News: Right Hemisphere and Lightmap Introduce Studio Lighting Capabilities for Deep Exploration Authoring Software Right Hemisphere and Lightmap to Showcase Dazzling New Lighting Capabilities for Deep Exploration Users in Free Webinar on December 15
Right Hemisphere®, the standard for Visual Enterprise solutions, and Lightmap Ltd. today announced a new professional lighting tool for users of Right Hemisphere’s Deep Exploration™ authoring software.
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News: Heritage Conference, Held by Fonoteca Nacional de Mexico and NOA Audio Solutions
NOA Audio Solutions today announced that about 250 people from all over Latin America learned how state-of-the-art technology can be used to secure and preserve sound and audiovisual collections at a five-day conference at the Fonoteca Nacional in Mexico City.
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News: Digital Anarchy Announces Beauty Box 1.0 For After Effects and Final Cut Pro Digital Anarchy returns to the film/video market with a powerful skin smoothing and blemish removal plugin
Digital Anarchy, a leading provider of cost-effective special effects software for Adobe and Apple products, has today announced the release of a new product for Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, and Apple's Final Cut Pro. The Beauty Box 1.0 provides editors and visual effects artists working with film and video an easy and powerful way of smoothing out skin and removing blemishes. Regardless of whether it is used for a feature film, reality TV show, or just a corporate talking head, Beauty Box provides best-of-class skin beautification.
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News: "You Direct, We Shoot" - Engine Room's Hollywood Film Unit Provides Production Model for Ad Agencies
Production entity Engine Room has responded to shifts in the commercial production industry and launched its "You Direct, We Shoot" model. Helmed by veteran cinematographer Dan Schmit, Engine Room's unique shooting approach allows agency creative directors to direct their own commercial projects with the strength and experience of an award-winning DP-driven production company.
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News: SUSPECT Animates Richard Wilde's World
Thirty-five years ago, Richard Wilde launched the BFA Advertising and Graphic Design Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Today, he still is still chair running the program with enthusiasm and unparalleled leadership, recruiting the top industry talent as instructors to maintain the college's reputation as one of the best of its kind.
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News: AJA Ki Pro Enables Tapeless Post Workflow for MTVu Woodie Awards Portable Digital Disk Recorder Speeds Live Event Editorial; Gets Footage Online Fast
AJA Video Systems, a leading manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, announced today that the post-production team for mtvU's Woodie Awards employed ten AJA Ki Pro portable digital disk recorders as part of a tapeless live-event workflow that streamlined the editorial process.
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News: HD Video Production Specialist Improves Editing Team’s Productivity and Morale by Installing Small Tree’s Shared Storage Technology On Point Digital Media Sees Big Workflow Boost and No Dropped Frames After Installation
Success for small video production facilities such as On Point Digital Media in Tallahassee is dependent on client volume. Whereas larger facilities can rely on big budget projects, On Point Digital Media relies on a consistent flow of projects to ensure its business continues to grow. To maintain its reputation and attract more clients, the company must deliver projects on time and on budget. To that end, On Point Digital Media recently installed an Ethernet-based shared storage solution featuring Small Tree technology to improve its workflow.
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News: Stardom Announces the DeckRAID DR4 powerful RAID 5, quadruple interface storage solution that sits neatly beneath an iMac® workstation freeing up workspace
Stardom is proud to announce the DeckRAID DR4, a sleek, RAID 5 desktop storage solution. The Stardom DeckRAID DR4 features the latest quadruple interfaces including high speed FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0 and eSATA with port multiplication.
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News: New hardware device for Apple Final Cut Pro users Silverado is pleased to announce availability of the new Blackmagic UltraScope-powered Silverado ColoRig
Blackmagic Design created a gorgeous full featured product in the UltraScope. And they tried to make it as inexpensive as possible by making it a card you can drop into a spare Windows system laying around the office or studio.
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News: Toronto Animation Studio to Animate Olympic Stadium Screens
Mike Efford Motion Design, a Toronto animation studio, will develop motion graphics for the 2010 Olympics, collaborating with London Ontario producer Keyframe Communications. The production will be shown outside the Olympic Stadium on large flat panel TV screens.
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News: Autodesk Tools Help Destroy the Universe in Roland Emmerich's Movie "2012" Hundreds of Visual Effects Artists Use Autodesk Software to Help Create Disaster Movie of Spectacular Proportions
Roland Emmerich films are synonymous with superlative visual effects - "The Day After Tomorrow," "Independence Day" and now "2012." Hundreds of artists created close to 1,500 visual effects shots using digital entertainment creation software from Autodesk, Inc. to help create the majority of spectacular effects in "2012."
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News: Fujinon Lenses to Capture Aerial Shots of Saturday's SEC Championship
Tulsa, Okla.-based Actioncam is using Fujinon lenses as part of its HD aerial camera system this weekend for coverage of the 2009 SEC Championship Game in Atlanta between the Florida Gators and the Alabama Crimson Tide on CBS.
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News: Holophone's H2-PRO Takes to the Track for "Truth In 24"
Holophone’s H2-PRO takes first place for “Truth in 24,” an NFL Films production created on behalf of car manufacturer, Audi. Centered around France’s annual 24-hour car race, 24 Hours of Le Mans , sound mixer Kyle Hartigan chronicled Audi’s journey toward winning the trophy again, after taking the grand prize home a total of seven times.
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News: Creative Group and Mantra Design Deliver The Message for Fuse's Jay-Z 9/11 Special Fuse Presents Jay-Z Live from Madison Square Garden: Answer the Call
Creative Group, the industry’s premier full-service post-production facility, and Mantra Design, an award-winning creative content design and visual effects boutique, have transformed Jay-Z’s renowned Answer the Call 9/11 benefit concert into a stirring hour-long special airing on the Fuse music network.
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News: MTBS-TV Launched...In 3D!
Founded in 2007, “Meant to be Seen” has earned a strong reputation for advocating and being a catalyst for stereoscopic 3D gaming. So much so, it has become the largest S-3D gaming website in existence.
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News: Entertainment Companies Streamline Motion Capture Workflow with Vicon Blade Software System Simplifies Capture & Processing of Motion Capture Data for 3D Animation
Vicon, an Academy Award®-winning developer of motion capture products, today announced that growing numbers of entertainment companies have adopted its Blade motion caption processing software system in recent months.
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News: Maxell Professional Introduces iVDR Direct-To-Disk Video Capture Adapter Innovative Adapter Allows Simultaneous Non-Linear Recording and Storage onto Rugged iVDR Drives From Numerous Camera Manufacturers
Maxell Corporation of America introduces the iVDR VC102 Powered by CitiDISK®. The new iVDR VC102 Direct-to-Disk Video Capture adapter converts the output of a digital video camera to a non-linear editing format and stores it on an iVDR drive, thereby bringing the inherent advantages of the iVDR technology to a wide variety of camcorders.
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News: Offhollywood Sees The Future in 3D. First on East Coast To Offer Advanced Technica 3D Camera Rigs Lightweight, Easy-to-Use 3D Camera Rigs Round Out Offhollywood's Comprehensive 3D Equipment, Production Support, and Post Services
Leading digital cinema company Offhollywood will be the first East Coast company to market with the latest Technica 3D camera rigs, which offer advanced 3D functionality and electronics, easy configuration, a lightweight design, and a much lower price tag than competing systems.
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News: Boris FX Announces New Boris Continuum Unit: Image Restoration Boris Continuum Complete’s Smooth Tone, Pixel Fixer, and DV Fixer Filters for $99
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, announced that a new Boris Continuum Unit, Image Restoration, is now available.
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News: Fujinon Intros Latest PL Mount Zoom Lens
Fujinon introduced the new 75-400mm T2.8-T3.9 PL mount zoom lens at the International Broadcast Equipment Exhibition in Chiba City, Japan on November 18.
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News: Total Training Announces Advanced Training Series for Adobe Photoshop CS4 Training led by Photoshop Pro and Company Co-Founder Brian Maffitt
Total Training™, Inc., the leader in innovative video-based training, today announced the availability of "Total Training™ for Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 Extended: Mastering Advanced Techniques with Brian Maffitt."
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News: Xing Xing Gets TACTIC™ Southpaw Technology’s Digital Asset Management Solution TACTIC to Boost Productivity Across Chinese Animation Studio, Xing Xing
Southpaw Technology, a leading developer of production asset management solutions for digital entertainment companies, announced today that its digital asset management solution TACTIC will be used studio-wide by China-based animation house Xing Xing Digital Corporation to speed the production of digital content for animated shows, visual effects and feature films.
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News: Zoic Launches Design Division; Adds EP Miles Dinsmoor
Zoic Studios, renowned for its visual effects work in Commercials, Features and Episodic Television, has been growing its creative offerings, officially launching a talent-backed Design Group, which complements their recent expansions into Gaming and Integrated Media.
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News: SAN Solutions' Video Production SAN Speeds Production Workflow for NBC's 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon' High-Performance SAN Provides Capacity, Bandwidth, Reliability, and Media Availability Critical to Streamlined File-Based Production for Secondary Outlets
SAN Solutions, a leading architect of enterprise-class network storage infrastructures for the media and entertainment markets, today announced that its Video Production SAN is being used by Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video Entertainment and NBC's Universal Media Studios to support production of "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon."
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News: ArtVPS launches Shaderlight 1.0 First full version of Shaderlight signals a fundamental change in the way 3D artists generate and edit high quality images
Leading rendering solutions provider ArtVPS has announced the immediate availability of Shaderlight 1.0, the first full release version of its interactive rendering plug-in for 3ds Max.
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News: Project Management Improves for Optic Nerve After Installation of Small Tree’s Shared Storage and OS X Networking Technology Easier Project Access and Control Critical to Production Company’s Streamlined Workflow
As studio manager for Optic Nerve, Chris Besecker’s days used to be like a game of hide and seek, only not nearly as much fun. With five Mac G5 workstations running Final Cut and Adobe After Effects and no centralized storage at the Brooklyn facility, Besecker had to keep track of where each project’s files were and make sure those files were available to the editors on the individual workstations. Before Optic Nerve installed Small Tree’s cost-effective, Ethernet-based shared storage technology, there was a lot of looking around for certain files and then a lot of copying files from one hard drive to another.
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News: Bitcentral Announces New Director of Project Management Brett Hirsch, PMP, IPMA-B, joins the company to assist in securing major business development deals
Bitcentral, Inc., a leading provider of news production, archiving and distribution solutions to television stations, is pleased to announce that Brett Hirsch has joined the company as Director of Project Management.
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News: NOA mediARC™ Makes RTV Slovenia Sound Archive Available to Hundreds of Users at Four Locations
NOA Audio Solutions today announced that Radio Televizija Slovenija , Slovenia's public service radio and television broadcaster, has completed the third phase of its implementation of the NOA mediARC™ system, giving hundreds of users at its headquarters in Ljubljana and regional studios in Koper, Lendava, and Maribor, full Web-based access to the national broadcaster's extensive audio archive.
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News: Texas High School’s Broadcast Journalism Program, Based On Panasonic AVCCAM Acquisition Sophisticated New Performance Studio Features AG-HPX300 P2 HD Camcorders, AV-HS400A Multi-Format Switcher and PT-DW10000U HD Projectors
Texas High School will debut today a new state-of-the-art performance space, the Sullivan Performing Arts Center and John Thomas Theatre, which features three Panasonic AG-HPX300 P2 HD camcorders outfitted for studio use, an AV-HS400A HD/SD switcher and two PT-DW10000U 10000 lumen 1080p DLP projectors.
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News: Boris Continuum Complete 6 AVX for Avid DS Now Supports AVX 2.0 Conform Avid Media Composer Sequences with BCC Effects in Avid DS
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today announced that Boris Continuum Complete 6 AVX for Avid DS is now available for Avid's AVX 2.0 plug-in architecture.
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News: Otto Nemenz Adds Fujinon PL Mount Zooms to Rental Inventory
Otto Nemenz International, a world-renowned rental company based in Los Angeles, recently updated its extensive lens inventory to include new 18-85mm T2.0 Zoom Lenses from Fujinon, with additional lens purchases on the horizon.
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News: FotoKem Purchases ARRI Relativity Software
FotoKem, a leading full-service motion picture post production house, has recently added the powerful Relativity software suite to their arsenal of existing ARRI Digital Intermediate Systems products including the ARRILASER and ARRISCAN systems.
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News: Stardom Releases Safe Capsule Product, Complements Apple's Time Capsule
Stardom is proud to announce the Safe Capsule, a two drive, RAID 1, protected storage solution for use with Time Capsule®. If your existing Time Capsule® storage space is filling up fast or is almost full, what do you do next? Meet Safe Capsule from Stardom.
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News: Pace HD buys Sid for Yogi Bear! Stereo3D pioneer orders fourth Quantel Stereo3D system for "On-Set Lab"
Stereo3D production and post production company, Pace HD, has purchased a Quantel Sid Stereo3D workstation. The new system, which joins PACE's existing three Stereo3D-equipped Quantel Pablo color correction and DI systems, is part of a new initiative to provide 'Slate to Screen' services on 3D productions.
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News: Litepanels Offers Free Gel Kit with 1x1s
For a limited time, Litepanels®, a Vitec Group company, is offering a free set of conversion/diffusion gels with new 1x1 fixture purchases .
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In this issue, "Thinking Big," we talk with companies that are growing rapidly and successfully in spite of the marketplace malaise that many are experiencing in these hyper-competitive times. What we found out from these incredibly successful companies may surprise you.
Making Big Plans: Team-building in South Africa -- How a South African animation company is taking over the world.
DaVinci: Rebuilding the Brand -- A talk with Blackmagic Design's Grant Petty about the future of one of the industry's mostly influential companies.
Molecule-fueled Imagination -- Unusual approaches to creativity inside one of New York's most successful post houses.
HDNet's Drive Toward Success -- One of the HDNet's founders tells the story behind the company.
Small Steps To Big Success -- How a Georgia company is growing, against the odds.
Setting A New Home 3D Standard -- Stereoscopic 3D hasn't "arrived" until it arrives in the home.
Participating in Your Own Rescue -- One way to think big is to never buy even your most logical excuses.
Apple Final Cut Pro Creative Cow's Final Cut Pro forum is headed by many of the top authors and other respected FCP professionals.
Apple DVD Studio Pro The Creative COW support forum for Apple DVD Studio Pro, Apple's DVD authoring and production tool.
DVD Authoring The Creative Cow DVD Authoring forum is for the discussion of issues related to DVD authoring, design and distribution.
Compression techniques Compression for video streaming, the web and other uses is the focus of this Cow forum.
Adobe Illustrator Adobe Illustrator forum is dedicated to help and support for the creation and graphic design of digital artwork using Illustrator.
In this video tutorial, CreativeCOW leader, Serge Hamad in his new Invigorator-advanced-control tutorial series will show you this time how to use the Depth-Scale Parameter to create a 3D growing City more...
Graeme Nattress, as a baby crawled behind the television set to see how it worked. He has been interested in video technology ever since. After getting his first computer, a Sinclair ZX81 in 1981, the mixing of computer graphics and video became the focus of his thoughts. Learning to program through more...
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shares tips on the many uses of importing After Effects Projects, and how you can recover corrupt AE files. more...
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