Archive for December 9th, 2009

Market-Leading Pricing for Real-Time Cloud Transcoding Service; Free Pricing Below Two Gigabytes Per Month and Volume Pricing Cracks One Dollar Per Gigabyte Level

FOR RELEASE ON: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2009

NEW YORK, NY — HD Cloud, a leading on-demand transcoding provider, today announced the most aggressive pricing for the growing cloud transcoding market, offering discounts for high-volume customers, highlighting the company’s industry-leading scalability for large content distributors. HD Cloud’s pricing offers customers a rate of less than one dollar per gigabyte for customers that transcode at least $99 of video per month. The company will also offer free transcoding for customers that use less than 2 GB per month. more

Hollywood, CA & Vancouver, BC, December 10, 2009 – Mastersfx, Hollywood’s preeminent creators of practical character effects, has launched a digital division. Andreé Bustanoby, formerly an FX artist with Stan Winston Studio and Digital Domain, has been named the Visual Effects Supervisor for the new division. Todd Masters, Founder, Mastersfx, made the announcements. more

Digital Anarchy returns to the film/video market with a powerful skin smoothing and blemish removal plugin

San Francisco — Monday, December 7th, 2009 —

Digital Anarchy, a leading provider of cost-effective special effects software for Adobe and Apple products, has today announced the release of a new product for Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, and Apple’s Final Cut Pro. The Beauty Box 1.0 provides editors and visual effects artists working with film and video an easy and powerful way of smoothing out skin and removing blemishes. Regardless of whether it is used for a feature film, reality TV show, or just a corporate talking head, Beauty Box provides best-of-class skin beautification. more

17th International Festival Dedicated to Art of Cinematography

LÓDZ, POLAND – Harkness Screens, the world’s leading manufacturer of projection screens for cinema applications, was selected as the screen supplier of choice for the 17th International Festival of the Art of Film Creators – Plus Camerimage 2009. The Harkness Perlux(r) 180 screen was used to showcase the festival’s films in the Grand Theatre presentation venue. more

New York, NY – (December 9, 2009) — NY production house COLLECTIVE is pleased to announce the signing of director Margee Challa to its roster. With the addition of Challa, COLLECTIVE now boasts a diverse trio of directors, which includes Jeremy Warshaw and company founder David McNamara. Drawing on Challa’s diverse creative background and directorial niche in lifestyle, fashion and beauty spots, COLLECTIVE is well equipped to broaden its creative imprint in the commercial production market and continue exceeding client needs. more

Camcorder Provides Durability, Workflow Advantages while Documenting Rock Band’s Summer Concert Tour

WAYNE, NJ (December 9, 2009) – JVC Professional Products, a division of JVC U.S.A., announced today that Marcus De Leon–an independent motion picture writer, director, and producer–used a JVC GY-HM100 ProHD camcorder to shoot Ebb and Flow: The Misery Signals Story, a 90-minute documentary about heavy metal band Misery Signals and its 2009 worldwide concert tour. more

SAN FRANCISCO and NEW ORLEANS – Dec. 9, 2009 – Improving the overall character creation and animation experience for 3D professionals, game artists and animators, Mixamo today announced a partnership with TurboSquid, the world’s largest online 3D marketplace, to offer “Mixamo-certified� models assured to work seamlessly with the entire collection of motions found on www.mixamo.com. more

TEWKSBURY, MA, December 9, 2009 – Avid® (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced a number of new solutions designed to help broadcasters reduce costs and increase productivity associated with the news production process. The newly unveiled Avid iNEWS® (3.0) newsroom computer system (NCRS), Avid iNEWS Command (2.5) device automation system, Avid Unity™ ISIS® (2.1) real-time media network and Avid AirSpeed® Multi Stream (1.3) video server all deliver an open architecture that integrates with a variety of third-party newsroom systems and applications to extend workflows into the field and allow broadcasters to achieve greater operational efficiency across their organizations. more

SALT LAKE CITY — Dec. 9, 2009 — Utah Scientific today announced that Auburn University’s Media Production Group has installed a Utah Scientific UTAH-400 video routing switcher and a UTAH-200 router as part of a major facility renovation that included the facility’s transition to HD operation. The UTAH-400 digital router replaces a 19-year-old analog router, also manufactured by Utah Scientific. The UTAH-200 (loaded 16×16) is being used as a cost-effective means of routing timecode. more

After five successful years in Taiwan, the singing extravaganza Asian Million Star premiered on Hong Kong with help from the highly versatile, frequency-agile AKG DMS 700 wireless microphone system. The wildly popular television show, which started months before the on-air premier with 5,000 aspiring singers, featured 25 contestants competing over the course of 13 episodes, with a panel of judges selecting the best vocal performers to move on to the finale. more