Archive for January 6th, 2012

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“We have 100 of them out in other people’s hands, on movie sets and episodic television productions,” says Thaine. “They’re great products and very durable. We have almost no problems with them and never see them coming back for repair.”

Roger George has rented Look Solutions foggers and hazers to director Clint Eastwood’s “J. Edgar;” the upcoming “Lincoln” from Steven Spielberg and “Django Unchained” from Quentin Tarantino; the superhero “Avengers,” “The Amazing Spider-Man,” the “Star Trek” sequel and “Gangster Squad” due out next year; Ben Affleck’s “Argo,” “R.I.P.D” and “One Shot” slated for release in 2013.

The company has also provided Look Solutions’ products to TV’s popular “Castle,” “House,” “Glee,” “Bones,” and “Mike & Molly” as well as HBO’s “True Blood,” Showtime’s “Dexter,” and the new series “American Horror Story” and “Grimm.”

“Look Solutions’ Viper NT foggers have become the standard for fog machines,” notes Elizabeth Morris. “Everyone uses them. Other fog machines that produce the same amount of fog are heavier and harder to handle.”

Thaine says the TINY FX unit is “great for gags – like a guy who gets blown up and runs away smoking. We can just put a TINY in his pocket instead of using toxic, smelly AB smoke. Creating a smoking engine was very difficult before and required special heavy equipment but we can use a radio-controlled TINY now. When we wanted to show a smoking barbecue we used to have to start a charcoal fire, dump mineral oil on it and stand by with a fire extinguisher. Now we use a TINY and there’s no worrying about someone burning himself: It’s ready when you need it and gone when you’re done.”

According to Elizabeth, the film “Burlesque” was a heavy user of Look Solutions’ Unique2 hazers. “The bar room scene was very hazy; shooting HD requires more fog and haze than they’d need with film – the HD cameras seem to be able to see through it better so you need more. I think ‘Burlesque’ consumed fluid in the 100-gallon range.”

“We deal in a lot of different equipment and sell a lot more Look Solutions’ gear than any other,” notes Thaine. “It’s very, very stable and fills the bill for our customers.”

About Look Solutions

Based in Germany, Look Solutions manufactures high-performance fog machines, haze machines, battery-powered mini-foggers, low-foggers, accessories and fluids at reasonable prices. Look Solutions USA, located in western Maryland, serves customers in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. For more information, or to request a demo machine for evaluation, visit www.looksolutionsusa.com or call Hunter Totty, Director of Operations, at 1-800-426-4189. Look Solutions’ Technical Service line is 646-300-0520.

(LOS ANGELES, CA) Image Systems has announced that Incendio has purchased two Nucoda Film Masters along with Precision panels to integrate into their creative color and finishing pipeline. Colorists Clark Muller and Adolfo Martinelli founded Incendio, one of the hottest post production boutiques on the West Coast, in 2011. The well-respected duo has built a facility grounded in artistry and technical excellence, with a carefully designed workflow and environment for customers.

Incendio recently completed a broad spectrum of work on the Nucoda systems including spots, music videos, features, and public space installations. One noteworthy project was IBM’s immersive media Think installation, displayed across 40 screens at the Lincoln Center in New York. Incendio was a crucial part of bringing this immersive media experience to life. The campaign focuses on why IBM solutions are the best, with the tagline: “It has been the way we think.” Muller and Martinelli color graded the footage and provided graphic support with the Nucoda Film Master. At the conclusion of the project, thousands of visitors had stopped by and explored the visually engaging installation (http://www.ibm.com/ibm100/us/en/thinkexhibit/visit/).

With a robust credit list of high-end commercials in their portfolio, Incendio has also finished a number of spots and packages for leading agencies and clients including Kia for David & Goliath, Scion for ATTIK, State Farm for DDB Chicago, and Old Navy for Crispin Porter + Bogusky. Additionally, the boutique post house provided their expertise and creative services on the feature film The First Time from director Jonathan Kasden, which has recently been selected for the Sundance Film Festival (http://filmguide.sundance.org/filmguide/search/the-first-time).

“The Nucoda Film Masters have enabled us to work creatively and efficiently,” says Martinelli, co-founder of Incendio. “There is a technical platform and toolset in Nucoda that is, in my opinion, quite unique. It’s not just the color correction, which is first rate, but the breadth of other functionality that give us the ability to go in and work on visual effects, finishing and image enhancement.”

Muller adds, “When we were planning the facility, we wanted it to be a craft-driven, uniquely personal environment, and we wanted to have the finest tools possible. We designed our process to include the Nucoda and the Dolby Professional Reference Monitor as they complement each other beautifully.” The choice of the Nucoda grading system was a natural one for us,” explains Martinelli. “We looked at several systems and in our opinion the Nucoda Film Master gives us the tools to accommodate the various challenges that are presented to us on a daily basis.”

About Image Systems
Image Systems Media Unit, formerly Digital Vision, is a division of Image Systems AB, which specializes in high-resolution image processing, film scanning and motion analysis solutions. Headquartered in Linköping, Sweden, Image Systems has offices in Stockholm, London and Los Angeles. The company has three business units: Media, Defense and Motion, managed via a global network of qualified distributors. Its Nucoda and Phoenix image grading and restoration software solutions and Golden Eye range of scanners provide innovative tools to create and master media in HD, 2K/4K and stereoscopic 3D. The TEMA software platform provides a range of user friendly, high-speed motion analysis solutions for the automotive industry and other industrial test and design applications. The TrackEye system provides image analysis solutions for the military reconnaissance and testing markets. For additional information, visit www.imagesystems.tv.

About Incendio
Incendio was founded by colorists Clark Muller and Adolfo Martinelli with the philosophy that creative artistry and technical excellence should work hand-in-hand. Located in eclectic Venice, California, the boutique studio provides color correction for agency-driven commercials, music videos, feature films, and art installations. Their suites are equipped with Image Systems Nucoda Film Masters, Precision control panels, and Dolby Professional Reference Monitors. An interconnected DVS storage area network allows media to be simultaneously accessed from any workstation within the facility. Color-corrected projects can be delivered to tape, drive, or network endpoint at resolutions up to 5K and beyond. Additional services include file transcoding, digital dailies, digital cinema packaging, workflow consulting, and development of custom software toolsets to surpass any creative or technical challenges. A portfolio of work is available at www.incendio.tv.

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Image Systems Contact:
Alexa Maza
Email: alexa.maza@imagesystems.se
Tel: +1 818 769-8111

USA PR Contact:
Christine Purse
ignite
Email: chris@ignite.bz
Tel: +1 818 303 8088
Mob: +1 323 806 9696

EMEA & Asia PR Contact:
Kate Ford
Jump PR
Email: kate@jumppr.tv
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 240001?
Mobile: +44 (0)7740 948 065

Incendio Marketing Contact:
Christina Caldwell
Email: christina@incendio.tv
Tel: +1 310 396 8288

— Clyne Media’s relationship with Waves increases in scope —

KNOXVILLE, TN, January 4, 2012 — The Consumer Electronics Division of Waves Audio, the industry leader in professional audio digital signal processing technologies and recipient of a 2011 Technical GRAMMY® award, announces the appointment of Nashville- and New York-based firm Clyne Media, Inc. to handle its international public relations efforts, effective immediately. The two organizations already have a close working relationship, as for several years, Clyne Media has handled Waves’ PR in the professional market sector. The announcement was made by Tomer Elbaz, General Manager, Waves Audio Consumer Electronics Division, and further underscores Waves’ ongoing expansion into the consumer electronics marketplace.

“We are pleased to be working with Clyne Media on an expanded basis,” stated Elbaz. “We have been working with them for years with our professional products, and as our involvement in consumer electronics is expanding, it makes perfect sense that Clyne Media should make this journey with us. Robbie Clyne and his team have the right expertise, experience and attention to detail to get the job done. They continue to be an enormous asset for our company, and expanding their duties into the consumer market is a natural step forward for Waves and Clyne Media.”

Clyne Media is one of the industry’s premier specialized marketing communications/media relations agencies, serving the needs of leaders in the high-technology electronics and entertainment market sector and related industries. Continuing its stateside duties, additionally the company will now pursue new international editorial opportunities on behalf of Waves and help focus public relations efforts with industry editors and independent journalists worldwide.

Agency President/CEO Robert Clyne will handle the account management, working closely with Tomer Elbaz and Yuval Weinreb, Waves International Sales Manager, while dedicated Clyne Media staff will cover media relations, technical writing, editing and other marketing communications initiatives.

“We are very excited to be again expanding our relationship with Waves,” Robert Clyne commented. “They have shown time and time again to be an unparalleled innovator in their markets, and as their business grows and expands into other areas, we are proud to explore media opportunities on their behalf. Our partnership over the years has been very fruitful, and this transition to Clyne Media’s new role will be very smooth. We look forward to all the great things we can accomplish together.”

For more information, please visit www.maxx.com.

Crystal Vision will be exhibiting on Stand S3-20 at the Middle East’s largest digital media and satellite expo, CABSAT. The exhibition takes place between 28th February and 1st March 2012 in the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre. The products being showcased at this year’s event include Crystal Vision’s best selling products within the Middle East: the chroma keyers and video delays. Alongside these will be new products within the Crystal Vision range: a clean and intelligent 2 x 2 switch with a full framestore synchroniser on each input, an audio/video delay designed for correcting large lip-sync errors and a synchronizing up, down and cross converter.

The Safe Switch 3G is the only way to guarantee a clean switch. It provides clean and intelligent 2 x 2 switching between two 3Gb/s, HD or SD sources, with a full framestore synchronizer on each input allowing it to correct for any timing difference between the two inputs – resulting in no disruption to the output picture when a switch takes place. It can be switched manually or 16 different fault conditions can automatically trigger a switch, while loss of reference protection keeps the output valid at all times even on a loss of reference.

AVDELAY 3G is an audio/video delay designed for correcting large lip-sync errors by eye on incoming 3Gb/s, HD or SD signals. The audio and video delay are adjustable independently allowing the user to change the relative audio/video timing in either direction, with up to ten seconds of video delay available in SD, five seconds in HD and two seconds in 3Gb/s, along with ten seconds of AES audio delay. The video delay is adjustable in frames, while four delay controls can be assigned to the audio on a mono channel basis.

Up-Down-AS 3G is a synchronizing up/down/cross converter which takes all the project-winning features of the popular Up-Down-3G and adds signal timing functionality, meaning engineers can now synchronize sources timed to a different reference or correct any processing delays while up or down converting. Available in four versions to suit a variety of applications, Up-Down-AS 3G allows flexible up, down and cross conversions between 3Gb/s, HD and SD sources and provides an output picture quality that broadcasters standardize on. It also includes special features to allow studios to easily operate in HD and SD at the same time – with its ability to perform two different conversions simultaneously and give out co-timed dual outputs that remain unchanged in format, even if the input changes. To keep the output valid at all times Up-Down-AS 3G has two synchronisers downstream of the converter – one in the 3G/HD path and one in the SD path – which means that it gives a continuous clean output in the two desired formats even when the input standard changes.

Crystal Vision offers a choice of two chroma keyers to suit different definitions, budgets and applications. The Safire chroma keyer can be used for any Standard Definition bluescreen or greenscreen application. The Safire HD 2 works with both High Definition and Standard Definition sources. Both provide real-time chroma keying of an outstanding quality and are simple and easy to use. They also include a range of processing tools for those who want to tweak the picture – numerous fine adjustments for optimized edges, sophisticated shadow processing, key shrink and internal and external masks. They also have the ability to work with reflective and transparent objects, can linear key, mix and wipe and include special features for the easy insertion of graphics on to sporting surfaces.

Crystal Vision prides itself on its unique video delay range. The ability to match the delays caused by virtual studio graphics makes the ViViDs ideal companions to the Safires. The ViViD124 is an SDI variable video delay line, perfect for those lower cost applications. It provides a maximum SD delay of 2.08 seconds/52 frames (625 line) and 2.0 seconds/60 frames (525 line). The ViViD HD is an HD/SD variable video delay line with a maximum HD delay of 0.5 seconds/560ms. It also has a maximum SD delay of 3.12 seconds/78 frames (625 line) and 3.103 seconds/93 frames (525 line). It is ideal for those shorter High Definition delays. ViViD HD-20 is a HD/SD long variable video delay providing a maximum HD delay of 21 seconds and SD delay of 119 seconds. For the ultimate video delay the ViViD HD-40 offers the same features as the ViViD HD-20 but provides a maximum HD delay of 43 seconds and SD delay of 238 seconds.

Based at Whittlesford near Cambridge in the UK and with an office in the USA, Crystal Vision provides digital keyers, picture storage modules and a full range of interface equipment including converters, synchronizers, distribution amplifiers and audio embedders to the professional broadcasting industry worldwide.
www.crystalvision.tv