Archive for March 13th, 2008

New version of Final Effects Complete now available for Apple Final Cut Studio 2 and Final Cut Express 4

Marlborough MA – March 13, 2008 Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, announced that Final Effects Complete 5.0 for FxPlug (FEC 5.0 for FxPlug) is now shipping. This is the second release in the FEC series which also includes FEC 5.0 for AE (shipping since February 2008) and FEC 5.0 for AVX (shipping Q2 2008). FEC 5.0 for FxPlug adds support for the Apple ® Final Cut Studio® 2 (FCS 2) and Final Cut Express® 4 running on the latest Apple OS X Leopard® operating system. more

Santa Monica, CA–March 13, 2008 – ELICIT Effects, the VFX arm of West Post Digital, was the sole provider of visual effects for the groundbreaking stereoscopic 3D music video “Ching-A-Ling;� the most recent collaboration between Missy Elliott and director Dave Meyers and the first single from the upcoming Step Up 2 the Streets from Touchstone Pictures. more

615 Music, one of America’s preeminent Production Music companies, providers of library and production music (both original and custom) for television networks and programs, feature films, radio, commercials, on-air promos, interactive applications and multi-media clients, recently composed and produced the highly successful new musical promotional tune for the “TODAY� show, entitled “Why I Love Today.� To hear this tune, please visit: http://www.615music.com/core/custom_services.cfm more

For Traffic Planning and Design (TPD), a Pottstown, Penn.-based civil engineering firm, visual details are mission-critical. In order to show CADD (Computer Aided Design & Drafting) graphics of upcoming projects, TPD needed a display solution that could accurately convey every visual detail with intricate precision and clarity. After researching available options TPD outfitted its primary conference room with a Canon REALiS SX6 Multimedia Projector, which provides crisp SXGA+ (1400 x 1050) resolution display, 3,500 ANSI Lumens of brightness, a contrast ratio of 1000:1, and Adobe RGB color matching. more

Randy A. Dalton has joined 1080 Inc. in the newly created role of Chief Operating Officer at the company’s headquarters based in San Antonio, Texas. With five supporting divisions, the flagship 1080 Inc. takes a wide array of content from script to screen.

Dalton, a multifaceted executive with expertise in developing, launching and building brands sees his role as reinforcing the company’s corporate brand and unifying the production, post, graphics and animation divisions into a harmonious organization with a broad customer base. more

At Bavarian Pavilion, MikroM / DVC will showcase Boxxster as uncompressed disk recorder and encoding station for MPEG-2 and JPEG2000. Boxxster can record and playback all popular HD, SD and DCI formats and is therefore the ideal ingest box for highest quality encoding applications.
By using the latest 2.5 inch hard disk technology, Boxxster has a very compact design as well as being low noise with very low power consumption. Boxxster is going green and is DVC’s first step to green technology video servers and players. more