http://news.creativecow.net/digital-film-news Digital Film News from Creative COW - your resource for news reguarding the topics that are most important for you and your industry. en-us Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:00 GMT PHP Script kathlyn@creativecow.net webmaster@creativecow.net http://news.creativecow.net/story/864405 http://news.creativecow.net/story/864405 (Ware, Herts--July 29, 2010) Cintel, a leading provider of film scanning and image enhancement products, and Marquise Technologies, designers of post-production solutions, has announced today that the new O C E A N Controller will be distributed through Cintel and will fully support all Cintel telecines. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:03:46 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/864299 http://news.creativecow.net/story/864299 (Corvallis, Oregon--July 13, 2010) Filmmakers and game cinematographers are increasingly turning to real-time virtual production technologies to blend real-world tools with their virtual world. Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:26:03 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/864270 http://news.creativecow.net/story/864270 (July 8, 2010) ARRI has hosted its first major workshop on the rapidly growing market for archive and restoration technologies. The two-day event at the company's headquarters in Munich attracted more than 80 attendees from a diverse range of backgrounds and companies, including four national film archives, post houses, broadcasters and manufacturers. Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:04:27 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/864091 http://news.creativecow.net/story/864091 (Indianapolis, Indiana--June 1, 2010) Cine-tal Systems, a developer of image monitoring and color management solutions and Media Village announce a Color Management Training class for June 16th and 17th at Broadcast Asia in Singapore. Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:12:57 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863996 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863996 (Los Angeles, California--May 12, 2010) Shotgun Software and Rising Sun Research (RSR) today announced integration of their workflow solutions catering to visual effects, animation and other digital production studios. Shotgun is a web-based project management and collaboration system and RSR’s cineSync is a remote review and approval tool that enables synchronized viewing and annotation of content across the web. Together, they enable teams collaborating across multiple locations to work more efficiently. Wed, 12 May 2010 17:12:25 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863897 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863897 (San Francisco, California--April 21, 2010) Red Giant Software today announced Guru Presets, a new product line created by hand-picked industry experts. Guru Presets allow users to jump into a project and get it done faster by having access to pre-designed templates and effects presets that work with plug-ins from Red Giant. Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:15:35 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863851 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863851 (S. Melbourne, Australia--April 14, 2010) Bluefish444, a leader in 2K and HD video cards for feature film and broadcast television, today announced it will make significant software upgrades to its support for Final Cut Studio, Adobe Creative Suite and Symmetry software by offering desktop and SDI/DVI/HDMI preview and mastering of RED Camera R3D files, which will be available Q2, 2010. Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:10:53 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863825 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863825 (Las Vegas NAB, NV--April 13, 2010) FilmLight today announces that Kodak Cinelabs Romania, which it is part of a worldwide network of Kodak-owned film processing laboratories and digital film transfer facilities, has invested in a Baselight FOUR colour grading system and a Northlight 2 film scanner. The systems will be installed in a newly-built digital intermediate grading theatre designed to service feature film, television and advertising clients, and scheduled to begin operations this summer. Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:02:24 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863813 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863813 (Las Vegas NAB Booth C5348, NV--April 13, 2010) The new 16Digital SR Mag from P+S TECHNIK will include native support for the CineForm RAW 12-bit format and the CineForm HD 10-bit 4:2:2 format. The implementation of these formats in the 16Digital SR Mag allows for the user to choose between Digital Film, High Definition and analogue film. CineForm Digital Intermediate workflows are designed for both Windows and Mac. An efficient and convenient workflow for the 16Digital SR Mag is ensured by several well-known partners such as AJA, Cinegy, Digital Vision, DVS, Iridas, Quantel and Pomfort. Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:48:09 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863811 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863811 (Las Vegas NAB Booth C5348, NV--April 13, 2010) Soon, you're able to transform your Arri 16SR Film Camera into a state-of-the-art Digital Cinematography Camera. With the 16Digital SR Mag, your Arri 16SR camera will be able to shoot up to 60 fps, with a sensor resolution of 1920 x 1080, to HD RAW files. Designed for versatility, the 16Digital SR Mag combines the intuitive user interface known from film with fast and convenient digital workflow advantages. The camera works just as usual – except for there's no film stock in the magazine, but a digital device allowing the operator to shoot and digitally capture on set. The optical viewfinder remains intact, and you'll be able to use all your 16mm PL mount lenses. Of course, you'll be able to easily switch back and forth from film to digital because all changes are non-destructive and completely reversible. Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:18:42 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863788 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863788 (Las Vegas NAB Booth SL3709, NV--April 13, 2010) Digital Vision has today announced a partnership with ARRI, the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of motion picture camera, Digital Intermediate (DI) and lighting equipment. Unveiled today at NAB the agreement between the two companies will see the launch of a jointly developed state-of the-art digital dailies product tailored to the ARRISCAN digital film scanner. Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:31:23 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863767 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863767 (LAS VEGAS--April 13, 2010) At NAB 2010, FilmLight, a leading provider of digital film and video technology, today announces a new, low entry price point addition to its Baselight range of non-linear colour grading systems. Known simply as ‘Baselight’ the new system provides facilities that deliver broadcast television content with a highly cost effective way to benefit from the class-leading performance and feature set associated with the Baselight product line. Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:12:39 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863764 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863764 (LAS VEGAS--April 13, 2010) At NAB 2010, FilmLight will show the speed, quality and infrastructure cost saving benefits of the new Sony “HDCAM-SR” file based workflows including native support for the MPEG-4 SStP codec at the Sony Electronics (Booth C1101). Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:08:52 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863729 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863729 (Las Vegas NAB, NV--April 13, 2010) ARRI, the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of motion picture camera, digital intermediate (DI) and lighting equipment have announced a partnership on digital dailies with Digital Vision. Unveiled today at NAB, the agreement between the two companies will see the launch of a jointly developed state-of the-art digital dailies product tailored to the ARRISCAN digital film scanner. Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:06:54 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863715 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863715 (Las Vegas NAB Show™, NV--April 12, 2010) Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, is exhibiting a wide range of products for broadcast HD television production, HD video content creation, and high-resolution image display at the 2010 NAB Show, April 12th to 15th, in the Las Vegas Convention Center. Included in the Canon U.S.A. exhibit (Central Hall, booth no. C4325) are HD broadcast lenses and robotic HD cameras, the new Canon XF305 and XF300 professional tapeless HD camcorders, the popular EOS 5D Mark II with 24p HD video capture, the REALiS SX7 Mark II multimedia LCOS projector, a large-format imagePROGRAF printer, and other Canon imaging products. Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:32:25 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863694 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863694 (Morgan Hill, CA--April 12, 2010) A leading supplier of network-attached archive appliances for the digital film, broadcast and professional video industries, Cache-A is featuring upgrades to its acclaimed Pro-Cache platform - including the world debut of its revolutionary Pro-Cache5, one of the first LTO-5 products to be introduced -- at this year's National Association of Broadcasters Convention (NAB 2010). Cache-A is also showcasing enhancements to its Prime-Cache archive appliance and integration with CatDV's asset manager at NAB 2010 in Booth SL7906 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV, April 12-15. Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:05:40 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863683 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863683 (Morgan Hill, CA--April 12, 2010) Cache-A today introduced Pro-Cache5, a revolutionary archive appliance for digital film, broadcast and video professionals working with file-based workflows. One of the first LTO-5 archive products on the market, Pro-Cache5 takes advantage of this next generation technology to offer nearly double the storage capacity of existing LTO-4 cartridges – now 1.5 terabytes (TB)/LTO-5 cartridge -- while also providing significantly faster archiving speeds. Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:39:40 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863632 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863632 (Hollywood, California--April 8, 2010) The Digital Cinema Society (DCS) will once again provide streaming interviews with manufacturers of the latest technology from the NAB show floor. They have also announced the launch of the Annual DCS Silent Auction. Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:34:04 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863627 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863627 (Lake Success, New York--April 8, 2010) Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, today announces the Canon XF305 and XF300 Professional Camcorders. Both new models employ an MPEG-2 4:2:2 50Mbps codec – Canon XF Codec – for capturing and recording native 1920 x 1080 video onto affordable, universally available Compact Flash (CF) cards. Uniting video, audio and metadata into a single file, the Canon XF305 and XF300 use an MXF (Material eXchange Format) File Wrapper, a widely supported open source format, to maximize compatibility with existing industry infrastructure and non-linear editing (NLE)systems. Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:09:34 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863629 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863629 (April 8, 2010) Point.360 IVC/Digital Film Center, a full service digital mastering facility known for its technical excellence over 25 years, has launched A.R.T. – Advanced Restoration Tools. A.R.T. is innovative and like no other grain and noise reduction process currently available. Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:08:02 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863551 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863551 (Fredrikstad, Norway--April 1, 2010) Delivering an unrivalled selection of 2D and 3D projection displays tailored for the most critical post and digital intermediate user, Norway’s projectiondesign® will provide their cineo32 and cineo82 DLP® projectors in three dedicated areas on the booth of European post production software developer, SGO. Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:59:30 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863415 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863415 (March 11, 2010) At this year’s NAB, from April 15th to the 20th, DVS will exhibit an extensive line of cutting-edge solutions for professional post production and broadcast. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:21:37 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863411 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863411 (San Rafael, California--March 10, 2010) For the 15th consecutive year, every Oscar®-winning movie for Best Visual Effects was created with the help of filmmaking tools from Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK). Autodesk Digital Entertainment Creation software was also used to help shape this year's nominees and winners for Achievement in Cinematography, Best Animated Feature Film and Best Animated Short Film. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:19:45 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863340 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863340 (Geneva, Switzerland--March 1, 2010) Marquise Technologies announces today that they have chosen the award-winning NVIDIA® Quadro® Digital Video Pipeline (DVP) to power their upcoming color grading solution, R A I N. Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:17:36 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863317 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863317 (February 24, 2010) Specifically designed to meet the archiving needs of small post houses and small-scale field production, Cache-A’s Prime-Cache is the easiest to use network-attached archive appliance available today. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:12:41 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863307 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863307 (Newbury Park, California--February 23, 2010) MAXON Computer, a leading developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation, and rendering solutions, announced today that Junior Extra Terrestrial (JET) (trailer), a four-minute animated and live-action short created primarily with MAXON CINEMA 4D, has recently been accepted at eight film festivals and honored with two awards. Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:42:54 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863251 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863251 (New York--February 15, 2010) Leading digital cinema company Offhollywood today announced that it supplied the newly released RED™ Mysterium X™ for the short high-fashion film "THE LOVE THING," LOVE Magazine's first commercial, designed and directed by James Lima at the invitation of LOVE Editor-in-Chief Katie Grand. Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:56:10 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863200 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863200 (Newbury Park, California--February 4, 2010) MAXON Computer, a leading developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions, today congratulates customers that have been recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Visual Effects Society with award nominations for groundbreaking visual effects and animated sequences. Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:50:50 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863168 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863168 (London--January 28, 2010) Eight years is all it took for FilmLight to grow from a very small start-up to the brand leader in digital film technology. The reward for this has now arrived - an unprecedented sweep of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Sci-Tech awards, recognising the achievements of ten of FilmLight's founding engineers in every one of the company's three main product lines. Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:36:45 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863116 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863116 (Budapest, Hungary--January 14, 2010) 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®. Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:24:44 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/863042 http://news.creativecow.net/story/863042 (Melbourne, Australia--December 17, 2009) XDT, developers of advanced software-based solutions for digital film, announced that Deluxe Australia has purchased the full suite of Catapult products including Catapult 4K, Catapult Bridge and Flipstream for both its Sydney and Melbourne facilities. Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:21:55 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/862880 http://news.creativecow.net/story/862880 (Grass Valley, California--November 10, 2009) AJA Video Systems, a leading manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, announced that its KONA 3 digital video I/O cards were used by the "Where the Wild Things Are" editorial team to build efficiencies into their digital production and post workflow. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:40:25 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/862879 http://news.creativecow.net/story/862879 (Melville, New York--November 10, 2009) Nikon Inc. today announced the launch of a new integrated marketing campaign that includes the first ever “Nikon Festival” to celebrate, inspire and harness the current popularity of content creation shared through social media. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:25:08 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/862824 http://news.creativecow.net/story/862824 (Providence, Rhode Island--October 30, 2009) Ones and Zeros has recently put Peru on the map as a center for film restoration, with the acquisition of the Correct DRS™ restoration system and plans to expand to a 10-seat facility. Founder Hugo Pallete wanted to move the company in this direction because he saw that libraries, archives and new productions throughout the Americas continue to look for low-cost, high-skilled workforces to complete large restoration products, but they had very few options in South America. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:04:25 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/862795 http://news.creativecow.net/story/862795 (Amherst, New York--October 22, 2009) ATTO Technology, Inc., a global leader of storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments, announces driver support for its complete line of host adapters for Microsoft Windows 7. ATTO Celerity Fibre Channel Host Adapters, ExpressSAS SAS/SATA RAID and Host Adapters and ExpressPCI SCSI Host Adapters, are PCI Express (PCIe 2.0 and PCIe) and PCI-X adapters that provide high-performance storage connectivity. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:25:51 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/862648 http://news.creativecow.net/story/862648 (Santa Clara, California--September 29, 2009) NVIDIA Corporation, the inventor of the graphics processing unit (GPU), announced today that Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI) utilized NVIDIA® Quadro® processors to accelerate animation and visual effects production of their latest hit film "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs". Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:57:45 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/862596 http://news.creativecow.net/story/862596 (Morgan Hill, California--September 17, 2009) Cache-A Corporation, a leading supplier of small form factor archive appliances, has announced that Authentic Entertainment, one of the leading producers of original content for cable networks, has become the first customer to utilize the new Prime-Cache archive appliance in its facility in Burbank, CA. Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:22:04 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/862462 http://news.creativecow.net/story/862462 (Albuquerque, New Mexico--September 8, 2009) Cinnafilm, Inc., the software engineering developer of advanced GPU-based film and video post production tools, announced the details of its IBC 2009 presence – the leading international forum for the electronic media industry (September 11 – 15, at RAI Amsterdam). Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:05:49 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/862459 http://news.creativecow.net/story/862459 (Rancho Cucamonga, California--September 7, 2009) CELCO is introducing at IBC2009 the FireStorm EX, a new entry level Motion Picture Digital Film Recorder to complement the latest in its highly successful line of Firestorm Digital Motion Picture Recorders, and announced its immediate availability. Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:34:34 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/862456 http://news.creativecow.net/story/862456 (Indianapolis, Indiana--September 4, 2009) 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. Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:55:36 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/862433 http://news.creativecow.net/story/862433 (Coral Springs, Florida--September 1, 2009) Producer-director Fredrik Hiller will be submitting his horror feature, "Psalm 21," on time for festival and distributor consideration thanks to leading post-production facility, Stockholm Postproduction and its da Vinci Resolve® digital mastering suite. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:35:21 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/862426 http://news.creativecow.net/story/862426 (Newbury, UK--September 1, 2009) Spy Post, the San Francisco post house known for its work in commercials and feature film post production, has purchased a Quantel Pablo 4K non-linear color correction system. The Pablo is equipped with a full raft of Quantel’s MME acceleration technology as well as Quantel’s Stereo 3D toolset. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:21:28 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/862403 http://news.creativecow.net/story/862403 (Santa Clara, California--August 26, 2009) NVIDIA Corporation congratulates a premier technology partner, Jim Henson's Creature Shop™, on winning an Engineering Emmy at the 61st Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards, held Saturday, Aug. 22 in Los Angeles. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:11:17 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/862369 http://news.creativecow.net/story/862369 (Newbury, UK--August 18, 2009) China's highly respected Beijing Film Academy has placed two orders with Quantel - one for its Film & TV Technology Department and a second for its Cinematography Department. Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:03:57 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/862353 http://news.creativecow.net/story/862353 (Morgan Hill, California--August 14, 2009) Cache-A Corporation, a leading supplier of small form factor archive appliances for the digital film, broadcast and professional video industries, will be making its European debut at this year’s International Broadcasters Convention (IBC), RAI Centre, Amsterdam, September 11-15, in the Global Distribution Stand 7.C29. Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:47:14 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/862350 http://news.creativecow.net/story/862350 (Coral Springs, Florida--August 12, 2009) 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. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:07:38 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/862116 http://news.creativecow.net/story/862116 (Coral Springs, Florida--June 24, 2009) da Vinci Systems, LLC, today announced that its Resolve® v.6.2 software for R-series color grading systems for the first time enables Resolve to color grade native digital motion picture files — including debayered RED RAW files — and to grade between two remote systems. Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:24:55 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/862068 http://news.creativecow.net/story/862068 (Coral Springs, Florida--June 12, 2009) da Vinci Systems, LLC, today announced that Chicago-based Filmworkers Club, a leading provider of post-production services to advertising agencies and commercial studios, has upgraded two of its facilities with three da Vinci Splice™ post-production systems, which enable the facilities' existing da Vinci 2K Plus™ systems to be used for non-linear, in-context color grading. Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:52:49 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/862021 http://news.creativecow.net/story/862021 (Hollywood, California--June 5, 2009) Data workflow pioneer and leading independent European rental house Rogue Element Films, UK will introduce its Digital Cinematography Services to the Cine Gear audience June 5-6, at Paramount Studios, Hollywood. Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:06:34 GMT http://news.creativecow.net/story/862010 http://news.creativecow.net/story/862010 (New York--June 2, 2009) ARRI continues its tradition of developing technologies to expand creative options for the filmmaker with Relativity™, a powerful new suite of software tools offering unprecedented control of texture and time using sophisticated motion estimation techniques. Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:12:48 GMT