| | | | Technicolor – PostWorks New York Prepares “Bluebird”, “Coach” for Tribeca Premieres
 Sam Daley grades indie drama for first-time helmer Lance Edmands; plus Best Documentary Short winner “Coach.”
Technicolor-PostWorks New York recently provided a package of post-production services for two films that made their world premieres at this month’s Tribeca Film Festival: "Bluebird," an independent feature from first-time director Lance Edmands that was featured in the festival’s World Narrative slate, and Bess Kargman’s Coach, which took top honors as Best Documentary Short.
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| | | | Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve 10
 New Davinci Resolve 10 Allows Integration Of Post Production Workflows, New On Set Tools, Upgraded Editing And Color Correction, OpenFX Plug In Support And More Project Delivery Options!
Blackmagic Design today announced DaVinci Resolve 10, a major upgrade that includes new features for integrating the workflows of multiple different software products used in the film and television industry. DaVinci Resolve 10 has upgraded on set tools, upgraded editing features, support for OpenFX plug ins as well as new tools for delivering final project masters to cinemas.
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| | | | Bob Festa joins Company 3
Company 3 is proud to announce the addition of award winning colorist Bob Festa. Bob is one of the most accomplished colorists in post production. His credits include virtually all of the world’s best known brands and some of the most iconic commercial advertising ever created. Along the way, Bob has worked with the industry’s finest directors and top creative talented. Festa received Da Vinci’s Master Colorist Award in 2004 as the Commercial Colorist of the Year and is a four time ITS Monitor Award finalist.
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| | | | West Post Digital Now Making Available Rental Space Which Includes Avids
 West Post Digital, a leading online post production company based in Santa Monica, is now offering turnkey offline suites as part of its rental space within its 20,000 sq. ft. building. The complement of gear includes Avid Media Composers, Producer Stations, and Unity, all completely wired and readily accessible.
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| | | | First No Glasses “Real” 3DTV Consumer Ready, Now.
 DaVinci 3D ROKU Channel Rocks 3D Summit with 3D Auto Conversion and AS3D Breakthrough.
DaVinci 3D premiered their line of AS3D hardware and software advancements at the 3D Entertainment Summit in LA last week. They debuted their Auto Stereoscopic 3DTV, glasses free small screen LCD television package which included 2D/3D content conversion and a Sneak preview of their ROKU 3D Channel.
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| | | | Pixl Family Raises The Bar On Global Production With Studio Network Solution (SNO) EVO
Pixl Family Founder and Executive Producer, John Lundberg has a lot on his plate. With over 40 global brands and agencies trusting the company to promote them including, Samsung, Red Bull, Nike ACG, Oakley, Peak Performance, Grow, Great Works and more, Pixl Family has quickly become one of Europe’s leading creative production houses. So when it came time to update their production pipeline, they needed something that would live up to the highest level of quality, SNS EVO delivered.
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| | | | Blackmagic Design Releases DaVinci Resolve 9 Public Beta for Mac, Windows and Linux!
 DaVinci Resolve 9 public beta, including DaVinci Resolve Lite, is available to download now for free!
Blackmagic Design today announced the release of DaVinci Resolve 9 public beta, a major new update to the world’s most advanced color correction tool featuring a completely redesigned user interface to optimize workflow speed. DaVinci Resolve 9 public beta is now available for free download to existing full featured DaVinci Resolve customers, as well as the free DaVinci Resolve Lite!
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| | | | Digital Rapids Honoured with Deluxe Outstanding Technical Achievement Award
 Digital Rapids announced today that the company has been honoured as the recipient of the 2012 Deluxe Outstanding Technical Achievement Award. The award recognizes Digital Rapids' technical innovation in developing solutions and technology that further the ability of content creators and owners to effectively engage their audience. The award was presented during a special luncheon during the Banff World Media Festival, held June 10-13, 2012.
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| | | | Digital Domain Names Jason Dowdeswell Vancouver Head of Production
 Digital Domain Productions, a subsidiary of Digital Domain Media Group (NYSE: DDMG), has named Jason Dowdeswell head of production for its Vancouver studio. The 20-year industry veteran will oversee operations for all of the company’s Vancouver-based productions, talent and teams, as well as collaborations with Digital Domain’s Venice, Calif., San Francisco, Florida, London and Mumbai Digital Domain visual effects teams.
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| | | | The Senate VFX Completes 186 Visual Effects Shots on "Dark Shadows"
 The Senate VFX completed 186 shots in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Village Roadshow Pictures’ “Dark Shadows,” a Tim Burton film, which opened May 11th. Anton Yri, The Senate’s visual effects supervisor on the film, working with The Senate’s visual effects producer, Sam Spacey, oversaw six major sequences on the film. Yri was on set for the duration of the first unit and model photography production phases.
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| | | | Company 3 Completes 3D and Color Grading for “Underworld Awakening” with DaVinci Resolve
Blackmagic Design today announced that Company 3® used DaVinci Resolve with Resolve Control Surface for color grading the 2D, 3D and IMAX 3D versions of Screen Gems and Lakeshore Entertainment’s, in association with Sketch Films, "Underworld: Awakening". The film, directed by Mårlind and Stein, shot by Scott Kevan, based on characters created by Kevin Grevioux, Len Wiseman and Danny McBride, and with story by Len Wiseman, John Hlavin and screenplay by Len Wiseman, John Hlavin, J. Michael Stracynski and Alison Burnett, is the latest in the hugely popular and visually stunning vampire themed "Underworld" series.
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| | | | Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve 8.1 Now Available
 Includes Final Cut Pro X XML round trip support, ACES colorspace support, Avid AAF and round trip for Avid Media Composer, new editing features, layer node effects and more!
Blackmagic Design today announced DaVinci Resolve 8.1, an exciting new software update with powerful features, is now available. This update is available to all DaVinci Resolve customers free of charge and can be downloaded from the Blackmagic Design web site.
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| | | | Blackmagic Design to Host Montreal DaVinci Resolve Workshop
Blackmagic Design today announced that Patrick Inhofer, noted broadcast, cable and film color artist, will be hosting a DaVinci Resolve workshop on September 28 in Montreal, Canada at the National Film Board of Canada’s Cinerobotheque de Montreal theatre.
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| | | | Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve Lite
Blackmagic Design today announced DaVinci Resolve Lite, a new reduced feature version of DaVinci Resolve that includes many powerful color correction features in a downloadable software package available free of charge.
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| | | | Shooters, Inc. Launches ShootersTV
Multi-dimensional Company launches a Reality TV and Non-Scripted Content Division and Signs with Peleton Entertainment
On the heels of their success co-developing and producing original shows for Food Network, including the ground-breaking hit ''Dinner: Impossible,'' veteran multi-dimensional creative production and post production company Shooters Inc., has launched ShootersTV, a new division to create programming for reality and non-scripted television.
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| | | | Advanced Systems Group Named Northwest Regional Reseller For Davinci Resolve Control Surface
Advanced Systems Group (ASG), a leading West Coast video and film integration firm, announced today it has been named the Northwest regional reseller for the DaVinci Resolve control surface. ASG will also be a reseller for the Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve for Mac nonlinear color correction system. The world’s highest performance color correction solution, the DaVinci Resolve is used by thousands of colorists worldwide to grade episodic television, music videos, commercials, documentaries, and feature films such as Avatar and Quantum of Solace.
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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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| | | | Shooters, Inc. Launches ShootersNYC
 Former BOND Founder/Creative Director Jeff Beckerman Will Lead New Division As Managing Director/Executive Producer
Shooters, Inc., the Philadelphia, PA-based multi-dimensional creative production and post house specializing in editorial, visual effects, graphic design, finishing and audio post for advertising, television, feature film and new media projects, has announced the launch of ShootersNYC.
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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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| | | | Shooters Post & Transfer Adds Editor Hutchinson
Shooters Post & Transfer has hired Editor, Mark Hutchinson. Hutchinson brings more than 15 years of experience to Shooters, having earned his chops in commercial editing in New York as well as in award-winning documentary films in his native England.
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| | | | SHOOTERS Post & Transfer adds Smoke Artist to Roster
Shooters Post & Transfer, the full-service creative post house, has just added Smoke/Flame Artist Mark Longchamps to its creative team. Longchamps brings more than 15 years of editorial and broadcast design skills as well as feature film experience to Shooters’ lineup.
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| | | | Blackmagic Design Revolutionizes Color Correction!
New DaVinci Resolve 7.0 smashes color correction affordability, new support for Mac OS X, lower cost options starting from only US$995, and a completely upgraded user interface!
Blackmagic Design today announced a revolution in high end color correction with new DaVinci Resolve 7.0 that includes support for the Mac OS X platform, upgraded user interface, improved video field support, a new EDL library, improved shared database support, as well as new pricing for all models starting from a very affordable $995.
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| | | | TVLogic Announces 3D LUT Support for XVM-245W
Import/Export Support of Popular Color-Grading LUT Formats
TVLogic, a designer and manufacturer of broadcast & professional high definition monitors and displays, announces support for import and export of popular color grading 3D LUT (Look-up table) formats for highly accurate color matching between XVM-245W monitors.
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| | | | Developers of Autodesk Lustre Color Grading Software Receive Academy Award®
Scientific and Engineering Academy Award® Recognizes Software's Significant Contributions to Film Industry
Autodesk, Inc. (ADSK: NASDAQ), congratulates the original developers of Autodesk Lustre software for being honored with an Academy Award®. On February 20, 2010, Mark Jaszberenyi and software engineers Gyula Priskin and Tamas Perlaki received the award for design and development of Lustre software for digital color grading for film and television.
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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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| | | | Hollywood Post Alliance Award Winners Announced
Kudos For Hollywood’s Post Production Community and Industry Innovators Bestowed At November 12th Gala
During a gala evening at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles, The Hollywood Post Alliance presented its Fourth Annual HPA Awards. The HPA Awards honor top behind-the-scenes talent working in motion pictures, television and commercials as well as handing out special awards for Engineering Excellence, Lifetime Achievement, and the Charles S. Swartz Award. The special awards were announced earlier.
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| | | | NVIDIA CUDA Drives Innovation in Broadcast and Film Production
Technology Innovators da Vinci, Lowry Digital, ASSIMILATE and GIC Deliver Significant Performance and Cost Benefits Using NVIDIA CUDA Parallel Computing Architecture
NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in visual computing, is making it possible for production houses to work faster and easier with the immense quantity of high-resolution data generated for HDTV, Blu-Ray and 4K digital cinema.
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| | | | ATTO Technology Demonstrates Innovative Storage Connectivity Solutions at IBC 09
ATTO Technology, Inc., a global leader of storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments, is continuing its well-established role as first-to-market technology leaders featuring the industry’s only 6Gb/s SAS/SATA host adapter product line along with its 8Gb/s Fibre Channel host adapters including a quad-channel card that delivers the fastest available Fibre Channel data transfer rate of 6400MB/s.
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| | | | Cine-tal will support many exhibitors at IBC 2009
New Cinemage B Series product to be used by leading IBC exhibitors as the 10 bit color reference monitor of choice.
Cine-tal Systems, a developer of image monitoring and color management solutions, announces the list of IBC exhibitors that will use its award winning Cinemage product line to demonstrate their products.
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| | | | Vicon launches boujou 5
Vicon, developer of motion capture and image understanding systems, for the Entertainment, Life Science and Engineering industries, has today announced that boujou 5 is now available for purchase. boujou is the industry leading matchmoving software, famed for its established ease of use and automation.
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| | | | Dallas Post House ANDTRANSFER Relies on da Vinci Resolve®
da Vinci Systems, LLC, today announced that ANDTRANSFER has deployed a Resolve® digital mastering suite for color grading and digital intermediate (DI) finishing on a variety of commercials and long-form projects, including promos of "Dexter" for Showtime Networks and CBS.
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| | | | Filmworkers Launches "The Digigog" for Processing Digitally-Acquired Media
New Service Available through the Company's Chicago, Nashville and Dallas Facilities Offers Dailies Processing for RED Camera files; Non-Linear 2K Color Grading and Final Assembly
Filmworkers has launched a new digital media processing service dubbed The Digigog at its Chicago and Dallas locations aimed at facilitating the growing number of feature film, television and commercial productions that are choosing to capture and post their projects in data.
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| | | | Italy's Cinecittà Relies on da Vinci to Enhance Post Workflow Efficiency
da Vinci Systems, LLC, today announced that international digital intermediate (DI) production pioneer Cinecittà Digital Factory has deployed two da Vinci Resolve® R-250 digital mastering suites, two Splice conform stations, and a da Vinci Revival™ image restoration system for a highly efficient post-production workflow. Linking the Resolve, Splice, and Revival systems to a shared storage area network (SAN) has enabled Cinecittà to perform color grading and damage repair simultaneously, greatly shortening project completion times.
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| | | | Rushes Leaps Forward With da Vinci Splice 2K's Nonlinear Workflow
da Vinci Systems, LLC, today announced that post-production house Rushes has integrated a da Vinci Splice 2K nonlinear color grading system into its Los Angeles-based facility. Splice 2K's direct integration with da Vinci's 2K Plus system enables Rushes to provide its customers with a nonlinear, file-based workflow without compromising on the premium color grading for which the company is known.
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| | | | Modern VideoFilm Goes Stereoscopic With da Vinci's Resolve® R-3D
da Vinci Systems, LLC, today announced that Burbank, Calif.-based Modern VideoFilm, a leading provider of post-production services to the film and television industries, has upgraded to the Resolve® R-3D stereoscopic digital enhancement suite. With two da Vinci R-3D systems, Modern VideoFilm now has the capability to color grade nonlinear 3D files in real time, a significant advantage for entering the rapidly expanding 3D entertainment market.
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| | | | MaxT Systems Sledgehammer HD!O® Chosen for Film Restoration at Éclair
Sledgehammer HD!O High-Performance Network Attached Storage and Realtime HD Video Device to Handle Restoration of Classic French Film Archive
MaxT Systems Inc., developers of server-based media applications and high-performance storage solutions, today announced that Eclair Laboratoires, a leading digital post production company in France, has purchased and installed three of its Sledgehammer HD!O high-performance network attached storage (NAS)/realtime HD video device systems at the heart of its high-volume film restoration facility.
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| | | | da Vinci Launches Professional Services Division
da Vinci Systems, LLC, today announced the creation of the da Vinci Professional Services division to support the evolving and increased demand for system interoperation, storage optimization, and remote operations at leading post-production facilities worldwide.
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| | | | da Vinci Appoints Industry Veteran Russ Chesley to Director of Worldwide Strategic Accounts
da Vinci Systems, a subsidiary of JDS Uniphase Corporation (Nasdaq – JDSU), announced today that Russ Chesley, a 30-year entertainment industry veteran, has joined da Vinci as director of worldwide strategic accounts. Chesley will help da Vinci respond to emerging trends and challenges within the industry and will work to strengthen the company's strategic partnerships and accounts.
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| | | | London's Ascent 142 'Bonds' With da Vinci for New DI Operation
da Vinci Systems, a subsidiary of JDS Uniphase Corporation (Nasdaq: JDSU), today announced that London-based Ascent 142 has deployed two Resolve® R-350 digital mastering suites for color grading and DI film finishing projects, including the latest James Bond movie, "Quantum of Solace" due for release in U.S. theaters on Nov. 14th.
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| | | | RoadRunner Sprints to Top-Quality Image Enhancement by Relying on da Vinci Resolve®
da Vinci Systems, LLC, a subsidiary of JDS Uniphase Corporation, today announced that RoadRunner Network Inc., a one-stop shop for post-production in the Philippines, has deployed the company's Resolve® digital enhancement system for color grading and DI finishing on television commercials for multinational corporations and agencies such as UNICEF, as well as for feature films.
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| | | | da Vinci Systems Sees RED
da Vinci Systems, a leading provider of color enhancement and image restoration products used in post-production facilities worldwide, today announced that the company will support REDCODE RAW™ as a native format for color grading and finishing productions that utilize RED camera systems.
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| | | | da Vinci Resolve® R-4K Debuts at IBC2008 as Today's Fastest Digital Mastering Suite
At IBC2008 da Vinci Systems introduced its fastest digital mastering suite, the top-of-the-line Resolve® R-4K. A fully interactive, real-time color correcting and DI finishing system built to handle the demands of the 4K environment, the R-4K joins the da Vinci Resolve R-series family, setting the new industry standard for nonlinear processing speed and performance.
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| | | | The Resolve® R-100 Brings the Power of da Vinci to Everyone
At IBC2008, da Vinci Systems unveiled its new Resolve® R-100, a fully upgradable, cost-effective version of the powerful Resolve R-series family of digital mastering suites and designed specifically for boutique post houses, production studios, and television broadcasters.
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| | | | Technicolor Asia Selects da Vinci Resolve® R350s for Feature Film, DI Projects
da Vinci Systems, LLC, today announced that Technicolor Asia, part of the services division of Thomson S.A. (Euronext Paris: 18453; NYSE: TMS), has selected two of the company's highly advanced Resolve® R350 digital mastering suites to provide color grading and digital intermediate (DI) finishing for feature films made throughout Asia.
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| | | | FilmLight Boosts Engineering Staff in Asia
Richard Senior to Support Clients across the Asia Pacific Region
FilmLight, a leading provider of digital film and video technology, has appointed Richard Senior as Product Specialist. Senior will provide installation assistance, technical support and training for the entire FilmLight product range - Northlight film scanners, Baselight colour grading and finishing systems, and Truelight colour management technology.
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| | | | AlphaDogs has End of the World Encounter in Burbank
Leading Burbank post house AlphaDogs has announced that it was chosen to provide post services for the critically acclaimed Werner Herzog movie Encounters at the End of the World which is currently in theatres nationwide.
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| | | | Ascent Media Merges UK Operations as Ascent 142
In a continuing effort to better service the evolving needs of the entertainment community in London, Ascent Media Group (AMG) has merged several of its UK-based companies and rebranded them under the name Ascent 142. The new name is a nod to the company’s iconic Film House address, 142 Wardour Street.
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| | | | Gamma & Density Co. Now Shipping 3cP Color Correction Software
Three software versions ensure proper color consistency on all types of productions
Today Gamma & Density Co. announced that it has commenced shipments of three versions of its 3cP software for color control of film and digital productions. Previously only available as a full-service rental to high-end film and digital productions, 3cP is now available for purchase for all levels of productions.
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| | | | NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 SDI by PNY - Seen All Over NAB 2008 in HD
Leading HD broadcast and film partners adopt the latest HD-SDI graphics solutions from PNY which offer SD & HD-SDI output, exceptional GPU performance and massive frame buffers.
At NAB 2008, PNY Technologies the supplier and marketer of NVIDIA® Quadro® FX by PNY professional graphics boards and specialty products, will showcase its latest HD-SDI graphics solutions, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 SDI by PNY and Quadro™ FX 4600 SDI by PNY.
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| | | | da Vinci Revival™ System Tapped to Restore 5,000 Historic Chinese Films
da Vinci Systems, a leading provider of color enhancement and image restoration products used in post-production facilities worldwide, today announced that nine of the company's Revival™ image restoration systems will be used for an enormous, multi-year project that will salvage, repair, clean, and protect some 5,000 films significant to the 102-year history of Chinese cinema.
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| | | | |  Articles and Tutorials: Cinefilm's Ron Anderson: da Vinci User Since 1986In this article, Tim Wilson talks with da Vinci user Ron Anderson in his Part Three look at Blackmagic Design's acquisition of da Vinci Systems. Ron Anderson’s relationship with da Vinci has also taken places over several decades, starting as a customer, and evolving into demo artistry even while he continues working with da Vinci systems at Atlanta’s Cinefilm.
Read Article Subscribe Blackmagic Design Buys the Power of daVinci: Part 2In this article, Tim Wilson continues his series with his Part Two look at the big news leaking from IBC 2009. Blackmagic Design has acquired da Vinci Systems and with that acquisition comes what Tim refers to as The Power of da Vinci. And for the many that have used da Vinci over the years, they know full well the power of which Tim writes. And for those who might need an introduction to this power, Tim offers these words...Read Article Subscribe Blackmagic Design Buys DaVinci: Part 1In this article, Tim Wilson begins his series on the big news already beginning to leak from IBC 2009. Blackmagic Design has acquired da Vinci Systems and yes, you read that right. BMD owns and will be developing and marketing da Vinci's award-winning colorgrading technology. What's in store? Here's Part One of Tim's look at the fast-breaking news...Read Article Subscribemore articles » Blogs: Da Vinci ResolveI don't blog much but............I am so pumped to use the 9.1 version of Resolve. Man do I love this tool. 20 plus years working on every model ever released. This is by far the greatest tool for critical color correction. Yes, I know.........there are some really, really good systems...Read Blog Subscribe Confessions of an NAB VirginHi. This is not an NAB recap. This isn't a collection of my thoughts about products and software. This is the confession of a small-town starry-eyed NAB virgin, and the adventures and anxieties she finds herself in. ~ "Ohcrapohcrapohcrap, there he is, ohcrapohcrap, I should go say hi, I need...Read Blog Subscribemore blogs »Related Tags | | | | |
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