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| | | | Method Studios Appoints Chris Webb as Executive Producer in Chicago
Webb To Focus On Supporting Both Commercial And Feature Markets
Visual effects house, Method Studios, a Deluxe Entertainment Services Group company, is pleased to announce the appointment of Chris Webb as Executive Producer of Method Chicago. Webb will work closely with Creative Director Gil Baron in the continued expansion of the Chicago office, which opened its doors in July 2012.
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| | | | Method Studios Announces Top Flight Animation Hires
Global VFX House Welcomes Erik-Jan de Boer, James Jacobs and Keith Roberts
Method Studios, a Deluxe Entertainment Services Group company, announced today the addition of three world-class animation artists to the Method Studios’ creative team.
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| | | | Systems Integrator Encore Broadcast Relies On Hitachi HDTV Cameras For House Of Worship Installs
Systems integrator Encore Broadcast Solutions in Winter Springs, Florida, consistently relies on HitachiHDTV studio field production cameras for house of worship installations throughout the state. The company recently installed Z-HD5000 cameras from Hitachi Kokusai Electric America at three churches: First Presbyterian of Orlando, First Presbyterian of Bonita Springs, and Faith Assembly of God in Orlando.
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| | | | NAB Show to Present New Conference on Second Screen Innovations
- '2nd Screen Sunday,' on Sunday, April 7 at the Encore to focus on second screen developments for broadcast, sports and entertainment -
NAB Show will launch "2nd Screen Sunday" at NAB Show in partnership with the 2nd Screen Society (S3), event organizers announced today. The afternoon conference at the Encore Hotel on Sunday, April 7 in Las Vegas will address and showcase the latest business opportunities, creative case studies and technology innovations related to the creation of supplementary, synchronized and social TV content.
published 3 months ago read more | | | | |
| | | | Method Studios Provides VFX Expertise To KIA Super Bowl Spots
Artists create fully CG animals, environments and augmented female robots
Method Studios, a Deluxe Entertainment Services Group company, has collaborated with agency David&Goliath on two commercials for KIA which premiered during Super Bowl XLVII. "Space Babies," directed by Jake Scott (RSA), and "Hotbots," directed by Carl Erik Rinsch (MJZ) provided a wealth of inspiring VFX challenges to Method's creative team in Los Angeles. Stephanie Gilgar, Method Studios' Executive Producer comments, "It's an honor to have been entrusted to deliver two of the most VFX-heavy ads seen during this year's big game - a yearly highlight in the US television commercials industry".
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| | | | Company 3 Launches New Sound Division
To Provide Commercial, Feature and Television Clients Sound Design, Original Music Composition and Mixing
Award-winning post house Company 3 (CO3), is pleased to announce the launch of its brand new audio division. Located within Company 3's Atlanta and New York facilities, CO3 Sound boasts three 5.1 audio suites designed to handle surround sound for commercial, feature film and television clients providing the highest level of sound design, original music composition and mixing. The new division is a complement to Deluxe's strong sound offerings in facilities around the world. CO3 Sound's radio and television mixing roster includes clients such as USA Network, Turner Broadcasting, Red Bull, Georgia Lottery, espnW, Ford, Kia and Toyota, to name a few.
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| | | | Company 3, EFILM Color Multiple Sundance Features
Award-winning post houses Company 3 (CO3) and EFILM are proud to announce that the two sister facilities provided post and color grading services on the following feature films, all of which will be screened at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
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| | | | Company 3 and EFILM Collaborate on Comprehensive Post Pipeline for James Bond Feature "Skyfall"
Award-winning post houses Company 3 (CO3) and EFILM joined forces to provide Eon Productions' newest James Bond feature "Skyfall"--the first digitally-shot film in the franchise--with a complete, integrated workflow, ensuring consistency from dailies through to digital intermediate (DI). Based on this model, the companies have branded their collaborative location service as EC3, which leverages the technology and personnel of both post houses.
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| | | | | TUTORIALS: | | | | |
| | | | DVD Authoring
THX Media Director for a multi-platform media world
 Starting with Star Wars: The Complete Saga, THX Media Director takes steps to solve the problem of translating color space, bit depth, and resolution from the reference monitor to the motion picture, TV, computer and iPad screen -- automatically.
Feature by Debra Kaufman on 10/13/2011 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Encore DVD
Adobe Encore Basics 9: Creating Slide-shows Part 3
 Putting it all together! In this final installment in the Getting Going with Encore -- Creating Slide-Shows' series, Andrew Devis shows how to create a second slide-show and 'wire-up' your final project ready for Disc or Web DVD production.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 05/12/2011 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Encore DVD
Adobe Encore Basics 8: Creating Slide-shows Part 2
 This is one for photography enthusiasts and anyone who wants to add stills to their DVD/Blu-ray and Web DVD productions - a MUST for wedding videotographers!
Learn how to use Adobe Encore to produce a DVD of all your wonderful pictures while taking advantage of the powerful features that quickly and simply add transitions, pan & zoom etc., to give that professional edge to your work and in so doing setting it apart from the rest.
In this next installment in the 'Getting Going with Encore' series, Andrew Devis continues to show how to create powerful slide-shows by adding audio under your slides, making the slide-show fit the length of the audio file you have, as well as showing how to make custom settings for individual slides.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 05/05/2011 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Encore DVD
Adobe Encore Basics 7: Creating Slide-shows Part 1
 This is one for photography enthusiast and anyone who wants to add stills to their DVD/Blu-ray and Web DVD productions - a MUST for wedding videotographers!
Learn how to use Adobe Encore to produce a DVD of all your wonderful pictures while taking advantage of the powerful features that quickly and simply add transitions, pan & zoom etc., to give that professional edge to your work and in so doing setting it apart from the rest.
In this first part of 'Creating Slide-Shows with Adobe Encore', Andrew Devis demonstrates how to bring your pictures into Encore, how to add them to a slide-show and how to quickly and easily animate and crop your images for excellent results with very little work!
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 04/28/2011 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Encore DVD
Adobe Encore Basics 6: Creating Motion Menus
 In this tutorial on getting started with Adobe Encore, Andrew Devis demonstrates the important option of bringing in a video for your menu and bringing in a suitable audio soundtrack for your menu. Although a fairly simple process, there are a couple of things that you need to know so that you don't end up pulling your hair out because you didn't realise a button needed to be pushed!
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 04/21/2011 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Encore DVD
Adobe Encore Basics 5: Creating a Web DVD
 So, you've made your DVD or Blu-ray but have also noticed that there is a 'Flash' option from the drop-down. In this fifth tutorial in the 'getting started with Adobe Encore' series, Andrew Devis shows how to set this up so that you can create a menu driven web-based DVD based on your original project. Not only is this great as a way of producing on-line samples for your customers, menu based Flash content can also be a great way to create simple and quick knowledge based games for you website.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 04/14/2011 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Encore DVD
Adobe Encore Basics 4: Checking & Building our Project
 In part four of his tutorial series on getting going with Adobe Encore, Andrew Devis demonstrates the tools within Encore to check and preview your project, as well as going through the setting needed to create (or build) a disc.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 04/07/2011 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Encore DVD
Adobe Encore Basics 3: Buttons & Wiring up our Project
 In his third tutorial on getting started with Adobe Encore, Andrew Devis demonstrates how to select different types of buttons, how to add them to your menu and then how to wire up the buttons to create your project. Andrew demonstrates this using the flowchart window, which is a simple and intuitive way of editing your project, giving powerful and clear visual feedback.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 03/31/2011 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Encore DVD
Adobe Encore Basics 2: Creating Menus
 In this second tutorial on Adobe Encore, Andrew Devis shows how to create both a standard menu from templates that ship with Encore as well as how to create a menu background based on your own image from a sequence in Premiere Pro.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 03/24/2011 | | | | |
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Sony Creative Software has recently acquired NetBlender, which offers the DoStudio product line of Blu-ray Disc creation tools. With this purchase, Sony Creative Software now offers three solutions for Blu-ray Disc authoring, including its existing products DVD Architect and Blu-print.
