Archive for February 4th, 2011

A.C. Entertainment Technologies Ltd underlined its commitment to ongoing training when it’s Leeds, UK, based northern office staged a Training Open Day for students on the BTEC Extended Diploma in Production Arts (Technical) at Oldham College.

Adam Beaumont, Head of AC-ET’s Rigging sales division, James Bawn from the Lighting division and Stuart Moots from the Audio division co-ordinated the event, which involved their collective skills, experience and resources, plus some of the industry’s leading rigging, lighting and audio products. The equipment was taken to the college for the day and set up a series of live interactive demonstrations in the purpose built Grange Arts Centre performance facility.

Both Adam and James are previous students of the college. Stuart studied an audio course as part of his Music & Media Technology degree at Leeds Metropolitan University before starting his career in the more

Following huge interest in A.C. Entertainment Technologies Ltd’s free dedicated 2012 digital switchover open days last year in partnership with leading wireless equipment brands, Sennheiser and Shure, the company’s Audio division is pleased to announce it will be holding more events in March 2011.

As a distributor of leading wireless microphone and IEM equipment brands, A.C. Audio has been keenly following the Ofcom ruling with a view to advising users on how they can best prepare for the switch to Channel 38 (606-614 MHz) in 2012. more

AMSTERDAM, FEBRUARY 4, 2011 — Aviom (ISE Booth 1E114), the exclusive developer of the world’s most powerful audio transport protocol, A-Net®, is pleased to announce that Gary Lee has been appointed the Director of Global Sales, a new role that will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Aviom sales organization as a whole.

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Hollywood, CA– The Ether, a full service creative design agency, recently wrapped a PSA for the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council, aired during the Superbowl.
The Ether was brought on by Multinesia Productions to create a photo collage using maps, photos and footage. The goal was to showcase the beautiful imagery of the Yukon River and its surroundings while highlighting the efforts being made to clean up the Yukon River, the largest watershed in America.
In 2010, Karin Williams of Multinesia Productions shot a documentary film on The Yukon River titled We Live By The River, for which The Ether had created the main title and internal graphics. When it came time to create a PSA with a strong look, Karin went back to The Ether.
Using AfterEffects and Photoshop, The Ether designed and animated the PSA for the Inter-Tribal Watershed Council to showcase the importance of the more

Brian Buongiorno of Tone Visuals has a list of credits as impressive as his repertoire of skills. A colorist by passion, Brian has worked on everything from feature films to television commercials. Parlaying a highly successful career as a Flame op, he decided to take these skills, tap into the newest innovations the production industry had to offer, and deliver an entirely new approach – a new workflow – for color grading. And, make it portable.

“I’d always done color grading, but always in a Flame suite and never on a dedicated color grading panel. After I left E-Film, Hollywood, I made it my mission to create a business model around project-based color grading, with a specialty in digital dailies, final color grading and a unique workflow that could handle RAW formats all the way through the process. It was then that I discovered SpeedGrade more

EMERYVILLE, CALIF. –Advanced Systems Group (ASG), a leading West Coast video and film integration firm, announced today it has been named the Northwest regional reseller for the DaVinci Resolve control surface. ASG will also be a reseller for the Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve for Mac nonlinear color correction system. The world’s highest performance color correction solution, the DaVinci Resolve is used by thousands of colorists worldwide to grade episodic television, music videos, commercials, documentaries, and feature films such as Avatar and Quantum of Solace.

The DaVinci Resolve control surface features controls placed near natural hand positions, with track balls placed together so lift, gamma, and gain can be adjusted simultaneously. Buttons can be set to custom colors, and 38 independent soft knobs with automatic labels provide easy access to common adjustments. The surface also includes built-in playback deck control, complete with more

Larger Channel Count Allows Dedicated Internal Mixing of all Projects

BERLIN – EMP Music Publishing, a Berlin-based company that creates music tracks for television and radio programs, as well as commercials, has installed a Solid State Logic AWS 948 with an XLogic X-Rack in its Fake Palm Studio facility. Because of the 948’s greater channel count, EMP can now internally mix orchestral and live music tracks that were recorded in larger studios. The console delivers the signature SSL SuperAnalogue™ sound combined with routing flexibility and control of resident DAW systems.

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