| | | | FilmLight Showcases End-to-End Color Pipeline at Expo Cine, Video y Televisión 2013
 - Latest solutions on display in Mexico from 04-07 June 2013 -
FilmLight will be demonstrating its latest products and developments in partnership with AMTEC (Stand A1) at Expo Cine, Video y Televisión 2013, and showing how its award-winning colour grading software and colour management systems can provide a 'colour pipeline' at every stage of production.
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| | | | Small Tree Shared Storage Plays Vital Role in Boutique Post-Production Company’s Rapid Growth
Company’s Flexible Storage Solution Handles Workflow Requirements
Originally founded in 2012 to handle post-production on two feature film projects, Prodigi House in Jakarta soon acquired additional clients – including Samsung and Honda – seeking support with TV commercials. With additional projects and tighter deadlines, the company installed a Titanium16 shared storage system from Small Tree, the leader in simple, affordable and powerful Ethernet-based shared storage solutions for professionals engaging in the creation, management and delivery of electronic media and entertainment content.
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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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| | | | 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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| | | | AJA Announces OEM Relationship With FilmLight; Supports FilmLight FLIP With Multi-Channel I/O On KONA 3G
Visit AJA at booth #SL 3816
Today at NAB 2013, AJA Video Systems announced an OEM relationship with FilmLight through which its KONA 3G capture and playback card will support multi-channel ingest and playout for FilmLight’s new FLIP real-time image processor. FilmLight will bundle AJA’s KONA 3G as part of FLIP, which is designed to take the power of complex Baselight color correction live on set. Leveraging KONA 3G, FLIP users will be able to easily preview the color grading of live raw footage with a range of HD video I/O channel combinations and can set FLIP to record or playback multiple HD-SDI streams such as 1 in and 3 out, 2 in and 2 out, 3 in and 1 out.
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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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| | | | GenArts Releases Sapphire 7 with scheduled debut at NAB 2013
GenArts® Inc., the global leader in specialized visual effects software, today released Sapphire 7. This new release provides users with greater control, increased speed, and an expanding arsenal of effects; empowering users to create higher quality effects in less time.
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| | | | Nice Shoes Expands with New Color Suite and Baselight TWO Systems
 As an independently owned creative studio, Nice Shoes is able to expand and evolve quickly to meet the ever changing needs of its clients. In 2012, the studio added several editorial suites, and built a custom suite and post-production workflow for a massive seven-screen film. To kick off 2013, it has added a pair of Baselight TWO systems, one of which will form their brand new color suite.
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| | | | Encore: Baselight Helps Hollywood Facility Reinvent Television Post-Production for the Digital Age
 Encore is one of the busiest full-service post-production facilities in Hollywood. Part of Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, the company, which also has facilities in New York, Vancouver and London, has built its reputation primarily through its work in episodic television. It services such shows as Body of Proof, Castle, CSI: Las Vegas, CSI: NY, Enlightened, Glee, Hawaii 5-O, Justified, Magic City, Mob Doctor, Nashville, NCIS, The Newsroom, Raising Hope, Last Resort and Revenge, providing near-set dailies, colour grading, editorial finishing and visual effects. It also boasts one of the industry’s most efficient file-based workflows and was the first to implement an ACES workflow for television.
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| | | | FilmLight’s Baselight Used to Grade Sony’s “Hotel Transylvania”
 Hotel Transylvania, Sony Pictures Animation’s monster hit comedy that already broke records at the U.S. box office, went through final colour grading and stereo finishing in full 3D on Baselight. Completed at Colorworks, Sony Pictures Entertainment’s digital intermediate facility, DI Colourist John Persichetti used Baselight to apply the finishing touches to the film prior to its worldwide release.
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| | | | London’s LipSync Grows Grading Resources with FilmLight’s Baselight
LipSync Post, the award winning London-based full-service post-production facility, has significantly added to its colour grading resources through the purchase of two Baselight systems from FilmLight. When fully operational by year’s end the Baselight systems will serve as the facility’s primary grading tools, enabling LipSync to offer a total of five grading suites that can work flexibly to suit client requirements.
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| | | | FilmLight Introduces 5-for-1 Academic Pricing for Baselight for Avid
 FilmLight has announced the worldwide availability of a fully-functional Academic Edition of Baselight for Avid® (Mac), the newest product in its Baselight Editions line, which makes the world’s most powerful colour grading toolset directly available within Avid Media Composer® or Symphony®.
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| | | | Chainsaw Launches New Editorial Facility
 10,000 square foot Hollywood facility includes 25 editorial suites.
Chainsaw a leading independent post production company servicing American Idol, the Academy Awards and many other television productions, has opened a second, state-of-the-art editorial facility in Hollywood. The new 10,000 square foot facility, located on Santa Monica Boulevard near North Sycamore Avenue, two blocks from the main Chainsaw building, features 25 rooms that can function either as editorial suites or production office space and is designed to accommodate episodic and long-form television productions.
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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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| | | | FilmLight Releases Baselight for Avid
 High-end colour grading for Avid Media Composer or Symphony under US$ 1,000.
FilmLight today announces the release of the latest product in its Baselight Editions line, Baselight for Avid® (Mac). Developed in association with Avid, this exciting new product makes the world’s most powerful colour grading toolset available within Avid Media Composer® or Symphony®, the editing software that is the preferred choice among film and television professionals. It’s also a further instance of FilmLight’s commitment to provide solutions for managing colour at every stage in production and post.
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| | | | Sony Names Dan Perry Director of Digital Motion Picture Center
Hollywood Industry Veteran Brings Extensive Production Expertise And Professional Relationships to New Role
Sony is proud to announce that production industry veteran Dan Perry has been named Director of the Digital Motion Picture Center. The DMPC, as it is known in the industry, is located on Stage 7 at Sony Pictures Entertainment and is designed to provide a unique creative environment for shooting and evaluating images of the highest-quality.
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| | | | FilmLight and The Pixel Farm Provide an End-to-End Restoration Workflow
 Baselight|PFClean integration supports all DI workflows, including ACES, and allows grading and restoration to proceed in parallel.
FilmLight and The Pixel Farm have formed a strategic partnership to jointly market FilmLight’s Baselight colour grading system and The Pixel Farm’s PFClean™ restoration software as a complete, fully-integrated and affordable workflow for digital cinema restoration. As a result, a branded OEM version of the PFClean restoration and remastering suite equipped with the Baselight integration option will be available to FilmLight customers to purchase directly through the company’s worldwide reseller network.
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| | | | FilmLight at IBC 2012
 Unique pipeline for managing colour from script to screen.
At IBC 2012, FilmLight will demonstrate its latest solutions for refining looks and managing colour at every stage in production. Several new products from FilmLight’s expanded product line will be on view for the first time in Europe, each designed to address a different point in file-based film and television workflows, and together constituting an integrated, end-to-end colour pipeline.
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| | | | FilmLight announces Baselight ONE ‘ACCESS’ package
 Industry leading grading and finishing system at less than US$50K
FilmLight is helping boutique post-production facilities to step up to high-end colour grading by offering its award-winning Baselight system at the lowest price ever. The Baselight ONE ACCESS package can now be purchased for less than US$50,000, and includes the latest Baselight 4.3 software, complete installation, FilmLight’s industry-leading technical support and on-site operational training.
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| | | | Burbank’s FILMLOOK MEDIA and POST Adds Colour Grading via FilmLight’s Baselight
 In a move to significantly improve and expand its services, Burbank post-production facility FILMLOOK Media and Post has purchased a Baselight colour grading system from FilmLight. The new system, which includes FilmLight’s revolutionary Blackboard 2 control panel, allows FILMLOOK, for the first time, to provide its television clients, who include Disney Channel, Fox, CBS, ESPN and HBO, with colour grading services in a file-based workflow. It also allows the company to initiate a new service: DCP mastering for feature films.
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| | | | NAB 2012: FilmLight FLIPs for End-to-End Color
FilmLight introduces FLIP, a new real-time image processing product that's an end-to-end color pipeline solution. Also new is the near-set dailies solution Baselight Transfer and Baselight 4.3, the latest software version with many new features.
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| | | | Sony Professional Solutions to Open Digital Motion Picture Center at Sony Pictures Studios
Industry-wide Resource for Training and Education will Support Transition to Digital Workflows for Filmmakers
Sony’s Professional Solutions of America group (PSA) unveiled its Digital Motion Picture Center (DMPC) on Stage 7 last night at Sony Pictures Studios. Officially opening May 1, the Center will offer hands-on training for directors, cinematographers and other professionals in the film and television production industries on the use of Sony’s groundbreaking F65 CineAlta™ digital motion picture camera and the production workflows supporting this new, state-of-the art digital acquisition system.
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| | | | MTI Film Names Merritt to Head International Business Development
 MTI Film has promoted Belinda S. Merritt to the newly-created post of Director of International Business Development. Merritt, previously Director of Worldwide Sales, will be responsible for growing and supporting the company’s International Resellers and will develop the new Domestic Channel Partner program. Working closely with the resellers and channel partners, she will help establish and manage strategic relationships and support their marketing and sales efforts to create new business opportunities.
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| | | | FilmLight Releases Major Baselight Upgrade
FilmLight, designers of Baselight, the world’s leading colour grading system, today announce the release of Baselight 4.3 with a host of powerful new features, introducing a unique “Triple-Head Display”, and representing a generational leap forward in responsiveness, flexibility and productivity.
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| | | | Chicago’s Optimus Uses Baselight to Craft an American Icon
 A new campaign for American Family Insurance evokes the company’s association with heartland values through finely crafted images of factory workers, motorcycle riders, newborn babies and kids diving into swimming pools. Conceived by Ogilvy & Mather, Chicago, the campaign involved a seven day shoot in Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan. Post work was completed at Optimus, Chicago, through a workflow anchored by FilmLight’s Baselight colour grading system.
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| | | | Avid Adds New EUCON Media Workflow Partners; Continues to Lead the Way with Open Solutions
Colorfront and FilmLight announce native support for EUCON; expanding media workflow options and delivering improved performance with Avid’s Artist Series Controllers
Avid® (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced new additions to expand the open EUCON™ ecosystem of supported media applications, providing customers with more creative options in their audio and video workflows and reinforcing its commitment to supporting open, interoperable platforms.
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| | | | FilmLight’s new products prove an immediate success
 Our Blackboard 2 grading control surface and Baselight TWO colour grading systems, can be seen for the first time in Europe at IBC 2011. Both new products are already enjoying record sales among broadcasters, post houses and production facilities worldwide.
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| | | | FilmLight at IBC 2011: Stand 7.F31
Blackboard 2 | Baselight 4.3 | Baselight for Final Cut Pro & NUKE | Truelight On-Set and AatonK
We will be giving the first European presentations of Blackboard 2, our revolutionary new grading control surface. Blackboard 2 caused quite a stir when it debuted at NAB, and since then, it has evolved into a market ready product.. Your eye is drawn to the visually stunning design, but the secret to Blackboard 2 is what we call Adaptive Key Technology—every key is programmable in infinite ways. No grading surface is faster, more ergonomic or, frankly, cooler than Blackboard 2.
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| | | | London’s Unit Adds Baselight
 Commercials specialist installs high end grading system in new Soho facility
In a significant boost to its colour grading services for commercials, Soho post-production company UNIT has purchased a Baselight HD colour grading system from FilmLight. The new grading system is installed at UNIT’s newly-opened 9400 square-foot facility and is part of the service offering of the company’s specialty sub-brand ‘The Finish’, which also provides visual effects and compositing services.
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| | | | FilmLight Provides A Taste Of Baselight for Editors
 Final Cut Pro Plug-in takes Baselight to the wider creative market
At NAB 2011, FilmLight is previewing a new Baselight colour grading plugin for Apple® Final Cut Pro®. The plugin is aimed primarily at smaller editorial and post-production facilities, and indie filmmakers, providing them with sophisticated colour grading functionality from the industry’s leading system.
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| | | | Point.360 Digital Film Labs preview Visionary Archive at NAB
Sean McKee, Director of Restoration & New Technology at Point.360 Digital Film Labs, will be giving a technology preview of the soon-to-be released Visionary™ Archive system in the FilmLight hospitality suite - the Paramount Room at the Renaissance Hotel. Demonstrations will be available all day April 11th and 12th, and by appointment on the 13th and 14th.
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| | | | FilmLight Unveils Revolutionary Control Surface: Blackboard 2
 Unique soft-key design for Baselight
At NAB 2011, FilmLight launches Blackboard 2, an entirely new control surface for its award-winning Baselight colour grading system. The unique and revolutionary design of Blackboard 2 promises to transform high-end finishing for feature films, television and advertising.
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| | | | FilmLight Previews the Future of Colour Grading at NAB 2011
Industry leader debuts new product initiatives aimed at enhancing the high-end grading experience and making it accessible to more creative companies
Furthering its position as the industry’s innovation leader, FilmLight is debuting several new colour grading technologies at NAB 2011 that will promote new workflows, broaden access to best-of-class tools, and dramatically change the future of post-production.
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| | | | Technicolor & FilmLight Join Forces to Provide On-Location Color
 Technicolor DP Lights™ Powered by Truelight to Launch at NAB
Technicolor (Euronext Paris: TCH), a worldwide provider of production and post-production services, and FilmLight, a developer of film scanning, color grading and color management technology, today announced a technology alliance to grow their respective presence on motion picture and broadcast production sets, bringing together their respective industry leading color grading solutions.
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| | | | London’s Spring Studios Adds Baselight
Noted fashion studios adds high-end colour grading via Baselight as it extends its support for motion
Spring Studios, one of Europe’s premiere photographic studios, has purchased a Baselight colour grading system from FilmLight as part of its ongoing diversification into motion imagery.
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| | | | FilmLight upgrades the power of Baselight
Baselight 4.2 means more creative tools, more control and more functionality for the industry's leading colour corrector
FilmLight today announced the release of the latest version of its award-winning Baselight colour grading system. Baselight 4.2 is now available for the entire range of Baselight systems, providing a wealth of new and enhanced functionality - extending the capabilities of the industry’s leading colour grading solution.
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| | | | FotoKem Selects Baselight for New Post Production Facility in Budapest
FilmLight today announced that FotoKem has installed Baselight EIGHT and Baselight HD colour grading systems at its newly-built post production facility in Budapest. The systems will anchor two Digital Intermediate theatres with Baselight Eight used for 2K/4K grading of conventional and stereoscopic films.
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| | | | Baselight HD moves into The Refinery
Responding to a surge in client demand for the highest-quality digital film grading, full-service South African post-production facility The Refinery has invested in a Baselight HD colour grading system from FilmLight.
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| | | | Mwnci Chooses Filmlight’s Baselight HD
Mwnci, the leading Cardiff-based TV post production company, has invested in a Baselight HD colour-grading system and Baselight Kompressor from FilmLight, to complement its existing Avid editing workflow.
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| | | | Mexico’s Oxido Adds Second Baselight
Additional colour grading system fuels advertising work and expansion into feature film DI.
Mexico City-based Oxido, one of the largest providers of post production services for commercials in Latin America, has purchased a Baselight HD colour grading system from FilmLight.
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| | | | FilmLight and Avid to Showcase End-to-End File-Based Workflow
Los Angeles demonstration will highlight interoperability between Baselight and Media Composer 5.0
FilmLight and Avid will conduct joint demonstrations in Los Angeles this week of a totally file-based workflow for post-production featuring complete interoperability between FilmLight’s industry-leading Baselight color grading system and Avid’s newly-introduced Media Composer 5.0 nonlinear editing system.
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| | | | Hungary’s Focus-Fox Debuts New Grading Theatre with Baselight FOUR
 Cinemix facility offers unique combination of colour grading and sound mixing.
FilmLight today announces that Focus-Fox Studio, Budapest, the largest provider of post production services in Hungary, has installed a Baselight FOUR colour grading system in its newly-opened Cinemix digital intermediate grading and sound mixing theatre.
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| | | | IMAGICA implements FilmLight’s Baselight Colour Grading
Leading Japanese post production company chooses Baselight
IMAGICA, Japan’s most established and respected post-production company, has chosen to deploy a Baselight FOUR colour grading system from FilmLight into one of its existing Digital Intermediate (DI) suite at IMAGICA’s Tokyo Imaging Centre. Baselight FOUR provides IMAGICA with conform, file and colour management, fast storage, grain reduction and non-linear colour grading in a comprehensive, high-performance DI solution.
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| | | | Kodak Cinelab Selects FilmLight's Baselight and Northlight for New DI Services
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.
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| | | | NAB 2010: The Mill, New York, Adds Second Baselight
 At NAB 2010, FilmLight today announces that The Mill, New York, has purchased a Baselight FOUR colour grading system—its second. The move is a response to the great success The Mill has enjoyed with its first Baselight FOUR, which has proven to be extremely popular both among the facility’s colourists and its advertising clients. The new Baselight will replace an existing linear colour grading system giving the company more flexibility in its workflow and greater access to Baselight’s powerful toolset.
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| | | | FilmLight Launches Low Entry Price Point for Baselight at NAB 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.
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| | | | NAB 2010: FilmLight Riding a Wave of Success
After Seeing Its Product Range Recognised with Four Sci-Tech Awards, FilmLight Announces New Products, Solutions and Sales
With an unprecedented four Sci-Tech Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, what do you do for an encore?
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| | | | BBC Scotland Adds Baselight Colour Grading System
FilmLight’s Baselight connects with Avid Unity in real-time, collaborative workflow for Broadcast television post production.
BBC Scotland has purchased a Baselight HD from FilmLight for use in a new colour grading suite based in the BBC HDTV production facility at Pacific Quay in Glasgow.
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| | | | FilmLight Wins Four AMPAS Scientific and Technical Awards
Company’s Development Team Honoured for Northlight, Baselight and Truelight
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.
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| | | | Julie Miller Joins Raz Public Relations
Raz Public Relations, a boutique agency that serves entertainment technology developers and creative companies, announces that industry veteran Julie Miller has joined the company as managing director.
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| | | | Ollin Studio, Mexico's Largest Post House, Adds Second Baselight
Mexico's Largest Post House Upgrades Existing Baselight and Northlight Systems to Support Growing Slate of Features, Commercials and Music Videos
Ollin Studio, the largest provider of post production services for feature films and advertising media in Mexico, has boosted its ability to perform non-linear colour grading for commercials and other short form projects with the purchase of a Baselight One colour grading system from FilmLight.
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| | | | Mexico's Oxido Adds FilmLight's Baselight
New Colour Grading Service Allows Post House Plans to Expand into Features
Mexico City post house Oxido has acquired a Baselight ONE from FilmLight enabling it to offer colour grading services for the first time. The company's principal aim is to provide grading services for its existing advertising clients, but it also plans to use Baselight to expand into long form post production.
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| | | | GenArts Announces Next Generation Of Sapphire
Unprecedented Performance and Quality Gains to Reshape Compositing Workflows
GenArts Inc., the premier provider of specialized visual effects software for the film, television and video industries, announced today GenArts Sapphire™ 5. The latest software upgrade is fully GPU-enabled to provide artists a completely interactive user experience at HD resolutions, while accelerating render speeds up to 700 percent.
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| | | | Sony Pictures Entertainment Selects FilmLight's Baselight for New Post Facility
Installation includes three Baselight EIGHT systems for new 4K DI grading theatres
FilmLight today announces delivery of seven Baselight colour grading systems to Sony Pictures Entertainment. The systems will be installed at its newly-built digital intermediate facilities on the Sony Studios lot in Culver City, California, and connected to the studio's Digital Backbone.
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| | | | GenArts, Inc. Acquires wondertouch
Acquisition Underscores Company’s Aggressive Growth Strategy and Broadens GenArts’ Product Offering to Include Particles Engine
GenArts Inc., the premier provider of specialized visual effects software for the film, television and video industries, announced today a definitive agreement to acquire particleIllusion™ and all related products and technologies from wondertouch LLC.
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| | | | GenArts Unveils New Version of Sapphire for Avid AVX2 Systems: Oct 20 Announcement
Sapphire Version 3.02 Supports Avid’s AVX2 Plug-In Interface on DS Systems and New Floating and Rental Licensing Options
GenArts Inc., the premier provider of specialized visual effects software for the film, television and video industries, announced today GenArts Sapphire™ version 3.02 (v3.02) for Avid Systems. The upgrade extends support for Avid’s AVX2 plug-in interface to Avid DS v10.2.1 and later.
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| | | | GenArts Expands Sapphire Licensing Options To Include Floating Licenses
Institutional Users On Adobe After Effects and Apple Final Cut Pro Can Now Enjoy Significantly Reduced Support Costs While Maximizing Resource Allocation
GenArts Inc., the premier provider of specialized visual effects software for the film, television and video industries, announced today a floating licensing option for institutional users of GenArts Sapphire™ on After Effects and Final Cut Pro host systems.
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| | | | GenArts to Discontinue Support for Sapphire v1 for Avid Systems
Effective October 31, 2009 GenArts will no longer support Sapphire v1 for Avid licenses
GenArts Inc., the premier provider of specialized visual effects software for the film, television and video industries, announced today end of life for Sapphire version 1 for Avid systems effective October 31, 2009.
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| | | | Genarts Lowers Cost Of Entry For Sapphire Visual Effects Software
License Rental Option Brings Benefits of Sapphire to Broader Range of Adobe After Effects, Apple Final Cut Pro Users
GenArts Inc., the premier provider of specialized visual effects software for the film, television and video industries, announced today a monthly license rental option for its flagship GenArts Sapphire™ visual effects software for Adobe After Effects and Apple Final Cut Pro.
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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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| | | | GenArts Brings "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" Character to Life AND Unveils New Website
Visual Effects Artists Rely on State-of-the-Art Software to Put a Face to the Name “Diamond Girl”
GenArts Inc., the leading provider of specialized digital visual effects software for the film, television and video industries, today announced that its state-of-the-art visual effects software GenArts Sapphire™ was used to create the “Diamond Girl” character in this month’s blockbuster X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The much-anticipated feature film is the latest movie to leverage Sapphire for high-quality visual effects that capture the imagination of audiences worldwide.
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| | | | Class on Demand Announces New Training Products for GenArts Sapphire™ Visual Effects Software
GenArts' Todd Prives to host the company's first self-paced training title
Class on Demand, a provider of professional educational products for creative markets, announced today it will release a new self-paced training title on the industry-leading GenArts Sapphire for Adobe® After Effects® and Apple® Final Cut Pro®. Recognized by top studios and post-production houses for its image quality, organic look, speed and intuitive controls, GenArts Sapphire provides more than 200 state-of-the-art image processing and synthesis effects plug-ins. It has been used to create some of the most exciting visual effects in countless blockbuster and Oscar-nominated films.
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| | | | The Foundry returns to Autodesk Sparks programme
The Foundry, a leading developer of visual effects, image-processing and compositing software, announced today that, under an exclusive arrangement with Autodesk®, it can once again offer support for the Autodesk Sparks range of its Tinder, Furnace and Keylight products.
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| | | | GenArts Reports Record Sales Of Sapphire For Autodesk Systems In 2008
GenArts, leading provider of visual special effects software for the film, television and video industries, said today that 2008 represented the largest sales volume of GenArts Sapphire for Autodesk Systems products in the company’s history. GenArts also announced that it intends to enhance support for the product by delivering new capabilities in 2009.
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| | | | Foundry slashes Sparks prices as Autodesk revokes Development licence
The Foundry, a leading developer of visual effects, image-processing and compositing software, announced today that effective immediately, it has significantly reduced prices on plug-ins for Autodesk® advanced systems, as it is no longer part of the Autodesk Authorised Developer Network programme and can no longer guarantee continued development or support.
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| | | | GenArts Releases Sapphire Plug-ins Version 3 for Avid Editing Products
Available immediately, new version features 36 new effects and many enhancements
GenArts, Inc., a leading provider of visual effects software for the film, broadcast and video industries, today announced the release of version 3 of its Sapphire Plug-ins for the Avid® AVXTM architecture. The new version includes several new features to help editors working on Avid Media Composer®, Symphony™ or NewsCutter® systems to enhance their content with powerful visual effects tools.
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| | | | Ocula 3D Stereo Plug-ins from the Foundry Now Shipping
Pixel-level control removes the headache from stereo post production
Leading visual effects software developer The Foundry (www.thefoundry.co.uk) is now shipping Ocula – the unique collection of plug-in tools that solve common problems with stereoscopic imagery, boost productivity in post production, and ultimately help to deliver a more rewarding stereoscopic viewing experience.
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| | | | GenArts Releases Sapphire Plug-ins for OFX Products
Supports Leading Post-Production Platforms including The Foundry’s Nuke, Autodesk Toxik, Eyeon Fusion and Others
GenArts, Inc., a leading provider of visual effects plug-ins for the film, broadcast and video industries, today announced the immediate availability of Sapphire Plug-ins for OFX products.
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| | | | |  Articles and Tutorials: NAB 2013: AJA Video SystemsAJA Video Systems debuted its Ki Pro Quad solid-state portable video recorder for 4K camera-to-editorial workflows with Apple ProRes and RAW data. The new Ki Pro Quad supports 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 recording at HD and 2K resolution and real-time scaling from 4K/Quad HD to 2K/HD among its many other features. AJA also introduced its Hi5-4K Mini-Converter, which offers a monitoring connection from professional 4K devices to consumer 4K displays, and its Region of Interest Mini-Converter, which enables conversion and real-time scaling of computer DVI-D and HDMI outputs to baseband video over SDI. AJA also came to the show with lots of partnership news from Adobe, Avid and FilmLight as well as Quantel is now using AJA's Corvid Ultra OEM cards to power its Pablo RIO.Read Article Subscribe NAB 2013: On the Post Production Trail - Wrap UpFinally at home from an eventful NAB, Dennis Kutchera sorts through his show notes to deliver to COW readers thoughts on 4K and HD, hints on Adobe's upgrades on Premiere Pro and Adobe SpeedGrade, and the advantages of FilmLight's Baselight.Read Article Subscribe FilmLight at IBC 2012For FilmLight, IBC is traditionally the show where they debut products shown as new technologies at NAB. FilmLight is living up to the tradition by coming to Amsterdam with a long list of new products: FLIP real-time image processor, Baselight TRANSFER real-time 4K dailies processing system; Baselight Editions; Baselight 4.3, the latest version with new features; BLG (Baselight Grade, an open EXR file format); and FLUX, an expandable 80TB streaming media server. The aim, says co-founder/director Wolfgang Lempp, is to improve productivity to keep up with ever-changing workflows.Read Article Subscribe NAB 2012: FilmLight FLIPs for End-to-End ColorFilmLight introduces FLIP, a new real-time image processing product that's an end-to-end color pipeline solution. Also new is the near-set dailies solution Baselight Transfer and Baselight 4.3, the latest software version with many new features.Read Article Subscribe FilmLight Baselight for FCP. It's a serious color tool.Thousands of members of Creative COW were at the 2011 NAB Show, and we are pleased to bring you some of their reports. In this entry, Walter Biscardi at NAB 2011, had the opportunity for a 1 on 1 demo of the full Baselight color correction system and it's "little cousin", the plug-in that "allows you to bring a ridiculously powerful color correction system directly inside of Final Cut Pro" (and other hosts).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 End of Day 1: the buzz is...very little buzzBut that's a good thing, really. Have customers gotten savvy to the "we're the best thing since sliced bread" mentality? Are they fed up with products that are promised to ship next month only to find out it's next month plus six or eight more months? At the AJA press...Read Blog Subscribemore blogs »Related Tags | | | | |
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