Digital Content Briefing

Unveiling new cutting-edge FxFactory features and expansive new Stereoscopic 3D mastering capabilities; red-hot visual effects company heads to Amsterdam for the 3rd annual SuperMeet Boston, MA – August 17, 2010 – Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast markets, has announced that they will exhibit at the Amsterdam SuperMeet on [...]

Christie’s George Scheckel shakes hands with Adam Wrightson, Hoyts Group Technology Director Christie announced that Hoyts Cinemas has signed an exclusive deal to convert its entire cinema circuit of over 400 screens across 49 locations to 2K and 4K-ready Series 2 Christie Solaria™ projectors over the next three years. As a part of the [...]

Post-production synchronization plug-in adds Adobe Premiere Pro CS4/CS5 to list of supported hosts Vancouver, British Columbia – August 17, 2010 – Singular Software, developer of workflow automation applications for digital media, announced that its flagship product PluralEyes™ is now available for Adobe® Premiere® Pro Creative Suite (CS) versions 4 and 5. PluralEyes provides valuable timesaving [...]

Five-days of intensive and interactive training for advanced TV, film and video editors heads to the “Big Easy”; Exclusive retreat atmosphere fosters creativity and challenges post-production elite New York, NY – August 17, 2010 – Future Media Concepts (FMC), the premier authorized digital media training organization for post-production, broadcast, and content creators, is now [...]

– Division signals expansion with the addition of Smoke artist Aaron Neitz – Visual effects company Method announced that it has promoted Claus Hansen to head up its Creative Finishing division as creative director. Hansen, who has worked with Method since its 2009 merger with RIOT (where he’d been on staff since 1999), oversees all [...]

WAYNE, NJ – JVC Professional Products, a division of JVC U.S.A., announced today that the American College of Cardiology (ACC) is using three JVC GY-HM700 ProHD camcorders to produce CardioSourceVideoNews (CVN), an ongoing collection of educational video news briefs produced for its 39,000 members. CVN produces roughly 600 videos per year that are posted [...]

For More Than 20 Years the Directors Lab Has Relied on Anton/Bauer Battery Power PARK CITY, UT - Anton/Bauer, a brand of The Vitec Group, and the world’s premier provider of batteries, chargers, lighting and other mobile power systems for the professional broadcast, video and film industries, is delighted to call the prominent Sundance Institute’s [...]

NEW YORK, Aug. 17, 2010 – HBO Archives®, the National Gallery of Art, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Turner Classic Movies (TCM) are joining together to mark the 75th anniversary of the groundbreaking theatrical journalism series The March of Time. The special events will include celebrations in New York and Washington, D.C., [...]

Broadcaster Relied on Bexel for Equipment and Services at Popular 4th of July Concert in the Nation’s Capital Bexel, a unit of the Vitec Group’s Services Division and a leading worldwide provider of broadcast services and solutions, rocked this past July 4th at PBS’s 30th Anniversary of its “A Capitol Fourth” concert spectacular, which took place [...]

The Projection Studio, Ross Ashton’s London, UK, based large format projection practice has designed and produced an eye-catching array of massive images appearing on the walls of Edinburgh Castle, forming an integral element of the visuals for the 2010 Edinburgh Royal Military Tattoo. Rated as one of the “Greatest shows on Earth” this year sees the [...]

HEATV Associate Producer Chris Rivera Using Digital Rapids StreamZ Industry’s most versatile encoder powers live and file-based production and publishing workflows for one of the league’s hottest teams August 17, 2010 — Markham, Ontario: Digital Rapids announced today that The HEAT Group, owners of the Miami HEAT National Basketball Association (NBA) team and operators of [...]

Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, announced that a new Boris Continuum Unit, 3-Way Color Grade, is now available. The Boris Continuum 3-Way Color Grade Unit brings professional-level color grading tools to desktop editing and compositing systems.

CBS The broadcast and cable networks’ “Upfront season” heralds their new fall programming line-ups with presentations designed to dazzle advertisers and their agencies. WorldStage companies, Scharff Weisberg and Video Applications (VAI), were selected by a number of the top networks to provide technical design and production support for a busy slate of Upfronts at [...]

Expert in Building Global Channels, Asia Media Products to Provide Worldwide Access To Cinedeck EXTREME Ultra Portable Recording, Monitoring and Playback Device NEW YORK, NY (August 17, 2010) — Cinedeck LLC (www.cinedeck.com) today announced it has appointed Asia Media Products (www.asiamediaproducts.com) as its manufacturers representative in the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific regions, and [...]

Panel of LOOK Staff to Participate in VES Event HOLLYWOOD, CA, Aug 17, 2010 – A panel of LOOK Effects artists will discuss the making of the visual effects for the final season of ABC’s pop-culture hit “Lost” on Thursday, August 26th at Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood, CA. The event is [...]

BURLINGTON, MA—August 16, 2010— Avid® (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced that it has been honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with an Engineering Plaque for Avid Media Access (AMA) for its role in dramatically improving the process of working with tapeless media – by eliminating time-consuming transcoding processes and saving time and money [...]

The Mammoth HD Footage Library adds 3D/Stereoscopic Footage - Featuring National Parks, Wildlife, Sports, Lifestyle, Scenics and more……. Shot in HD and RED, delivery is available as Individual L/R Eye clips, ‘Muxed” formats and Tif Sequences.

Smoke & Mirrors NY (SMNY), via ad agency GKV, recently handled post and effects for a five-spot campaign promoting the Maryland State Lottery. Four of the five :30s star an exuberant fan singing about the prize he or she won and finish with an SMNY-animated shot of M&T Bank Stadium - home of the [...]

Continuing the studio’s tradition of working with top-level talent and brands, audioEngine’s Tom Goldblatt recently mixed a hilarious spoof music video from Bounty starring hip-hop legend Rev Run. The Scooter Bartacci-directed viral racked up close to three hundred thousand hits on YouTube after only a few days. Bounty recruited both the famous rapper and audioEngine [...]

It took Michelangelo a day to paint the Creation scene on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. It took Nice Shoes almost a month to paint Kanye West into a :90 Italian fresco-style video to build buzz around the release of the artist’s new single “Power”. When Stink London was in need of an [...]