Archive for October, 2007

Senior Colorist Tom Poole has joined Company 3 in Los Angeles to focus on commercials, music videos, as well as feature film projects. The announcement was made this morning by Company 3 Co-Founder/Colorist, Stefan Sonnenfeld.

“Tom brings a unique level of experience and collaboration to Company 3,” explains Sonnenfeld. “I believe that his knowledge and thirst for innovation and technology has encouraged him to push himself into new adventures, which is what interested him in us. We offer the opportunity for him to work on a diversity of projects, and we know he will be a great asset to our team.” more

Award winning design boutique Bombastic has added Susie Berry to its growing agency. As Director of Business Development, Berry will be responsible for national and international clients and global new business development.

“It‘s an exciting time to be in this business,” comments Berry. “With new digital, mobile and third screen technology being released almost daily, the creative community must constantly brace itself for the next wave. It is truly the Wild West out there and Bombastic is uniquely positioned to develop cross platform projects that cut through the design clutter.” more

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Stock Footage Saves the Day and Schedule

In spite of all the best planning and scheduling, producers will occasionally find themselves up against an immovable deadline, frantically scrambling for those last few stock clips needed to complete a project.

Recently Kate Raisz, a producer with Moore Huntley Productions in Sudbury, Massachusetts, found herself in such a spot while making a show for the National Geographic Channel on Alaska. The program dealt with Alaska’s geology and weather, and how extremes in the Great North affect other places around the world. They had great footage from Alaska, but were coming up short on “the rest of the world”; things like geyser activity in Yellowstone Park, for instance. more

October 18, 2007 — Markham, Ontario: Digital Rapids has worked closely with a premier U.S. telecommunications provider, along with leading content providers and post production facilities, to bring to market an advanced H.264 encoding platform meeting the provider’s demanding requirements for Video on Demand (VOD) content for its flagship IPTV video service.

Studios and facilities including Ascent Media Group, Global Digital Media Xchange, Starz Entertainment, TVN Entertainment and more are using Digital Rapids’ StreamZ encoding solutions with the new Digital Rapids Studio AVC Encoder module to encode VOD assets for the service, the first entirely Internet Protocol (IP)-based video service offered by a national U.S. provider. more

Special Cross Grade to Magic Bullet Products Offered to Cinelook Customers

San Francisco, CA, October 18, 2007 – Red Giant Software, developer of a line of professional digital video tools, including Magic Bullet and Knoll Light Factory, today announced that the company reached an agreement with Digieffects to acquire Cinelook. This agreement secures Red Giant Software‘s position as the leading provider of color correction tools to set the mood of a movie. Following the recent launch of Magic Bullet Looks, Cinelook will no longer be sold or developed by either company. Digieffects will continue to offer free technical support to existing customers. Key pieces of the Cinelook technology and workflow may be added to future versions of the Magic Bullet line of tools. more

New York – October 17, 2007 – The Outsourcing Institute (OI), the largest neutral network of outsourcing buyers, providers and influencers in the world, today announced its plan to unveil a new online portal that will provide unprecedented access to best practices, tools and support… as well as global networking among outsourcing buyers, providers and advisors. The new portal will launch during OutsourceWorld New York 2007, the premier pure-play business trade platform for executives with a need to outsource business services, taking place October 24th – 25th at The Jacob Javits Convention Center in Manhattan. more

Powerful New Look Tool Now Available

San Francisco, CA, October 18, 2007 – Red Giant Software has released Magic Bullet Looks, its highly anticipated and revolutionary color correction tool. Looks‘ powerful tools can be used on-set or in the edit suite to subtly adjust tone, color and focus to simulate the appearance of classic films or duplicate specific production conditions. Users can choose from more than a hundred Look presets, all neatly organized into 10 categories, to help set the mood for anything from a wedding video to the next Sundance original. more

Aviom, exclusive developer of the world‘s premier audio transport technology, will feature its new MH10f Merger Hub with Fiber at WFX 2007 (Booth # 628).

The MH10f Merger Hub is designed to merge and distribute A-Net® data streams and provide a host of professional features to make audio networking with Pro64 Series products easy to set up and configure in multiple professional audio environments. more

Aviom, maker of the popular Pro16 personal monitor mixing system, is introducing audio solutions with applications in “the Sanctuary and Beyond” at WFX 2007 (Booth #628).

Churches large and small have come to know and appreciate Aviom for its award-winning personal monitoring system, which has been responsible for solving the common problem of excess stage volume in the sanctuary and improved the worship experience at those churches as a result. Now, that same problem-solving technology has been applied to new products and solutions that can easily distribute, connect and direct audio to any location in the church facility or campus where people need to hear the message or the music. more

Los Angeles, CA- 18 October, 2007 – Digital Vision, the premier supplier of grading and picture enhancement systems for film and television post-production announced today that The Post Group has purchased the Film Master grading and finishing system to offer tapeless color grading services for HD and SD long-form television, film and video projects. The new system also enables a unified color grading workflow between The Post Group and its DI-focused sister company iO Film, which is equipped with five Film Master systems. more