Archive of the Videos Category

NEW YORK, N.Y., October 9, 2009 – Imagine watching a video online, and being able to contact the featured speaker. You can on HDCameraGuide.com. The site, which features broadcast and professional HD cameras, lenses, and accessories – and which has a complete reference and review guide for consumer camcorder and digital cameras – has added a new feature that lets the viewer “Ask This Speaker a Question.� more

Visual Effects by Mechanism Digital
for 101 Dalmatians Broadway television
commercial.

New York, NY – Mechanism Digital’s Directive: Make dogs talk! . . . to promote the upcoming 101 Dalmatians Broadway musical. Timeline: Three days.

In order to accomplish the task, Mechanism Digital adapted some unconventional visual effects techniques and simplified a typically complex workflow. In the 1940s, animators hand-painted cartoon mouths and teeth over live footage to make animals speak. In more modern times, filmmakers build wire frame CG models of entire bodies and inserted them with extensive image tracking to create the illusion of talking creatures. Mechanism’s studio found a way to replicate and improve upon this process in a lot less time and at a much lower cost. more

FxFactory Pro honored by Microfilmmaker for extraordinary versatility and monumental range of plug-in effects and transitions.

Boston, MA – October 6, 2009 – Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast markets, announced that their flagship plug-in solution FxFactory® Pro has won Microfilmmaker’s prestigious Award of Superiority. FxFactory Pro offers 150 visual effects plug-ins optimized for real-time performance on the Macintosh platform. With the latest version of FxFactory Pro, Noise Industries introduced four new plug-ins as well as enhancements to 60 existing FxFactory effects. “With each FxFactory release we include a wide-variety of new plug-ins and updates that are often a result of FxFactory customer feedback. We also put a significant effort into developing FxFactory tutorials that help users quickly understand the potential of our newest features. more

NEW YORK, N.Y., October 6, 2009 – Sony Electronic’s Rob Willox has joined the growing number of industry leaders who have sat down for an exclusive video interview with Michael Grotticelli, editor of HD Camera Guide www.HDCameraGuide.com. more

Prime Focus Technologies (PFT) has announced the launch of CLEAR, a web-based media asset management service to help film studios, broadcasters and advertisers more efficiently manage their content and workflows. CLEAR manages the entire lifecycle of content from production to distribution, and offers a secure, fast and reliable digital delivery platform for advertising and entertainment content. more

About “On the Road”
“On the Road� airs on Bank of America’s promotional online channel MBC, aka the “Morris Broadcasting Channel,� named after the network’s fun-loving spokesman. Morris and his on-air posse, financial expert Farnoosh Torabi, a guy who likes to eat a lot, and an ATM character fully decked out in a costume made from cardboard, visit college campuses across the country. The guerilla film crew operates out of a mobile studio — MBC’s traveling van — to conduct man-on-the-street interviews, game shows, quiz challenges and other fun activities to engage young people in learning about fiscal responsibility. The show opens with a whimsical stop-motion sequence that has a handmade and organic 70s-era vibe. more

Team Group‘s New Media Studio released their newest advocacy editorial campaign for America’s Voice. The goal for this production advocacy campaign was to make America aware of the material that is being aired every weeknight by CNN’s Lou Dobbs. America’s Voice is not the only voice that is speaking up against Lou Dobbs, but it is one of the loudest. The newest campaign editorial was developed by Creative Director, Peter Davis, Graphic Designer, Dave Glanz, and Audio Mixer, Howard Brown.

Team has developed weekly video editorials for America’s Voice which are widely viewed and distributed to promote immigration reform through public awareness. In addition to direct distribution through a variety of online portals, our advocacy videos have achieved widespread viral distribution and are easily embeddable on related sites. They are designed to generate political response through calls to action and have resulted in both strong immigration more

Flexible parameters of new LiveToon plug-in allows for easy and fast generation of cartoon and comic book looks for Final Cut, Motion and After Effects.

Boston, MA – September 29, 2009 – Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast markets, announced the release of the LiveToon plug-in from development partner DVShade. FxFactory® powered plug-ins are designed by Noise Industries and their development partners to extend the visual effects capabilities of Adobe® After Effects® versions CS3 and CS4, Apple® Final Cut Studio®, and Apple Final Cut® Express applications. more

Northern Lights’ Ted Gannon composed and performed the music for Hilary Duff’s web video mini-series featured on Youtube called THE CHASE to promote her new clothing line for DKNY, “Femme�.

The first episode of THE CHASE, “Chapter One: The Beginning”, brought in over 350,000 views in its first week and became one of Youtube’s most watched videos. more

AmberFin iCR ingest and transcode solution to deliver highest quality masters on the market

BURBANK, Calif. and HOLLYWOOD, Calif. September 14, 2009 — AmberFin today announces it will deliver a state of the art JPEG2000 ingest and transcode solution for Warner Bros. Technical Operations’ DETE workflow and distribution system. The new solution will deliver high-quality servicing masters, while enabling Warner Bros. Technical Operations to significantly improve workflow compatibility and interoperability. more