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| | | | Light Iron Chooses Christie Solaria Projection For Postproduction Needs
Only Manufacturer Offering Integrated Media Block and HD-SDI Inputs
Light Iron, a leading postproduction house based in Los Angeles, has expanded its use of Christie Solaria® Series digital cinema projectors offering rich, saturated color, high brightness and sharp, 4K resolution to its ever growing clientele.
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| | | | Technicolor – PostWorks’ Tim Stipan Applies the Finishing Touch to Indie Drama “Disconnect”
"Disconnect", the new drama from LD Entertainment and director Henry Alex Rubin, weaves three loosely related narrative lines, each of which relates to the internet and the way it is affecting human relationships. The protagonists of its three plot lines include a TV news reporter investigating porn chat sites, a lawyer whose 15-year-old son is victimized by his skater buddies, and an interracial couple who turn to on-line grief consoling to cope with the death of their baby.
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| | | | ARRI Inc. Taps Jeffrey A. Reyes as Director of Sales, Latin American Markets
 ARRI Inc. is pleased to announce the promotion of Jeffrey A. Reyes to Director of Sales, Latin American Markets. Reyes will now develop strategies and business in the Caribbean, Central and South America, in addition to overseeing the sales team for these territories. Reyes previously served as a Technical Sales Representative at ARRI, working closely with rental houses and customers for lighting and camera products. Fluent in both English and Spanish, Reyes has a background with over 15 years in production.
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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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| | | | FotoKem Restores "Hello, Dolly!" For 20th Century Fox Blu-ray Release
 FotoKem completed the digital restoration of "Hello, Dolly!", returning the 1969 film adaptation of the beloved musical, directed by Gene Kelly and starring Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau, to its original glory. Under the supervision of 20th Century Fox’s Barbara Crandall, the movie was remastered in 4K for the April 2 Blu-ray release. FotoKem also created a new 70mm print and a new 65mm intermediate positive (IP) for the studio for archival purposes.
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| | | | Restored “Lawrence of Arabia” Wins FOCAL International Award
 4K Restoration of David Lean’s Masterpiece Receives Top Honors; Sony Pictures’ Grover Crisp Recognized for “Outstanding Achievement in Restoration”
The newly-restored, 50th Anniversary Directors Cut of David Lean’s 1962 masterpiece Lawrence of Arabia took home the award for “Best Archive Restoration/Preservation Title” at the tenth FOCAL International Awards held May 2nd in London. The 4K restoration of the film was completed last year by Sony Pictures Entertainment under the direction of Grover Crisp, EVP of Asset Management, Film Restoration and Digital Mastering for SPE. Crisp also received a special, individual award for “Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Film Restoration and Preservation.”
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| | | | 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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| | | | Colorworks Aids in 4K Restoration of “Richard III”
 A few months before the bones of Richard III were discovered below a parking lot in Leicester, England, the infamous British monarch was the focal point of a very different type of reclamation project halfway around the world in Culver City, California. There, Colorworks, Sony Pictures’ digital intermediate facility, applied the finishing touches to an exhaustive 4K restoration of "Richard III", Laurence Olivier’s 1955 film adaptation of the Shakespeare play.
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| | | | Rhythm & Hues Alumni Thom Burkhart Named Senior Producer at STEELE Studios
 STEELE Studios, a leading post production company and creator of visual imagery for Films, Commercials, Television, Broadcast, Music Videos and Online/Viral Media, has named Thom Burkhart as the company’s new Senior Producer. Most recently, Burkhart had been Head of Digital Post Production for Rhythm & Hues for 14 years.
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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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| | | | RealD Introduces Precision White Screen Technology Combining 2D White Screen Performance with Polarized 3D Capability
Forty Percent More Total Light Than a Standard Silver Screen with More Uniform Brightness in 2D and 3D
RealD Inc. (NYSE:RLD) announced today the introduction of Precision White Screen technology for cinema projection, combining 2D white screen performance with the ability to project polarized 3D images. Designed to deliver enhanced 2D and 3D presentations with wide viewing angles similar to white screens of equivalent gain, Precision White Screen technology features edges 4 to 5 times brighter than a standard silver screen. The improved screen efficiency results in 40% more total light coming off the screen, providing more uniform brightness than a standard silver screen. Precision White Screens also feature a smooth, white surface which generates better image contrast for improved image quality in 2D and 3D.
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| | | | IKEGAMI and ARRI Introduce The HDK-97ARRI: Broadcast Production Camera With Digital Cinema Image Quality
 New System Represents Elite Marriage of Technologies, Combining ARRI Large Format Super 35MM CMOS Sensor with Ikegami Unicam HD Docking Style Camera
Booth #C5108 - Ikegami, leader in HD cameras and production equipment for TV broadcasters, networks, and other HD content creators, and ARRI, the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of professional motion picture camera, digital intermediate (DI) and lighting equipment, today jointly announced the availability of a pioneering new camera system: The HDK-97ARRI.
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| | | | ARRI Completes M-Series Lighting Range With New M90 Fixture
 ARRI introduces a new fixture from the award-winning ARRIMAX/M-Series, thus completing the range between 1,200 W and 18,000 W. The M90 introduces a new power class for daylight fixtures at 9,000 W - exactly half the wattage of the ARRIMAX and just over double the wattage of the M40/25.
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| | | | IKEGAMI To Show HD Unicam Line, HDK-77EC2, HLM-905WR Monitor, And More At 2013 NAB SHOW
Multi-Format HDK-97A and HDK-97C, Affordable HDK-55 Highlight Unicam Line; HDK-77EC2 Multi-Format CMOS Camera Also Featured
Booth #C5108, Ikegami (http://www.ikegami.com), a leader in HD cameras and production equipment for TV broadcasters, networks, and other HD content creators, will have an advanced range of systems on exhibit at the 2013 NAB Show. This year’s NAB exhibition halls will be open April 8-11 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
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| | | | ARRI’s Fiber Remote Option Adds More Features
 Recently employed on an exciting concert film for Coldplay and a televised recording session with Robbie Williams, ARRI’s Fiber Remote Option (FRO) for ALEXA is elevating broadcast visual design with breathtaking, cinematic imagery that the ALEXA digital camera system is known for.
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| | | | ARRI Pro Camera Accessories Bring ARRI Quality To More Setups
 With ARRI Pro Camera Accessories (PCA), cameras from a plethora of manufacturers can benefit from ARRI’s renowned ergonomic designs and robust quality. New PCA offerings complement cameras including ARRI ALEXA, Sony F5 and F55, Blackmagic Cinema Camera, Red Epic, 1DC/1DX/C Cameras from Canon, and many others.
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| | | | AJA Announces Corvid Ultra Support for Quantel Pablo Rio
 New Pablo Rio High-End Color Grading and Interactive Finishing System Runs on AJA Corvid Ultra to Facilitate Unique 4K/High Frame Rate Workflows
Show, Booth # SL 3816—(April 8, 2013) -- AJA Video Systems announced today that the new AJA Corvid Ultra OEM cards are supported on the Quantel® Pablo Rio. This is the first time that Quantel have offered operability with any video card other than their own, and AJA's Corvid Ultra is the exclusive third-party solution delivering 4K workflows with Pablo Rio. Quantel is the latest OEM partner for AJA's Corvid line of video I/O solutions, and will offer Corvid Ultra with turnkey Pablo Rio systems.
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| | | | Qube Cinema Partners with Quantel and Barco to Demo 4K Mastering in Canon’s Booth at NAB 2013
 Provides a Seamless Connection Between the Camera and the Big Screen
Qube Cinema will provide its XP-I server and Xi 4K Integrated Media Block (IMB), with Quad 3G inputs, to Canon U.S.A., a leader in digital imaging solutions, for its 4K Digital Intermediate (DI) theater at NAB 2013. The 4K DI theater will demonstrate a seamless pipeline from reviewing uncompressed 4K image files from the Canon EOS C500 4K digital camera, through the Quantel Pablo Rio high-end color and finishing suite with new 4K output, to the Qube Xi 4K IMB and projected via Barco's new DP4K-P postproduction projector. Attendees to Canon’s booth will be able to see a live demonstration where 4K images will be reviewed, color graded at 4K in real time and review 4K DCPs for final QC, all from a single 4K projector.
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| | | | Autodesk and Technicolor Sign Enterprise Technology Agreement
Enterprise Agreement Provides Flexible Global Access to Autodesk Product Portfolio Including Creative Finishing
Autodesk Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) announced an enterprise technology agreement with Technicolor at this year’s National Association of Broadcaster’s (NAB) Show in Las Vegas. The deal includes flexible global access to Autodesk’s entire technology portfolio to help meet Technicolor’s needs, as well as global priority support and consulting services.
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| | | | Versatile Distribution Services Delivers Turnkey Systems Optimized for 4K and 2K ASSIMILATE SCRATCH DI and Dailies Workflows
New Turnkeys to be Offered in North America Exclusively by CineSys-Oceana
Versatile Distribution Services (VDS), a distributor specializing in integrated solutions for the media and entertainment industry today announced the immediate availability of integrated 4K and 2K turnkey workstations featuring ASSIMILATE’s SCRATCH® Digital Intermediate software. SCRATCH enables digital cinema and broadcast artists to generate dailies, conform, color-correct, and finish within a real-time, integrated, user-friendly solution. The turnkey systems will be available exclusively in North America through CineSys-Oceana, one of the largest media and entertainment industry resellers.
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| | | | Fusion-io Unveils 1.6 TB ioFX for Workstation Applications
 High Capacity ioFX Delivers Peak Performance for Professional Computer Graphics Applications including 4K Visual Effects Production, Stereoscopic 3D, Digital Intermediate, Computer Assisted Design and Video Editing
Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) today announced that the ioFX workstation acceleration platform is now available with 1.6 TB of capacity, in addition to the original 420 GB form factor. The high capacity ioFX is ideal for video editing, computer assisted design (CAD), 4K and stereoscopic production, as well as digital intermediate (DI) finishing.
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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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| | | | MAXON Announces New Live 3D Pipeline Between CINEMA 4D and Adobe After Effects
First Step in Recently Announced Strategic Alliance Results in Streamlined Workflow and Improved Functionality for Motion Graphics and Visual Effects Artists
MAXON, leading developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions, today revealed the first step in its strategic alliance with Adobe Systems Incorporated, aimed at delivering a new level of integration between its powerful 3D application, CINEMA 4D, and Adobe® After Effects®. The recently revealed next release of Adobe’s industry leading software will include two MAXON technologies directly within the new Adobe After Effects: CINEWARE and CINEMA 4D Lite.
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| | | | Canon U.S.A., Inc. Delivers Its Latest Motion and Still Digital Imaging Solutions at the 2013 NAB Show
Highlights Include Live 4K Workflow Demonstrations in a Full On-Site DI Suite, Live 4K Broadcast Demonstrations for HD “Ultra-Zoom” Applications, and the Canon Theater
At the 2013 NAB Show in Las Vegas, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, will showcase its full line of professional, high-definition imaging equipment for motion picture, television production, video content creation, and still photography at booths C3628 and C4325. Within this year’s booth, Canon will feature a live 4K Workflow Demonstration where visitors will have the opportunity to interact with industry-leading colorists and editors in a 4K DI (Digital Intermediate) suite. In a live color grading session of 4K footage from Canon’s groundbreaking C500 4K camera, on-site professionals will demonstrate the imaging possibilities of Canon’s 4K image capture technology and view the results on Canon’s prototype 4K reference displays, currently under development.
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| | | | DIT Station Unveils New and Improved Version of Portable On-Set Data/Playback Workstation
DIT Station Rogue4 Features Improved Performance and Versatile PCIe® Storage and I/O Integration via Sonnet Thunderbolt™ Solutions
DIT Station today introduced the DIT Station Rogue4, the newest version of the company's ultra-portable and compact on-set data management and playback workstation. The Rogue4 is faster than ever before, with Sonnet Technologies' built-in Thunderbolt™ expansion, media ingest, and storage solutions offering performance up to 900 MB/s. Sonnet and DIT Station will demonstrate the DIT Station Rogue4 in the Sonnet Technologies booth SL10924 at the 2013 NAB Show.
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| | | | Steele Opens New Santa Monica Location With Superbowl Spots, Feature Film, Stereo 3D Project For CI/Sony, And Mariah Carey Video For “OZ: The Great And Powerful”
 STEELE Studios, a leading creator and producer of visual content for Films, Commercials, Television, Broadcast, Music Videos and Online/Viral Media, has relocated its offices to 1131 Olympic Blvd., Santa Monica, CA, 90404. Ph: 310/450-0600. Jo and Jerry Steele, co-founders, STEELE Studios, made the announcement.
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| | | | ALT Systems Brings Powerful Gaming Technology to Award-Winning HP Z Workstations
 Game Developer Editions for Autodesk® and Unreal Engine Users Launch at GDC
ALT Systems, a full-service systems integrator and workflow solutions provider, has announced its collaboration with HP, Autodesk, Epic Games and PNY Technologies to offer high-performance game development packages designed specifically to support Autodesk® and Unreal Engine users. Unveiled today at GDC 2013, these systems optimize pipelines with a new combination of elite tools for the professional gaming community.
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| | | | XDT to Launch New Catapult Suite at NAB 2013
New version of Catapult Bridge redefines cloud-based WAN workflows
XDT Pty. Ltd., a developer of advanced software-based solutions for high-speed data transfers, announced it will launch the latest version of its flagship Catapult suite of products, including simplified fast access to cloud-based storage via NFS and CIFS, at NAB 2013.
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| | | | Big Block Design Group Partners With Fuel TV On Fan Cameo On-Air Promos
New App Allows Fans To “Say It. Send It. See It Live.”
Big Block Design Group (BBDG), a division of digital production studio Big Block, has created a series of on-air promos for FUEL TV’s newly launched Fan Cameo app. A groundbreaking app that allows viewers to submit their video reactions to things they see on the network, Fan Cameo represents a bold new way for fans to “Say It. Send It. See It Live.” on FUEL TV. The Fan Cameo promos began airing on March 11.
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| | | | Light Iron Projects Honored at Top Film Festivals
South by Southwest and Sundance Filmmakers Find Creative Support at Light Iron
Light Iron – a post production leader specializing in projects originated on file-based motion cameras – supported five features at South by Southwest 2013, one of which, Short Term 12, was awarded the top honor of the Grand Jury Prize as well as the Audience Award for Narrative Feature Competition.
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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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| | | | Sony Pictures Unites Sound Department And Digital Mastering Under ‘Digital Productions’ Umbrella
With production underway on Sony Pictures Animation’s Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2, and post-production continuing on The Smurfs 2, Sony Pictures Digital Productions (SPDP) today announced it is bringing the studio’s award-winning Sound Department and Colorworks, the studio’s digital intermediate facility, under its umbrella. SPDP will now offer a host of post-production services to the professional community, including visual effects and computer animation, sound mixing and editorial and digital mastering, color grading, and film restoration.
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| | | | MTI Film Introduces Transcoding Engine “Cortex::Convey”
 Standalone transcoding solution supports virtually all input and output formats.
Continuing to add to its family of products for managing media from the set to the screen, MTI Film today announces the release of a new standalone transcoding application, Cortex::Convey. Cortex::Convey supports input of all popular camera file formats, editorial files and intermediate file formats, including DPX, OpenEXR and H.264, for transcoding to review, editorial and intermediate formats such as Avid DNxHD/MXF 1:1, DPX file sequences and QuickTime , as well as fully-authored DVDs and Blu-ray discs.
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| | | | XR Module ALEXA Upgrade For In-Camera ARRIRAW Recording
 Concurrent with its refresh of the ALEXA family with four new ALEXA XT models, ARRI is offering an upgrade that equips all existing ALEXA cameras with one of the major features of the XT configuration: the new XR Module (Xtended Recording), allows ARRIRAW – the highest quality image output from ALEXA – to be recorded in-camera to a state-of-the-art internal digital magazine. With no need for external recording devices, camera setups will be smaller, lighter, faster, more flexible, and less expensive.
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| | | | ARRI and CODEX Co-Develop XR Module For In-Camera ARRIRAW
 ARRI and Codex have co-developed a new upgrade option for all ALEXA cameras that allows internal recording of ARRIRAW up to 120 fps. The XR Module is an affordable new side panel with various in-camera recording options, replacing the current SxS Module. It allows ALEXA owners to embrace the latest advances in recording technologies without having to purchase a new camera, exemplifying the concept of modular upgradeability that was built into the ALEXA design from its very beginnings.
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| | | | Sony Pictures Colorworks Launches 4K Television Post-Production Facility
 Colorworks, Sony Pictures Entertainment’s digital intermediate facility, has opened a new facility focused on 4K television post-production. Located in the Capra Building on the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City, Colorworks 4K Television will provide post-production services for original programming shot in 4K and re-mastering services for film-originated media. It will deliver both HD masters for current distribution and 4K masters for future use.
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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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| | | | The Room Debuts New Finishing Facility inside Technicolor – PostWorks New York
 With three finishing suites, facility targets independent films, documentaries and television
The Room, a boutique finishing facility servicing independent films, documentaries, long-form television and similar projects, has moved into a new, custom-built facility housed within Technicolor – PostWorks’ West Village location at 110 Leroy Street. The new site, which was designed by acclaimed architect Rafi Segal, includes three finishing suites, each anchored by Autodesk Flame Premium workstations, which feature tools for compositing, color grading, visual effects and graphics.
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| | | | ARRI Pro Camera Accessories for Sony F5 / F55 Cameras
 ARRI continues to swiftly deliver high quality Pro Camera Accessories for the latest DSLRs and digital cameras with the release of new accessories for Sony’s new F5 and F55. Now these cameras are fully compatible with ARRI support and all industry-standard matte box and follow focus systems.
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| | | | Light Iron Opens New York Office
Visionary L.A. Company Acquires OFFHOLLYWOOD’s Post Production Operations
Light Iron – a post production leader specializing in on-site dailies, digital intermediate, archival, and data services for projects originated on file-based motion cameras – has expanded into the New York market, acquiring all post-production facilities and resources of OFFHOLLYWOOD, located in the Soho district of Manhattan. Terms of the transaction remain confidential.
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| | | | ARRI Cameras and Lighting Flourish in Oscar-Nominated Productions
Out of nine Best Picture nominees for the Academy Awards this year, seven were shot using ARRI cameras: Amour, Life of Pi and Zero Dark Thirty were captured digitally with ARRI ALEXA; Les Misérables and Silver Linings Playbook on 35 mm with ARRICAM; Argo utilized a combination of both ALEXA and ARRICAM while Beasts of the Southern Wild chose Super 16 with the ARRIFLEX 416 and SR3. Additionally, many of these productions relied on lighting equipment from ARRI.
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| | | | Bluefish444 Introduces Synapse Range of Mini Converters
3 models of mini converters immediately available
Bluefish444, manufacturer of the industry’s highest quality uncompressed 4K/2K/HD/SD SDI video cards, today introduced and announced the immediate availability of the Synapse range of mini converters.
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| | | | Company 3 and EFILM Collaborate on Comprehensive Post Pipeline for James Bond Feature "Skyfall"
Award-winning post houses Company 3 (CO3) and EFILM joined forces to provide Eon Productions' newest James Bond feature "Skyfall"--the first digitally-shot film in the franchise--with a complete, integrated workflow, ensuring consistency from dailies through to digital intermediate (DI). Based on this model, the companies have branded their collaborative location service as EC3, which leverages the technology and personnel of both post houses.
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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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| | | | Stephen Lovett to Lead Light Iron OUTPOST Mobile Systems
Light Iron – a post production leader specializing in on-site dailies, digital intermediate, archival, and data services for projects originated on file-based motion cameras – has hired Stephen Lovett to oversee the expansion of its OUTPOST mobile post production systems.
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| | | | Change of ownership at ARRI
Robert Arnold, the son of one of the co-founders, is selling his 50 per cent share to the grandchildren of co-founders Richter/Stahl. Both families have shared responsibility for the company since it was founded 95 years ago.
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| | | | Colorworks Checks into “Hotel Transylvania”
 DI facility teams with Sony Pictures Imageworks to ready 3D animated feature for theatrical release.
Final post-production work for Hotel Transylvania, the new animated comedy from Sony Pictures Animation, was recently completed at Colorworks, Sony Pictures Entertainment’s digital intermediate facility. The facility performed final color grading and stereoscopic 3D finishing for the film, scheduled for U.S. release on September 28th.
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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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| | | | Light Iron Expands Education Program with OUTPOST University
Light Iron – a post production leader specializing in on-site dailies, digital intermediate, archival, and data services for projects originated on file-based motion cameras – has unveiled an enhanced curriculum in its popular OUTPOST University program.
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| | | | ARRI Wins Three Technological Awards at Cinec 2012
 ARRI products have won three awards at the 2012 Cinec show in Munich. The ALEXA Studio camera and the L-Series lighting range both received Cinec Award statuettes (collected by ARRI Product Managers Marc Shipman-Mueller and Ryan Fletcher), while the Wireless Compact Unit WCU-4 received a Special Award in the form of a white lion trophy (collected by ARRI Product Manager Hendrik Voss).
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| | | | ALEXA Shines On The Biggest Screens
 With IMAX and 4K DCP releases for The Avengers and Skyfall, ALEXA passes the ultimate test of image quality. This year has seen an increase in ARRIRAW recording for big-screen blockbuster movies, with filmmakers praising the efficient workflow and testifying that ALEXA images look incredible on even the largest IMAX cinema screens.
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| | | | ALEXA – The Most Complete Digital Camera System Ever Built
 ARRI’s five ALEXA models have built a reputation as the most powerful digital camera systems in the industry, enabling a new era in visual storytelling for a variety of productions. Recent award-winning features like Hugo, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Anonymous, Amour and Melancholia relied on ALEXA for image capture. The camera was also behind-the-scenes on this year’s box office champion, The Avengers -- the third highest grossing film of all time.
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| | | | ALEXA Fiber Remote Option Brings The Cinematic To Broadcast
 Now the breathtaking images seen in blockbuster and critically acclaimed Hollywood films are obtainable for the broadcast world through the ALEXA Fiber Remote Option. With a high sensitivity over two stops more compared to typical 2/3’ camera systems, the image quality and dynamic range of ALEXA (progressive and interlaced mode, up to 1080/60) can be applied to typical multi-camera broadcast studio or OB van productions. The shallow depth of field and excellent color rendition achieves higher production value for telenovelas, soaps, sitcoms, events, music concerts, talk shows, magazines, sport specials and more.
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| | | | New ALEXA Support Accessories Available
 The ALEXA M D-Bracket provides additional mounting options for the ALEXA M camera head. Now the ALEXA M body can be attached to the head in a 435 camera style. Available in October, The ALEXA M D-Bracket is priced at 212 €.
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| | | | ARRI And Carl Zeiss Mark 75-Year Collaboration With New Anamorphic Lenses
 ARRI and Carl Zeiss have partnered for three-quarters of a century in a cooperative effort that is unmatched in the film industry. As we celebrate this commitment, ARRI is pleased to unveil our latest collaboration – the new ARRI/ZEISS Master Anamorphic lenses. Especially developed for the ALEXA Studio, ALEXA Plus 4:3 and ALEXA M cameras - all equipped with a 4:3 sensor and hence perfectly suited to true anamorphic capture - the Master Anamorphics expand creative opportunities for today’s image-makers.
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| | | | New ARRI L7-T Tungsten LED Fresnel And Active Cooling Options Added To L-Series
 Fresh off the rapid adoption by the industry of the color-controllable L7-C, ARRI introduces a new addition to the popular L-Series LED Fresnels in a dedicated tungsten model -- the L7-T. As a single-color, 3200 K tungsten version of the popular L7-C, the L7-T provides in excess of 30% more light while maintaining the same size and weight. It offers the same calibrated color quality at a more affordable price than the L7-C, and is particularly suited to applications requiring maximum intensity for a given fixture size.
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| | | | ARRI Wet Gate Arriving In Italy
 L’Immagine Ritrovata, one of Europe’s leading film restoration and conservation laboratories, has purchased an ARRI Wet Gate system to enhance the archive and restoration capabilities of its ARRISCAN film scanner.
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| | | | Lumières Numériques Acquires ARRISCAN Archive Package
ARRI is pleased to announce that Lumières Numériques is the first facility in France to purchase the full ARRISCAN Archive package. The sale includes an ARRISCAN 4K with all available archive options like the ARRI Wet Gate, and Kodak Digital ICE system. In addition, the Lyon-based post house is the first in Europe to purchase ARRI’s stabilization function. Lumières Numériques plans to implement the ARRISCAN into their workflow for restoration of 35 mm full-length films along with 16 and 35 mm short films.
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| | | | ASSIMILATE and DiaQuest Turbocharge SCRATCH Integration with Avid Interplay
ProductionLink plug-in creates seamless, and user-friendly link between ASSIMILATE’s SCRATCH and Avid Interplay
ASSIMILATE, makers of the powerful, real-time SCRATCH® and SCRATCH Lab® digital intermediate and dailies workflow software for the production and post-production of feature film, episodic television, commercials and spots, and DiaQuest Products, the world's leading supplier of connectivity middleware for media production workflows, today announced the availability of ProductionLink™, a plug-in for connectivity between the recently announced ASSIMILATE SCRATCH v7 and SCRATCH Lab v7 and the Avid® Interplay™ production asset management (PAM) system.
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| | | | ASSIMILATE Announces Support for AMD FirePro Professional Graphics
ASSIMILATE, makers of the powerful, real-time SCRATCH® and SCRATCH Lab® digital intermediate and dailies workflow software for the production and post-production of feature film, episodic television, commercials and spots, today announced support for AMD (NYSE: AMD) FirePro™ W8000 and V7900 SDI professional graphics cards.
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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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| | | | Steele Studios Completes Extensive VFX Work On Brand New TV Campaign For Overstock.Com
 Steele Produces Complex CGI Shots Featured Within Five Spot “O Is The One” Campaign
Steele Studios, a leading creator and producer of visual content for television, film, music videos, and commercial projects for Fortune 500 companies, has completed and delivered extensive visual effects work featured within a brand new TV campaign promoting client Overstock.com. Jo and Jerry Steele, co-founders, Steele Studios, made the announcement.
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| | | | ARRI Introduces Ready to Shoot Kits for Blackmagic Cinema Camera
Blackmagic Design today announced that ARRI, the world’s largest manufacturer and distributor of professional motion picture equipment, has introduced Ready to Shoot Kits for Blackmagic Cinema Camera.
Blackmagic Design today announced that ARRI, the world’s largest manufacturer and distributor of professional motion picture equipment, has introduced Ready to Shoot Kits for Blackmagic Cinema Camera.
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| | | | Kodak Introduces Cost-Effective, Asset Protection Film
 Stock Offers Content Owners an Affordable New Option on the Only Proven Archival Medium
In response to the overwhelming industry concern about preserving today’s motion picture and television content long into the future, Kodak has developed an affordable, innovative color film specifically designed for asset protection. The new KODAK Color Asset Protection Film 2332 is optimized for content owners who originate or finish their productions on digital formats and want to protect their valuable media for the future. The stock offers over a century of dye stability when stored in recommended environments and Kodak’s proprietary ESTAR base guarantees high-quality physical performance.
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| | | | Colorworks Helps Give “Sparkle” Its Glow
 Colorist John Persichetti helps cinematographer Anastas N. Michos, ASC recreate the look of Motown.
Colorworks, Sony Pictures Entertainments’ digital intermediate facility, recently completed final post work for Sparkle, the new movie from Tri-Star Pictures, starring Jordin Sparks and Whitney Houston. Digital intermediate colorist John Persichetti worked under the supervision of director Salim Akil and cinematographer Anastas N. Michos, ASC in performing final color grading for the film.
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| | | | New Chief Executive for the ARRI Rental Group
 ARRI, the world’s largest manufacturer and distributor of professional motion picture equipment is pleased to announce the appointment of Martin Cayzer as Chief Executive of its global network of camera and lighting rental operations. In this new role, Cayzer will have global responsibility for ARRI’s diverse rental businesses and service capabilities, with plans to extend global reach, grow the customer base and enhance market leadership.
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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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| | | | Qube Cinema Shows Uncompressed 4K IMB at IBC
Simplifying 4K Review for Postproduction with the Quad 3G Interface
Qube Cinema will show visitors to IBC how its Quad 3G interface for digital cinema projectors facilitates digital intermediate and D-cinema mastering workflows. The Qube XP-I server can stream uncompressed 4K data, as well as compressed DCP images, directly to a projector through a 4K Xi Integrated Media Block (IMB) featuring the Quad 3G interface. Post facilities can now use the same server-projector setup for both HD-4K uncompressed color grading and 2K-4K digital cinema playback for comprehensive review and quality control.
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| | | | Top Dailies Review System Wins 2012 Cine Gear Expo Technical Award
Light Iron – a post production leader specializing in on-site dailies, digital intermediate, archival, and data services for projects originated on file-based motion cameras – is happy to announce that its iPad app TODAILIES has been awarded the 2012 Cine Gear Expo Technical Award for Post Production.
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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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| | | | Light Iron Adds Second Facility to Expand OUTPOST Services
Light Iron – a post production leader specializing in on-site dailies, digital intermediate, archival, and data services for projects originated on file-based motion cameras – announces on its third anniversary that it has acquired an additional facility in Hollywood to support its growing OUTPOSTmobile post production services. This facility is located on Cole Avenue, just a few blocks away from Light Iron’s headquarters on De Longpre Avenue.
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| | | | Sony Pictures’ Studio-wide Post-Production Effort Helped Make Spider-Man™ ‘Amazing’
 Studio’s Visual Effects Artists, Stereographers, Colorists and Sound Mixers Came Together to Apply the Finishing Touches to the Summer Tentpole
Teams from across Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) came together in a close-knit collaboration for the production of Columbia Pictures’ superhero blockbuster The Amazing Spider-Man, currently in worldwide release in 2D and 3D. Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI) created many of the film’s stunning visual effects sequences, the Sony 3D Technology Center consulted on the film’s stereography, Sony Pictures Post Production provided sound services, and Colorworks, SPE’s digital intermediate facility, performed final color grading and editorial finishing.
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| | | | |  Articles and Tutorials: NAB 2013: Canon Demonstrates 4K Workflow, Intros New CamerasCanon highlighted an end-to-end 4K workflow at NAB 2013, showing a digital intermediate suite and a live 4K broadcast with "Ultra-Zoom" applications. The company also debuted two new, entry-level professionals video cameras, the XA25 and XA20. The cameras feature Canon's first-ever Organic LED (OLED) touch panels, weigh 2.6 pounds and are priced at under $3,000. Canon also announced that it's begun development on a new 35mm prime lens for large-format single-sensor cameras employing Super 35mm, full-frame 35mm, and APS-C size imagers.Read Article Subscribe Company 3 Partners with FutureWorksCompany 3 - a Digital Intermediate powerhouse in Santa Monica, CA - joined forces with FutureWorks, a Mumbai-based post-production facility, in order to offer its color grading services to Bollywood's feature film and commercial clients.Read Article Subscribe Bleach Bypass EffectIn this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Grant Swanson demonstrates a quick, easy and very high quality bleach bypass effect right inside of After Effects. Understand what the term refers to and how to simulate it in the digital intermediate process or on digital video, using After Effects.Read Article Subscribe 123Di Training Course for Digital Photography ReviewedIn this article, CreativeCOW.net contributing editor Jim Harvey reviews 123Di Training Course for Digital Photography and discovers ''a delightful course that covered the Basics, the Intermediate and the Advanced aspects of Digital image acquisition, but had done so in a very interesting and well laid out program that is like nothing that I've ever seen before!'' ... A five COW recommendation for a powerful Photoshop training tool.
Read Article Subscribemore articles » Blogs: On the Post Production trail at NAB 2013 - 4K, Premiere, SpeedGrade & BaselightWell, I am finally back home from NAB and I need to sort through a ton of swag. Plus, I still have notes from the show that I would like to share with you. Is My World Really 4K? If there was one thing that stood out for me this...Read Blog Subscribe Quantel interview: Ian Vertovec from Light Iron DigitalIan Vertovec is the co-founder of Light Iron Digital and the Supervising DI Colorist behind 2010's feted drama "The Social Network" . Ian joined us on the Quantel booth at NAB 2011 to give a couple of presentations and kindly let us also interview him for our blog about his...Read Blog Subscribe I'm Coming to Europe to Teach!I'll be speaking at this year's IBC conference in Amsterdam in September. http://www.ibc.org/page.cfm/link=299 "A 2-day training event in multiple tracks geared for production and post-production professionals in TV, video, film, motion graphics and new media. The conference features the latest advanced tips and techniques in producing, editing and delivering digital...Read Blog Subscribemore blogs »Related Tags | | | | |
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