Archive for March 30th, 2009

SHELTON, CT, March 30, 2009 – Anton/Bauer, a brand of The Vitec Group, and the world’s premier provider of professional video camera batteries, chargers, lighting and other mobile power systems, is pleased to announce the promotion of Shin Minowa to the position of Vice President, Marketing and Business Development. more

SHELTON, CT, March 30, 2009 – Anton/Bauer, a brand of The Vitec Group, and the world’s premier provider of professional video camera batteries, chargers, lighting and other mobile power systems, is announcing the appointment of Graham Ramsey as Vice President of Sales. more

NEW YORK, PARIS, LONDON and MUNICH — March 30, 2009 — Framepool, the footage collection run by filmmakers, has entered into a sales and representation agreement with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), Canada’s public film producer and distributor. Framepool now offers content from the NFB via its online portal, to make it accessible to filmmakers and new media professionals from all industries. The NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions. It has earned international acclaim for the imaginativeness as well as the artistic and technical excellence of its work. In total, the NFB has produced over 13,000 productions which have won over 5,000 awards so far including 12 Oscars. more

Embarking on a new creative partnership, Click 3X recently collaborated with MTV to create a show open, packaging, and promos for See You Sunday. Promoting four new shows in their latest block of Sunday programming, the clips incorporate live action footage of high-profile stars with unique hand-drawn animation, explosions, and VFX. To support the shows, Click animated several promos, a :30 opening and cut-down, six bumpers with integrated animation, and two live action bumpers, each playing off traditional images of circus life with high-intensity, parodied versions of classic stunts. The vibrant animation interacting with the live action created by Click 3X adds depth to the storylines, while supporting the style and humor of the shows. more

Asylum, the LA-based VFX, design and animation studio responsible for all of the water sequences in the recent Oscar-winning film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has hired independent sales rep Ann Mckallagat of PI for East Coast sales representation. Independents, Charlie McBrearty and Vanessa McLean of Shortlist and Tracy Bernard and Robin Stevens of Tracy Bernard & Associates handle West Coast and Midwest duties respectively. Asylum’s additional feature film credits include: Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World, Minority Report, Moulin Rouge and recent commercial campaigns for Hersheys, Apple, Nike, LG and Visa. more

NVIDIA, the inventor of the GPU, today introduced NVIDIA® SLI® Multi-OS, a ground-breaking technology that allows users and visualization applications, for the first time, to take full advantage of multiple NVIDIA® Quadro® GPUs from a single graphics workstation in a virtualized environment.

This new technology delivers a faster, more efficient workflow to maximize productivity and lower the total cost of ownership for professionals in markets such as: digital content creation, sciences, manufacturing, and oil and gas. more

Whether designing the next aircraft or delivering seven-day weather forecasts, today’s professionals seek a reliable, robust visualization platform designed to address their unique challenges and needs. Highlighting a decade of innovation, driven by the needs of the most demanding professionals, NVIDIA today introduced its most powerful and advanced top-to-bottom line of Quadro® professional GPU solutions in the Company’s history. more

DETROIT-RingSide Creative, an integrated media studio serving the advertising and broadcast industries, has hired Shelly Keel to assist Steve Tocco in its business development efforts. Keel, formerly Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Harvest Music + Sound Design, will seek new business opportunities for the company in markets outside of Detroit. more

Industry-standard Restoration Software Adds Speed, Performance -Support for Vista, New 3-Layer Registration Tool.
PROVIDENCE, RI–MTI Film (www.mtifilm.com) will release a new and significantly improved version of its award-winning digital film restoration and finishing software Correct DRS(tm) at the upcoming National Association of Broadcasters Convention in Las Vegas. Based on comprehensive feedback from customers with experience in restoring hundreds of films, Correct DRS Version 8 provides improved flexibility in system configuration and an enhanced user interface for increased productivity along with a host of additions and improvements to the toolset. more

Cinegy Workflow Offers a Complete, Software-Based Platform for Broadcasters and Others
IT specialist Cinegy (www.cinegy.com) will have its largest presence ever at the National Association of Broadcasters Convention next month to support the release of the latest version of its award-winning enterprise media asset management, production and archiving platform Cinegy Workflow. Cinegy, whose products are widely used by broadcasters, reality TV producers and others, is raising its profile in the U.S. market to capitalize on the industry’s transition to file-based modes of production, asset management and broadcast automation, as well as highlight the pre-eminence of metadata management as a key success factor in asset management. more