Archive for June, 2008

Acclaimed TV and feature director Gil Junger has signed with VILLAINS for exclusive US spot representation.

Nominated for an Emmy and a Directors Guild Award for directing the episode of “Ellen” in which the lead character reveals that she is gay, Junger has enjoyed a prolific TV career helming shows such as “According to Jim,” “8 Simple Rules…,” “Greek,” “Kyle XY,” “Action,” “Hope and Faith,” “Dharma & Greg,” and countless others. He broke into feature films with the Disney hit 10 Things I Hate About You. more

MassiveMusic has opened a full-service music studio in Los Angeles, under the auspices of Managing Partner/Executive Producer Scott Cymbala. With additional offices in Amsterdam and New York, the company is establishing a comprehensive presence in the US market. Cymbala comes over from Elias Arts, where he served as Sr. VP New Business Development. more

EYE SCREAM FACTORY LAUNCHES WEDDING-THEMED DVD ART PROFESSIONAL VOLUME II

Eye Scream Factory DVD Art Professional Volume II; time-saving, wedding-themed templates for DVD menus, disc labels, and case inserts

Boston, MA – June 25, 2008 – Eye Scream Factory, the Boston-based creative team providing automation design templates for media hobbyists and professionals, today announced the availability of Eye Scream Factory DVD Art Professional Volume II. Eye Scream Factory products automate the design and creation of professional DVD menus, disc labels, and case inserts. The new DVD Art Professional Volume II product offers a wide range of high-quality wedding-themed DVD menu and packaging templates. The professionally designed Eye Scream Factory templates can be easily modified using Adobe Photoshop for a signature look and used with any DVD authoring software application that imports Adobe Photoshop files, such as Adobe Encore and Apple DVD Studio Pro. more

Unlimited Visibility Lighting Design (UVLD) combined its expertise at lighting automobiles and corporate events when it designed luxury automaker BMW’s twin presentations in Atlanta recently. The three-day event, produced by Media Loft, was held to reveal new products and company plans to the BMW team. Tony Siekman of The WIT Company was the Technical Director. more

New Noise Industries Development Partner – DVShade – releases EasyLooks 2 FxPack; FxFactory powered color grading plug-in for Final Cut® users

Boston MA – June 24,2008 – Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast markets, today announced that DVShade (www.dvshade.com) has joined the growing list of FxFactory development partners and released their first FxFactory FxPack: EasyLooks 2, a color grading plug-in for Apple Final Cut Studio® 2.0 and Apple Final Cut Express 4.0 applications. Designed to simplify the effects workflows associated with color manipulation, EasyLooks 2 provides a wide range of pre-set color grading effects with straight forward controls for creating a wide range of stylized looks in video packages. DVShade created the EasyLooks 2 FxPack using the Noise Industries FxFactory Pro Plug-in Manager. more

CYPRESS, California, June 25, 2008 – Rental Express Video, the largest video production rental house in San Francisco, recently purchased FOR-A’s HVS-3800HS HANABI switcher to build the city’s first HD flypack as part of the company’s expansion to HD production. Rental Express’ system is the only turnkey 2 M/E HD multi-cam system based in Northern California and one of just a handful nationwide. more

Yankee Stadiums iconic facade, along with giant billboards of today’s greatest baseball stars, magically appear across New York City to herald the arrival of the final All-Star Game ever at legendary Yankee Stadium.

To promote the landmark final All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium this July, the Fox Sports in-house Creative Group came up with a concept of having Yankee Stadium’s famous white facade animate and appear on iconic New York landmarks, while massive mechanical billboards of todays star players simultaneously start appearing on top of skyscrapers. To achieve the visual effects needed to bring the spot to life, Fox Sports’ creative team once again partnered with Paris based visual effects house BUF. more

Markham, Ontario: Digital Rapids — a leading developer of solutions for bringing television, video and film content to the latest generation of viewing devices — has been short-listed for an IBC2008 Innovation Award in the Content Management category for the company’s contribution to the multi-format digital media production workflow at a leading U.S.-based media and entertainment company. more

Industry Veterans Jim Hourihan and Seth Rosenthal launch a new venture and a new product.

Tweak Software is releasing RV, the company’s first commercially available software package, announced Seth Rosenthal, founder and president. RV is a highly customizable cross-platform image and sequence viewer that is capable of playing back uncompressed film resolution clips. Free downloadable trial versions of the software are available upon request at www.tweaksoftware.com. more

BILLERICA, Mass. — June 25, 2008 — Echolab Corporation, a leading provider of professional video production switchers and broadcast tools, today announced the release of the SuperBox module, which enables users of the company’s advanced Overture™ series production switchers to put as many as six windows –onscreen at once. This plug-and-play solution simplifies news and sports production, allowing for simultaneous display of commentators, reporters, or program guests from different locations — all within one picture. more