| | | | MTI Film Adds XAVC Support to Cortex
MTI Film today announces that its Cortex product line now includes full support for Sony’s recently-developed XAVC recording format. XAVC is included in Cortex::Control Dailies DP, Pro, Studio and Ultimate editions and in the Stream, Pro, Studio and Ultimate editions of Cortex::Convey. Support for Sony RAW and SR Master formats is already included in all Cortex editions including the FREE edition of Cortex::Control Dailies.
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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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| | | | MTI Film Opens Cortex::Convey Render Engine with XML API
The popular and powerful Convey transcoding engine now includes a published API for use with command linescripts, render farms, custom GUIs and cross-application integration.
MTI Film today announces that it has published an XML API for its popular transcoding engine Convey. Based on the software featured in MTI Film’s groundbreaking dailies processing solution Cortex v 1.2 (released at NAB 2013), the API can be used to create custom-automation and cross-application integrations for transcoding all Cortex-supported formats.
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| | | | Digital Vision Announces Technology Partnership with MTI Film; Unveils Slate of Advanced Image Processing Tools
A History of Innovation, Collaboration, Integration in the Spotlight at NAB 2013
In keeping with its 25-year history of advancing creative technology, Digital Vision is proud to announce a technology partnership with MTI Film that will include the integration of MTI's Cortex::Control Dailies with the award-winning Nucoda grading platform. In addition, Digital Vision is unveiling exciting new developments for their Nucoda and Phoenix product lines during NAB.
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| | | | Digital Vision Brings Image Technology Innovations to NAB 2013
Technology Demonstrations, New Features Unveiled for Colour Grading, Archive, Stereo and Image Processing
Digital Vision will bring its range of image technology solutions to NAB 2013, including the Nucoda 2013 colour grading product line which features many new tools and enhancements, and the latest version of Phoenix restoration software. In addition the company, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, will present the first technology demonstration of Thor, a soon-to-be-released dedicated hardware product for advanced image processing.
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| | | | MTI Film Hires Jim Hannafin to Lead Restoration Business
 Post-production veteran sees great potential for growing preservation and restoration business worldwide.
MTI Film has appointed Jim Hannafin as Senior Vice President for Business Development. Hannafin, who arrives with more than 25 years of senior level experience in post-production, will focus on growing the company’s film preservation and restoration business, domestically and globally. MTI Film is one of the world’s leading independent providers of film restoration tools and services, with recent projects including a 4K restoration of Lawrence of Arabia for Sony Pictures.
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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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| | | | 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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| | | | MTI Film Releases Cortex
New family of on-set/near-set dailies solutions supports all camera systems and features tools for playback, color, synchronization, metadata and transcoding.
MTI Film announces the release of its groundbreaking Cortex line of software-based dailies solutions. Developed from the ground up to support today’s file-based production workflows, Cortex provides an all-in-one solution for digital media management with simple but powerful tools for playback, color, audio synchronization, metadata management and transcoding.
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| | | | MTI Film Solves Post for “Major Crimes”
 Picking up where it left off on “The Closer,” Hollywood post facility handles post work for Shephard/Robin’s new digitally-captured crime drama.
In the continuation of a highly successful partnership begun last year, MTI Film is providing final color grading and other post-production services to Shephard/Robin Company and Warner Bros. Television for the inaugural season of the new prime-time drama Major Crimes. MTI Film first teamed with Shephard/Robin ten months ago, midway through the final season of The Closer, when that show made the switch from 35mm to digital capture.
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| | | | MTI Film Launches Film Restoration Facility in China
 MTI Film, a Hollywood-based post production services provider and software developer, has entered into a joint-venture in China focused on film restoration. MTI Film China is located in a newly-opened Animation Park in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin.
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| | | | MTI Film Goes the Distance for A&E TV’s “Longmire”
 MTI Film’s employs Remote Control Dailies and streamlined workflow to bring Western drama to a smooth finish.
Produced by Warner Horizon Television, Longmire is taking advantage of MTI Film’s new Remote Control Dailies system to facilitate a workflow that spans the country. The show, a modern day crime drama centering on the sheriff of a remote Wyoming community, is shot in New Mexico, but editorial and post work is carried out in Los Angeles. A&E TV’s network operations, meanwhile, are based in Stamford, Connecticut. As a result, editorial media needs to be sent from the set to the editorial team on a daily basis, while high quality review media has to be made available to parties in New Mexico, California and Connecticut
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| | | | MTI Film Appoints Storm FX as Reseller for Australia and New Zealand
MTI Film has added Storm FX Distributions Pty Ltd, a Sydney, Australia-based distributer of design, modelling and finishing solutions, to its international network of value-added resellers. Storm FX will represent MTI Film’s full product line, including its newly-introduced Cortex family of products, throughout Australia and New Zealand.
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| | | | NBC Universal Chooses MTI Film's Control Dailies
 Studio also boosts restoration pipeline with additional purchase of MTI Films’ Correct DRS™
NBC Universal has selected MTI Film’s Control Dailies Enterprise and Cortex::ControlDailies as its solution for processing digital camera dailies. The company has also increased its digital film restoration capacity through the purchase of additional seats of MTI Film’s Correct DRS™.
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| | | | MTI Film Joins Sony Pictures' F65 Training Program as Workflow Partner
 MTI Film was recently selected by Sony Electronics’ Professional Solutions of America Group as a workflow partner in its newly-opened Digital Motion Picture Center (DMPC). The Center offers hands-on training for directors, cinematographers and other film and television professionals in the use of Sony’s F65 CineAlta camera and production workflows that support it.
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| | | | MTI Film Extends Cortex::Capture Giveaway
 WIN a FREE seat of Digital Camera Decoding Software
In response to the enormous interest generated by the launch of its new, on-location review and color management tool, Cortex::Capture, MTI Film is extending a product giveaway that it began at NAB 2012. Each week from now until the product launch, the company will hold a drawing with the winner receiving a FREE Cortex::Capture license. Names entered in the drawing will roll over to the new drawing from week to week. Everyone who enters will be included in the Grand Prize drawing on July 5th for a FREE seat of Cortex::Convey.
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| | | | MTI Film Introduces Control Dailies Support for the Canon C300
 MTI Film has added support for the Canon EOS C300 camera to the current version of its digital workflow solution, Control Dailies. Post production facilities and other Control Dailies users can now provide a streamlined solution for dailies processing and digital deliverables generation to feature film and television productions using Canon’s groundbreaking new camera.
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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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| | | | MTI Film to Showcase Transcoding Solution “Cortex”
 At NAB 2012, MTI Film will showcase its new Cortex platform, a family of products that marks a major step forward in digital asset management for production and post-production. Based on MTI Film’s ten years of experience in developing file-based workflow solutions through its Control Dailies and Convey products, Cortex brings coherence and portability to the process of managing digital assets from the set to the screen.
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| | | | MTI Puts Third Nucoda Film Master into the Equation
 Top Hollywood Facility Relies on Nucoda for Versatile Workflow
Image Systems - the leading manufacturer of image enhancement and mastering systems for post production - has announced that MTI Film in Hollywood, California, has installed its third Nucoda Film Master into its state-of-the-art facility. Opened in 2010, MTI Film is a full service post production facility providing high quality dailies, editorial, visual effects, color correction and assembly for film, television and commercial projects. MTI is currently at work on a number of projects, including AMC's Hell on Wheels, CW's Ringer, Good Christian Belles on ABC, and for TNT The Closer, Dallas, and Rizzoli & Isles, as well as a number of feature and restoration projects.
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| | | | “Dallas” Chooses MTI Films’ Remote Control Dailies
 Warner Horizon Televisions’ reboot of the nighttime drama Dallas has become the first production to take advantage of MTI Film’s Remote Control Dailies service to ensure secure, high-quality dailies while shooting on location in Dallas. Remote Control Dailies offers the same complete feature set that MTI Film’s Control Dailies provides in a facility setting, but configured in a portable unit for use on-set or near-set.
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| | | | THX® Announces New THX cineSpace™ Partner Program at SMPTE 2011
Program Offers Access to Development Versions of THX cineSpace Products, Expanded Training Opportunities for Best Practices and Enables Communication between Production Facilities
THX Ltd. today announced the THX cineSpace™ Partner Program, a growing ecosystem of experts in the content production space, with a common goal of offering products that ensure quality end-customer experiences and effective color management throughout the production chain. Representing Digital Intermediate grading and restoration systems used in major facilities all over the world to finish feature films, television shows and commercials, the new program promotes proper implementation and use of the THX cineSpace color management software. It enables partner companies to access development versions of new THX cineSpace products for alpha and beta testing, and to use THX cineSpace in end-user training programs to ensure customers get the most out of the combination of THX cineSpace and their products.
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| | | | ASSIMILATE Expands European Sales Channels with Appointment of Ezequiel Sarser
ASSIMILATE, the leading provider of powerful post-production tools for digital workflows, today announced the appointment of Ezequiel Sarser as Director of European sales. As the company leverages recent sales successes of its SCRATCH Six and SCRATCH Lab data workflow product line, Sarser will be responsible for the expansion of ASSIMILATE’s European sales channels, supporting the reseller network and strengthening customer relationships across the region.
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| | | | Bruno Munger Joins ALT Systems
 Respected Product Manager Brings Workflow Expertise to Renowned Systems Integration Company
ALT Systems, a full service systems integrator and workflow solutions provider, has appointed Bruno Munger as Director of Technical Sales. Munger will collaborate with ALT Systems' customers to design workflow solutions, integrate cutting-edge hardware and software systems, and adapt technical infrastructures for the most demanding post production and visual effects work. His new position is effective immediately, as he joins his colleagues this week at the Hollywood Post Alliance (HPA) Tech Retreat in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
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| | | | “Business Side” of Digital Acquisition to be Explored in Panel Hosted by HPA’s Sales Career Resource Group
Industry experts discuss how new production models will impact post production companies.
Some of the film and television industry’s leading experts in digital acquisition will offer their views on the impact new production methodologies will have on post production companies in a lunch-time panel discussion hosted by the Hollywood Post Alliance’s Sales Career Resource Group (SCRG), Wednesday, February 2nd, at the Beverly Garland Holiday Inn in North Hollywood.
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| | | | MTI Film Ups David Mcclure To VP
MTI Film is pleased to announce the promotion of David McClure to Vice President. The move comes at a time when MTI is growing and expanding into the services business.CEO Larry Chernoff observes, “David's depth of knowledge and experience, as well as his long history with the company, make him an ideal choice to help lead MTI into the future.”
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| | | | MTI Film Debuts New Facility
MTI Film has recently moved to a new, larger facility and expanded its services offerings to include Television, Film and Commercial Post-Production. CEO Larry Chernoff has put together an experienced team of experts to oversee the cutting-edge technology MTI has assembled to create a unique all-digital workflow.
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| | | | ARRI Archive Workshop brings industry together
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.
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| | | | Ones and Zeros Enters South American Restoration Market with Correct DRS™
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.
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| | | | Bruno Munger Joins Digital Vision
Respected Technologist Tapped for Product Manager Role
Digital Vision, the premier supplier of mastering and finishing systems for film and television post-production, has announced that Bruno Munger will step into the role of Product Manager – Grading & Finishing, effective immediately.
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| | | | MaxT Systems Sledgehammer HD!O® Chosen for Film Restoration at Éclair
Sledgehammer HD!O High-Performance Network Attached Storage and Realtime HD Video Device to Handle Restoration of Classic French Film Archive
MaxT Systems Inc., developers of server-based media applications and high-performance storage solutions, today announced that Eclair Laboratoires, a leading digital post production company in France, has purchased and installed three of its Sledgehammer HD!O high-performance network attached storage (NAS)/realtime HD video device systems at the heart of its high-volume film restoration facility.
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| | | | MTI Film to Debut CONVEY Support for Blu-ray, DNxHD and DPX at NAB
Automated Dailies Deliverables Solution Also Features New GUI
At NAB 2009, MTI Film will debut three new modules for its automated dailies deliverables solution Convey for Control Dailies that support the production of dailies deliverables in Blu-ray, DNxHD and DPX formats. Additional modules to support QuickTime and ProRes will be introduced later in the year. The new modules are aimed at facilitating dailies screenings and editorial processes.
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| | | | MTI Film to Release CORRECT DRS™, Ver. 8, at NAB
Industry-standard Restoration Software Adds Speed, Performance -Support for Vista, New 3-Layer Registration Tool
MTI Film will release a new and significantly improved version of its award-winning digital film restoration and finishing software Correct DRS™ at the upcoming National Association of Broadcasters Convention in Las Vegas. Based on comprehensive feedback from customers with experience in restoring hundreds of films, Correct DRS Version 8 provides improved flexibility in system configuration and an enhanced user interface for increased productivity along with a host of additions and improvements to the toolset.
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| | | | MTI Film to Debut New Solution for Processing Digitally-Acquired Dailies at NAB
 DA Head works with Control Dailies, Control Color and Convey to form a "true" tapeless environment for data.
At the upcoming National Association of Broadcasters Convention, MTI Film (www.mtifilm.com) will debut a new option for its award-winning Control Dailies solution. The DA Head module for Control Dailies enables the faster-than-real-time power of Control Dailies to facilitate the processing of digitally-acquired dailies from virtually any source. Control Dailies for Digital Acquisition (DA) supports Red One,Panasonic P2, Panavision Genesis, Viper FilmStream and Arri D-21 digital cinema cameras, as well as media in DPX file format.
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| | | | MTI Film and Panasonic to Demonstrate P2 Digital Acquisition Dailies Workflow
Demonstrations on March 31 at MTI Film, Hollywood, will feature the newly-released Control Dailies DA.
MTI Film and Panasonic will conduct a joint demonstration of a revolutionary new dailies processing workflow leveraging the advantages of the Panasonic P2 file-based process with the award-winning efficiency and simplicity of Control Dailies.
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| | | | MTI Film Debuts RED Camera Support for CONTROL Dailies
MTI Film will bring its Control Dailies workflow to productions using RED cameras, announced MTI CEO Larry Chernoff. MTI Control Dailies enables faster-than-real-time transfer from film, VTRs, or 2k DPX files to HD and SD, and includes audio synchronization, and output to tape or file-based deliverables.
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| | | | John Galt and Larry Chernoff Digital Workflow Talk Now on Panavision Media Site
On-line Video and Transcript Now Available as Two of Hollywood’s Most Knowledgeable Technologists Discuss New Realities in Digital Production/Post-Production
How is the digital revolution affecting professional film makers? As acquisition, workflow, and archiving continue to undergo seismic changes, what are the promises--as well as the pitfalls--of this far-reaching transition?
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| | | | News: Signiant Appoints Tom Ohanian as Vice President of Product Management
Renowned digital media industry veteran opens new vertical opportunities for Signiant
Signiant™, Inc., the leader in distributed data management, today announced that media industry veteran Thomas A. Ohanian has joined its executive management team as vice president of product management. In this role, Tom will lead the company’s efforts to further develop its Signiant Mobilize™ product line and leverage his extensive background to bring new vertically-focused products to the media and entertainment market.
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| | | | News: FilmLight Expands Sales Channel With Appointment of root6
FilmLight, a world-leading pioneer of digital film technology, is pleased to announce the appointment of root6 as the UK reseller for the Baselight product range. The immediate appointment will allow root6 to sell and support the Baselight grading and finishing family including Baselight Four and Eight systems enabling real-time 4K grading for both film and video deliverables.
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| | | | |  Articles and Tutorials: Lawrence of Arabia: Sony's Beautiful 4K RestorationSony Pictures Entertainment recently finished a 3-year process culminating in a stunning 4K restoration of the 1962 masterpiece Lawrence of Arabia, completed just in time for the film's 50th anniversary. Guided by Sony Executive Vice President Grover Crisp, this massive project engaged cutting-edge technology and expertise from Sony Colorworks DI facility as well as Prasad Corporation and MTI Film, working together on a newly scanned negative. One of the most beautiful films of all time is now more gorgeous than ever.Read Article Subscribe MTI Film introduces Remote Control DailiesThousands 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, Debra Kaufman surveys MTI Film's newest offerings and finds that the new feature for Correct DRSTM aids collaborative digital restoration, and that PixelStax allows facilities to share work among artists in multiple locations.Read Article Subscribemore articles » Blogs: NAB 2013 Day 2: What I'm thankful forFirst, let me count the things I'm thankful for. My comfortable shoes -- not Hush Puppies this year but these cool Munro shoes I inherited from my mother. Second, my almost-brand new laptop, an HP Pavilion dm1 Notebook PC. I did not want to spend the money for an UltraBook...Read Blog Subscribemore blogs »Related Tags | | | | |
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