Archive for August 12th, 2010

XL Video supplied video production for a series of shows in London’s Hyde Park this summer spanning the 3 day Hard Rock Calling and Wireless festivals, with a Kings of Leon show in the middle, all promoted by Live Nation.
Enjoying glorious weather, it was the 8th year that XL has supplied these central London events, which were once again project managed for them by Chris Saunders, working with an XL crew of 15. more

Blackburn, UK based lighting rental company HSL has again supplied site-wide lighting equipment for the high profile Global Gathering dance festival, staged at Long Marsden Airfield in Warwickshire.
For the third year running HSL was working for Electric Fly Productions, whose Philip Winward and Nick Jevons created the production lighting, video and show designs for the main stage, 4 indoor arenas, 2 terrace lounges and the VIP zone, working for promoters Angel Music. more

BURBANK, CA – AUGUST 12, 2010 – Spectrasonics posted another offering in its online Artist Video Series with a new video featuring George Duke & Greg Phillinganes performing a new music track “The Face” with Spectrasonics’ award-winning Trilian bass instrument. In this video Duke plays the Wurlitzer electric piano while Phillinganes mans the acoustic bass via the Trilian software, while drums are handled by Bob Wilson. Previous videos feature Lyle Mays, Chris Vrenna and Josh Gabriel. More Artist Videos in the series are set to be released in 2010. more

Hot off the NAB trail with multiple awards in tow; award-winning software developer will present new and enhanced HDSLR editing applications at widely popular networking event for post professionals

Vancouver, British Columbia – August 12, 2010 – Singular Software, award-winning developer of workflow applications for post-production, has announced that they will exhibit at the world-renown Amsterdam SuperMeet to be held on Sunday, September 12, 2010. The Amsterdam SuperMeet is Europe’s premier networking event for creative professionals, digital content creators, and HDSLR filmmakers. Thought-leaders on HDSLR production workflows, Singular Software will be on-site to discuss how their solutions address the challenges of multi-camera and dual-system audio editing. Their award-winning product line, showing for the first time in Europe, includes the newly released DualEyes™ and their highly-popular flagship product, PluralEyes™, for Final Cut Pro®, Vegas Pro®, and Premiere Pro®. more

Film Restoration Experts Rely on Digital Vision to Save Cinematic History

(London and Los Angeles) Digital Vision, provider of powerful image enhancement, color correction and restoration systems for a wide spectrum of content, is well known for its category-leading restoration tools, like DVO (Digital Vision Optics), which has earned a best of breed reputation in facilities around the world. So when Close-Up Global Entertainment was considering moving restoration of their classic films in-house, they turned to the team at Digital Vision. Close-Up Global Entertainment has distributed Russian films to the international marketplace for more than 15 years. The company, housed in a 10,000 square feet warehouse in Brooklyn, NY, works with major international players including Mosfilm, the undisputed leader in the Russian film industry. more

Moves strengthen Dalet’s strategic efforts and support expanding presence in Media Asset Management, News and Sports production markets

Appointment Highlights
• Julien Decaix appointed General Manager of Dalet Digital Media Systems USA.
• Benjamin Desbois assumes global role as Director of Worldwide Business Development.
• Fabien Donato promoted to General Manager of Dalet Spain.
• Dalet UK General Manager Chris Wright expands territory oversight to include the Middle East. more

Web: www.Cache-A.com
IBC Stand: 7.J39 (with Global Distribution, Cache-A’s European distributor)

Cache-A’s Pro-Cache Library24 Automation Appliance for the digital film, broadcast and professional video industries is making its world debut at IBC 2010. An easy-to-deploy 24-slot automated library option for the Pro-Cache5 and Pro-Cache4 archive appliances, the Pro-Cache Library24 automates cartridge loading for archiving, restoring and cartridge spanning when archiving large projects. more

From Usher, The Killers, Beyonce, and Jay Sean; top producers offer content used in today’s top music through new sample library company

New York City (August 12, 2010) – Renegade Media Group, a new sample library company founded by producers Bobbybass and Josh Harris, offer top-quality music content for royalty-free use in Dance, Electronic, Urban, or any music production. With major label and TV credits to their name, the pair uses many of their own RMG products in their work with today’s hottest artists. more

Bully Pictures‘ director Fredrik Callinggard captured dramatic images of foundry workers pouring hot, molten metal into giant castings for a spot promoting Smirnoff and its People’s Choice event occurring this month in Las Vegas. Conceived by JWT, New York, the spot shows workers melting trophies awarded to Smirnoff by vodka “experts,â€? and recasting them into the words for “The People’s Challenge.â€? The Las Vegas event will pit Smirnoff in a taste test against the world’s most expensive vodkas. more

Cache-A’s Pro-Cache5 is a revolutionary archive appliance for digital film, broadcast and video professionals working with file-based workflows.

Web: www.Cache-A.com
IBC Stand: 7.J39 (with Global Distribution, Cache-A’s European distributor)

Cache-A’s Pro-Cache5, a revolutionary archive appliance for digital film, broadcast and video professionals working with file-based workflows, will be making its European debut at IBC 2010. One of the first LTO-5 archive products on the market, Pro-Cache5 takes advantage of this next generation technology to offer nearly double the storage capacity of existing LTO-4 cartridges – now 1.5 terabytes (TB)/LTO-5 cartridge — while also providing significantly faster archiving speeds. more