Archive of the Documentaries Category

Avenue Six Studios Opens Their New York Inspired Main Street Back Lot

The Van Nuys Production Facility Adds Flexibility with the Addition of a New Main Street/Urban Backlot

Van Nuys, CA (December 7, 2010) – As a full-service service, boutique production facility, Avenue Six Studios was purpose-built to host feature film productions, television shows, music video productions, reality shows and commercial shoots. During the course of the studio’s growth over the past few years, numerous location scouts and production designers have suggested that a permanent, Main Street backlot be added to the studio’s multiple stages and green screen capabilities.

Avenue Six Studios Announces the opening of their New York Inspired Main Street Backlot and has brought New York City to Los Angeles. The permanent more

Dayton, OH — 12/7/2010 — video adventures, a developer of mobile applications, film & video location production and post production graphics, announced today the launch of TakeTimer for the Apple® iPhone®. TakeTimer offers a practical solution to on-location take logging. At its heart, TakeTimer is a flexible digital stopwatch for timing individual takes of radio & television commercials. The application is available now in the iTunes App Store. more

Summing Up 1s and 0s to Equal 2.0: How to Promote and Sell Your Music In Today’s Digital Era
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MONTREAL, Québec—November 19th 2010—2XM Interactive, a Montréal-based technology start-up that produces ‘through-glass’ interactive technology, augmented reality, and smart phone applications, today announced that its president, Antoine Azar, will be a guest panelist at the annual “M for Montréal� music showcase and conference. The panel session: Summing Up 1s and 0s to Equal 2.0: How to Promote and Sell Your Music In Today’s Digital Era, will be held on Friday, Nov. 19th at 2:00pm, in the “Godin Room� at the Opus Hotel.

M for Montreal is an annual event that showcases Montréal and Canadian bands and hosts numerous workshops addressing all aspects of working in today’s changing music industry to an international audience. Topics and events range from live concert booking and performances—to finding a market and more

Six-legged creature concept animation by Rob Powers displayed here in the new LightWave 10 interface

The newly released “Avatar� Three-Disc Extended Collector’s Edition DVD and Blu-ray from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, features a special documentary titled, “Capturing Avatar.� Included, is Rob Powers, vice president of 3D development at NewTek and member of the original “Malibu Five,� the first five individuals to join James Cameron’s team in the production of “Avatar.� The documentary shows the earliest six-legged creature animation test Powers created for “Avatar,� using LightWave 3D®, and Powers discusses the film’s Virtual Art Department (VAD). While working on “Avatar,� Powers founded the first ever VAD, using LightWave™ in the creation of virtual environmental assets for the world of Pandora in the blockbuster film.

As the first concept-animation artist working on the film, Powers used LightWave more

LYNX Technik AG, provider of signal processing solutions for the broadcast and professional AV industries, announces a firmware upgrade for its yellobrik SDI to HDMI converter, the CDH 1811.

The firmware upgrade is free, simple to install, and adds several unique features to the already feature-rich CDH 1811 yellobrik SDI to HDMI converter. The on-screen overlay now supports audio presence by showing audio level meters for 16 channels of monitoring. The upgrade also provides users with enhanced flexibility to display active format description (AFD), wide screen signaling (WSS) and VI code for aspect ratio, active picture characteristics and other metadata. more

Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary now hotly tipped for Oscar

Following its stunning success at the Sundance Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Documentary Prize, ‘Restrepo’ is now making a big impact among the critics and at the box office. There’s even talk of an Oscar nomination… The film, by American journalist Sebastian Junger and British photographer Tim Hetherington, recently opened in the UK following a successful run in the USA. The film follows a platoon of American Airborne soldiers during a year’s deployment in Afghanistan. Described as “An often electrifying verité trip into combat and the hearts of men� by Variety, all of Restrepo’s post-production picture finishing was done at Goldcrest Post Productions, New York. Using two Quantel

Pablo systems connected by GenePool, the film was online edited by finishing artist Peter Heady, and more

LA JOLLA, CA (November 17, 2010)— Innovative video effects creator and technology developer NewBlue, Inc. announces the inclusion of select NewBlueFX plugins in the latest release of Adobe Premiere Elements 9. The NewBlue collection of integrated video effects filters provides a creative set of plugins that give Adobe users dynamic, easy to use creativity tools.

In delivering the collection, NewBlue worked closely with Adobe to give its customers powerful effects with a minimal learning curve. These NewBlueFX video plugins turn any video into an animated film and solve basic audio problems.

“We have long history of providing high quality effects to Adobe users, and we’re very excited to extend our relationship with such a creative provider of high quality software” adds Melissa Jordan Grey, NewBlue’s CEO and Chief Creative Officer.

Adobe Premiere Elements 9 includes the following NewBlueFX plugins:

Cartoonr Plus (from NewBlue Paint more

For Immediate Release

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

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

Royalty Free Music

ENFIELD, CT, November 10th, 2010 – Music 2 Hues, a leading supplier of Production Music & Sound Effects to the, Film, Video, Animation, & Multimedia Industries has just added a new Flagship Series CD release.

Our newest Flagship CD title: “Soft Contemporary“ is now shipping worldwide and is available on Audio CD, or can be downloaded in Mp3 and WAV file formats. “This release satisfies the needs of our clients that have been asking for a CD of easy listening, progressive, and R&B styles for all visual and multimedia support,” says Andy Wells, president of Music 2 Hues. more