Recorders have been used on approximately 50 feature films in 2011.
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| | | | "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" Employs Codex/ARRIRAW Workflow
 "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close", director Stephen Daldry’s film slated for a Christmas day limited release from Warner Bros. Pictures, expanding to wide release January 20th, was the first major studio production to shoot with the ARRI ALEXA camera in a Codex/ARRIRAW workflow. It was also the first digitally captured film for veteran cinematographer Chris Menges, ASC, BSC.
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| | | | Codex and ARRIRAW in Production
Principal photography has now been completed on some of the first movies to utilize an ARRI Alexa/Codex ARRIRAW workflow, whilst production continues on many others around the world.
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| | | | Codex and ARRI announce 60fps ARRIRAW
 CODEX SUPPORTS 60fps ARRIRAW ON ALEXA
Codex Digital, the leading developer of digital media recorders and media management systems for film and television production, today announced that they have introduced 60fps ARRIRAW capture on the Codex Onboard Recorder.
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| | | | Major Productions Rely On ALEXA ARRIRAW And Codex For Uncompromised Recording
The ALEXA digital camera system has quickly been embraced as an industry workhorse lauded for its cinematic look, unsurpassed dynamic range and ease of use. More and more productions are taking advantage of ALEXA’s ARRIRAW capability to access full sensor resolution, raw uncompressed data and the greatest flexibility in post. ARRIRAW is the highest quality recording format when shooting with ALEXA, storing the full 2880 x 1620 pixels of raw, unprocessed 12 bit log Bayer data delivered by the sensor.
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| | | | Codex Digital, Assimilate to Demonstrate ARRIRAW Workflow at NAB
At NAB 2011, Codex Digital and Assimilate will conduct joint demonstrations of a new on-set workflow for ARRIRAW. The demonstrations will employ Codex’s Onboard Recorder and Transfer Station and Assimilate’s SCRATCH Lab, and will show the processing of ARRIRAW files (recorded with an ARRI Alexa camera) with visual quality checking, primary color grading, deliverables production, file back-up, and project management.
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| | | | ARRI and Codex Digital release OEM ARRIRAW Recorder
Codex Digital, the leading developer of digital media recorders and media management systems for film and television production, today announces that it has reached an agreement with ARRI to manufacture a Codex ARRIRAW recorder for use with ARRI’s popular ALEXA and ARRIFLEX D-21 film-style digital cameras. The new recorder will be marketed both directly and through ARRI’s worldwide reseller network. ARRI and its resellers will also be selling Codex camera mounts, datapacks and transfer stations.
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| | | | ARRI to Market Codex Digital ARRIRAW Recorder
Codex Digital, the leading developer of digital media recorders and media management systems for film and television production, today announces that it has reached an agreement with ARRI, the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of motion picture camera, digital intermediate and lighting equipment, to manufacture a CODEX ARRIRAW recorder for use with ARRI’s popular ALEXA and ARRIFLEX D-21 film-style digital cameras.
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| | | | ARRI CSC to Offer Codex Recorders for Rental in the U.S
Codex Digital, the leading developer of digital media recorders and media management systems for film and television production, today announces that ARRI CSC, a subsidiary of ARRI, Inc. and the largest, full-service camera equipment rental group in the USA, has made a significant investment in Codex onboard recorders and other equipment and will soon have them available for rental.
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| | | | Codex Receives ARRIRAW Certification on the Alexa Camera
Codex Digital, the leading developer of digital media recorders and media management systems for film and television production, today announces that film and digital camera maker ARRI has awarded it an ARRIRAW T-Link (Transport Link) certificate confirming the ability of its recorders to record raw data from the ARRI Alexa film-style camera.
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| | | | Codex Digital Teams with Colorfront to Develop ARRIRAW Workflow for Features
 Codex Digital technology used in tandem with Colorfront’s On-Set Dailies System during the production of “Styria,” the first film shot with ARRI Alexa to ARRIRRAW.
Codex Digital’s Digital Lab and Onboard Recorders were recently used in conjunction with a new On-Set Dailies solution, developed by Budapest-based Colorfront, to produce digital dailies and other deliverables on the set of Styria, a Hungarian feature film production that is believed to be the first ever shot with the ARRI Alexa camera in ARRIRAW format.
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| | | | |  Articles and Tutorials: 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 Subscribemore articles » Blogs: IBC day One, Thunderbolt is here, Aja and Blackmagic are both showing products based around the thunderbolt connector, Offering the desktop level of power for Stereosocpic and Dual Link capture from a laptop, with proper storage, and the others showing the TB logo are Sonnett, G-Tech, Lacie and a new company "mLogic" (from...Read Blog SubscribeWow its Monday, where did IBC go ? Ok, I promised to bring back some info from IBC, however I did not expect the show that I had. The people that know me, I am a pretty busy guy come NAB time, until this year, IBC was much more laid back. Not this year, IBC was almost as...Read Blog Subscribemore blogs »Related Tags | | | | |
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