Archive for June, 2008

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — June 30, 2008 — da Vinci Systems today announced that Blackmagic Design Singapore, one of Asia’s top post-production facilities, has purchased the new daVinci Resolve® R350 digital imaging suite and accompanying Impresarioâ„¢ control panel. As part of a facility expansion and upgrade, Blackmagic is also upgrading its current da Vinci Resolve RT with the new Resolve R250, and adding a second da Vinci Revivalâ„¢ image restoration suite. more

IRVINE, Calif. — June 27, 2008 — Sonnet Technologies today announced price reductions ranging from 10 to 25 percent for the company’s award-winning Fusionâ„¢ line of high-performance SATA storage solutions for professional content creation and editing. With the greatest reductions applied to Sonnet’s higher-capacity models, price cuts of up to $1,500 give storage system buyers the opportunity to get the maximum storage capacity for their money without compromising quality or performance. more

NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual computing technologies, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) today announced that UIUC has been named as the world’s first CUDA Center of Excellence. In addition to the appointment, NVIDIA has donated $500,000 to UIUC for the development of parallel computing facilities and the continuation of its research programs. more

HOLLYWOOD – The eagerly awaited sequel “Batman: The Dark Knight� hits theaters in July and promises to be a summer blockbuster. Peter Snell, technical scoring engineer on the film, employed the Solid State Logic XLogic Delta-Link as the right device to streamline the massive Pro Tools HD® scoring setup for composers Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard. The MADI-based Delta-Link provides up to 64 channels of audio over a single optical cable, greatly reducing the amount of traditional I/O units and requisite cabling to accomplish the same task. more

Runnin’ Down a Dream project completed with additional Early Years sequences

Burbank 30th June 2008 – alphadogs have announced that producer director Peter Bogdanovich has just completed additional sequences for the new DVD release of his acclaimed epic “Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin’ Down a Dream� at their Burbank facility. alphadogs also finished the original DVD version released last year by Warner Bros. Records. more

Myrtle Creek, Ore. –— June 30, 2008 –— Shoot for the stars and take a trip high above the corporate towers and historic attractions of one of the most famous cities in the United States with Los Angeles Aerials 2 – Downtown and Los Angeles Aerials 2 – Surrounding Area, the newest royalty-free stock footage collections from Artbeats. more

San Mateo, Calif. — June 30, 2008 — When the owners of Seattle’s Space Needle wanted a photorealistic 3D sequence of the iconic structure for a new marketing campaign, advertising agency Radarworks knew exactly who to call: Dawson 3D. Their confidence was rewarded when studio founder Henk Dawson delivered a stunning animated fly-by created entirely in modo® 302, Luxology’s award-winning, artist-friendly 3D content creation software. more

CYPRESS, CA – (June 30, 2008) – Christie Digital projectors are the new standard of excellence for visual displays at Fellowship Church in Grapevine, TX. Led by Pastor Ed Young, Fellowship Church is one of the largest and fastest-growing churches in the United States with an estimated weekly attendance of more than 20,000. Recognized for its state-of-the-art church services that are as inspiring as they are visually stunning, Fellowship Church is on the leading-edge when it comes to houses of worship. Using unique and effective visual communications for its live and internationally broadcast services, Fellowship Church has standardized on Christie across its five campuses in Texas and Florida. more

Thought Equity Motion & WatchMojo Spotlight Sports
The digital revolution is making it easier for just about anyone to become a content creator and distributor on the web. But while the options for marketers and agencies continue to expand, production budgets overall are dwindling, target audiences becoming more fragmented and efforts to successfully monetize online video content remains challenging, to say the least.
Two companies that appear to have broken the “monetization� code are Thought Equity Motion and Watchmojo. Thought Equity Motion is the world’s largest supplier of online motion content licensing and management services. Watchmojo is a producer, publisher and syndicator of original web video with nearly 4000 published videos online. more

Continuing their calculated, steady growth initiative, San Francisco-based full service advertising, design, digital, creative and media agency, BuderEngel has hired Director of Interactive Services/Partner Chris Crichton. Most recently, Chris was Senior Vice President of Operations at interactive marketing solutions firm, Questus where he worked with such clients as Capital One, Suzuki Motorcycles and the New York Post. Prior, Crichton worked for ad agency, Leagas~Delaney as their director of digital where he helped develop the agency’s digital process as well as creative and development capabilities. Additionally, Chris held a long-term freelance producing position at MEKANISM working primarily with client, macys.com. more