Archive for November 10th, 2009

The next meeting of the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will be Wednesday, November 18, 2009 beginning at 6:45PM at the Gallery Theater in Hollywood California. more

NFB Images of the National Film Board of Canada, widely known for its high quality, pristinely preserved archival and contemporary footage of Canada and the world, has added its entire footage database to Footage.net’s stock footage search platform. The move greatly expands NFB Image’s reach and visibility in the $282-million worldwide footage marketplace and significantly enhances Footage.net’s value to the global production community.

Montréal – November 10, 2009 – NFB Images (www.nfb.ca/images), the footage licensing division of The National Film Board of Canada, and Footage.net (www.footage.net), the stock footage search engine, announced today that NFB Images has added its entire English database to the Footage.net search platform. more

When the NHL challenged Y&R, New York to come up with three new striking :30s, Belief, Faith, and Hope, using only still imagery from the NHL’s archive, the agency immediately called up VFX studio Nice Shoes to figure out how to get it done. more

Flexible parameters of new Pan and Zoom 2 freebie enable the effortless creation of stunning photo animations inside both Apple and Adobe host applications

Boston, MA – November 10, 2009 – Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast markets, announced that it has released an update to its popular freebie generator plug-in, Pan and Zoom. The intuitive controls of the new Pan and Zoom 2 plug-in enables users to easily create stunning Pan and Zoom effects, a photo animation style made popular by cinematographer Ken Burns, without a single keyframe. The new release also boasts motion blur to generate the best-looking animations at any frame rate, and a bonus transition, which allows editors to use the same photo animation techniques to move between two clips. more

— Mixology Studio owner and Berklee instructor Jeff Largent knows his mixes translate well from his personal studio space to the dub stage thanks to the SE DSP monitoring system —

— Genelec’s AutoCal™ room calibration software offers even the most compact mixing space highly accurate monitoring —

NATICK, MA, November 10, 2009 — The SE™ (Small Environments) DSP Monitoring System from Genelec, the world leader in Active Monitoring technology, is designed to solve many of the acoustic problems associated with small recording and mixing environments. And that’s just what it’s done for Mixology, the personal studio of Jeff Largent, a Boston-area audio post professional and an instructor at the famous Berklee College of Music. Largent needed a compact but highly accurate monitoring system for his studio, and Genelec’s SE DSP Monitoring System was the perfect solution. more

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Data Tech Ventures is a global leader in award-winning broadband video streaming, with a pay-per-view network and more than 100,000 video-on-demand titles. As Data Tech’s volume of content grew, and the number of formats and resolutions they needed to support expanded, the company realized that their manual, homegrown, spreadsheet-driven, encoding solution could no longer meet their needs. They set out to find a solution that could help automate that entire encoding process. more

NEW YORK, November 10, 2009 –This summer, HBO Archives retrieved over 13,000 videotapes of never-before-cataloged footage highlighting all facets of the world of Entertainment dating from the early 1980’s to the late 1990’s. This newly available material now joins HBO Archives vast Entertainment News Library, covering the 1970’s to the present, all of which are offered for clip licensing. more

SpeakeasyFX Delivers “Abby’s Flying Fairy School� Computer-Generated Series for TV and Web

For the first time, a 3D animated series is part of the “Sesame Street� television program. The program’s 40th anniversary season debuted today, including computer-generated (CG) segments delivered by SpeakeasyFX and made with Autodesk Softimage software from Autodesk, Inc. (ADSK: NASDAQ). The series features a digital version of the favorite Muppet fairy-in-training, Abby Cadabby. “Sesame Street� is the longest running children’s program on television. more

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On Wednesday, November 18th, Ray Brooksby will give a comprehensive online demonstration of the Grass Valleyâ„¢ T2â„¢ iDDR – the latest addition to the Grass Valley family of Intelligent Digital Disk Recorders. more

AJA Video Systems, a leading manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, announced that its KONA 3 digital video I/O cards were used by the “Where the Wild Things Are� editorial team to build efficiencies into their digital production and post workflow. more