| | | | NAIT and SGO form Educational Partnership to Equip Students with Cutting-edge Technology
 Mistika and NAIT unlock an exciting new vision together
NAIT, the second largest Polytechic in Canada reknowned for its nationally accredited engineering, media and applied research, has invested in SGO's Mistika. NAIT DMIT (Digital Media and IT) is the only transmedia school of its kind in Canada, and has chosen the powerful and diverse Mistika software to enhance its digital media curriculum and content creation programs in Stereoscopic 3D and 2D. To keep students at the front of the digital industries when they graduate, NAIT DMIT believes that training and equiping students with the most up-to-date knowledge and cutting-edge tools is a bottom line.
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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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| | | | Tim Dillon joins MPC New York as Executive Producer of Digital/Experiential
 The momentum continues to build in MPC New York, where the addition of interactive and experiential force Tim Dillon completes the aggressive expansion of MPC Digital. A go-to talent for cross-platform projects across the digital, mobile and physical realms, Dillon brings to MPC more than a decade of experience working as senior producer and design lead for big-league clients such as Coca-Cola, Google, Tate, Dewar’s, Intel and TED, as well as Creator’s Project and Lifetime’s “Project Runway Catwalk”.
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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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| | | | Digital Vision Announces Technology Partnership with MTI Film; Unveils Slate of Advanced Image Processing Tools
A History of Innovation, Collaboration, Integration in the Spotlight at NAB 2013
In keeping with its 25-year history of advancing creative technology, Digital Vision is proud to announce a technology partnership with MTI Film that will include the integration of MTI's Cortex::Control Dailies with the award-winning Nucoda grading platform. In addition, Digital Vision is unveiling exciting new developments for their Nucoda and Phoenix product lines during NAB.
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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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| | | | Eyeheight colour correctors match the action during the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
 SIS LIVE, one of Europe's outside broadcast and satellite uplink service providers, chose Eyeheight CC-2M colour correctors for use during coverage of the 2013 Oxford & Cambridge University Boat Race on Sunday 31 March. Installed in one of several SIS LIVE fleet vehicles at the event, the CC-2M received live high-definition video from mobile cameras and allowed rapid adjustment of colour balance to match feeds from other cameras positioned along the course.
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| | | | Mistika brings new developments, products and performance-leading Innovations for post, DI and broadcast to NAB
SGO launches Mistika Air at NAB – Intelligent Broadcasting solutions for more efficient workflows
“Mistika has become a system and workflow solution associated with leading developments which address the very latest desires and trends of the post, DI and broadcast markets. NAB is a perfect place to showcase our technology with work done by our amazing customers from the small boutiques to the biggest film studios and broadcasters all around the world. We will continue to push development that keeps us one step ahead of the competition and which delivers many of the best solutions in the industry”
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| | | | Digital Vision Brings Image Technology Innovations to NAB 2013
Technology Demonstrations, New Features Unveiled for Colour Grading, Archive, Stereo and Image Processing
Digital Vision will bring its range of image technology solutions to NAB 2013, including the Nucoda 2013 colour grading product line which features many new tools and enhancements, and the latest version of Phoenix restoration software. In addition the company, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, will present the first technology demonstration of Thor, a soon-to-be-released dedicated hardware product for advanced image processing.
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| | | | SGO relies on ATTO's Fibre Channel technology to provide high-performance Mistika solutions to be showcased at NAB 2013
 Visit the SGO Booth SL10321 and ATTO Booth SL7613 at NAB 2013
SGO relies on ATTO Technology, Inc., the storage and network connectivity solutions provider to bring even greater performance standards to Mistika workflow solutions for high-end film and broadcast projects. Mistika's breath-taking speed is indicative of how demanding it is on bandwidth to its storage devices, and ATTO Celerity Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) provide that vital connection. With ATTO Technology's experience in engineering advanced technology into real-world product solutions, they provide SGO with a unique competitive advantage.
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| | | | FotoKem Adds the Power of Mistika to DI Suites
 FotoKem, a leading post production resource for the worldwide creative community, has added two Mistika 4K systems in their Burbank facility, bolstering their end-to-end services. The Mistika systems will share an SGO configured SAN, supporting FotoKem’s high frame rate, 3D and digital intermediate/colour services. The installation fosters FotoKem’s 50 years of focus on their clients’ needs through investing in technologically advanced tools and solutions to expertly guide film-makers through the entire process from production to post.
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| | | | Mistika Performs A Starring Role At London’s BTV Post To Bring Shakespeare To Life From Open Air Stage To Cinema Screen Across Different Genres
 “Mistika's fantastic “digital printer lights tool” proved a great asset in restoring balance to the image...One of the most beneficial features in Mistika throughout this project is the “selection ganging” feature of the storyboard.” Ian Grey, Mistika VFX Artist and Colour Grader, BTV Post
Soho-based BTV Post is currently using Mistika for the grading, online finishing and digital mastering for all platform deliveries of Shakespeare's Globe's fourth season of filmed live theatre performances of The Taming of the Shrew, Henry V and Twelfth Night for an international Shakespeare experience.
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| | | | Studio l'Equipe relies on Mistika to introduce cutting-edge colour grading toolsets to Brussels for feature films
 As part of the on-going expansion of digital acquisition, Brussels-based Studio l’Equipe, one of Belgium’s leading post production facilities has invested in SGO's Mistika to meet the demands of a rapidly changing and highly competitive feature film market. Studio l'Equipe has installed a Mistika 4K system with a Mistika Assist station, to help accelerate the post production process by allowing simultaneous access to Mistika projects for ingest, online functions and the creation of deliverables, without disturbing the master Mistika system. Both Mistikas are connected to a 72TB SAN storage system.
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| | | | Europa Sound & Vision embraces SGO Mistika to add high-end colour grading, on-line finishing and DCP creation facilities in Sweden
 Leading Swedish post production house Europa Sound & Vision has significantly boosted its facilities and workflow with the purchase of three Mistika systems providing deliverables up to 4K. The investment consists of a Mistika for high-end colour grading, another for real-time compositing, online finishing and DCP creation, combined with a Mistika Assist workstation, all sharing a 96TB SGO SAN in a collaborative workflow environment. The primary focus is on 2D projects but the systems can easily be upgraded to Stereo 3D and High Frame Rate (HFR) when required.
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| | | | White Mark Designs A New Film Sound Facility In Moscow
 After three years of intense work, UK studio design consultancy White Mark Ltd has completed a massive project in Moscow that involved designing and building a new, state of the art film sound facility for Russian company CineLab Ltd.
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| | | | Digital Vision's Phoenix Automates and Refines Restoration Workflow
 Software Powers Efforts of High Hat Post and Periscope Film
From riding the surf to diving to the ocean's depths in a submarine, Digital Vision's Phoenix Refine restoration software is helping to power the efforts of High Hat Post and Periscope Film. Currently, Phoenix is a crucial tool at High Hat Post in the restoration of a collection of vintage 16 mm surfing movies, as well as current productions. Periscope Film is using Phoenix to automate the restoration of the company's acquired military footage. Both High Hat Post and Periscope Film attribute the success of their workflows to the unmatched features that Phoenix offers, including its ability to automatically remove dirt, dust, scratches and grain.
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| | | | Professional Video Editing Just Got Better - Autodesk Smoke 2013 Now Shipping
 Smoke Software Development Process Shaped by Extended Free Trial and Extensive User Feedback
Endorsed by twenty five thousand Facebook fans, six industry awards and thousands of new users through the trial download and active forum communities, Autodesk, Inc., (NADSAQ: ADSK) announced that the new Autodesk Smoke 2013, professional video editing software is now shipping.
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| | | | Digital Vision Empowers Siren Digital
 New State-of-the-art Hollywood Facility Relies on Nucoda and Phoenix
Siren Digital, a film, TV and new media production group, has yet again turned to Digital Vision for a number of solutions to power the company's new, state-of-the-art facility in Hollywood. Siren Digital has chosen Digital Vision's Nucoda high-end color grading system with the DVO toolset and Precision control panel to sustain their DI and technological operations. Continuing a long-standing collaborative relationship, the team at Siren has worked with Digital Vision over many years, beginning with installations of Nucoda in Santa Monica and extending overseas to large-scale, facility build-outs in Korea and China. Over the course of many projects, the companies have found new ways to produce and manage the creation and delivery of entertainment content.
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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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| | | | 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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| | | | FilmLight Introduces 5-for-1 Academic Pricing for Baselight for Avid
 FilmLight has announced the worldwide availability of a fully-functional Academic Edition of Baselight for Avid® (Mac), the newest product in its Baselight Editions line, which makes the world’s most powerful colour grading toolset directly available within Avid Media Composer® or Symphony®.
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| | | | Phoenix Finish Rises to the Occasion for Cinema Gotika
 Digital Vision Solutions Power Leading Argentinian Facility
Cinema Gotika, one of the most respected digital film restoration and mastering facilities in Latin America based in Argentina, recently completed the re-mastering of almost 250 features films for the Argentinian Film Institute television channel, and is currently working on the restoration of hundreds of hours of film for the Malaysian Film Institute. The company relies on Digital Vision's Phoenix Finish restoration tools to manage the work with a seamless workflow.
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| | | | Dredd 3D Graded On Nucoda Film Master Storms the Box Office
 Digital Vision has announced that Berlin-based post production facility The Post Republic has graded DNA Films' sci-fi thriller Dredd 3D (a remake of the classic Judge Dredd), using Nucoda Film Master. Written by Alex Garland the film, which opened in the UK last week, immediately took the number one weekend box office slot.
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| | | | Panavision France Adopts Fireshoot As Digital Dailies Solution
- Firefly Cinema’s solution designed to simplify and automate dailies management -
Firefly Cinema, the specialist developer of digital cinema software tools, is proud to announce that Panavision France has adopted FireShoot as its on-set digital dailies solution.
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| | | | Firefly Cinema Introduces Innovative Solutions For On-Set Colour Grading And Digital Dailies Management
- Launch of FireCube and FireDay enables FireFly to offer production-to-post solution -
At IBC 2012, Firefly Cinema, the specialist developer of digital cinema software tools, will launch FireCube, an on-set colour grading tool, and FireDay, a new workflow for managing digital dailies. These new innovative solutions, together with its high end colour grading solution FireCloud), enable Firefly to offer a complete end to end digital workflow from production to post-production.
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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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| | | | FOR-A Presents New Products at IBC 2012
 New products expand its range of vision mixers, multi viewers, frame-rate converters, file-based solutions, specialist cameras, and more.
FOR-A is presenting many new products at IBC2012 that expand its range of vision mixers, multi viewers, frame-rate converters, file-based solutions, specialist cameras, and more. They also expand capabilities for file-based operations.
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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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| | | | Burbank’s FILMLOOK MEDIA and POST Adds Colour Grading via FilmLight’s Baselight
 In a move to significantly improve and expand its services, Burbank post-production facility FILMLOOK Media and Post has purchased a Baselight colour grading system from FilmLight. The new system, which includes FilmLight’s revolutionary Blackboard 2 control panel, allows FILMLOOK, for the first time, to provide its television clients, who include Disney Channel, Fox, CBS, ESPN and HBO, with colour grading services in a file-based workflow. It also allows the company to initiate a new service: DCP mastering for feature films.
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| | | | Nucoda Colorist Aidan Farrell Wins BAFTA Special Award
 Renowned Nucoda Colourist Aidan Farrell was presented with BAFTA's Special Award at the British Academy Television Craft Awards. The award recognises his outstanding creative contribution to the industry and his extensive work and accomplishments in his field.
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| | | | Film Chest Builds End-To-End Restoration Pipeline with Digital Vision Tools
Innovative Company with Extensive Classic Film Library Unearths and Restores Media Gems with Golden Eye III and Phoenix
Digital Vision has announced that Film Chest has chosen the Golden Eye III film scanner and Phoenix, the industry's premium film, video and digital restoration and mastering solution, to power their expanded pipeline for television and motion picture restoration and distribution. The Golden Eye III film scanner and Phoenix restoration software were installed earlier this year in Film Chest's Bridgeport, Connecticut facility. Film Chest Media Group was founded by Philip E. Hopkins and Ralph E. Stevens, who helm the company.
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| | | | Nucoda Helps Film Factory Make Mirror Mirror The Fairest Of Them All
Digital Vision Tools Propel the Glorious and Vivid Imagery of the Snow White Tale
Digital Vision returns in a supporting role to the Paris-based Film Factory, a global post-production company, in the finishing of Relativity Media’s Mirror Mirror. The beautifully stylized retelling of the Snow White tale, featuring Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen, is a visual feast, pushing post production and visual effects fully to express the filmmaker’s colorful vision. The project, which was directed by Tarsem Singh and shot by Brendan Galvin on the Sony F35, was completed at the Montreal-based facilities of Film Factory. Lionel Kopp, Founder of Film Factory and one of the world’s leading colorists, worked closely with the project’s creative visionaries, assisted by the expertise within Digital Vision to execute a dynamic color pipeline.
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| | | | Introducing the Radically Redesigned Autodesk Smoke Video Editing Software
Powerful Editing and Visual Effects Software Offers High-End Creative Tools at a New, Affordable Price
Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) introduces Autodesk Smoke 2013 video editing software, a completely redesigned and repackaged version of the all-in-one video editing and visual effects tool for the Mac. Smoke 2013, born out of two decades of visual effects leadership, features a unified creative workflow that brings powerful node-based compositing right in the timeline at a new price of $3,495 USD.*
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| | | | Digital Vision to Show Nucoda "ACES" Workflow and Key Software Enhancements
Digital Vision has announced significant enhancements to its Nucoda color grading platform, providing increased workflow capabilities and additional tools for grading, pre-grading and stereoscopic projects. At NAB the company will unveil the Nucoda Film Master ACES workflow, a new end-to-end solution developed by the Science and Technology Council (STC) of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS).
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| | | | Digital Vision Restored
Isoz Named CEO and Bolah Appointed Managing Director
Image Systems has announced the return of the iconic Digital Vision name to its highly regarded restoration, colour grading, and mastering business.
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| | | | FilmLight Releases Major Baselight Upgrade
FilmLight, designers of Baselight, the world’s leading colour grading system, today announce the release of Baselight 4.3 with a host of powerful new features, introducing a unique “Triple-Head Display”, and representing a generational leap forward in responsiveness, flexibility and productivity.
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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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| | | | O C E A N to control MWA's Flashtransfer Vario telecine
 Marquise Technologies announced today that O C E A N, their telecine controller now supports MWA Novas’s flashtransfer vario.
Marquise Technologies, based in Switzerland, originally developed O C E A N controller in answer to a growing market need for a new central system that could control telecines, VTRs, noise reducers and other peripherals required for film transfers together with sophisticated colour correction in a cost-effective package.
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| | | | ASSIMILATE partners with The Bridge for SCRATCH training
ASSIMILATE, the leading provider of powerful post-production tools for digital workflows, has teamed up with The Bridge Media Training Ltd in London, UK, to provide in-depth digital cinema and broadcast training courses for its SCRATCH® DI finishing and SCRATCH Lab™ VFX and on-location dailies workflow products.
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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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| | | | YoYotta Brings YoDailies and Portable YoMobile to IBC 2011
See YoYo in Action at Tangent Devices and Sony (Stand 12.A10)
(London, UK--September 2, 2011) YoYotta will be showing the latest version of the YoYo postproduction workflow system at IBC 2011 in Amsterdam, Sept. 9-13. Already deployed around the world at major postproduction facilities, the new YoDailies application was recently installed at a major Los Angeles studio for file-based digital dailies workflows.
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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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| | | | London’s Unit Adds Baselight
 Commercials specialist installs high end grading system in new Soho facility
In a significant boost to its colour grading services for commercials, Soho post-production company UNIT has purchased a Baselight HD colour grading system from FilmLight. The new grading system is installed at UNIT’s newly-opened 9400 square-foot facility and is part of the service offering of the company’s specialty sub-brand ‘The Finish’, which also provides visual effects and compositing services.
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| | | | FilmLight Provides A Taste Of Baselight for Editors
 Final Cut Pro Plug-in takes Baselight to the wider creative market
At NAB 2011, FilmLight is previewing a new Baselight colour grading plugin for Apple® Final Cut Pro®. The plugin is aimed primarily at smaller editorial and post-production facilities, and indie filmmakers, providing them with sophisticated colour grading functionality from the industry’s leading system.
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| | | | Point.360 Digital Film Labs preview Visionary Archive at NAB
Sean McKee, Director of Restoration & New Technology at Point.360 Digital Film Labs, will be giving a technology preview of the soon-to-be released Visionary™ Archive system in the FilmLight hospitality suite - the Paramount Room at the Renaissance Hotel. Demonstrations will be available all day April 11th and 12th, and by appointment on the 13th and 14th.
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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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| | | | FilmLight Previews the Future of Colour Grading at NAB 2011
Industry leader debuts new product initiatives aimed at enhancing the high-end grading experience and making it accessible to more creative companies
Furthering its position as the industry’s innovation leader, FilmLight is debuting several new colour grading technologies at NAB 2011 that will promote new workflows, broaden access to best-of-class tools, and dramatically change the future of post-production.
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| | | | Image Systems’ Product Lines Cover the Post Production Pathway for Digital Intermediate, Restoration and Archive
Unique End-To-End Tools to be Highlighted at NAB
Image Systems, the company formed from Digital Vision’s acquisition of Image Systems AB, will present an expanded, end-to-end product line at NAB 2011. As announced earlier this week, Image Systems, will manage solutions across three customer business units: media and entertainment, defence, and motion, with research and development shared across all units. Within the media sector Image Systems is now uniquely positioned to support end-to-end DI and restoration workflows with a range of products including the Golden Eye film scanners, Nucoda colour grading and finishing systems, and Phoenix image media restoration and mastering software solutions.
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| | | | Technicolor & FilmLight Join Forces to Provide On-Location Color
 Technicolor DP Lights™ Powered by Truelight to Launch at NAB
Technicolor (Euronext Paris: TCH), a worldwide provider of production and post-production services, and FilmLight, a developer of film scanning, color grading and color management technology, today announced a technology alliance to grow their respective presence on motion picture and broadcast production sets, bringing together their respective industry leading color grading solutions.
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| | | | Pandora Returns to NAB with PSi, PLUTO, and PILOT
An Oasis of New Products in the Nevada Desert
Widely recognized for its industry-leading line of colour grading systems, Pandora International will be introducing three new products at NAB 2011, April 11-14 in Las Vegas. PSi is a hardware upgrade for Spirit Classic and Shadow telecines that gives users 2K and HD scanning capabilities. PLUTO is a display color management system, and PILOT is a controller for telecines, VTRs and image processors. With the new technologies, Pandora is renewing its commitment to providing high-end tools for artists in postproduction and film finishing facilities.
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| | | | Film Scanning evolution at Rushes Post Production
Rushes Post Production, London, have announced the purchase of a diTTo evolution film scanner from Cintel International. The diTTo evolution will scan 35mm 2, 3 and 4-perf. film as well as 16mm film to 2K and 4K data for grading in the Resolve Colour Correction suite.
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| | | | Mistika proclaims CineForm™ compatibility supporting SI-2K Silicon Imaging Cameras
Codec used in Silicon Imaging SI-2K now supported natively, in real-time, without required conversions. CineForm RAW™ has now joined the long list of formats that Mistika supports.
SGO announces today that the codec used by Silicon Imaging Cameras, such as the SI-2K, is now supported natively in Mistika, without required conversions, and all in real-time. Industry-leading DI and stereo 3D post system, Mistika, has been developed to support the CineForm RAW™ digital intermediate codec, a powerful 12-bit codec that natively encodes the RAW Bayer data from the single-sensor on Silicon Imaging cameras. It then preserves the RAW data at the codec level, until the information is "flattened" for final output. Silicon Imaging SI-2K combines a digital cinema class 2048x1152 resolution camera head, and the power of CineForm RAW™, to deliver a direct-to-disk raw recording platform with unprecedented image quality and shooting flexibility.
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| | | | London’s Spring Studios Adds Baselight
Noted fashion studios adds high-end colour grading via Baselight as it extends its support for motion
Spring Studios, one of Europe’s premiere photographic studios, has purchased a Baselight colour grading system from FilmLight as part of its ongoing diversification into motion imagery.
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| | | | Jigsaw Systems Bring Cubix GPU-Xpanders to UK Market
Add slots and watts to your current PC or Mac Pro computer instead of replacing it
Jigsaw Systems, a leading provider of IT solutions to the creative industries, has been named as the UK distributor for Cubix GPU-Xpanders. This appointment will mark the first time that Cubix products and services will be distributed and fully supported in the UK.
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| | | | Pandora PSI Supercharging the Workflow at Deluxe142
Digitising the Netherlands' Film Heritage
Pandora PSI, together with YoYotta's YoYo software, is playing a key role in a new four-year archiving project at London's Deluxe142 for the Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision - creating a comprehensive digital record of the Netherlands' film heritage. Psi is a hardware interface add-on for Spirit Classic DataCine that allows for faster-than-real-time 2K scanning, more than tripling the Spirit Classic's speed. The YoYo software suite manages the data workflow, including file format conversions. The result is that Deluxe142 will be able to digitize 8,000 hours of high-quality HD content efficiently and cost effectively.
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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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| | | | YoYo Helps Smoke & Mirrors Make Magic
Leading Commercial Post House Leverages Versatile Workflow Management System
Award-winning commercial visual-effects facility, Smoke & Mirrors NY recently implemented YoYotta's YoYo workflow management system to accommodate the wide variety of camera formats in use today. In mid-2010, the facility opened a new colour grading suite built around a da Vinci Resolve system, and found that they needed an efficient system for creating DPX files for grading.
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| | | | Pandora's Revolution Express Powers the Pipeline at VHQ
Leading Singapore Post Facility Relying on New Colour Workflow Management System
VHQ, one of Southeast Asia's leading postproduction companies, recently selected Pandora's Revolution Express to anchor the company's colour correction workflow, from ingest to deliverables. Along with YoYo software, included with the Revolution Express package, VHQ now has an efficient data workflow for all file formats, crucial for the volume of work required of a modern commercials facility.
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| | | | YoYotta Powers the Pipeline at The Mill
High-End London Post House Relies on Versatile Workflow Management System
Leading London VFX studio, The Mill is using YoYotta’s YoYo workflow management system to anchor its production pipeline. The award-winning studio handles commercials work for a wide variety of high-end clients, including recent spots for companies like Nike, Mercedes-Benz, Sony PlayStation, Ford and T-Mobile.
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| | | | The Pixel Farm Releases 'Free' Airgrade Colour Grading App
Airgrade delivers creativity with colour to everyone
Now everyone can enjoy the art of colour grading their images with Airgrade, the new, free-of-charge, colour-grading engine that's remote-controlled from an iPhone, created by The Pixel Farm Ltd, the developers of film industry-renowned VFX software.
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| | | | FilmLight upgrades the power of Baselight
Baselight 4.2 means more creative tools, more control and more functionality for the industry's leading colour corrector
FilmLight today announced the release of the latest version of its award-winning Baselight colour grading system. Baselight 4.2 is now available for the entire range of Baselight systems, providing a wealth of new and enhanced functionality - extending the capabilities of the industry’s leading colour grading solution.
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| | | | uFX delivers over 1,200 VFX shots for "Jackboots On Whitehall"
When it comes to heroes, size really doesn’t matter...
VFX and DI post boutique uFX today revealed details of its extensive work on the forthcoming 'anim-action' feature "Jackboots On Whitehall". The company was responsible for delivering over 1,200 VFX shots on the film, a satirical alternative history of WW2, played out by 1/6th-scale puppets, as well as the DI grade and multiple deliverables for theatrical release.
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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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| | | | Baselight HD moves into The Refinery
Responding to a surge in client demand for the highest-quality digital film grading, full-service South African post-production facility The Refinery has invested in a Baselight HD colour grading system from FilmLight.
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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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| | | | YoYotta to Introduce YoYo v.3 at IBC
Newest Version of Postproduction Workflow Management System to Debut in Amsterdam
YoYotta will introduce the new version of YoYo – the company’s flagship postproduction workflow management system at IBC 2010 in Amsterdam, Sept. 10-14.
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| | | | Mexico’s Oxido Adds Second Baselight
Additional colour grading system fuels advertising work and expansion into feature film DI.
Mexico City-based Oxido, one of the largest providers of post production services for commercials in Latin America, has purchased a Baselight HD colour grading system from FilmLight.
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| | | | Boris Continuum Complete 7 FxPlug Now Available
Over 210 comprehensive filters for Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Final Cut Express
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today announced that Boris Continuum Complete 7 FxPlug (BCC 7 FxPlug) is now available. BCC 7 FxPlug brings over 210 filters to Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Final Cut Express. The new release features a 3-way color grade filter with built-in keying and masking tools, a video noise reduction tool, an OpenGL particle engine, and real-time title flare and luma glow effects.
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| | | | |  Articles and Tutorials: Colorgrading Round-UpDennis Kutchera went to Vegas with a goal - to be tantalized by the new colour-grading options - in essence, to cheat on his beloved Avid. What happens in Vegas, this time, comes back with some great stories.Read Article Subscribe NAB 2012: The Year of the Colour GraderNAB 2012 may be remembered as the year that advanced colour grading went mainstream. Join Dennis Kutchera as he samples the winds of change as news breaks for the upcoming product releases for NAB. Read Article Subscribemore articles » Blogs: FCP X BG Downloadable Effects ArchiveHere is a collection of custom FcpX effects that I have created. I hope to keep this blog up-to-date with all the current versions of each preset. Thanks to Jeremy Garchow for the suggestion of using a blog page so I can keep it all better organised.. Effects: BG PIP(e)Dream...Read Blog Subscribe Grading “Black Butterflies” at Condor Cape Town“Black Butterflies” is an English language German-South African co-production feature film about the turbulent life of the left-wing liberal 1960s poet Ingrid Jonker, directed by Dutch filmmaker Paula van der Oest. Carice van Houten stars in the title role for which she was recently awarded a best actress award from...Read Blog SubscribeIgloo Post: producing Earth-Touch documentaries for the Eden ChannelIgloo Post is a boutique post house in London’s Soho, which during the last 18 months has been hard at work turning around sixteen nature and wildlife documentaries. Six of these documentaries have just had their UK broadcast premieres on the Eden Channel . We spoke to Igloo’s Online Editor...Read Blog Subscribemore blogs »Related Tags | | | | |
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