Archive for August 24th, 2009

The next meeting of the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will be Wednesday, August 26, 2009 beginning at 6:30PM at the Gallery Theater in Hollywood Ca. The meeting will feature an “All Star� panel of experts presenting “What’s New in Final Cut Studio.� This event is sold out.

Los Angeles, CA – The Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will play host to an “All Starâ€? panel of experts who will showcase the new features in Final Cut Studio, Apple’s suite of post-production applications, on Wednesday, August 26 at the Gallery Theater in Hollywood California. more

Create Amazing Screencasts on Your Mac

ScreenFlow Also Adds Advanced Editing, Elegant Transition Capabilities, Plus Free Publishing of Windows Media with Flip4Mac WMV Studio

Nevada City, Calif., August 24, 2009 – Telestream® today announced version 2.0 of its award-winning ScreenFlow™ screen recording software for the Mac. Customers will now have the ability to easily upload and directly publish screencasts to YouTube. ScreenFlow Version 2.0 also adds advanced editing capabilities and elegant transitions across clips. In addition, V2.0 customers will receive free Flip4Mac WMV Studio, providing Windows Media export directly from within ScreenFlow. Named “Best Screencasting Application� at Macworld 2009, ScreenFlow is a cost-effective software toolkit that makes it easy for software developers, trainers, educators, and bloggers to capture, edit and deliver professional-quality screen recordings and video tutorials for the Web. more

LANCASTER, PA – Linear Acoustic, the leading authority in loudness control and upmixing solutions for digital television, is partnering with Audmax Broadcast Ltd., a provider of professional audio systems integration for TV and radio studios, to bring its premier line of loudness control solutions to the Hungarian broadcast market. A well-established dealer based in Budapest, Audmax Broadcast is currently in the process of installing a Linear Acoustic AERO.air (5.1)TM 10-Channel Transmission Loudness Manager at a leading Hungarian commercial television station. more

The Brief:

In a series of engaging new spots for Blue Cross Blue Shield via Ogilvy, Rabbit director Matt Ogens focuses his lens on the small business owner.

Each of the three spots: Motor, Excel and Farm are poignant slice of life ads that peer into the daily routines of the independent entrepreneurs whose business lives thrive on the well being of their employees. Ogens’ direction draws us in with heartfelt tales of everyday Americans making a living doing what they love. Picturesque visuals frame stories of bakers, motorcycle enthusiasts and shipping experts, all of whom take pride in providing excellent service to their customers, and affordable, high quality medical benefits to their employees. more

Climactic Battle Sequence and Elaborate Exo-Suit Contributed by The Embassy Team

The Embassy Visual Effects dove deep into alien territory with high impact effects for the Sony Pictures blockbuster District 9, which opened at No. 1 in its opening weekend and has currently grossed over $73M (estimated) at the U.S. domestic box office. The film was co-written and directed by Neill Blomkamp, who was an original founding partner of The Embassy Visual Effects prior to embarking on a full-time film-directing career. more

Prime Focus Contributes 155 VFX Shots for Two-Part Series

Post Logic Studios, a division of Prime Focus Group, provided VFX supervision for the two-part action/drama series “The Storm,� which aired on NBC on July 26 and August 2.

Directed by Bradford May (“Wildfire,� “Tremors�) and shot by cinematographer Maximo Munzi (“Ring of Death,� “Crash and Burn�), “The Storm� stars James Van Der Beek, Treat Williams, Teri Polo and John Larroquette. The two-part series, about an experiment to manipulate the earth’s weather with disastrous consequences, contains almost 400 visual effects shots, 155 of which were created by Prime Focus Group’s Mumbai, India VFX facility. more

VFX Studios in California, London and Canada Craft Spectacular Effects Using Autodesk Flame, Maya, 3ds Max, Softimage, Mudbox, MotionBuilder and FBX

Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) salutes the hundreds of artists worldwide who collectively created close to 1,500 visual effects shots for this summer’s action-packed movie “G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra.� Autodesk tools used to help create visual effects for GI Joe were Autodesk Flame, Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Softimage, Autodesk MotionBuilder, Autodesk Mudbox and Autodesk FBX software. more

WAYNE, New Jersey – Scenic Road Productions (SRP), a video production house based in Kansas City, Mo., has selected a Fujinon XA17X7.6BRM ENG-style HD lens as part of its high definition production services for commercials, training and recruitment videos, and other promotional materials for a wide variety of clientele. more

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – MultiDyne Video & Fiber Optic Systems, a premier provider of fiber optic-based video and audio transport solutions for broadcast and pro A/V applications, is bringing its LiGHTBoX™ fiber optic field transport system with brand new features to IBC 2009 (Stand 2.A54). more

BAFTA Award-Winning
Composer Jason Graves

Dead Space and Star Trek Composer Creates Hybrid Score for Large-Scale Sci-Fi First Person Shooter Video Game

Raleigh, NC – August 24, 2009 – BAFTA award-winning composer Jason Graves (www.jasongraves.com) has created an original music score for the intense first-person shooter SECTION 8 developed by TimeGate Studios. Renowned for his cinematic and prolific orchestral music on video games such as Dead Space and the Star Trek franchise, Graves delivers a powerful and anthemic score for SECTION 8 featuring vintage synth and guitar elements blended with orchestra to portray the futuristic, sci-fi setting of the game. SECTION 8 is being released by SouthPeak Games for Xbox 360 and PC on September 1st, 2009. more