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News: Glass Slipper Productions Captures Happy Endings And New Beginnings With Panasonic AG-HMC150 Handheld Camcorders
Philadelphia-Based Event Specialist Robert Neal Gears Up with Handheld AVCCAM to Shoot Weddings, Documentaries, Commercial Spots and More
As event cinematographer Robert Neal balances a bumper crop of jittery brides this wedding season, one source of rock-solid stability is his new acquisition tool, Panasonic’s AG-HMC150 professional handheld AVCCAM camcorder.
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News: Lone Peak completes 13 episodes of "1000cc Raw Thrill"
Lone Peak Productions, a Salt Lake City based video production company, announced they have finished post-production of 13 episodes of, "1000cc Raw Thrill" a motorcycle show that is the brainchild of Executive Producer, James Brown of Salt Lake Studios.
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News: Sonnet Announces $100 Price Drop for the Tempo™ SATA Pro ExpressCard/34
Sonnet Technologies today announced that it has reduced the price of its Tempo™ SATA Pro ExpressCard/34 to $199.95, a reduction of $100. The fastest 2-port eSATA controller available for ExpressCard slots, the SATA card supports sustained data throughput of up to 200 MB/sec. Unlike most other eSATA ExpressCard adapters, the Tempo SATA Pro supports 4 GB and 8 GB of RAM in MacBook® Pro computers.
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News: Big Machine Design Relies On Maxon Cinema 4d To Create Futuristic Cgi Video Trailer For Highly Anticipated Upcoming Game Title, "Front Mission Evolved"
Artists Leverage CINEMA 4D’s Power, Performance and Ease-of-Use and Tap its Advanced Render, Thinking Particles, MoGraph and MOCCA Modules to Create Complex, Awe-inspiring Game Cinematic
MAXON Computer, a leading developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions, today announced that Big Machine Design , an award winning visual production company specializing in visuals for film titles, advertising, TV shows, games, and more, relied heavily on MAXON CINEMA 4D to create the stunning, fully CGI trailer for Square Enix’s highly-anticipated game title, "Front Mission Evolved".
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News: WASP3D kicks off UK operations; appoints Lee Otterway as Account Manager
The move aimed to bring WASP3D a step closer to UK based television broadcasters
WASP3D, the leading interactive 3D broadcast graphics solution today announced appointment of Lee Otterway as Account Manager for United Kingdom. The appointment is a part of WASP3D’s strategy to come closer to its customers in European market.
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News: Sony F23 Cameras Recreate History In “Public Enemies,” From Acclaimed Filmmaker Michael Mann
Universal Pictures' Action-Thriller Opens Nationally Today
Universal Pictures’ new action-thriller “Public Enemies,” which opens nationally today, was shot with Sony F23 professional high-definition cameras. Co-writer/director/producer Michael Mann and co-producer/2nd unit director Bryan Carroll had specific HD production needs to realistically capture the look of 1930s America and overcome the challenges of shooting a period piece.
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News: Blackmagic Design Releases Linux SDK for DeckLink, Multibridge and Intensity
Linux Software Development Kit for developers is available for download for now!
Blackmagic Design Inc. today released support for software developers who want to use DeckLink, Intensity and Multibridge products on the Linux platform.
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News: CalDigit Offers FREE CalDigit VR with Purchase of HDElement!
CalDigit is continuing its summer of savings with a very special promotion on the HDElement. Buy an HDElement or HDElement expansion unit and get a free CalDigit VR. That’s a value of up to $949. This offer is only good for a limited time so act fast.
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News: nVeil Invites Digital Artists to Create, Share New Veil Creations During its Summer ‘nVeil UnVeiling’ Contest
All Customers Purchasing nVeil Before July 25 Receive Second License Free When They Submit Their Own Creations to the nVeil Library; Best Submission Wins Prize
Storek Studio, the creators of nVeil, the visually stunning new VFX plug in for Final Cut Pro users, announced today a new summer promotion and contest for new customers; the “nVeil UnVeiling” contest.
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News: BBC Motion Gallery Features Exclusive CBS Footage of Apollo 11 Landing
Walter Cronkite reports the historical event in marathon live coverage
BBC Motion Gallery, the clip licensing arm of BBC Worldwide and the exclusive global representative for the BBC News Archive and CBS News Archive, features exclusive CBS footage of Walter Cronkite reporting on the Apollo 11 moon landing to celebrate its 40th anniversary on July 20, 2009.
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News: Digieffects Announces The Natural Forces Summer Tour
Digieffects sponsors Rogue Kite as they drive across America with a RED ONET Camera
Digieffects®, a developer of popular visual effects software plugins, today announced that it will sponsor Rogue Kite on The Natural Forces Summer Tour.
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News: Open-E Announces General Availability of Open-E Data Storage Software V6
World recognized storage management software developer offers its latest storage management OS at a fraction of the cost of alternative storage offerings
Open-E, Inc., a leading developer of innovative storage management software, today announced the general availability of its sixth generation Data Storage Software V6 IP-Storage operating system.
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News: Award-Winning Director Marc Forster Teams With Cut + Run Editor James Nelson On New Swiss Air Film
Flying - or modern day travel via air - evokes a variety of images but certainly rarely as beautiful or sublime as what unfolds in the new Swiss Air film directed by Marc Forster . To help orchestrate and unite the myriad of elements involved, Forster turned to Cut + Run Editor Jay Nelson who worked hand-in-hand with the director and the effects production company MK12 on the project.
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News: IK Multimedia Announces “Summer Group Mix” Promotion
Musicians can get up to three free T-RackS 3 Singles Plug-ins when they purchase one - July 1st thru August 31st, 2009
IK Multimedia is proud to announce the “Summer Group Mix Promotion” where musicians, engineers and producers can get up to three free T-RackS 3 Singles plug-ins for the price of one.
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News: Jonathan Del Gatto Edits Award-Winning Chambers Hotel Video Art Piece
Garners Cannes Gold Lion & AICP Next Award
Earlier this year, the agency creatives at Barrie D'Rozario Murphy/Minneapolis turned to the talents of Editor Jonathan Del Gatto for an innovative video art piece for the Chambers Hotel. The intriguing project has garnered prestigious awards this season including a Cannes Gold Lion and an AICP Next Award.
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News: Digital Domain Collaborates with Michael Bay on 'Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen' Movie Tie-Ins
Digital Production Company Lends Character Creation Talents to Bay's Movie and Promotional Spots for LG and Burger King
Digital Domain is bringing a supporting cast of robot characters from the hugely anticipated summer action flick "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" to life, but that's not all they're helping to realize for filmmaker Michael Bay.
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News: ARRI Unleashes ARRILASER 2
The Next Generation Film Recorder
The ARRILASER 2 represents the next generation of a film recorder that has established itself as an integral component of DI workflows all over the world. For 10 years the ARRILASER has set the standard in image quality and maintained an unrivalled level of performance. With over 250 units in almost constant operation worldwide, it is the backbone of the film recording industry.
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News: Blackmagic Design Releases Software Update for all Videohub Routers
New Videohub 4.0 software update has revolutionized the design of router control by using low cost all in one computers with touch screens as router control panels
Blackmagic Design Inc. today released a major software update for all Videohub routers. Videohub 4.0 adds support for a revolutionary “button view” control screen that is designed to be easy to use on touch screen computers.
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News: Introducing New Features & Product Enhancements for FSI Monitors
New Standard Features for All FSI Monitors
Flanders Scientific is happy to announce the addition of several new product features and enhancements to our already value-packed line of Professional Broadcast Monitors.
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News: Harris Corporation Announces Key Upgrades to Videotek® HD-STAR® Handheld Monitor/Generator
New Features Improve Functionality and Enhance Video and Audio Performance
Harris Corporation , an international communications and information technology company, announces that important firmware upgrades are now available for its Videotek® HD-STAR® handheld HD/SD-SDI monitor and generator, a portable, battery-powered tool that provides convenient, yet powerful multiformat functionality for monitoring and generating video and embedded audio signals.
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News: Fisher Communications speeds up local news delivery with expanded Bitcentral partnership
KBAK and KBCI of Fisher Communications join rapidly expanding network of Precis customers; KATU orders key upgrade to existing Precis installation
Bitcentral, Inc., a leading provider of news production, management and distribution solutions to the broadcast industry, today announced that Fisher Communications, Inc., headquartered in Seattle, Washington, has invested in significant technology improvements for three of its local broadcast properties with the purchase of Precis 4.0 news production and management systems.
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News: Sony Announces New Vegas Pro 9 Academic Edition & Film Contest Winners
New Vegas® Pro 9 Academic Edition Now Available
Sony Creative Software, a leading provider of professional video and audio editing software applications, announced the winners of its second national student film contest, Technology in Motion: Community of the Future, at an awards ceremony last night during the National Educational Computing Conference in Washington, DC which is being held through July 1, 2009 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
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News: The Mill, London Relies on Softel Swift vTX to Manage Subtitle Content With Efficient File-Based Workflow
The Mill, London has chosen Softel's Swift vTX subtitling system for a new file-based platform at its market-leading advertising post-production department.
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News: StudioGPU Ships MachStudio Pro—Supercharges 3D Workflow with Real-Time Finishing and Compositing
Renders Scenes Up to 900 Times Faster than Traditional Solutions – Reducing Times from Hours to Seconds
StudioGPU announced today the immediate availability of MachStudio Pro™, a professional 3D workflow and rendering package created by artists for artists. MachStudio Pro offers a seamless way to create and interact with cinematic quality 3D objects and environments in a non-linear workspace by leveraging the horsepower of off-the-shelf professional graphics processing units to deliver real-time and near real-time workflow performance on a desktop workstation.
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News: Obama for America Campaign Wins Top Prizes in Cannes
The advertising and marketing campaign that helped propel Barack Obama into the White House has been honored with the two top prizes -- the Titanium Grand Prix and the Integrated Grand Prix -- from the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.
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News: Company 3 Adds Creative Director Randie Swanberg & Senior Producer Angela Lupo to Spearhead VFX Dept
Award-winning postproduction house Company 3 has added Creative Director/Flame Artist Randie Swanberg and Senior Producer Angela Lupo to lead its newly-created visual effects department. Initially focusing on Swanberg's area of expertise - fashion and beauty projects - the department will evolve to service a diverse range of clients.
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News: POP Sound Upgrades Mixing Studios to Digidesign ICON
POP Sound-seeking to capitalize on growing demand for multi-channel mixing for television spots-has completed major upgrades to two of its commercial mixing suites, with both now featuring latest generation Digidesign ICON mixing consoles and Pro Tools digital audio workstations.
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News: Matrox MXO2 Mini Now Provides Inexpensive HDMI Monitoring for AVCHD Editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and CineForm NeoScene
Matrox® Video Products Group today announced Matrox MXO2™ Mini support for the popular CineForm NeoScene editing workflow that streamlines AVCHD editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 on the PC.
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News: Elemental Announces Next Generation CUDA GPU-Accelerated Video Encoding Plug-In For Creative Professionals
Elemental™ Accelerator Breaks the Video Processing Bottleneck Using NVIDIA® Quadro® GPUs; More Video Editors Than Ever Can Use the Product Thanks to Expanded NVIDIA Quadro Lineup, Mac Version
Elemental Technologies, the leading provider of massively parallel video processing solutions, today announced the availability of Elemental Accelerator 2.0, the next generation of its groundbreaking CUDA GPU-accelerated video processing tool for creative professionals.
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News: Neutrik USA Takes To The Small Screen With Poinciana High School’s TV Production Class
Neutrik USA is helping Poinciana High School give its students real-world experience in connectivity, a vital component for setting up and wiring equipment for broadcast.
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News: AlwaysHD Teams Up with Stock Footage Search Engine Footage.net
AlwaysHD, the online marketplace for high definition stock footage, this month became an official supplier for Footage.net, the premier stock, archival, and news footage search engine. Through the partnership, select footage from AlwaysHD’s contributing cinematographers and computer graphics artists now are available for purchase alongside clips from Footage.net’s 30 other stock footage suppliers, which include ABC News, BBC Motion, and Getty Images.
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News: Damon Trotta Joins Northern Lights Audio Team
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Northern Lights is pleased to welcome Mixer/Sound Designer/Composer Damon Trotta to their audio team. A veteran in his field, Trotta brings a wealth of knowledge, distinctive style, and creative finesse to his new home. His extensive roster of clients includes USA Network, Animal Planet, HBO, AMC, and the NBA.
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News: Mann/Spinotti Choose Sony and Zeiss for "Public Enemies"
Public Enemies
When director Michael Mann and cinematographer Dante Spinotti ASC came together for their fifth pairing to shoot "Public Enemies", they decided to capture this period production with modern HD technology.
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News: Toon Boom Releases Studio 5
Les Triplettes de Belleville, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, The Rugrats, SpongeBob The Movie, Hanuman, Curious George, Go West: A New Lucky Luke Adventure, Simpsons The Movie
Toon Boom Animation Inc. today announced the release of Toon Boom Studio 5, completely rebranded and now positioned as the multi-technique animation software for learning and creating animation.
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News: Vinten Supports Beatles Reunion At E3 Video Game Convention In LA
When Susan Campbell shot the Beatles reunion at the E3 Gaming Convention, introducing “The Beatles: Rock Band” video game, a Vinten head supported her camera. “Having a Vinten head made operating on this 90-minute live broadcast for the G4 network all that much better,” says the veteran camera operator.
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News: Matrox Graphics Unveils Triple and Quad Monitor DisplayPort M-Series Graphics Cards
Matrox Graphics, the leading manufacturer of specialized graphics solutions, today announced the availability of the Matrox M9138 and Matrox M9148 DisplayPort graphics cards. Expanding the M-Series product line, these new triple- and quad-monitor cards offer a remarkable 1 GB of memory, and with support for independent or stretched mode at resolutions up to 2560x1600 per output, users can drive business, industrial, and government applications on an exceptional multi-monitor platform.
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News: Blackmagic Design makes videoscopes accessible to everybody
Video editors have long been waiting for an inexpensive, full-featured option for monitoring the technical parameters of the digital video and audio they are creating.
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News: RK Media Group Builds New Los Angeles Based Facility Around the VECTORBOX Playout Solutions
Tapeless TV Korea channel launched in US; live and continuity playout powered by Vector broadcast servers
Vector3™, a pioneer in graphics and playout solutions, announced that TV Korea has built a brand new studio in Los Angeles, CA with the VECTORBOX integrated playout solutions at the heart of the operation.
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News: The LA Film School's Cintiq Lab Facilitates Creative Expression and Equips Computer Animation Students with "Real World" Skills
When visitors walk into the brand new Wacom® Cintiq® lab at the Los Angeles Film School, they might think they have stumbled onto H.G. Wells' time machine. In the middle of the room is a stairway to an elevated platform that is illuminated by spotlights.
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News: Future Media Concepts Celebrates Opening of One of New England's Largest Authorized Digital Media Training Facilities
Newly expanded Boston location boasts 3,000 plus square feet of cutting edge postproduction technology; full curriculum for Adobe, Apple Avid, and Autodesk
Future Media Concepts , the premier authorized digital media training organization for postproduction, broadcast professionals and content creators, is pleased to announce the expansion of their Boston office.
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News: Imagineer Systems Expands mocha Family of Planar Tracking Solutions for the Desktop with Series of New Releases
mocha shape for Final Cut Imports Roto Shape Data from Imagineer Systems Solutions; mocha for Final Cut v2, mocha v1.5 and motor v1.5 Provide Seamless Roto and Shape Export to mocha for Final Cut, mocha for After Effects
Imagineer Systems today announced the culmination of an aggressive product development cycle with the release of a powerful new VFX plug-in for Final Cut Pro users - mocha shape for Final Cut. Designed to import rotoscoping shape data exported from mocha into Final Cut, mocha shape for Final Cut enables Final Cut Pro users to easily import multi-layer shape data with variable, per point edge feathering.
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News: iStockphoto Debuts Best of Breed Search Technology and the Vetta Image Collection
Highly Relevant Results Cut Search Times By Up to 50 Percent
A recent survey of more than 28,000 iStockphoto customers found that search and quality of collection are two of the top reasons for choosing iStock. Enter Best Match 2.0 and the Vetta™ Collection. The Best Match algorithm provides more relevant results and saves people time when searching. Seventy-eight percent of customers found it reduced search times — 20 percent of those said search times were reduced by more than 50 percent.
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News: Dagens Media Goes Live on Escenic 5.0
Oslo, Norway, June 24, 2009: First Scandinavian customer to go live on 5.0
Escenic is pleased to announce that the first Scandinavian customer, Dagens Media has gone live on Escenic Content Studio 5.0. Dagens Media is one of the leading magazines in the Talentum Group, a leading media company in Finland and Sweden. The Talentum Group produces magazines, books, training and online content for professionals in different specialist fields.
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News: Swedish Football League Relies on Broadcast Pix for Remote Control of New HD Studios
Innovative Solution Will Produce Daily Press Conferences from Stadiums Across the Country
Onside TV Production, the production arm of the Allsvenskan Swedish Football League, will soon rely on Broadcast Pix™ Slate™ integrated production systems to produce daily HD news conferences for each of its 16 teams.
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News: New Wohler Online Web Site Offers End-of-Life and Refurbished Wohler Products at Bargain Prices
Wohler Site Is Convenient, Cost-Effective Source for Additional or Replacement Audio and Video Systems With Full Warranties
Wohler Technologies Inc. today announced the launch of Wohler Online, a new Web site that makes end-of-life and refurbished products available at significantly reduced prices. Wohler Online is designed to provide dealers, integrators, and customers with a convenient and cost-effective means of replacing damaged equipment or expanding existing installations with more units of the same model.
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News: Class on Demand Collects 2 Tellys and a Communicator Award for Video-Based Training
Adobe and Avid Training Products garner coveted assortment of accolades
Class on Demand, a provider of professional educational products for creative markets, today announced they have won two 2009 Telly awards for their Class on Demand training titles: "Complete Training for Avid® Media Composer®" and "Basic Training for Adobe® CS4 Production Premium;" and one 2009 Communicator Award for their title: "Designer's Guide to Illustrator®."
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News: Post Logic Studios Restores Scientific Films for National Archive
16mm Time-Lapse Color Microcinematography Films are One-of-a-Kind Shorts Exploring Developmental Biology Phenomena
Leading post-production facility Post Logic Studios, a division of Prime Focus Group, is completing restoration of over 80 scientific microcinematography short films developed by world-renowned academics and funded by the National Science Foundation .
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News: AJA Video Sends a Clear Signal to Gray Television
130+ AJA FS1 HD Frame Syncs Boost Transmissions for 36-Station Broadcaster
AJA Video Systems, a leading manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, announced today that its multi-format FS1 frame synchronizers are in use at the 36 network member stations owned by broadcast company Gray Television. The FS1 is a universal HD and SD, audio and video frame synchronizer and converter supporting virtually any input or output format, all in a slim 1RU form factor.
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News: CoreMelt releases ImageFlow FX V2 2.1 - Special Bundle Deal
CoreMelt has announced ImageFlow FX V2 2.1 alongside all new video tutorials and a special bundle deal with Singular Software's PluralEyes.
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News: DX Studio 3.1 Released by Worldweaver
Software developers Worldweaver Ltd, based in Pinewood Studios , have just announced a new release of their 3D platform “DX Studio”.
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