Archive for August, 2011

Following the recent additions of producer Jana Heiss and East Coast sales rep Jake Neske, HUSH is geared up to announce the signing of New York-based designer, director and illustrator Jodi Terwilliger. With this latest addition, HUSH is acquiring an 11-year industry vet who counts JetBlue, VH1, HSBC and music group RFA as former clients.

“When you have a solid class of talent in place, the list of eligible new candidates shrinks, because whoever you bring in has to be as good as who you already have,” noted HUSH Co-Founder/CD David Schwarz. “Jodi, without question, is a talent of that caliber, and one who we are very eager to promote.”

In his decade-plus cranking out top-line work across the spectrum, Terwilliger has won featured spots in books, magazines, and online publications (IdN, Flash In The Can, 72 Dpi Pt 2, more

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Having recently opened a new divisional office in São Paulo, 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, is thrilled to demonstrate the advanced capabilities of its power solutions at the SET Congress and 20th edition of Broadcast & Cable Show – International Technology Fair. Anton/Bauer will debut the new MATRIX Cheese Plate, a new mounting plate that can be used with the company’s Gold Mount Solutions for the Sony PMW-F3 camera; Canon EOS 5D Mark II, EOS 7D and EOS 60D Digital SLR cameras; Panasonic AG-AF100 series professional HD camera and RED EPIC digital cinema camera. Also making a first appearance at SET Congress is the QR-HotSwap-AR Gold Mount for the ARRI ALEXA digital cinema camera. more

After storming the globe for nearly 40 years, Judas Priest are going out strong as they rock the planet on the massive Epitaph outing. Hitting all the major cities across the globe on what will be their final world tour, the metal masterminds trek began this past June in Europe, with U.S. dates from October through December to follow.

Tending to the live sound needs for iconic rockers from Slash to Whitesnake for many years, engineer Martin Walker returns to the Judas Priest fold, with whom he has toured with for over a decade. The self-confessed analog maven has seemingly crossed over to the digital domain for good, favoring DiGiCo consoles for the past several years, beginning back in 2008 with a D5 on Priest’s ‘Nostradamus’ tour—prompted by the difficulty in finding an analog solution that could accommodate more

International Colorist Academy (ICA) and THX Ltd. announced a partnership whereby ICA will offer classes on the use of LUTs for grading, display calibration, matching, and emulation. The inaugural class will be held October 31, 2011 at the ICA training center in Los Angeles.

The courses will feature the THX cineSpace™ color management software suite, which includes the following applications that address workflow consistency:

– cineCube Visual™: Generates 65 point 3D LUTS in all recognized industry formats; allows colorists to adjust calibration parameters to dial in specific looks
– cinePlugins™: Full 3D color transforms ensure a near perfect match to output result and work in native environment of popular systems including the Nucoda Film Master
– cineProfiler™: Optimizes and profiles output devices and creates accurate profiles for all viewing equipment
– equalEyes™: Perfect tool for matching displays throughout more

Episode Engine enables multi-screen delivery of film submissions with automated video transcoding

Telestream®, the leading provider of digital media tools and workflow solutions, today announced that its Episode® Engine server-based transcoding software was deployed by Opsomai, a leading provider of media asset management platforms, for the Festival International de l’Image Institutionnelle et Corporate in Le Creusot, France. Opsomai integrated Episode Engine into its cloud-based services to provide video and audio transcoding of all film submissions for high-quality viewing in multiple screening environments. The festival, which took place in June, celebrates films, videos, DVDs and interactive programs produced for corporate communication purposes.

“We’re proud that Episode Engine was selected by Opsomai to handle the critical transcoding needs of its cloud services for the Creusot film festival,” said Barbara DeHart, vice president of marketing at Telestream. “Episode Engine is well suited for applications like this one which require easy more

XenData LTO-5 Digital Video Archives will be integrated with the Harmonic Server and Storage Infrastructure using Harmonic Media Application Server

Cambridge, UK and Walnut Creek, Calif. – August 23, 2011 – XenData, the leading provider of digital video archive solutions to the media and entertainment industry, will be unveiling a new interface at IBC 2011 that seamlessly integrates the range of XenData archive server solutions with Harmonic’s Media Application Server and ProXplore. XenData and Harmonic have been working closely on development of the new interface which extends the capabilities of Media Application Server (MAS) to include management of archiving to and restoring from robotic LTO tape libraries that scale to multiple petabytes.

The new interface is applicable to Harmonic Media Application Server version 3.4 and the full range of XenData’s archive server solutions, including X64 Edition software, XenData6 Server software and the XenData range of SX-Archive Servers. more

Red Giant (http://www.redgiant.com) and the Original iPhone Film Festival (www.originaliphonefilmfest.com) are teaming up to inspire new levels of creativity for aspiring iOS filmmakers. Red Giant has signed on as a sponsor of this innovative competition. The festival will showcase the short films from the iPhone filmmaker community, and encourage filmmakers to tell their stories with the “film studio in their pocket”—Apple iOS devices. Submissions for the first annual Original iPhone Film Festival are due by September 30th, 2011. View the OIFF promo video here: http://bit.ly/OIFFpromo

As part of its sponsorship, Red Giant is offering OIFF entrants a free copy of its newest mobile app for creating cinema-quality color effects – Magic Bullet Movie Looks HD. From August 23 to September 1, OIFF entrants will be able to download a free copy of Magic Bullet Looks HD by visiting http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/movie-looks/ or by more

RenderMon Unshackles Digital Media Artists from the Studio; Users can now Remotely Manage their Video Renders and Securely Share with Others

Wilmington, NC (August 23, 2011) – Digieffects® (www.digieffects.com) announced today it has entered the professional remote management marketplace with the launch of RenderMon. RenderMon is an innovative new web-based application that enables digital media artists to remotely monitor and manage the video rendering process, as well as share the rendered video from any internet-connected browser or web-enabled device. This new development complements the Company’s strategy of designing visually stunning, accessible VFX solutions, and extends them into a new category of post production workflow enhancement and productivity tools.

Digieffects also announced today that RenderMon will be available at no charge for one month from its launch date; from August 22 through October 1, 2011. Beginning today, customers can visit http://rendermon.digieffects.com to sign up for a more

Free Magic Bullet Looks HD App available from August 23 to September 1, 2011

Portland, OR & New York, NY (August 23, 2011) – Red Giant (http://www.redgiant.com) and the Original iPhone Film Festival (www.originaliphonefilmfest.com) are teaming up to inspire new levels of creativity for aspiring iOS filmmakers. Red Giant has signed on as a sponsor of this innovative competition. The festival will showcase the short films from the iPhone filmmaker community, and encourage filmmakers to tell their stories with the “film studio in their pocket”—Apple iOS devices. Submissions for the first annual Original iPhone Film Festival are due by September 30, 2011. View the OIFF promo video here http://bit.ly/OIFFpromo.

As part of its sponsorship, Red Giant is offering OIFF entrants a free copy of its newest mobile app for creating cinema-quality color effects – Magic Bullet Movie Looks HD. From August 23 to September more

Culver City, CA— Kevin Ward of bi-coastal Original has directed a new, action-driven campaign for CASIO in which extreme athletes test the ultimate toughness of the company’s new G’zOne Commando™ wireless phone. Conceived by The Richards Group, the campaign comprises six spots and features elite athletes from surfing, BMX racing, adventure running and other sports.

In one spot, a boxer pounds a phone strapped to a heavy bag. It survives. In another, three phones are strapped to the hood and undercarriage of a rally car that then proceeds to roar through a rugged, dirt course. The phones continue to work flawlessly. The spots end with the tagline, “Shock resistant…water resistant…life resistant.”
Ward, who began his career as a stuntman and stunt driver, is an expert at staging and recording extreme action. more