Archive for August 5th, 2009

New App Features Original Music And Artwork Along With Ability To Remix Underworld Classics on iPhone and iPod touch

iZotope, Inc. has collaborated with English electronic band Underworld for the latest release of their popular iDrum app for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch. This new app features tracks adapted from all of Underworld albums in celebration of the release of the band’s full catalog on iTunes and in conjunction with a concert available to stream on the iPhone and iPod touch. more

Interactive Games, Analyzing Loudspeaker Defects, Zones of Quiet…

NEW YORK: “Beyond the Awards, Workshops, Special Events and bustling Exhibition Halls, the exchange of significant technical information remains the backbone of every Audio Engineering Convention,” states 127th AES Convention Chair Agnieszka Roginska. “This mission is exemplified by a robust syllabus of Papers and Posters. AES Papers Committee Co-Chairs Veronique Larcher and Steve Garrett have developed an authoritative program which exemplifies the level of accomplishment achieved by innovators in every sector of our community.” more

Anonymous Content has signed award-winning Director Christian Bevilacqua, adding further depth to their Commercial, Film and Integrated divisions. Additionally signed to Anonymous’ management division, Bevilacqua follows on the heels of recent signings: The Purchase Brothers, Cary Fukunaga and Alfonso Cuaron, all feature specialists transitioning into short-form media. The addition of Bevilacqua, as well as the other three key talents further solidifies Anonymous’ continued evolution and position as one of the leaders in representing multi-disciplined content creators. more

New York, August 6, 2009 – Before stepping into a local retailer to plop down anywhere from a few to several hundred dollars on a new camcorder, one should realize how fast technology changes. What was true about camcorders a few years ago is probably no longer true. Nowadays, some camcorders come with built-in hard drives, some with memory sticks, and so much more. This can make choosing the right camcorder a real challenge. more

615 Music today announced that Dennis Dunn has joined the company in the newly created position of Senior Advisor, Sales and Strategic Development. Dunn has over 20 years of diversified sales experience, with 15 years in sales and general management. He will be responsible primarily for overseeing all aspects of the sales process, focusing on the profitable expansion of 615 Music. Dunn, who will be based in Atlanta, GA, will be making frequent visits to 615 Music’s Nashville and Los Angeles offices. more

– Affordable, Reliable RAID Protection on Tap at Craig Murray Productions and Philo Television –

Burbank, CA – Continuing to strengthen its leadership position in delivering storage solutions to the world’s leading creative professionals, Archion has announced that Craig Murray Productions here in Burbank, CA, and Philo Television in San Francisco, CA, have added Archion Synergy HDu Storage Systems to expand their Avid Unity MediaNetwork 5.1 shared storage networks. more

Leading visual effects software developer, The Foundry (www.thefoundry.co.uk), has announced the release of RollingShutter, a brand new plug-in tool for After Effects and Nuke, which tackles the image-distortion problems often experienced by users of CMOS cameras. more

Crossroads directors Samuel & Gunnar just completed a pair of :30s promoting Kozel beer for international brewer SABMiller, the 2nd largest brewer in the world, and majority stock holder of the Miller Brewing Company. The spots feature the townscape and citizens of Czech village Velke Popovice celebrating their convivial lifestyle with raised glasses of Kozel, with the notion of sharing small town Czech values of jubilation and beer with the rest of the world. Both spots were shot on site in the village, where Kozel is brewed, and an abundance of brewery employees were used as cast members. more

PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 4, 2009 – HP today announced it will make available Elemental Acceleratorâ„¢ for NVIDIA® Quadro® plug-in for Adobe Creative Suite 4 users as an option on the company’s award-winning family of workstations. more

SANTA CLARA, CA-AUGUST 5, 2009- When NASA’s original Apollo 11 moon landing video was accidentally destroyed, it seemed the world had lost a visual record of one of man’s greatest achievements. Fortunately, unique digital video restoration technology from Lowry Digital, powered by NVIDIA® Teslaâ„¢ GPUs (graphics processing units) with CUDAâ„¢ technology, has enhanced television coverage of the original video so that we can now watch Neil Armstrong take a giant leap for mankind in high-definition (HD). more