Archive for March, 2007

Becomes Integral Part Of All Live Press Events Held At NASA‘s Largest Research Center

GREENBELT, MD, March 12, 2007 – NASA‘s largest research center, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), has become the first of ten NASA centers with full live HD capability since the addition of its FOR-A HANABI HVS-3800HS switcher. The HANABI‘s functionality, feature set, and price point made it the obvious choice when the center upgraded to HD. more

Phoenix – March 6, 2007 — Vista Systems together with Stewart Filmscreen Corp. Singapore office, conducted a Soft Edge Blending Seminar in Seoul, Korea on January 24 and 25, which demonstrated the capabilities of the Spyder 353 image processor. The seminar’s morning and afternoon sessions at the CoEx Exhibition Hall played to full houses; additional seats were found to accommodate the invited dealers, AV consultants and end users and prospective customers from the corporate, religious, home theater, government, education and military sectors. more

NEW YORK (March 5, 2007) – design one corporation has implemented a company-wide restructuring marked by four personnel promotions, announced founder and principal designer Christien Methot.

“These new steps grew out of celebrating design one‘s 10th anniversary,” he reports. “The company has grown over the past decade and the industry has evolved and changed, so we decided a restructuring was in order to help us handle an expanding client roster more efficiently and to take us into the next 10 years.” more

Austin, Texas –March 12, 2007 — BOXX® Technologies Inc., an innovator in high-performance computing systems designed for visual effects and design professionals, today announced that it is offering the new NVIDIA Quadro® FX 4600 and Quadro FX 5600 professional-class graphics solutions on its 3DBOXX™ and APEXX™ Workstations, and renderBOXX nodes. more

Stockholm, Sweden and Hanover, Germany – 12 March, 2007 – At NAB 2007, Digital Vision, a leading developer of advanced digital media applications specialising in film and video, and DVS, a top hardware/software manufacturer, will showcase the results of a newly-formed collaboration. Visitors to both companies‘ booths will see Digital Vision‘s Nucoda Film Master DI system running on a DVS high-performance platform along with DVS Spycer® data management software. The companies also announce that the DVS-SAN is Digital Vision‘s preferred SAN for 2k/4k applications, and that Digital Vision will OEM the Centaurus II uncompressed video I/O hardware for the Film Master system. more

Boston, MA – Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast markets, today announced the release of Freebie FxPack1, a new FxPack offering four free image treatment tools for Apple Final Cut Pro and Motion users. Idustrial Revolution used the Noise Industries FxFactory Pro plug-in manager to design and develop the Freebie FxPack1 plug-in package. Final Cut Pro and Motion users can download the Freebie FxPack1. more

San Francisco, CA, Game Developers Conference–Booth #354 WH (March 8, 2007)–VICON, developer of Academy Award®-winning motion capture systems, announced that 2K Sports, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., will install a VICON MX system at a new 2K Sports motion capture studio in Novato, CA. The agreement was announced today at the Game Developers Conference, taking place from March 7-9, 2007 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. more

New conversion software skips “import” function to deliver media faster.

Marina Del Rey, CA — 8th March 2007– Brooks Harris Film & Tape Inc., maker of EdlMax, has announced the introduction of its BullsEye media conversion software. BullsEye is a video and audio media converter for importing a variety of Windows media formats to Avid® edit systems. more

NEWTEK PARTNERS WITH CLASS ON DEMAND
Class on Demand quick start training videos packaged with NewTek products; accelerates new user proficiency

Hoffman Estates, IL – March 8, 2007 – Class on Demand (COD), a provider of professional educational products for technology and creative markets, has been selected by NewTek as the training provider to design and deliver quick start training for NewTek SpeedEDIT™, LightWave®, and TriCaster™ products. Twenty-five minutes in length, the Class on Demand quick start training videos cover essential NewTek product features and concepts in a straightforward manner – enabling new users to reach fundamental proficiency quickly. In addition to the quick start training videos for NewTek products, Class on Demand offers a more in-depth self-paced training DVD which can be purchased on the Class on Demand web site at: www.classondemand.net. more

CINCINNATI, March 8, 2007 ¾ The National Basketball Association‘s (NBA) high-definition broadcast of the 56th NBA All-Star game on February 18 from Las Vegas was powered by a fiber optic HDTV solution from Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company.

The solution used for the NBA All-Star Game featured Harris Corporation‘s OPTO+™ fiber optic line‘s unique Coarse Wave Division Multiplexer modular products, along with the Harris® CCS Navigator™ control and monitoring application running remotely over an IP network. Path redundancy was provided by the OPTO+™ wideband optical splitter and protection switch, which enables significantly enhanced reliability during mission-critical events such as the live transmission of the NBA All-Star game. more