| | | | NVIDIA NVS 315 Sets New Standard for Dual-Display Commercial Graphics
Powerful Card Maximizes Compatibility With Existing Display Infrastructures; Businesses Can Scale Up to Meet Needs, Manage Workgroups Easily
NVIDIA today launched the NVIDIA® NVS™ 315, a versatile dual-display graphics card that allows professionals to boost their productivity and businesses to easily scale their deployments while simplifying IT management.
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| | | | PipelineFX Debuts Burst License Program for Education
Schools Can Now Double License Capacity of Their Render Farms Twice a Year for Free; First-Of-Its-Kind Policy a Budget-Friendly Solution for Cyclical Crunch Periods
Today PipelineFX announces that twice a year, all PipelineFX education customers on subscription can double their current license capacity at no additional charge, with the company’s new Education Burst License program. Schools can choose between a one month burst that will start at the beginning of a selected month and a 30-day burst that begins on a date of their choice. With nearly 200 schools already on subscription, the preferred render farm management solution for education just got a whole lot better.
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| | | | Pablo Rio Gets Huge Performance Boost And Yet More Tools
 New software release unlocks multi-GPU processing power and delivers 4K 60fps
Quantel today released a new software version for Pablo Rio that unleashes the full power of its multi-GPU architecture and AJA® Corvid Ultra integration. Pablo Rio's new software delivers "simply phenomenal" performance and adds yet more capabilities to its unique integrated color and finishing toolset.
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| | | | Mistika Brings Real-Time Grading Power In All Dimensions To Moscow At RSS Production
 Mistika brings Real-time Stereo broadcasting from stage to screen in Russia
Moscow-based RSS Production has invested in SGO's Mistika system to upgrade their newly launched post production studio predominantly for colour grading in 2D and Stereo 3D work. The Company provides technical and creative expertise in 2D and Stereo 3D film and television productions for commercials and documentaries and they also specialise in delivering corporate media events.
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| | | | N3V Games’ New “Dead On Arrival 2” Mobile Game Captures Zombie Motion With iPi Motion Capture
 Markerless Motion Capture Technology Plays Key Role In Long-Awaited Follow-Up
The next wave of zombie action is about to be unleashed in "Dead On Arrival 2" – the latest installment in the popular mobile videogame created by the Queensland, Australia-based N3V Games. Playing a key role in streamlining the character animation development was the popular markerless motion capture software solution iPi Motion Capture from iPi Soft. "Dead on Arrival 2" is currently in closed beta testing and will be available on NVIDIA’s Shield in late July.
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| | | | PipelineFX Releases Qube! 6.5
 Biggest Expansion to Reporting and Performance Capabilities Yet; Detailed Cost Tracking For VFX Studios Working Across Multiple Shows and Clients
Today PipelineFX, creator of the leading render farm management software for digital media creation, announces the release of Qube! 6.5. New tools for job tagging, configuration, and reporting round out Qube!’s most feature-rich offering to date; while improvements to Smart Farming functionality promote a simpler path to pipeline intelligence.
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| | | | NVIDIA Quadro K4000 Helps Pixomondo Create Alien Worlds for Star Trek Into Darkness
 Pixomondo is an international visual effects company that utilizes a 24-hour production cycle enabled by a global network of facilities for feature film, television and commercial projects. Recognized with an Academy Award™ for "HUGO" and an Emmy Award™ for the second season of "Game of Thrones", the company’s artistic prowess is further evident in its stunning visual effects work for J.J. Abrams' epic "Star Trek Into Darkness."
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| | | | Quantel Pablo Rio Takes Seagull Post To New Heights Of Performance And Interactivity
Top Italian post house enhances color correction and finishing services with Quantel
Rome-based post-production house, Seagull Post, has recently upgraded its Quantel Pablo 4K and Pablo PA to two of the latest Pablo Rio color correction and finishing systems. Seagull Post is built on 15 years of experience, offering services from scene to screen in 2D and S3D for the film, television and commercials markets. The facility has worked on 3D films including, ‘Com'è bello far l'amore’, the television series, ‘Intreatment’ for SKY, and documentary film, ‘Giuseppe Tornatore - Every Film My First Film’, as well as commercials for Ferrarelle and Salmoiraghi & Vigano.
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| | | | Jean-Pierre Jeunet's “The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet” - Graded in Mistika
““The French film industry is vibrant and growing with an increasing demand for Mistika owing to its reputation as a reliable, powerful colour grading asset. ...
SGO’'s Mistika was chosen by Digimage Cinema for the complete post production including colour grading of highly anticipated film, The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet, directed by award-winning French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. It will be digitally re-mastered in the IMAX 3D format using Mistika, with plans for its début release on 16 October 2013 across IMAX theatres in France.
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| | | | NAIT and SGO form Educational Partnership to Equip Students with Cutting-edge Technology
 Mistika and NAIT unlock an exciting new vision together
NAIT, the second largest Polytechic in Canada reknowned for its nationally accredited engineering, media and applied research, has invested in SGO's Mistika. NAIT DMIT (Digital Media and IT) is the only transmedia school of its kind in Canada, and has chosen the powerful and diverse Mistika software to enhance its digital media curriculum and content creation programs in Stereoscopic 3D and 2D. To keep students at the front of the digital industries when they graduate, NAIT DMIT believes that training and equiping students with the most up-to-date knowledge and cutting-edge tools is a bottom line.
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| | | | Qube! Rewires Render Pipeline at Scandinavia’s Biggest Animation Studio
 Superior Technical Support and Intelligent System Controls Help Norway’s Qvisten Animation AS Increase Efficiency While Working on Film and Commercial Projects
With two animated features in production, and a commercial due every month, Qvisten Animation AS is the epitome of a hardworking animation studio. But like most creative organizations, they can only be as good as the tools they have around them. For years their render farm was more burden than boon; more likely to crash than provide them with the customization tools they required. During their search for something more stable, the team came across PipelineFX’s Qube!™ – a production-proven render farm manager that satisfied their need for consistency. It has never let them down.
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| | | | CUDA Acceleration Supported in Metus INGEST!
 Metus technology continues its commitment to extracting the last drop of performance out of your PC hardware, by adding CUDA support for GPU based H.264 encoding!
With Geforce 690 GPU, 6 channels of 1080i H.264 video can be captured in real time. GPU accelerated encoding was initially supported by Metus INGEST in 2012 with Intel QuicSynch support, which is an on-board GPU technology available with some PC motherboards and Intel CPUs. While enabling low cost hardware to do multi channel HD capture, this technology requires that the motherboard and CPU needs to be compatible with it.
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| | | | Pablo Rio Powers Up with NVIDIA Kepler Architecture GPUs
 Quantel taps latest NVIDIA Kepler architecture-based GPUs for more throughput, increased interactivity and HFR support
Quantel announced today that its Pablo Rio software high-end color and finishing system now supports the latest NVIDIA(r) Kepler(tm) architecture-based Tesla(r) K20 GPU accelerators. Tesla K20 GPUs provide about twice the performance of the previous-generation Tesla GPUs based on the NVIDIA Fermi architecture, and 10 times faster performance than the latest CPUs.
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| | | | Inaugural "Production Pipeline Expo" To Launch May 3-4 at Santa Monica Airport's Barker Hanger
First Annual Visual Effects and Animation Expo to Present Expert Panels, Guest Speakers and Educational Sessions
What originally began as the “Career Fair & Technology Expos” of 2011 and 2012 has evolved into a brand new, two-day event, entitled the “Production Pipeline Expo.” This inaugural event, which will be held May 3-4 at the Barker Hanger (Santa Monica Airport,) has been designed as a full blown visual effects and animation expo, complete with expert panels, “must see” presentations, best in class educational sessions, provocative speakers, and an unprecedented level of attendee talent with an eye on new opportunities. The announcement was made today by the expo’s founder/originator Anthony Horn, most recently Director of Marketing and Development for the Visual Effects Society.
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| | | | emotion3D announces Stereoscopic Suite X3 plugins for The Foundry’s Nuke
emotion3D announces the upcoming release of its award-winning suite of stereoscopic plugins for The Foundry’s Nuke platform. The Stereoscopic Suite X3 for The Foundry’s Nuke features emotion3D’s unique toolset for working with stereoscopic material, bringing the exceptional functionality of SSX3 to a new group of artists.
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| | | | Boris FX Expands Real-Time Performance of Boris Continuum Complete
New Boris Continuum Complete v8.2 Features Fast OpenGL Rendering, New Real-Time Filters
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated VFX and workflow technology for video and film, today announced Boris Continuum Complete (BCC) Version 8.2. The new v8.2 release features up to 100% improvement in render time for OpenGL-accelerated filters. In addition, nearly all BCC AVX for Avid filters can now be rendered in real-time.
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| | | | NVIDIA Accelerates Creative Workflows at NAB 2013
New NVIDIA GRID Visual Computing Appliance Featured Among Demos for Broadcasters, Visual Effects Artists and Animators
NVIDIA is showcasing how professionals creating and distributing content can accelerate their workflows using the latest GPU technologies and partner software in booth SL3905 and throughout the conference at NAB 2013.
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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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| | | | Fusion-io to Integrate ioFX Acceleration Into HP Z Workstations
 Industry Leaders Enhance Application Performance in Visual Effects, Digital Content Creation and Computer Assisted Design for Demanding Creative Projects
Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) today announced that it is collaborating with global workstation leader HP to integrate the Fusion ioFX into the award-winning HP Z820, Z620 and Z420 Workstations. The integrated solutions will offer ideal development platforms for professional artists in visual effects, upstream exploration of oil and gas, digital content creation (DCC) and computer-aided design (CAD). In addition, professionals interested in adding the Fusion ioFX to their current HP Workstation can purchase the ioFX as a custom integration component.
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| | | | PipelineFX Offers Sneak Preview of Qube! 6.5 at NAB 2013
New Installer Makes Installation Easier Than Ever on Top Three Platforms; Live Demos of Latest Qube! Features In Hitachi Data Systems Booth #SL5816
This year at NAB 2013, PipelineFX will be previewing some of the prominent additions coming to its render farm management software, Qube! 6.5 in the Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) booth, #SL5816.
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| | | | Adobe Anywhere Launches at NAB 2013
Global Collaborative Workflow Platform Revolutionizes Broadcast Industry
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe®Anywhere for video, a modern, collaborative workflow platform that empowers teams using Adobe professional video tools to work together, enabling the access and management of centralized media and assets across virtually any network. Revealed as a technology preview in 2012, Adobe Anywhere supports tools such as Adobe Premiere® Pro, Adobe After Effects®*, and Adobe Prelude™, and will be showcased at this year’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show, with final availability expected in May 2013. Adobe Anywhere will be on display during the NAB show taking place April 8-11, 2013 at Adobe’s booth # SL3910, South Hall in the Las Vegas Convention Center.
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| | | | Mistika brings new developments, products and performance-leading Innovations for post, DI and broadcast to NAB
SGO launches Mistika Air at NAB – Intelligent Broadcasting solutions for more efficient workflows
“Mistika has become a system and workflow solution associated with leading developments which address the very latest desires and trends of the post, DI and broadcast markets. NAB is a perfect place to showcase our technology with work done by our amazing customers from the small boutiques to the biggest film studios and broadcasters all around the world. We will continue to push development that keeps us one step ahead of the competition and which delivers many of the best solutions in the industry”
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| | | | Matrox Announces 4K Output Card for Developers — Matrox DSX LE3 4K
 Support for 3G SDI Level A and B at 4096 x 2160/60p lets OEMs create full 4K broadcast workflow solutions
Matrox® Video today announced a new addition to the Matrox DSX™ Developer Products family—the Matrox DSX LE3 4K card. Matrox DSX LE3 4K enables realtime monitoring and output of video footage at resolutions up to 4096 x 2160 at frame rates up to 60 fps. This new 4K output card, in conjunction with the industry-leading Matrox DSX Software Development Kit and 4K codec support for ProRes and XAVC, lets equipment manufacturers create graphics systems, editing solutions and playout servers in native 4K resolutions. At the 2013 NAB Show, leading broadcast equipment supplier Vizrt will preview the breakthrough 4K rendering capability of its Viz Engine using the Matrox DSX LE3 4K card.
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| | | | SGO relies on ATTO's Fibre Channel technology to provide high-performance Mistika solutions to be showcased at NAB 2013
 Visit the SGO Booth SL10321 and ATTO Booth SL7613 at NAB 2013
SGO relies on ATTO Technology, Inc., the storage and network connectivity solutions provider to bring even greater performance standards to Mistika workflow solutions for high-end film and broadcast projects. Mistika's breath-taking speed is indicative of how demanding it is on bandwidth to its storage devices, and ATTO Celerity Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) provide that vital connection. With ATTO Technology's experience in engineering advanced technology into real-world product solutions, they provide SGO with a unique competitive advantage.
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| | | | NYC’s Fashion Institute of Technology Puts Qube! Through the Paces
 Remote Capabilities and Reliable Results Make Render Management Software the “Backbone of BFA Program”
Free is great until system crashes become more common than polished renders. New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology learned this lesson the hard way after entrusting its render queue to free render farm management solutions. These systems were unable to provide the reliability required to produce quality animations and images for its students’ thesis projects, leading the Computer Animation and Interactive Media department to a solution that would: PipelineFX’s Qube!™.
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| | | | V2 software takes Pablo Rio to new heights of performance and interactivity
New software unlocks the full power of the Pablo Rio platform
Quantel today released Pablo Rio V2. V2 is a 64-bit application that unlocks the full power of the Pablo Rio PC platform. Pablo Rio V2 supports realtime 4K 16-bit, offering multiple color correction cascades at 4K with realtime playback. The free of charge V2 software upgrade delivers even greater performance and interactivity to all Pablo Rio customers.
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| | | | NVIDIA Unveils Industry's First Visual Computing Appliance
 NVIDIA GRID VCA Delivers Remote GPU Acceleration and Turnkey Simplicity for Small and Medium-Size Businesses
NVIDIA today introduced the industry's first visual computing appliance - enabling businesses to deliver ultra-fast GPU performance to any Windows, Linux or Mac client on their network.
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| | | | TYAN showcases the cutting-edge GPU platforms at GTC 2013 in US.
 Compatible with 1 to 8 NVIDIA Tesla K Series GPU Accelerators, TYAN Presents Various Out-standing GPU Platforms Aim to HPC and Datacenter Fields
TYAN, an industry-leading server platform design manufacturer and subsidiary of MiTAC International Corp, will present its cutting-edge GPU supporting platform during the NVIDIA GTC 2013. Ranging from 2U to 4U and compatible with1 to 8 GPUs. TYAN offers a full product portfolio to customers which are compatible with NVIDIA Tesla K Series GPU Accelerators. The TYAN S7055 and S7056 motherboard will be showcased as well as TYAN TA77-B7061 and FT48-B7055 barbones at TYAN’s booth (#503) during the GTC 2013.
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| | | | Acer Expands Commercial Offering with New Veriton P Workstation and Altos Server
More options for professional computing and rendering
Acer announces its entry to the professional workstation market with the Veriton P series and new Altos servers thereby expanding its commercial offering. Emphasizing flexibility for various customer needs, the new workstations and servers support a wide range of computing configurations and feature the Intel® Xeon® E3 and E5 processors, ECC ECC (Error-correcting code memory) memory, RAID RAID (Redundant array of independent disks) support, and backup components to maximize the performance and run time.
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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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| | | | NVIDIA Sets New Standard for Workstation Performance and Reliability
 New Lineup of Kepler-Based NVIDIA Quadro Professional Graphics Delivers Unprecedented Capabilities to Millions of Content-Creation, Design, Engineering Professionals
NVIDIA today unveiled a range of NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics products that offer unprecedented workstation performance and capabilities for professionals in manufacturing, engineering, medical, architectural, and media and entertainment companies.
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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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| | | | Autodesk Kicks Off ‘Gwen & Dave’ Animated Vacation Getaway Contest
 Artists are encouraged to create an animated vacation short or postcard image that features Gwen and Dave using assets from the film and tools from the Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite Ultimate for a chance to win great prizes.
It's time to put on your thinking caps! Autodesk is calling all artists to design the animated vacation of a lifetime for Gwen and Dave - new characters from "Gwen & Dave," an animated short created by Autodesk and Hatch Studios.
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| | | | Mistika Performs A Starring Role At London’s BTV Post To Bring Shakespeare To Life From Open Air Stage To Cinema Screen Across Different Genres
 “Mistika's fantastic “digital printer lights tool” proved a great asset in restoring balance to the image...One of the most beneficial features in Mistika throughout this project is the “selection ganging” feature of the storyboard.” Ian Grey, Mistika VFX Artist and Colour Grader, BTV Post
Soho-based BTV Post is currently using Mistika for the grading, online finishing and digital mastering for all platform deliveries of Shakespeare's Globe's fourth season of filmed live theatre performances of The Taming of the Shrew, Henry V and Twelfth Night for an international Shakespeare experience.
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| | | | Studio l'Equipe relies on Mistika to introduce cutting-edge colour grading toolsets to Brussels for feature films
 As part of the on-going expansion of digital acquisition, Brussels-based Studio l’Equipe, one of Belgium’s leading post production facilities has invested in SGO's Mistika to meet the demands of a rapidly changing and highly competitive feature film market. Studio l'Equipe has installed a Mistika 4K system with a Mistika Assist station, to help accelerate the post production process by allowing simultaneous access to Mistika projects for ingest, online functions and the creation of deliverables, without disturbing the master Mistika system. Both Mistikas are connected to a 72TB SAN storage system.
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| | | | Squint/Opera Finds Rendering Edge in PipelineFX’s Qube!
Render Farm Management Software Gives a Speed Boost to Content Creation Firm’s Architectural, Branding, Film, and Large Image Projects
As the world’s appetite for content grows more and more insatiable, creative powerhouses like London’s Squint/Opera are finding their logistical edge in the most logical of places: pipeline management. With the help of PipelineFX’s render farm management software Qube!™, Squint/Opera has recently rewired their pipeline to put speed, performance and task order first – a move that has transformed an under-utilized system into a venerable powerhouse of its own.
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| | | | Rhythm & Hues Makes Skies Soar with NVIDIA GPUs in Life of Pi
 Global visual effects giant Rhythm & Hues (R&H) recently completed the lion’s share of visual effects shots on the acclaimed new film, “Life of Pi,” leveraging NVIDIA GPUs to maximize throughput and accelerate creative workflows. “Life of Pi,” from Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee, tapped legions of R&H artists at offices in Los Angeles, India, Kuala Lumpur, Vancouver and Taiwan to create several hundred visual effects shots in stereo 3D that included the Bengal tiger, digitally recreated water and skies, Meerkat Island and myriad additional creatures and effects.
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| | | | All-New iMac Features Stunning Design, Brilliant Display & Faster Performance
Apple® today unveiled a completely new iMac® with a stunning design, brilliant display with reduced reflection, and faster processors.* With third generation Intel quad-core processors, powerful NVIDIA graphics and an innovative new storage option called Fusion Drive, the new iMac is the most advanced desktop Apple has ever made.
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| | | | SMPTE Announces New Officers and Governors – Including First Woman President: Wendy Aylsworth
 Leadership spans who’s who of motion imaging: CBS, CBC/Radio Canada, Cine Design Group, Dolby, Ericsson, Fox, Grass Valley, Iowa Public TV, Miltag Media, Microsoft, Miranda, Disney, Warner Bros.
The Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE), the professional membership association and worldwide leader in motion-imaging standards and education for the media, entertainment, communications, and technology industries, today announced its newly elected officers and governors, including the election of the Society’s first female president, Wendy Aylsworth. All officers will assume office 1 January 2013.
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| | | | Quantel launches Pablo Rio - Reinvented, Interactive, Open
 Quantel launched Pablo Rio at IBC 2012 - its new high-end color correction and finishing software. Pablo Rio blends quality and creativity in a package that delivers the productivity needed to succeed in high-end color and finishing today. It is the only high end color and finishing solution that is available as a choice of software or as a manufacturer-backed turnkey system.
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| | | | PipelineFX Releases Qube!™ 6.4
 Render Farm Management Software Upgrade Brings Mobile Access, Augmented Priority Controls, and Workstation Management Tools to Render Pipelines
PipelineFX, makers of Qube!™, the leading render farm management software for digital media creation, announced today the release of Qube! version 6.4. Along with new tools for smart farming, system supervisors can now access Qube! via their smartphones (MobileView), set priority limits for non-privileged users, and control how much of their workstation will be available to the render farm. All with what often amounts to a single click of their mouse.
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| | | | NVIDIA GPUs Enable Adobe Tool for Video Collaboration
Broadcast pros looking to improve collaboration on their enterprise networks need look no further than Adobe® Anywhere for video, running on an NVIDIA Tesla GPU-based system, which was revealed this week at IBC, the annual media and entertainment technology forum in Amsterdam.
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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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| | | | NVIDIA Maximus Takes Commercial VFX to New Heights at a52
 When looking for ways to field-test the phenomenal power of the latest NVIDIA® Maximus™ enabled workstations, the company teamed up with longtime customer a52, a boutique visual effects studio based in Santa Monica, Calif. The visual effects and post-production arm of sister companies Elastic and Rock Paper Scissors, an editorial company founded by Academy Award-winning editor Angus Wall, a52 has worked on numerous award-winning advertising campaigns, as well as the Emmy winning Game of Thrones opening title sequence, and last year’s Red Cross Holiday campaign, which recently received top honors at the Annecy Animation Festival. Having used NVIDIA Quadro® GPUs exclusively in their artists’ workstations, as well as their Autodesk Smoke and Flame systems, a52 offered the perfect venue to evaluate the second generation of NVIDIA Maximus enabled-workstations.
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| | | | LightWave 3D Group Brings Real-Time Virtual Production Tools to Everyone
Industry-first real-time performance and data capture with Playstation Move device in LightWave 11.5 demonstrated at SIGGRAPH 2012; additional virtual studio tools in development
The LightWave® 3D Group, a division of NewTek, Inc., announced today it is making virtual production available to everyone with LightWave® 11.5’s Virtual Studio Tools, which offer real-time performance capture for virtual cameras, character puppeteering, and virtual lighting tools. Demonstrated publicly for the first time at SIGGRAPH 2012, actors used five individual Sony Playstation 3 (PS3) Move controllers concurrently to capture and play back live performance in real-time using LightWave 11.5 Virtual Studio Tools.
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| | | | LightWave 3D Group Brings Real-Time Virtual Production Tools to Everyone
Industry-first real-time performance and data capture with Playstation Move device in LightWave 11.5 demonstrated at SIGGRAPH 2012; additional virtual studio tools in development
The LightWave® 3D Group, a division of NewTek, Inc., announced today it is making virtual production available to everyone with LightWave® 11.5’s Virtual Studio Tools, which offer real-time performance capture for virtual cameras, character puppeteering, and virtual lighting tools. Demonstrated publicly for the first time at SIGGRAPH 2012, actors used five individual Sony Playstation 3 (PS3) Move controllers concurrently to capture and play back live performance in real-time using LightWave 11.5 Virtual Studio Tools.
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| | | | NVIDIA Maximus Fuels Workstation Revolution with Kepler Architecture
World’s Fastest, Most Efficient GPU Comes to Design and Creative Professionals in Latest NVIDIA Professional Flagship GPU Platform
NVIDIA today launched the second generation of its breakthrough workstation platform, NVIDIA® Maximus™, featuring Kepler™, the fastest, most efficient GPU architecture.
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| | | | PipelineFX’s New Suite of Products Simplifies Render Pipeline Complexity at SIGGRAPH 2012
Live Demos of New Mobile Render Farm Management App in Booth #516; Free Artist Workshop and Birds of a Feather Event Planned
This year at SIGGRAPH 2012, PipelineFX will be showing off two new additions to the Qube! render farm management family: a new app named Qube! MobileViewTM, which makes viewing and managing render tasks on a mobile device easy, and a CPU core coordinator called QBLockerTM. Live demos of each product will be held in booth #516. They will also be hosting a Birds of a Feather event and a free Qube! Artist Workshop on-site at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
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| | | | The LightWave 3D Group Appoints Dominick Spina Vice President Worldwide Sales and Marketing
Former NVIDIA senior product manager for digital media and film to expand global reach through strategic sales, marketing and product development initiatives
The LightWave 3D® Group, a division of NewTek, Inc., announced today Dominick Spina has joined the company as vice president of worldwide sales and marketing of the newly formed LightWave 3D Group. Spina will work closely with the LightWave 3D Group’s President Rob Powers to lead worldwide sales with strategic marketing and branding, the introduction of new products and technologies, and ongoing business and relationship development.
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| | | | Hollywood DI Completes Two 3D features Using New Cost-effective Stereo Workflow
Hollywood DI, Globalstor Data Corporation and Maya Digital Studios, Pvt. Ltd. in conjunction with PNY Technologies, Inc. deliver cost-effective solution for 3D color correction and finishing.
Hollywood DI announces the completion of the world's first 3D feature films to be color corrected and finished on Globalstor's ExtremeStor-DI 3D capable systems. Leveraging the power of multiple NVIDIA® Quadro ® 6000 by PNY professional graphics boards and DaVinci Resolve, Hollywood DI delivered stereo 3D grading and finishing for STATIC and SHOLAY 3D. By combining 3D visual effects and 2D to 3D conversions from Maya Digital Studios with the incredible performance of Globalstor's hardware and NVIDIA Quadro by PNY graphics boards, Hollywood DI was able to provide high-end 3D finishing at considerable cost savings over traditional expensive heavy-iron systems.
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| | | | Nick Saglimbeni - 2012 NVIDIA 3D Vision Photo Champion Award
 The wonderful folks at NVIDIA 3D Vision Live surprised me last week by awarding me the 2012 Photo Champion award. This was the culmination of much support from our fans as well as two previous monthly awards on the 3D Vision site. It’s an honor to receive this award, and my deepest thanks go out to everyone involved. (Detailed thank-you’s below.)
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| | | | NVIDIA Maximus Helps Sony Pictures Imageworks Create Smoking Fast VFX for Men in Black 3
 Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI) has a long legacy of technical innovation tapping NVIDIA® Quadro® professional GPUs for feature film visual effects, ranging from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs to Alice in Wonderland and the Spider Man film franchise. For Men in Black 3 (MIB3) the company once again turned to NVIDIA technology to realize dramatic speed increases and visual effects workflow efficiencies.
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| | | | NVIDIA Maximus Lowers Dawnrunner Productions' Last-Minute Stress (and saves the day for them and their client)
 For today’s most creative digital filmmakers, pushing the technological envelope is part of doing business. Case in point: Dawnrunner Productions, a boutique production house in the San Francisco Bay Area known for creating festival worthy films, award-winning award show motion graphics, and innovative commercials, corporate videos, and music videos. Dawnrunner also has a core mission of reinvigorating and revitalizing the film industry in the Bay Area.
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| | | | ZYNC Appoints Todd Prives Vice President of Business Development & Marketing
Ten-Year Visual Effects Software Industry Veteran Joins ZYNC to Drive Marketing Strategy and Customer Adoption
ZYNC, the Visual Effects industry leader in integrated cloud rendering and storage technology today announced that Todd Prives has joined the company as Vice President of Business Development and Marketing. Prives is responsible for leading ZYNC’s strategic alliances with software providers and marketing their service to customers as the technology rolls-out on a global basis.
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| | | | NVIDIA Contributes CUDA Compiler to Open Source Community
 Widely Used LLVM Compiler’s Support Opens GPU Computing to Broad Range of Programming Languages
NVIDIA today announced that LLVM, one of the industry’s most popular open source compilers, now supports NVIDIA GPUs, dramatically expanding the range of researchers, independent software vendors (ISVs) and programming languages that can take advantage of the benefits of GPU acceleration.
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| | | | NVIDIA Partners Make Ultra-Low Latency a Reality with NVIDIA GPUDirect for Video
NVIDIA and industry leading I/O board partners such as AJA, Blackmagic Design, Bluefish444, Deltacast, DVS, and Matrox are providing unprecedented real time video production capabilities leveraging NVIDIA® GPUDirect™ for Video. The technology provides application developers and their customers seamless, fast accessibility of the graphics and image processing power of NVIDIA Quadro® and Tesla™ professional graphics processing units (GPUs), with ultra-low latency input and output across a wide range of I/O devices.
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| | | | Colorfront Launches Transkoder Engine At NAB 2012
New workflow workhorse fits straight into existing facility architecture
– Academy Award-winning developer Colorfront has launched a new product line that automates fast, high-quality digital file conversion for studios and VFX facilities involved in motion picture and high-end TV production. The standalone Transkoder Engine is based on Colorfront’s award-winning On-Set Dailies architecture and uses cost-effective, commodity hardware, to deliver faster-than-realtime processing to transcode, decode, convert and process files for multiple deliverables.
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| | | | Colorfront Introduces Express Dailies At NAB 2012
New cost-effective system supports grading and data wrangling workflows for commercials, motion picture and TV productions
Academy Award-winning developer Colorfront today announced Express Dailies, a high-performance, affordable and easy-to-use dailies tool for commercials, motion picture and TV production workflows, and the first multi-license purchase of Express Dailies by Hollywood post facility Light Iron for its OUTPOST system.
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| | | | ASSIMILATE Announces Support for AMD Radeon HD Graphics on MacOS X
ASSIMILATE, makers of the powerful real-time SCRATCH® and SCRATCH Lab® digital Intermediate and dailies workflow software, today announced support for AMD (NYSE: AMD) Radeon HD 5770 and 5870 graphics cards on the MacOS® X versions of these applications. AMD Radeon Graphics join NVidia Quadro graphics and AJA Kona SDI to form an extremely flexible line-up of powerful GPU and video-playback solutions for SCRATCH and Lab on MacOS X.
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| | | | MAXX DIGITAL Announces Production Dailies Cart System Based on SCRATCH Lab Digital Dailies Software
MAXX DIGITAL is proud to announce that they have teamed with ASSIMILATE and offer a turnkey Production Dailies Cart System, built around SCRATCH Lab®, the industry’s most powerful end-to-end production dailies software. Designed to meet the needs of DITs and Video Engineers who produce dailies on-set for television shows, commercials and feature films, the new turnkey Cart provides image acquisition, data management, look refinement and dailies deliverables with support for all popular cameras formats such as ARRI Alexa, Sony F65, and RED Epic and Scarlet.
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| | | | HP Z1 Workstation Now Shipping Worldwide
World’s first 27-inch all-in-one workstation available through HP authorized resellers
HP today announced that the HP Z1 Workstation is now available worldwide for a starting price of $1,8991 through global resellers and retailers, including CDW, MelroseMAC and PC Mall.
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| | | | NVIDIA and Partners Transform Entire Content Creation Workflow at 2012 NAB Show
Creative Professionals increase their Speed, Quality and Productivity through GPU computing
Content creators ranging from 2012 Oscar winners Industrial Light & Magic, a division of Lucasfilm Ltd. ("Rango") and Pixomondo ("Hugo") to up-and-coming independents such as Bandito Brothers ("Act of Valor", "Waiting for Lightning") and smaller creative services shops such as Dawnrunner Productions and Digital Spatula are increasing the speed, quality and productivity of their workflows through the adoption of GPU computing featuring NVIDIA® Quadro® and Tesla® GPUs.
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| | | | Creative Professionals Supercharge Their Adobe Creative Suite 6 Workflows with NVIDIA GPU Technology
NVIDIA GPUs Enable Dramatic New GPU-accelerated Features for Adobe After Effects CS6, Adobe Premiere Pro CS6,
Adobe SpeedGrade CS6 and Adobe Photoshop CS6
Whether in small agencies or the largest media conglomerates, creative pros want tools that let them bring their vision to life as fast as possible, without having to trade off quality for speed and interactivity. Now, with the upcoming release of Adobe® Creative Suite® 6 Production Premium with acceleration from NVIDIA® Quadro® and Tesla™ professional GPUs, artists and editors have unprecedented power and interactivity at their disposal. Motion graphics that would take hours to create can now be done in minutes. Effects that used to render a few frames per second now run at full speed. Color grading that simply wasn’t possible at this price point is now within the easy reach of small shops, and much more.
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| | | | Lightbeam Systems Delivers up to 2.66 Teraflops of Raw Computing Power in New E5 Series Workstations, Render Nodes and GPU Nodes at NAB 2012
Utilizes latest Intel Xeon processor E5 2600 series, NVIDIA Quadro 6000 and Tesla M series GPUs to achieve ultra high performance for 3D, broadcast and film
Lightbeam Systems®, manufacturers of specialized storage, workstation, and rendering systems for the broadcast, film and visual effects industries, today introduced the Lightbeam E5 series of professional workstations, render nodes and GPU nodes based on the latest Intel® Xeon® processor E5 2600 series, NVIDIA® Quadro® professional graphics, and NVIDIA® Tesla GPUs. Designed to accelerate high-performance computing (HPC) applications such as Autodesk Maya and 3ds Max, NewTek LightWave 3D, Maxon Cinema 4D, Nuke, Adobe Creative Suite, MARI, Mental Ray, V-Ray, V-Ray RT, Final Render and Bunkspeed PRO, the Lightbeam E5 series delivers up to a 10x performance gain over previous-generation computing systems.
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| | | | Harris Corporation to Introduce New Live Graphics Systems at 2012 NAB Show
Software and processing advances boost creativity and productivity
Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, will introduce two breakthrough systems for demanding live broadcast graphics that boost creativity and productivity for on-air broadcast and other video productions across all budgets at the 2012 NAB show. Harris will demonstrate both systems at the 2012 NAB Show (Booth 2502), taking place April 16-19 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
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| | | | Autodesk Announces 2013 Digital Entertainment Creation Software Portfolio
New Releases Remove Technical Barriers to Creativity With Enhanced Workflows and Toolsets
Autodesk, Inc., (NASDAQ: ADSK) announced the 2013 versions of its Digital Entertainment Creation (DEC) software and suites, used by leading artists working in film, game development, television and advertising. The new releases improve consistency and interoperability between applications, making it even easier for artists to take advantage of powerful new and enhanced creative features.
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| | | | And the Oscar Goes to "Hugo", "Rango" …and NVIDIA Quadro
 Coming off of last night’s Academy Awards ceremony, it was a great year for animation and visual effects. And another great year for the NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics solutions that powered many of this year’s nominees and the winners in both categories.
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| | | | NVIDIA Joins Forces with HP to Free the Workstation from its Tower
World’s First 27-inch All-in-One Workstation Delivers Sleek, Space-saving Design and Uncompromised Graphics Performance to Millions of Professionals
The traditional workstation is being liberated for the first time from the bulky confines of its traditional tower, with the launch of the HP Z1 Workstation – which combines the world’s first all-in-one workstation with the high performance graphics and computing processing capabilities of NVIDIA® Quadro® professional graphics.
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| | | | HP's Valentine to the Media & Entertainment Industry
HP unveils the HP Z1, an all-in-one workstation features include a 27-inch screen, a 30-bit panel with an over-1 billion color palette, a built-in HD video camera, SRS premium sound speakers, an array of microphones for stereo input, professional level performance and optional NVIDIA Quadro cards for professional applications.
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| | | | Neat Video Announces Neat Video Pro Noise Filter for ASSIMILATE SCRATCH and SCRATCH Lab
 Announcement Delivers Dynamic New Tools To The Creative Arsenal of SCRATCH and Lab Artists
The Neat Video team announced that they have delivered the Neat Video Pro video noise reduction filter as an OpenFX plug-in for ASSIMILATE’s SCRATCH® and SCRATCH Lab™ digital workflow tools. Previously only available for video editing and compositing applications, this new version of Neat Video brings its industry-leading grain and noise reduction technology to Digital Intermediate (DI), Finishing, Production Dailies and Visual Effects Dailies workflows.
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| | | | CoreCG Launches MentalCore, Breakthrough Solution for Optimizing the Maya and mental ray Workflow
New Plugin Eliminates CG Pipeline Bottlenecks and Accelerates Rendering
CoreCG, a New Zealand-based research and development (R&D) company that specializes in creative solutions for CG animation and visual effects, today announced the release of MentalCore - a cross-platform, standalone plugin designed to help artists achieve maximum creativity and efficiency while using NVIDIA® mental ray® with Autodesk® Maya®. The release follows two years of extensive use at Oktobor Animation, a year of beta testing by high profile film, television, and game companies, and a soft launch in December 2011.
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| | | | Boris Continuum Complete 8 AE Now Available
The World’s Most Comprehensive VFX Plug-in Collection for After Effects and Premiere Pro Gets Even Better
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated VFX and workflow technology for video and film, today announced that Boris Continuum Complete 8 AE (BCC 8 AE) is now available. BCC 8 AE delivers 200+ VFX filters to Macintosh and Windows versions of Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro CS5.5, CS5, and CS4. New flicker reduction and videoscope tools, OpenGL hardware acceleration, 32-bit float support, deeper After Effects integration, and enhanced lens flares, particles, glows, and lights headline this new release.
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| | | | |  Articles and Tutorials: NAB 2013: Quantel Focuses on UltraHD WorkflowQuantel introduced a range of products that empower UltraHD/4K and even 8K production. Partnerships with AJA (for its Corvid Ultra video card) and NVIDIA (for its Tesla accelerator) have made Pablo Rio capable of high resolution work, including 4K at 60 fps. The company also enabled broadcast and post production workflows with enhancements with QTube, Enterprise sQ and Quantel revolutionQ. Quantel is also now involved in furthering FIMS (Framework for Interoperable Media Services), an initiative jointly managed by the EBU and AMWA to define standards for Service Oriented Architecture systems. With regard to Stereo 3D, Quantel also introduced SynthIA which enables interaxial adjustments in post as well as other manipulations.Read Article Subscribe NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference M & E RoundupThere was truly something for everyone at NVIDIA GTC, and a surprisingly rich amount of thoughtful presentations for the Media & Entertainment crowd. GTC provided many opportunities to learn the basics and, for the truly nerdy, many opportunities to dig deep. As a mere semi-geek, Debra Kaufman learned a lot and met a lot of interesting people. Read her roundup of new M&E technology thanks to super-fast GPU computing.Read Article Subscribe IBC 2012: NVIDIAMac enthusiasts were happy to learn that NVIDIA just introduced the Quadro K5000 for Mac Pro systems, based on NVIDIA Kepler architecture and featuring Cinema 4K display support. NVIDIA also unveiled its second-generation Maximus workstation, featuring the Kepler architecture. This means that users can now send compute work to the NVIDIA Tesla accelerator, reserving the Quadro K5000 GPU for content creation. Last, the company debuted a new line of Kepler-powered Quadro graphics solutions for mobile workstations.Read Article Subscribe NVIDIA Introduces Virtualization and Remote ComputingNVIDIA has debuted its VGX platform, which enables many users to access a virtualized desktop and get the same graphics performance on any connected device. The VGX platform, composed of three new technologies, opens up the possibilities of remote collaboration and cloud-based graphics without a loss of power and with low latency. Though still a proof of concept, the new computing paradigm will move into beta this summer, with partnerships in the offing.Read Article Subscribe NAB 2012: HPAt NAB 2012, HP unveiled its all-in-one HP Z1 workstation. With a 27-inch diagonal screen, Intel Xeon processors and NVIDIA Quadro graphics, the HP Z1 is aimed at both the digital media and entertainment industry and the computer-aided design market.Read Article Subscribemore articles » Blogs: The Punk Rocker Who Became a FilmmakerRichard Jobson uses all Adobe Pipeline on Wayland’s Song We really pushed the boundaries of what you can do with the Creative Cloud software. For me, it's almost like being in a punk band again with Adobe: SpeedGrade and After Effects are my drummer and my bass player and Premiere...Read Blog SubscribeAn affordable editing workstationHi all, Wanted to share my custom built editing workstation specs. I like probably most people are after affordable hardware, be it cameras, lens, rigs, and a powerful yet affordable editing computer. Being a tech nut, I've been building computers for a very long time, including various music and video...Read Blog Subscribe Metus adds Nvidia CUDA support for Extreme INGEST Performance!Metus technology continues its commitment to extracting the last drop of performance out of your PC hardware, by adding CUDA support for GPU based H.264 encoding! With Geforce 690 GPU, 6 channels of 1080i H.264 video can be captured in real time! GPU accelerated encoding started to be supported by...Read Blog Subscribemore blogs » Podcasts:Episode #081 - June 22, 2009Future of Desktop 3D with NVIDIA's Andrew Fear, Maxon Cinema 4D special, Daz 3D updates, Luxology modo 401 launches, Fusion 6.0, iPhone 3Gs launch, Autodesk developers reach 70 and more creative news and interviews - creativecow.netTune In Subscribemore podcasts »Episode #061 - February 03, 2009Digital Cinema with Russell Lasson, Foundry and Autodesk make up, QuarkXPress 8.02, InDesign to Flash, iWeb themes, Panasonic ZS Series, Quadro CX + Adobe CS4 with NVIDIA's Sean Kilbride and more creative news and interviews - creativecow.netTune In Subscribemore podcasts »Episode #033 - May 04, 2006Episode 033 - Autodesk Combustion with Steve Jennings, news with Ron Lindeboom, virtual animation studio, geting a VFX job, Adobe Road Show, Nvidia Gelato 2.0, the Space Cube, MacBook Pro batteries and more creative tech news, interviews and reports - www.creativecow.netTune In Subscribemore podcasts »Related Tags | | | | |
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