Digital Content Briefing

For HBO Films’ docudrama, “You Don’t Know Jack,” the magicians at Phosphene, a visual effects and title design company, under the direction of Creative Director John Bair and VFX Executive Producer Vivian Connolly, company founders and co-owners, manipulated time and space seamlessly substituting footage of the film’s star Al Pacino into archival footage of [...]

MEDIA ALERT Singular Software Presto beta available for download; sophisticated automation features designed to work smoothly inside Sony Vegas Pro Vancouver, British Columbia – June 2, 2010 – Singular Software, red-hot developer of automation applications for post-production, has released the first beta download for the recently announced Singular Software Presto™. Designed to work inside Sony [...]

Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today announced Boris RED Version 5. Boris RED is an integrated 3D compositing, titling, and effects application designed for Adobe, Apple, Avid, Grass Valley, Media 100, and Sony video editing software. Boris RED 5 introduces support for 64-bit applications such as Adobe [...]

San Diego, CA – 3D Film Factory, the leader in affordable 3D camera systems, is now offering a full range of professional 3D production and post production services, as well as, stereographers for hire. For years the company’s team of in-house stereographers have been at the forefront of 3D filmmaking, shooting for major clients worldwide. [...]

ACTUS DIGITAL TO EXHIBIT ON SINGTEL STAND AT BROADCAST ASIA 2010 Extensive web-based media monitoring capabilities provide clever media detection and visual based reporting for more precise analysis; new repurposing tools accelerate paths for content re-distribution Tel-Aviv, Israel – June 1, 2010 – Actus Digital, a provider of web-based media monitoring and management solutions [...]

– Visual effects facility boosts NY talent roster with VFX supervisor and sr. Flame artist – In a move bolstering the talent pool at its New York facility, visual effects company Method Studios has hired VFX supervisor Peter Marin and senior Flame artist Martin Lazaro, who most recently completed work on the Spike Jonze film [...]

Digital Anarchy, a leading provider of cost-effective software for photographers and digital artists, today announced their new Beauty Box Photo. The plugin provides an automatic, easy, and inexpensive way of smoothing skin and removing blemishes in photographs. Beauty Box Photo 1.0 is fully compatible with Adobe Photoshop CS5 and earlier versions of Photoshop and Elements.

Post Production House Provided Seamless Video Editing For GSN and ABC NEW YORK, NY, JUNE 1, 2010 ─ Creative Group, the industry’s premier full-service post-production facility, is a major behind-the-scenes player when it comes to some of America’s most popular game shows.

Regional Partners Will Also Showcase Slate Portable, iPixPanel App for Apple iPad (Billerica, Massachusetts) Regional partners will showcase three new Broadcast Pix™ products at BroadcastAsia 2010 at the Singapore Expo in Singapore, 15-18 June. Systems integrator Gencom Technology Limited (Booth #7N3-01) will showcase Granite™, the new flagship line of live HD video production systems. Media [...]

CineForm Extends Award-Winning 3D Workflow Capabilities to NeoHD; Offers Special Upgrade Pricing for Existing NeoScene Customers Solana Beach, CA, June 1, 2010 – CineForm®, Inc. (www.cineform.com), creators of high-fidelity compression-based workflow solutions for the post production marketplace, announced today the immediate availability of NeoHD v5.0. With this new release, CineForm is extending its award-winning 3D [...]

Training bundle “Basic Training for Apple Color” and “Advanced Training for Apple Color” receives coveted accolade from Microfilmmaker for task-focused lessons on high-end color grading Hoffman Estates, IL – June 1, 2010 – Class on Demand®, a provider of professional educational products for creative markets, today announced that they have won Microfilmmaker’s Award of Superiority [...]

Fort Lee, N.J. – Golf Channel recently acquired two FOR-A FRC-7000 HD Frame Rate Converters for its facility in Orlando, Fla. The two units will be used to convert all of its PAL production feeds from Europe and Asia. “Previously, our frame rate conversion was done by a third party. We decided to streamline the [...]

What do a woman in a fish costume, a weed-strewn parking lot, and dancing naked men holding balloons have in common? Absolutely nothing, which is just one reason why Director Nico Beyer’s Hornbach spot, Hymne, out of Berlin agency Heimat, is storming through the awards circuit: it is a seamless, poetic integration of incongruous [...]

High Definition Training Videos for the Visual Effects Industry Princeton, NJ (June 1st, 2010) – cmiVFX launches its latest training video in the highly anticipate Cinema 4D Ultimate Learning System Series, called MOGRAPH. This video was created to help extend the tool sets of standard Cinema 4D artists to encompass one of the most [...]

Smoke & Mirrors Selects OCF for Petabyte-Class Storage Infrastructure, Leveraging DDN Technology for Scalability and Performance Visual effects and post-production company Smoke & Mirrors goes live with a new organisation wide, Digital intermediate, Visual FX and Petabyte media archive storage environment at its offices in New York and Soho, London. The storage deployment, a [...]

BOINX SOFTWARE TO SHOWCASE LATEST CREATIVE INGENUITIES FOR THE MAC PLATFORM AT FIRST ANNUAL BOSTON SUPERMEET Apple design award-winner to demonstrate premier videographer and photographer animation tool, FotoMagico; SuperMeet leverages BoinxTV for live broadcasts of keynote presentations and conference sessions Puchheim, Germany – May 27, 2010 – Boinx Software, a multi-award winning software developer for [...]

Bergen, Norway, Vizrt Ltd. (Oslo Main List: VIZ) Considered the world’s largest non-sport television production, the Eurovision Song Contest Finale is being broadcast live from the Telenor Arena, in Oslo, Norway during several dates in late May. Started in 1956, the contest has since grown to include two live semi-finals, which are held on the [...]

London, UK, May 27, 2010 – Cinesite, one of the leading film visual effects houses, has completed more than 280 shots on the new Walt Disney Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films movie, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which opens in theaters tomorrow.

createasphere-logo-as-jpeg.jpg In-depth Information Guides VIP Conversations with Experts and Media Decision Makers from Houses of Worship, Education, Government (Burbank, CA) Createasphere has unveiled its Executive Marketplace, a top tier event in which C-Level decision makers are connected with top tier product and technology experts in thoughtfully managed pairings. The two-day Executive Marketplace fosters consultation between high [...]

BOINX SOFTWARE TO SHOWCASE LATEST CREATIVE INGENUITIES FOR THE MAC PLATFORM AT FIRST ANNUAL BOSTON SUPERMEET Apple design award-winner to demonstrate premier videographer and photographer animation tool, FotoMagico; SuperMeet leverages BoinxTV for live broadcasts of keynote presentations and conference sessions Puchheim, Germany – May 27, 2010 – Boinx Software, a multi-award winning software developer for the [...]