Archive for April 2nd, 2007

Two-spot Effort Edited by Bob Frisk and Directed by Harvest Films’ Baker Smith for Ad Agency Venables, Bell & Partners Urges TV Fans to Literally Bring Home the Hit Show

San Francisco, CA (April 2, 2007)–As the hit HBO series The Sopranos draws to a close, ad agency Venables, Bell & Partners has tapped Phoenix Editorial & Designs editor Bob Frisk for a two-spot campaign promoting sales of The Sopranos on DVD. Directed by Harvest Films’ Baker Smith, the :30 commercials “Pole” and “Hair” feature laugh-out-loud scenarios inspired by the darkly comical characters and situations on the show. The campaign broke March 30th. more

Calabasas, CA, April 2, 2007 – MusicBox, a leading music production company that provides thousands of cuts from its original music catalog, as well as original composition and scoring, to television programs, promos, feature films and commercials, marks a company milestone this month, with the release of five new CDs. As a result of the new releases, the company‘s library, comprised of collections entitled “MusicBox, “PromoBox,” “Cue” and “MusicBox Classics,” will now be comprised of 125 premium quality CDs, representing over 4,500 musical tracks. The announcement was made today by company co-founders/composers Joel Goodman and Dan Stein. more

ACSIL Global Survey of Stock Footage Companies 2007 provides an inside look at footage industry

New York, NY – April 2, 2007 – The Association of Commercial Stock Image Licensors (ACSIL) has completed the ACSIL Global Survey of Stock Footage Companies 2007, a comprehensive and detailed examination of the issues and challenges faced by leaders in the footage-licensing field. more

SAN JOSE, Calif., Apr. 2, 2007 – Quantum Corp. (NYSE:QTM), the leading global specialist in backup, recovery and archive, today introduced StorNext® 3.0 data management software. With this newest generation of Quantum‘s StorNext solution, the company has enhanced the architecture to add more value to business operations. StorNext 3.0 extends high performance, resilient data sharing to servers on the local area network (LAN) and integrates Quantum‘s patented data de-duplication technology to reduce data retention costs even further. In addition, it enables customers to expand storage capacity and replace storage devices while keeping the system online. more

beyerdynamic, a leading manufacturer of exceptional microphones, headphones and wireless microphone systems, recently made remote monitoring of 5.1 surround easier with the introduction of the Headzone PRO – the world‘s first 5.1 portable surround monitoring system. To provide additional sound isolation in noisy remote environments, the Headzone system will now be extended to include the closed DT 770 PRO HT headphones. Beyerdynamic will introduce the DT 770 PRO HT with headtracking at NAB 2007 (Booth #N9014). more

The increase in HD productions has made broadcasters revisit the ways and means with which surround recordings are encoded and distributed. Multi-track recorders are often larger and more expensive than their stereo counterparts, leaving many looking for a more affordable and compact method. Utilizing the encoding and pre-amplifier technology first seen in the company‘s H4 SuperMINI camera mountable surround microphone, Holophone®, the leading manufacturer of surround microphones, will introduce the Side Winder-6 terminated mic snake at NAB 2007 (Booth #N6034). When used in combination with any of the microphones in the Holophone line, including the H2-Pro and H3-D, the Side Winder-6 easily encodes a 5.1 surround recording into a stereo recording. more

Leicester, UK. – April 2, 2007. Cooke Optics Ltd., a premier manufacturer of precision lenses for the motion picture industry, announces that Red Digital Cinema has joined the growing list of companies who have incorporated support for the Cooke-developed /i Technology into their product lines. /i Technology enables film and digital cameras to automatically record key lens and camera data for every film frame shot and provide it to post-production teams digitally. The technology streamlines both production and post, saving significant time and costs and eliminating guesswork, while enabling greater creative freedom. more