Archive for June 12th, 2007

Newly launched service gives instant search access to over 60 years of CBS News content

BBC Motion Gallery, the footage-licensing arm of BBC Worldwide, announced the debut of the CBS News Online Database, an online text-based service allowing searches of over 60 years of CBS News archives. more

XL Video supplied production video and LED surfaces to all 3 stages at BBC Radio One‘s 2-day One Big Weekend event in Preston – which was co-produced by SJM – and kick-started the 2007 Festival season in spectacular style. The line up included Stereophonics, Scissor Sisters and the Kaiser Chiefs.

Project Managed by XL‘s Des Fallon, the UK‘s busiest live music video company deployed 20 crew to site on the Thursday to be ready for Saturday morning. The video site build was co-ordinated by crew chief Carl Martin, and the XL team worked closely with lighting suppliers Lite Alternative. more

Crimp-XLR Series Offers a Solderless Construction for Faster Assembly

ANAHEIM, CA, JUNE 12, 2007 – Neutrik, designer and manufacturer of the industry leading XX series XLR cable connector, introduces the industry‘s first Crimp-XLR cable connector and chassis receptacle products at InfoComm 2007 in Anaheim, booth # 8033.

As the crimp termination version of its XX and DLX series, the new Crimp-XLR is an ideal solution for volume cable assemblies and solderless RoHS applications. It is available in several models for greater versatility and faster assembly. The 3 pole FXX (NC3FXX-A-D) and MXX (NC3MXX-A-D) cable connectors are terminated on semi-automated machines and include boot assembly and cable testing, while the 3 pole FXX and MXX connectors (NC3FXX-HA/NC3MXX-HA) and the 3 pole NC3FD-LX-HA and NC3MD-LX-HA chassis connectors are terminated with hand crimp tools. more

South Norwalk, CT–Palace Digital Studios handled the final audio mix and sweetening, legalizing and color correction for the four-part series “Quintessential,” airing on The Learning Channel. A preview of the first episode aired May 21. The entire series is scheduled for broadcast late in 2007, airing over four consecutive weeks.

Palace‘s Audio Engineer Chris Nelson did the audio mixing and sweetening and Online Editor David Russell did the legalizing and color correction. more

Burbank, CA, June 12, 2007 – Archion‘s highly successful new Synergy HD™ storage solution continues its successful and on-going prominence via a number of new sales deals. The joint announcement was made by Mark Bianchi, CEO and Reuben Lima, COO, Archion. more

Nashville, TN, June 12, 2007 — 615 Music, one of America‘s preeminent Production Music companies and providers of original/custom, library and production music for television networks and programs, feature films, radio, commercials, on-air promos, interactive applications and multi-media clients, has announced a number of new CD releases from international libraries. 615 Music President and CEO Randy Wachtler made the announcement. more

Meet the new hub for your video production studio. With one simple plug-and-play FireWire connection, the V3HD turns your Mac or PC desktop or laptop computer into a powerful HD/SD video production workstation equipped with all the video and audio I/O you need.
Connect all your gear, from SD camcorders and CRT monitors to today’s latest professional HD cameras, video decks, LCD reference monitors and plasmas — all at the same time, with no cable swapping. Choose your input source, then log and capture HD and SD clips directly into Final Cut or Premiere, converted on the fly and ready for fast, CPU-efficient editing in pristine native DVCPro HD quality, without the costly overhead required for uncompressed HD. Monitor simultaneously in HD and SD with real-time SD-to-HD up-convert, HD-to-SD down-convert and real-time pull-down insertion or removal. more

Does your documentary* celebrate the extraordinary life of an ordinary American? If so, it can be part of the premiere season of a new public television series, American LivesWT.

*Note: ALL Entrants must have a submission previously accepted in a Film Festival

Who: Documentary Producers who have created films previously accepted to a Film Festival
What: We are looking for amazing stories about ordinary Americans (like you and me), people stories and journeys through life
When: Now! We are taking submission for the first season of American Lives TV Show. Deadline – August 31, 2007
Where: Submit your documentary in DVD or MiniDV format to: American Lives, c/o RedEye Professional Post 705 Prince St., Alexandria, VA 22314
Questions: 703.549.8887 or RedEye@redeyepost.tv more

Chomet, Inc. has significantly expanded its 3D graphics department with the signing of Optic Flavor Studio and its VFX team which will work exclusively with Chomet in the United States.

Chomet, a leader in providing creative and technical services in editorial and graphics to the corporate, broadcasting and cable, music video and commercial industries, has incorporated a fully fledged visual effects department to keep up with growing client demand for 3D animation, motion graphics and visual effects. more

Sophia Antipolis, France (June 12, 2007) – REALVIZ®, a leader in image processing software development, is pleased to announce that Europe’s leading visual effects and computer animation studio, Framestore CFC, has selected Movimento as their motion capture solution of choice for their 2007/2008 film production program. Framestore CFC is the largest visual effects and computer animation studio in Europe, with over 20 years of experience in digital film and video technology. REALVIZ Movimento is a state-of-the-art video-based motion capture solution, “Powered by SMART”, REALVIZ’ powerful automatic 3D tracking engine. more