Digital Content Briefing

– 72andSunny ad campaign features HBO’s Kenny Powers as K-Swiss spokesman – Company 3 recently completed work on a new campaign from K-Swiss via ad agency 72andSunny featuring Kenny Powers, the fictional character played by Danny McBride in the HBO series “Eastbound & Down.” The campaign, which includes national TV spots, in-theatre ads, print media, [...]

Fireflies West will hold its third annual fundraising bike ride for cancer research and treatment from September 24-29th, 2010 Starting with a kick-off event at advertising agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners on September 24th, a group of film directors, production, post production and advertising executives will set off on their bicycles for a six-day, 550 mile [...]

Fireflies West will hold its third annual fundraising bike ride for cancer research and treatment from September 24-29th, 2010 Starting with a kick-off event at advertising agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners on September 24th, a group of film directors, production, post production and advertising executives will set off on their bicycles for a six-day, 550 mile [...]

Bonfire, a motion design and integrated media company, has announced that Mark Coleran has come on board as design director. Coleran is one of the most high profile designers of Fantasy User Interfaces (FUIs) for feature film and will leverage that experience to bring FUIs into real-world production for Bonfire’s roster of technology clients. [...]

“The Pacific” and “Entourage” honored in sound categories. HOLLYWOOD–Artists from CSS Studios’ Todd-AO, Soundelux and Modern Music won three awards in the 2009-2010 Creative Arts Primetime Emmy Awards at the 62nd Emmy Awards presentation August 21st at the NOKIA Theatre in Los Angeles.

Blackmagic Design today announced that Underground Logic, one of the Philippines’ leading post-production houses, has installed version 7 of the DaVinci Resolve non-linear color correction system. Underground Logic has already begun work on several projects landed due to the Resolve’s color correction capabilities, including work for some of the largest multi-national brands in the region.

Blackmagic Design today announced that Mercury Post, one of Korea’s fastest growing post-production houses, has purchased and installed version 7 of the DaVinci Resolve non-linear color correction system. Since the installation of the 8 GPU Resolve system in July, Mercury has already completed three high-profile television advertising spots for Hyundai Motors “K7”, McDonalds and Samsung’s [...]

Zoic Studios was honored with Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series during the Creative Arts Emmy awards held in Los Angeles on Saturday, August 21st 2010. The award honors the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode “Family Affair”. “What a fantastic night for the CSI team and Zoic,” says Zoic VFX Supervisor Rik Shorten. “I’m so [...]

DFT Digital Film Technology, provider of high-end film and digital post production solutions that preserve, manage, and deliver your pictures will demonstrate a number of key new features for its SCANITY film scanner at IBC 2010, stand number 7.E12. In addition, BONES PlayoutMaster, a new software application for converting DPX clips to file and [...]

AZZURROCAM PRODUCTION SYSTEM ADDS FUNCTIONALITY TO TARGET NEWS BUREAUS NEW FEATURES EXPAND FORMATS, INCREASE CAMERA CHOICES, AND PROMOTE PORTABILITY Northvale, NJ August 18, 2010 — Azzurro Systems Integration (ASI) has added functionality to its AzzurroCam fully integrated, compact production system, to broaden its appeal to News Bureaus. Designed to offer a reasonably priced, [...]

IBC Stand 8.A94 NEP COLOR CORRECTS WITH COBALT DIGITAL MANUFACTURER’S 9901-UDX PROVIDES COLOR CORRECTION, FRAME SYNCHRONIZATION, AND UP/DOWN/CROSS CONVERSION FROM ONE UNIT (Urbana, IL, August 19, 2010) – Cobalt Digital (www.CobaltDigital.com), designer and manufacturer of award-winning 3G/HD/SD conversion gear for the broadcast television environment, has supplied color corrector panels to NEP Broadcasting [...]

Stand 2.A51 RAI Amsterdam 10-14 September Chessington, UK, August 19, 2010 – FOR-A, a leading manufacturer of video and audio systems for the broadcast and professional video industries, is introducing new products that offer practical solutions for today’s video professionals. These range from archiving file-based video to vision mixers and assistance for live 3D acquisition. [...]

The H1 puts professional stereo recording capabilities in your pocket Hauppauge, NY – August 20, 2010 – Zoom is excited to announce availability of its smallest recorder to date, the new H1 Handy Recorder. The H1 weighs in at just 2 oz, but delivers heavyweight HD audio recording power with the same studio-quality microphones as [...]

Prism Projection RevEAL Grayson County College’s Art and Communications Center in Denison, Texas has purchased 10 Prism Projection RevEAL Color Wash (RevEAL CW) fixtures for the newly-renovated, 1,000-seat Cruce Stark Auditorium and the new, more intimate 50×50-foot Black Box Theater. The latter space features a fully-flexible seating system by Staging Concepts that can accommodate [...]

IRIDAS Teams Up with its Channel Partner, Infratrans, to Showcase DualStream NX Stereo Workflow Technology at China’s Most Prestigious Radio, Television and Film Industry Conference Munich, DE (August 20, 2010) — IRIDAS (www.iridas.com) today announced it is teaming up with its channel partner in China, Infratrans, to demonstrate the Company’s newest innovations in 3D [...]

Blackmagic Design Inc. today announced that it will again be supporting the Third Annual Amsterdam FCPUG SuperMeet as platinum sponsor. Blackmagic Design also announced it will be introducing the DaVinci Resolve 7 for Mac in a presentation by Warren Eagles, an international freelance color artist, at the event. The SuperMeet will be held at the [...]

New high-end graphics card increases multi-monitor support for HD video walls and stereo 3D applications August 19, 2010 – AMD today unveiled its line-up of technology and customer demonstrations scheduled to take place at the company’s booth (Hall 7, J30) at IBC 2010.

WAYNE, NJ – JVC Professional Products, a division of JVC U.S.A., announced today that KUSI, an independent station serving San Diego (DMA #28), purchased 11 JVC GY-HM700 ProHD camcorders for high definition ENG work. After more than two years of planning, the McKinnon Broadcasting Company station launched its local news in HD on April 1.

(London, UK) Digital Vision is proud to announce the shipment of its new Nucoda grading and Phoenix restoration product range including the latest 2010 software release, showing its continued commitment to deliver premium products on-time at highly competitive price points. This announcement together with the unveiling of the company’s eagerly anticipated new Precision grading panel [...]

Will Assist in CIS Business Growth Plans Vancouver, B.C., August 19, 2010 — CIS Vancouver announced today that Janet Yale, a seasoned facility executive and visual effects producer, has joined the CIS Vancouver management team as Head of Digital Studio. Most recently Yale has been an independent visual effects producer working at CIS and completed [...]