Archive for January 22nd, 2009

CHICAGO, IL , Thanks in part to several new creatively challenging assignments, including a comprehensive campaign for General Mills that includes both on air and online components, Calabash Animation, the venerable animation studio led by Creative Director Wayne Brejcha and Executive Producer Sean Henry, has made several significant investments in new animation talent and technology. more

Enhance Technology and Tiger Technology Certify Interoperability

Santa Fe Springs, CA. January 22, 2009 – Enhance Technology, headquartered in Santa Fe Spring, California, is the pioneer in design and implementation of hybrid input/output technology in the storage subsystems. Coupled with innovative and affordable storage solutions, Enhance Technology offers unparallel support to meet with our customer’s demands and needs. Enhance Technology is a technology partner of Tiger Technology. By making sure the Enhance UltraStor RS8/RS16 IP iSCSI & FS Fibre Channel RAID subsystems compatibility with Tiger Technology’s metaSAN, cross platform file sharing Storage Area Network (SAN) management software, Enhance technology has proved again its superlative character in its data storage products. more

HOLLYWOOD – January 22, 2009 – Advanced Digital Services, Inc. (ADS) today announces the launch of its new Digital Operations Center and Content Repurposing Service powered by AmberFin’s iCR software tools. ADS is introducing the new service to enable its clients to better manage MPEG-2 based media assets across multiple distribution platforms to help improve workflow efficiency and reduce time-to-market.
The company’s Digital Operations Center will not only support its existing New Media department but will be the hub for the secure encoding and transcoding of client media assets. more

Cache-A Corporation, a professional video storage solutions provider, today announced that it has licensed A-Series technology from Quantum Corporation, the leading global specialist in backup, recovery and archive. Cache-A will develop future generations of A-Series storage solutions for professional video file-based workflows based on industry standard LTO (Linear Tape Open) tape drives. A-Series technology products offer professional video customers networked storage systems that are simple to deploy and allow users to easily transfer their content to secure, portable, exchangeable LTO tape cartridges. more

:::FxFactory comes out on top amid the crowded marketplace; offering innovation and excitement for Adobe and Apple video editors and effects artists:::

Boston MA – January 20, 2009 – Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast markets, today announced that the FxFactory® Pro application has won the DV Award of Excellence for a second straight year. DV Magazine, one of the industries go-to magazines for videographers, published an in-depth review of the Noise Industries effects technology in their January issue (online version at http://www.dv.com/article/77546). FxFactory has long been considered the fan-favorite of effects packages among Mac-based editors and DV Magazine echoed this sentiment by noting that FxFactory is a “joyâ€? and “must haveâ€? for every content producer’s toolbox. more

HOLLYWOOD; January 22, 2009 – Supervising Sound Designer Wylie Stateman of CSS Studios’ Soundelux facility in Hollywood has received an Academy Award nomination for Best Achievement in Sound Editing for his work on Wanted. It is his fourth Oscar nomination. more

MA Lighting’s grandMA console is on the bill worldwide for heavy metal great Metallica’s 2008-2009 coffin-clad concerts. A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of the grandMA in North America.

The show theme, echoing the coffin motif of the the 25-year-career heavy metal wizards’ latest release, Death Magnetic, boasts 8 2-ton lighting structures, courtesy of lighting designer John Broderick. Programmer Troy Eckerman reflects that on the current tour, everything is “zero time cue – fast and furious. It’s all about horsepower and intensity, full-on and in-your-face.” more

MONTREAL, Canada, January 21, 2009 – Maximum Throughput (www.max-t.com), developers of server-based media applications and high-performance storage solutions, today announced that its MAXedit® Server Edition has been endorsed by Bitcentral, a leading manufacturer and reseller of news production systems, based in Irvine, California. more