Archive for July 10th, 2007

Spellbound’s Sean Welch, Anonymous’ Mac Carter & rival’s Karen Knowles Zuniga Team on Unique Short

Los Angeles, CA – (July 9, 2007) — Over the next year audiences around the world will delight in “Dave,” a quirky Los Angeleno who cares deeply about the environment. From commercial director Mac Carter, Producer Sean Welch (Spellbound, Rocket Science) and award-winning editor Karen Knowles Zuniga comes a short film about one ordinary guy’s extraordinary effort to make a difference in global warming. more

The world’s first ever soccer-themed visitor attraction, Soccer Circus, has selected Medialon Manager show control for its winning new enterprise. Housed within a multi-activity visitor center at Xscape in Glasgow, Scotland, it is a unique concept providing a visitor experience based around soccer. The developers have invested in excess of six years and £5 million in R&D for the new attraction. more

New York City, NY, July 10, 2007 – Thornberg & Forester (T&F) has been launched as a newly formed design and production company in Manhattan. The company‘s founders are industry notables Scott Matz, Elizabeth Kiehner and Justin Meredith. T&F‘s initial projects include designing and producing live action campaigns for the TBS original series “The Bill Engvall Show” and for the TBS comedy series “My Boys.” more

NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, is sponsoring the multi-city Adobe and MAXON Power Integration Tour, which kicks off today, Tuesday July 10, 2007 in New York City.

Integrating NVIDIA Quadro® professional graphics solutions with Adobe CS3 and Production Suite with MAXON‘s Cinema 4D, provides the high-performance pipeline artists and designers need to deliver compelling 3D motion graphics. more

Latest versions of Food, Deadline, Krakatoa and More Showcaed Throughout Conference

The software division of award-winning visual effects studio Frantic Films will be demonstrating an array of new software products at SIGGRAPH 2007. Along with a new version of Deadline, the company‘s popular render farm solution, Frantic Films will unveil several new developments at Booth #1720 throughout the conference, August 7-9, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif. more

Burbank, CA, July 10, 2007 – Archion, the entertainment industry‘s largest storage solution to Avid storage systems, has formed a strategic relationship with Key Code Media. The announcement was made jointly by Mark Bianchi, CEO and Reuben Lima, COO, Archion. more

(July 10, 2007) – DULUTH, Georgia – Wegener Corporation (Nasdaq: WGNR), a leading provider of equipment for television, audio and data distribution networks worldwide, today announced that the Big Ten Network (BTN) will use WEGENER satellite receive equipment to make available programming of the Big Ten Network to BTN‘s affiliates. The Big Ten Network is a new national cable/satellite programming service dedicated to covering both the athletic and academic content of the Big Ten Conference. more

TV One showed off the immense Edge Blending capabilities at a fraction of the cost when compared to other devices with the same features.

ERLANGER, KY, July 10, 2007–TV One showed off Edge Blending in a new light at InfoComm 2007.The TV One Edge Blending setup was built for around $30,000 making it tens of thousands less than anything on the market with the same capabilities. If the six projectors weren‘t impressive enough the Edge Blending setup was also able to do PIP‘s that were movable across all screens, full preview, keying and switching. more

XL Video supplied one of their new HD PPUs, cameras, screens and 30 crew to the Live Earth London show staged on 07.07.07 at Wembley Stadium.

Broadcast live on BBC One and Two and presented by Jonathan Ross and Graham Norton, the Wembley show featured performances by Madonna, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Razorlight, Snow Patrol, Keane, Corrine Bailey Rae, Genesis, Duran Duran, Paolo Nutini and many, many more. more