| | | | DPA Microphones Spends A Night At The Opera
 DPA’s 4017 Shotgun Microphones proved the ideal solution for sound engineer Giacomo De Caterini when he was asked to ensure that no microphones were visible during an important DVD shoot to capture two operas in Rome.
The sound team at the Parco Della Musica Auditorium in Rome recently turned to DPA Microphones’ Reference Standard 4017 Shotgun Microphones to record the audio for a specially commissioned double DVD of two operas that were being performed as part of the Santa Cecilia Opera Studio, a master programme devoted to Bel Canto.
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| | | | Blackmagic Design Announces ATEM Studio Converter 2
Quad optical fiber converter for connecting to cameras in live production now includes upgraded talkback features, front panel controls, new design and 6G-SDI support.
Blackmagic Design today announced ATEM Studio Converter 2, a new model of its popular ATEM Studio Converter product with enhanced talkback features, upgraded design and the addition of 6G-SDI support allowing support for Ultra HD video when 6G optical fiber modules become available. ATEM Studio Converter will retail for the same price as the old model, at only US$1,995.
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| | | | Adstream takes International Standards Conversion in House with Teranex 2D Processor
Blackmagic Design today announced that AdPro, a department of global media technology group Adstream, has deployed the Teranex 2D Processor to support delivery of finished commercials to broadcasters around the world. The processor will be used in conjunction with a workflow that also includes a Blackmagic Design Micro Videohub and a SmartView Duo rack mounted monitors.
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| | | | Ray Dolby to Receive the Hollywood Post Alliance Charles S. Swartz Award
 Industry Icon Honored for Transformative Contributions
The Hollywood Post Alliance® today announced that Ray Dolby, renowned inventor, engineer, and founder of Dolby Laboratories, has been named recipient of its Charles S. Swartz Award. Ray Dolby, accompanied by his family, will be honored during the 7th Annual HPA Awards ceremony on November 1, 2012 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Ray's son David Dolby will accept the award on his behalf.
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| | | | Imagination announces Caustic Visualizer interactive ray traced viewport plug-in for Autodesk® Maya®
New visualization software and true full-frame interactive viewport hardware acceleration technologies showcased at SIGGRAPH 2012
Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia technologies company, today announces its ground-breaking Caustic Visualizer™ viewport plug-in for Autodesk® Maya® 2013*. Imagination will be demonstrating Caustic Visualizer’s highly interactive full-frame performance on the new PowerVR low-power ray tracing hardware reference platform.
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| | | | RE:Vision Effects releases ReelSmart Motion Blur and DE:Noise for Final Cut Pro X and Motion 5
RE:Vision Effects, acclaimed effects plug-in industry leader and makers of Academy Award winning software, announces the release of ReelSmart Motion Blur and DE:Noise for Apple's Final Cut Pro X and Motion 5.
ReelSmart Motion Blur (RSMB) automatically adds more natural-looking motion blur to a sequence. Proprietary tracking technology is at the heart of RSMB, so there is no handwork involved. Of course you can add as little or as much blurring as you need and even remove motion blur! This is a useful tool to give video a more film-like feel, and is also useful to reintroduce motion blur for blue or green screen shoots where a fast shutter is necessary to pull a good key. Also included in the Pro version is a plugin for Motion that allows you to blur with user-supplied motion vectors... which, most likely, will come from a 3D animation system.
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| | | | ALEXA M cameras Outfit FascinatE’s Omnicam for Interactive, Panoramic Viewing
 The Omnicam, a new panoramic camera system developed by the FascinatE Consortium (Format-Agnostic SCript-based INterAcTive Experience), utilizes six ARRI ALEXA M cameras to capture footage in ultra-high resolution for immersive viewing. On May 26th and 27th, the Omnicam will be employed at Arena Hall Berlin to record a dance performance of the Carmen Suite by the Berlin Philharmonic. This prototype system allows users to interactively view and navigate the video panorama of the live event - no matter what display device they are using. Meanwhile, synced audio automatically adjusts to match the selected view.
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| | | | ALEXA Advances Anamorphic Cinematography
True CinemaScope with ALEXA Plus 4:3
ARRI unveils the ALEXA Plus 4:3, a new ALEXA model with similar functionality to the ALEXA Plus but featuring a 4:3 Super 35 sensor, the ability to switch from 16:9 sensor mode to 4:3 sensor mode and built-in licenses for high speed shooting, anamorphic de-squeeze and DNxHD.
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| | | | Neat Video Announces Neat Video Pro Noise Filter for ASSIMILATE SCRATCH and SCRATCH Lab
 Announcement Delivers Dynamic New Tools To The Creative Arsenal of SCRATCH and Lab Artists
The Neat Video team announced that they have delivered the Neat Video Pro video noise reduction filter as an OpenFX plug-in for ASSIMILATE’s SCRATCH® and SCRATCH Lab™ digital workflow tools. Previously only available for video editing and compositing applications, this new version of Neat Video brings its industry-leading grain and noise reduction technology to Digital Intermediate (DI), Finishing, Production Dailies and Visual Effects Dailies workflows.
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| | | | RE:Vision Effects releases RE:Map v2 for Nuke, Composite and Fusion
RE:Vision Effects, Inc. acclaimed effects plug-in industry leader and makers of Academy Award winning software, announces the initial release of RE:Map, the ultimate kit of mapping and distortion tools, as an OFX plug-in set for use within The Foundry's Nuke, Eyeon's Fusion, and Autodesk's Composite.
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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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| | | | Prism Sound’s Orpheus FireWire Interface Breaks Into The Movie Business
 With a credit list that reads like a Halliwell’s Guide to the latest movies, Casey Stone is undoubtedly in demand as a film score mixer. Among the projects he has recently completed are "The Hangover", "The Hangover Part II", "Unknown", "Dear John", "The Losers", "Death at a Funeral" and "Date Night".
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| | | | Noise Industries Releases Manifesto; A Free Titling Plug-In For Final Cut Pro, Motion, And After Effects
Free for everyone – the FxFactory based Manifesto plug-in pack offers both static title and title roll/crawl generators for creating captivating titles
Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast markets, is pleased to announce its latest FxFactory® freebie plug-in pack, Manifesto. The brand new Manifesto titling plug-ins provide new and current FxFactory users with a quick and easy way to generate eye-popping titles in Apple® Final Cut Pro®, Final Cut Express®, Motion® and After Effects®. Manifesto comes in two variants: a static title generator and a title roll/crawl generator.
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| | | | TV One’s New Universal-Input Seamless Switcher with 3 Scaling Engines Make Their Debut at ISE 2011
TV One will debut their new C2-8000 Series at the ISE Exhibition held in Amsterdam on February 1-3, 2011. This new range of dual channel processors has universal inputs and 3 internal scaling engines. Using TV One’s exclusive CORIO®2 Technology, these smart units provide bi-directional conversion of up to 12 inputs of digital and/or analog video and also includes features such as seamless switching, dual picture-in-picture windowing, chroma and luma keying, logo insertion, Tri/Bi-level sync Genlock input, scalable background and more.
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| | | | Adobe Audition for the Mac Available in Public Beta
Future Versions of Professional Audio Toolset Planned for Both Mac and Windows Platforms
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that a public beta of Adobe® Audition® for the Mac, the all-in-one professional audio toolset for recording, mixing, editing and mastering, is now available on Adobe Labs.
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| | | | RE:Vision Effects releases RSMB v4 and Twixtor v5 plugins for eyeon Software's Fusion and Vision.
RE:Vision Effects, acclaimed effects plug-in industry leader and makers of Academy Award winning software, announces a new version of their ReelSmart Motion Blur and Twixtor plug-in products for Fusion and Vision are now available.
ReelSmart Motion Blur (RSMB) automatically adds more natural-looking motion blur to a sequence. Proprietary tracking technology is at the heart of RSMB, so there is no handwork involved. Of course you can add as little or as much blurring as you need and even remove motion blur! This is a useful tool to give video a more film-like feel, and is also useful to reintroduce motion blur for blue or green screen shoots where a fast shutter is necessary to pull a good key. Also included is a plugin that allows you to blur with user-supplied motion vectors... which, most likely, will come from a 3D animation system.
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| | | | TV One Showcases New Universal 3G-SDI Converter at IBC
The new C2-2375A on demonstration at IBC 2010 Exhibition
TV One will be demonstrating the new C2-2375A Universal 3G-SDI Converter at the IBC 2010 Exhibition being held in Amsterdam on September 10th – 14th. Based on TV One’s exclusive CORIO®2 Technology, the unit provides bi-directional conversion between a variety of analog and digital video formats, as well as advanced features such as seamless switching, picture-in-picture windowing, chroma/luma keying, integral audio switching and SD/HD compatible Genlock.
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| | | | Digital Rapids' New Flux HD Hardware Combines Acclaimed Video Processing Quality with 3G-SDI Support
New PCI Express capture and pre-processing cards enable superior compression quality and seamless path to next-generation distribution
Digital Rapids, the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, film and Web content to wider audiences, is debuting the new Flux HD video capture and pre-processing hardware, the first cards optimized for encoding and streaming to feature dual-link and 3G-SDI input support.
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| | | | Ikegami Exhibits Innovative Product Line-up at NAB 2010
Affordability and Ultimate HD Picture Quality Dominate Among Ikegami’s Newest Products For High-Performance, Multi-Format, DTV and 3-D HD Production
Ikegami Electronics (U.S.A.), Inc., the world-leading manufacturer of advanced high definition (HD) television cameras and production equipment for broadcasters, networks, and all other professional HD content creators, will exhibit its innovative product line at the 2010 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) exhibition, in Las Vegas.
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| | | | FotoKem Purchases ARRI Relativity Software
FotoKem, a leading full-service motion picture post production house, has recently added the powerful Relativity software suite to their arsenal of existing ARRI Digital Intermediate Systems products including the ARRILASER and ARRISCAN systems.
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| | | | FOR-A To Showcase Expanded 3g Modular Frame Synchronizer System At IBC 2009
New Up/Down/Cross Converter and Video Distribution Amplifier Being Introduced
FOR-A, a leading manufacturer of video and audio systems for the broadcast and professional video industries will showcase its cost -effective 3Gbps upgradable UFM-30 Series during IBC2009, which runs Sept. 11-15 at the RAI Centre in Amsterdam (Hall 2, Stand A51/B59).
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| | | | Open Effects Association Formed At NAB 2009
Promoting Open Standards for Visual Effects
Seven companies joined forces at NAB last month to launch The Open Effects Association. This non-profit, UK-based company aims to develop and promote open standards across the visual effects community. Founding members are Assimilate, Autodesk®, Digieffects, FilmLight, The Foundry, GenArts® and RE:Vision Effects. These companies have helped artists create ground-breaking VFX shots on just about everything that hits cinema screens.
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| | | | ARRI High Definition Integrated Video System (HD-IVS)
Ground-Breaking Video Assist for 35mm Film Cameras
As a breakthrough in motion picture equipment, the ARRI High Definition Integrated Video System (HD-IVS) uses innovative digital sensor and image processing to create a high resolution video assist image from a film camera. Wide dynamic range and excellent color reproduction are combined with ARRI’s unique Ground Glass Cancellation (GGC) technology to provide beautiful, high quality preview images. The HD-IVS allows a superior image for the director and cinematographer on set to judge each take while shooting 35mm film.
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| | | | Linear Acoustic Moves DTV Audio Quality Upstream With AERO.qc™
Universal QC Tool Supports Pre-Mastering Applications in Post-Production, Ingest, and Program Origination
At the 2009 NAB Show this month, Linear Acoustic is introducing the new AERO.qc™ Audio Quality Controller, which combines all of the essential loudness and reformatting tools required for maintaining a consistent viewer experience, including ITU loudness measurement, loudness correction, selective upmixing, metering, and monitoring.
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| | | | RE:Vision Effects releases DE:Noise for OFX
now available for Nuke, Fusion and Toxik!
RE:Vision Effects today released its acclaimed DE:Noise plugin set for Nuke, Fusion and Toxik. DE:Noise is a plugin set that removes excessive noise and artifacts in one easy-to-use tool. It handles spurious frame-to-frame defects ranging from fine digital and electronic noise to blotchy spots (e.g. dirt on the film).
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| | | | HBO Films’ ‘Bernard And Doris’ Shot With Panasonic Varicam
Poignant Drama of World’s Richest Woman and Her Butler Airs through March 31
HBO Films’ Bernard and Doris, a drama inspired by the real-life story of the tobacco heiress Doris Duke and her last butler, was shot by Director of Photography Mauricio Rubinstein with Panasonic’s AJ-HDC27 VariCam® HD Cinema camera.
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| | | | The University of Rome Deploys da Vinci Revival
da Vinci Systems today announced that the University of Rome's Centro Teatro Ateneo has installed the company's Revival™ image restoration system with the dual purpose of training graduate students in specialized post-production work on videotape and in restoring and digitizing the university's audiovisual archive.
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| | | | News: Paris-Based VectraCom Deploys da Vinci Revival
da Vinci Systems, a leading provider of image restoration products used in post-production facilities worldwide, today announced the first deployment in France of the company's Revival™ system for film repair and restoration.
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| | | | News: RE:Vision Effects releases DE:Noise 1.0
a plugin set that removes excessive noise and artifacts in one easy-to-use tool.
DE:Noise handles spurious frame-to-frame defects ranging from fine digital and electronic noise to blotchy spots (e.g. dirt on the film).
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| | | | News: Teranex XMR
Teranex, a leader in high performance video processing solutions for the broadcast and post-production industries, is pleased to announce the availability of closed captioning in its XMR format converter family of products.
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| | | | News: W*USA Brings High Definition to the Web with Digital Rapids StreamZHD
Digital Rapids' format-agile StreamZHD media encoding and streaming system was used by Washington, D.C. CBS affiliate W*USA to deliver the President’s January 23 State of the Union Address live on the Web in high definition. The Web simulcast of the HD pool feed marks the first time a television station has streamed a live event publicly over the Internet in HD.
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| | | | News: Digital Rapids Encodes Content for IBC TV News for Third Year Running
Digital Rapids - a leading developer of scalable solutions for content ingest, encoding, transcoding, protection and delivery - has been chosen to provide encoding and webstreaming services for the IBC TV News web presence for the third consecutive year. Along with partners Datmedia (Stand 1.154, www.datmedia.com ), Digital Rapids will be responsible for the timely encoding and delivery of news stories to the site, both as daily packages and up-to-the-minute web exclusives.
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| | | | News: Digital Rapids Bolsters Forensic Digital Video Watermarking with StreamZ CP 2.3
Digital Rapids, a leading developer of scalable solutions for content ingest, encoding, transcoding, protection and delivery, has released version 2.3 software for the StreamZ CP family of professional content encoding solutions with integrated digital video watermarking. This new version significantly expands the systems' forensic watermarking capabilities.
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| | | | News: Digital Rapids StreamZ Powers Live Webcasts by The Who
Digital Rapids StreamZ media encoding servers have been chosen by Streaming Tank to stream live web broadcasts of concerts by legendary rock band The Who. Live webcasts will be streamed from each stop on the tour, currently winding its way through Europe.
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