Archive for August 11th, 2011

CRASH+SUES colorist SUE demonstrated her expertise in the company’s new color suite with a rugged outdoors spot for Polaris Industries, the number one maker of ATVs and side-by-sides.

The vignette-style commercial showcases the “Breadth of Product” Polaris offers and highlights several models in the environments they were designed for. The spot opens with the company’s trail-dominating legend, the Sportsman XP 850, cutting through a path in the woods to join other Polaris off-road vehicles in a high-country clearing. Next, the voiceover spotlights the new Ranger 500 EFI, driving into a barn, busy with farm chores, that launches a new group of value-minded Polaris workhorses. It closes with hunters in camouflage driving a Ranger XP 800, the vehicle that heads up a new team of hard-working hunting machines. The tag line, “Polaris: Hardest working, smoothest riding,” brings home the commercial’s message.

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With key new products and technologies for sports, entertainment and production, news, playout, and delivery, Grass Valley™ is set to redefine the state of the art at IBC2011. New announcements are slated to include:

3G Transmission – eliminates the triax/fiber cable challenge of outside broadcasts. Grass Valley 3G Triax and 3G Fiber now combine without converters in the new high-performance 3G Transmission camera system introduced at NAB. 3G Transmission is set to transform the outside broadcast business by allowing production companies to use fiber or triax, whichever is convenient for them, without compromising quality or functionality.

A High Octane Premiere – Grass Valley will unveil to the world something guaranteed to tear up the track. Sporting high octane performance and sleek, next generation styling, its name will be on everyone’s lips, so race over to the Grass Valley booth more

The inspirational and illuminating documentary The Power of Two (http://www.thepoweroftwomovie.com) directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Marc Smolowitz and featuring a soundtrack curated by PrimalScream Music, makes its world premiere at DocuWeeks the prestigious Oscar qualifying documentary showcase (August 19-25th in Los Angeles and August 26 – September 1 in New York). The film will then host gala screenings in San Francisco and Washington DC with live performances by music artists involved in the PrimalScream-produced soundtrack.

A powerful story of courage and survival, The Power of Two features a soundtrack of songs chosen by PrimalScream Music’s Creative Director Nicole Dionne, who also selected the documentary’s two composers Tim Easton and Kyle Moorman and co-produced the score. The bands and singer-songwriters represented in the film are some music’s rising stars including Juliette Commagere, Tim Easton, Sara Melson, Gus Black, Bangkok Starters, Gram Rabbit, more

NEW YORK, NEW YORK, August 11, 2010 – Big Vision Empty Wallet (BVEW), the networking organization dedicated to bringing both emerging and established artists together from all over the world to help them create art with no rules or limitations, announces today its prestigious 2011 Screenwriting Competition. Judges include New York Times Bestselling author Luanne Rice (The Silver Boat, Summer’s Child, Sandcastles), screenwriter and director J.C. Chandor (Margin Call, 2011 Sundance Film Festival Official Selection starring Academy Award winners Kevin Spacey and Jeremy Irons), and Emmy, Peabody and Academy Award-winning filmmaker and director/writer Robert Levi (Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life).

BVEW’s Screenplay Competition is now accepting submissions through October 15. Whether a new story or a new take on an old classic, BVEW is looking for original, creative and compelling feature-length screenplays so it may introduce emerging screenwriters to top agents and BVEW’s large audience. The finalists, chosen by more

Latest Tags update brings users enhanced Mac® OS® X 10.7 Lion support and various fixes for tagging within Mail.app; Free update for all current Tags owners

Boston, MA – August 11, 2011 – CASEapps, app developer for the Mac, iPhone and iPad, today announced the latest update to its popular keyword-based organization app, Tags 2.2.1. Tagging is a superior way to associate files to one another by using keywords, rather than rigid folders. The Tags app allows users to “tag” files and folders, emails in Mail, photos in iPhoto®, bookmarks in Safari®, and more, directly from within the application itself, associating files of different types to one another with ease and without creating duplicates. Version 2.2.1 offers enhanced Mac OS X Lion support, as well as various fixes for tagging with Mail.app and support for tagging within the Chromium browser.

Tags allows users to manage more

Chamilia

Video Applications, Inc. (VAI), a WorldStage company, paired innovative jewelry company Chamilia with an innovative motion gesture tracking technology to showcase Chamilia’s latest collection at the recent JCK Las Vegas. The show, held at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Convention Center, is the most comprehensive jewelry gathering in the country attracting more than 2,500 participants from 22 countries.

Minneapolis-based Chamilia partnered with Media Loft on the booth’s unique videowall controlled by presenters’ touchless gestures. The videowall displayed Chamilia’s extensive bead collection, which allows consumers to customize and personalize their jewelry.

“The objective was to showcase their beautiful products in a way that was larger than life,” says Greg Friedmann, account supervisor at Media Loft. “JCK Las Vegas does not have a lot of companies using technology. Traditionally, exhibitors have jewelry behind display cases. more

Portland-based collective, Kamp Grizzly, which specializes in production, animation, branding, web design and humor, has joined Wild Plum for representation. Recent directorial credits include TV and web projects for Adidas, Target, Nike, Starbucks, and Oregon Lottery. Kamp Grizzly joins a slate of directing talent that includes Kieran Walsh, Ericson Core, Shane Drake, Mike Goubeaux, and Jan De Bont.

Kamp Grizzly

“When I saw Kamp Grizzly’s work, I instantly knew they had a real gift for creating amazing stories, whether they’re visual and epic or quirky and comedic,” says Shelby Sexton, Wild Plum Executive Producer/Partner. “I love their culture – and how they wholeheartedly throw themselves into everything they do. They’re a great mesh with Wild Plum.”

“Wild Plum is such an honest group, and they’re genuinely interested in our capabilities,” adds Dan Portrait, Kamp more

Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii – August 2011… In just one season, CBS’s hit show Hawaii Five-O has become one of the most watched police dramas of television history. Filmed on location on Oahu, the show takes full advantage of the island’s stunning terrain. From the white sand beaches to the highest cliffs, this show’s action takes place seemingly everywhere. Capturing the show’s dialog is a task that requires equipment capable of delivering under some very challenging conditions and that’s precisely why Lectrosonics wireless microphone technology is on the job. more

Facilis Technology, a leader in advanced shared storage solutions for post-production and content creation, is offering a trade-in program for Avid Unity MediaNetwork, LANshare and Apple Xsan owners looking to retire their aging shared storage systems. From today through the end of 2011, customers who trade in Unity or Xsan systems will receive a 20 percent discount toward the purchase of a new Facilis TerraBlock 24D/24EX shared storage system.

Because TerraBlock supports 4 & 8 Gb Fibre and 1 & 10 Gb Ethernet, facilities can repurpose much of their current Fibre channel and Ethernet infrastructure, and add:
• Dynamic switchable sharing for volume and file-level control
• Multi-platform shared file system capability
• Unique Pro Tools file-level support
• Easy expandability with no per-seat fees of any kind
• Native cross-platform Avid project and media sharing
• Ultra high performance — even at 100% full

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Reliable Cost-Effective Digital Cinema Mastering

Los Angeles: August 11, 2011… Qube Cinema, developers of the QubeMaster digital cinema mastering applications, today announced full compatibility of the QubeMaster Xport plugin with Apple Compressor 4. With QubeMaster Xport and Apple’s $49 rendering utility, filmmakers, postproduction facilities and pre-show content creators can reliably and cost-effectively master Digital Cinema Packages (DCPs) for film festivals and theatrical distribution.

“Rather than requiring the whole Final Cut Suite(r), anyone with a Mac can now master their digital cinema content, regardless of what editing application they use,” said Eric Bergez, director of sales and marketing at Qube Cinema. “Compressor 4 is a great application and we highly recommend it to our customers.”

“Creating flawless DCPs is technically complex, and used to require expensive equipment, which only the big players could afford,” explained Bergez. “QubeMaster Xport simplifies more