Archive for November 16th, 2010

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Oddball Film+Video Acquires 1950s Home Movies, Licenses Footage for “Beginners�, Provides Visual Projections for Sufjan Stevens.

Oddball Film+Video, the leading provider of offbeat and unusual stock footage, has recently acquired 1950s home movies along with vintage cigarette and liquor commercials. Oddball’s quirky collection features over 50,000+ 35mm, 16mm and HD historical and contemporary clips in all genres. Oddball’s recent projects include licensing footage for Channel 4 TV documentary “Tiger Woods: The Rise and Fall,� providing footage for Mike Mill’s feature film “Beginners� which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2010, and supplying unique clips for controversial eco-documentary “Cool It� directed by Sundance winner Ondi Timoner. We also provided unique footage for singer Sufjan Stevens’s “Age of Adz� tour.

Recent Acquisitions
Oddball Film+Video has acquired a unique collection of 1950s home movies featuring American oil exploration in Saudi Arabia more

CHIBA CITY, JAPAN, NOVEMBER 16, 2010 – Anton/Bauer®, a brand of The Vitec Group, and the world’s premier provider of batteries, chargers, lighting and other mobile power systems for the professional broadcast, video and film industries, will showcase its DIONIC® HCX 120 watt-hour capacity battery, the cutting-edge Tandem® 150 Modular Power System and ARRI Alexa Power Solutions at Inter BEE 2010. more

NEW YORK, NY (November 16, 2010) – LaCie, a leading provider of professional storage solutions, together with Pro Sound Effects, provider of professional sound effects libraries and solutions, today announced a strategic partnership that will deliver premium sound effects libraries and search software on industry-leading hard drives, for an enhanced media production experience.

The BBC Sound Effects Library is considered one of the most popular sound effects libraries in the world. Until now, the original BBC Sound Effects Library was available only on audio CD, making it cumbersome for media producers to search, audition, select and import sound effects. The new partnership creates a complete digital experience for media production professionals. By combining database sound files with hard drive technology and search software, professionals in a number of influential markets – media producers in film television, radio, video games, animation, advertising, education, mobile and new media – have more

When the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins moved into the new CONSOL Energy Center for the 2010 season, they upgraded the fan experience in every way. Just as important as wider seats and more concession stands was the ability to produce world-class HD video, a commitment that called for the superb image quality of three Ikegami HDK-77EC full-digital multi-format HD CMOS camera systems and one HDL-50 one-piece full-digital multi-format HD “POV� camera.

“Our guys go non-stop – there is no off-season for us,� says Chris DeVivo, Director of Media Technology for the Pittsburgh Penguins. “We chose Ikegami because we needed cameras that would match our production team’s imagination and abilities. If someone is editing or compositing footage that was captured by our Ikegami HDK-77ECs or HDL-50, it looks as good as it came off of a network truck.�

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System Leverages AJA KONA LHi I/O Cards and HDP2 Mini-Converters to Deliver Uncompressed HD Video Recording and Playback to NCAA Football Officials For the First Time

While college football fans have been watching games in high definition (HD) for some time, the 2010-11 season marks the first that officials will be getting their instant replays in HD — in uncompressed quality that is far superior to what viewers see at home. The system delivering this evolution is the XOS HD Replay, based on video technology from AJA Video Systems.

Earlier this year XOS Digital, the leading provider of digital technologies for sports teams nationwide, introduced XOS HD Replay with AJA’s KONA LHi capture and playback cards and HDP2 Mini-Converters at the foundation of the system’s capabilities.

The XOS HD Replay system takes an uncompressed HD-SDI video feed from more

Award-winning synchronization application now supports the progressive advancements of Sony’s comprehensive editing suite

Vancouver, British Columbia — Singular Softwareâ„¢, developer of workflow automation applications for digital media, is pleased to announce that its flagship product PluralEyes® is now available for Sony® Vegas® Pro 10. The recently released Sony Vegas Pro 10 editing suite contains a variety of groundbreaking enhancements including a fully customizable workspace, stereoscopic 3D editing capabilities, updated audio controls, native support for professional camcorder formats, Blu-rayâ„¢ disk authoring options, and more. “The Singular Software development team is consistently working to bring PluralEyes users quick compatibility for the newest versions of the industry’s most popular non-linear editing systems,â€? says Bruce Sharpe, CEO, Singular Software. “The newest Vegas Pro release from Sony is no exception – there are a variety of superior enhancements that are continuing to more

Nice Shoes working in collaboration with Grey Advertising recently handled all post/effects, including color grading, on a massive 10-spot campaign promoting various NFL products and initiatives, from their new line of women’s clothing to the league’s official Ticket Exchange to the Play 60 youth fitness initiative.

Rather than aligning along a common theme or basic plotline, each spot is set to unique music and takes a different approach to promote its product. Breakup (which has several versions, one of which features Alyssa Milano) is a montage – set to the sounds of April Smith’s cover of You Don’t Own Me – of women angrily tossing NFL jerseys at their boyfriends, ostensibly ending the relationship. All appears well in the final scene, however, as a confused man appears at his girl’s door and she steps out in her sleekly form-fitting NFL women’s gear. Bus focuses on a more

OptiTrack S250e high-performance Ethernet motion capture camera

Today marks the immediate availability of OptiTrack™’s high-performance motion capture camera, the S250e. Providing exceptional speed and precision in a highly compact form factor, the S250e is the first full-featured Ethernet motion capture camera in the world for under $2,000 USD.

“OptiTrack has always offered the most affordable motion capture technology on the market,� said Jim Richardson, NaturalPoint® co-founder and lead engineer for the OptiTrack motion capture line. “With the release of the S250e, we are reshaping the CG production landscape, coupling that aggressive pricing strategy with a continued investment in core optics and image processing technology. The result is a motion capture camera that offers unprecedented performance for its price point.�

The S250e boasts 250 FPS capture, SVGA resolution, expansive field of view, on-board image processing, software-controlled IR filter switching, and some of the most advanced M12 lenses in the world – all housed in a more

RevEAL Profile

Prism Projection’s RevEAL Profile luminaire was named Best Debuting Product in the Lighting category by LDI 2010. The award marked the second consecutive win by Prism Projection in the lighting category: Its RevEAL Color Wash (RevEAL CW) captured similar honors at the 2009 show.

“The latest LDI award caps an incredibly winning year for us at Prism. It brings us full circle,” says president and founder Garrett Young. “Our RevEAL CW won Best Debuting lighting product last year at LDI. Then it went on to be named one of Live Design’s 2009-2010 Lighting Products of the Year and finally took home Best New Lighting Product honors at the Association of British Theatre Technicians’ 2010 Theatre Show in London.

“We’re extremely proud that we have been recognized by industry professionals and they more

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FUTURE MEDIA CONCEPTS SELECTED AS PREMIER LAUNCH SITE FOR NEW AVID CERTIFICATION TRAINING EXAMS
Six FMC branch locations among the first to offer new AVID certification exams; Gain industry-recognized credential by becoming an Avid Media Composer Certified Pro

New York, NY – November 16, 2010 – Future Media Concepts (FMC), the premier authorized digital media training organization for post-production, broadcast, and content creators, is pleased to announce the launch of its first-ever Avid Media Composer certification training exams, on November 19th, 2010. Serving as premier launch sites for the recently approved Avid certification exams, six FMC locations will offer the Avid Media Composer® Certified User exam and Avid Media Composer Expert exam (beta); including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Orlando, and Chicago. Students participating in the current FMC Avid Certified User Program (ACU) will now have the opportunity to take their more