Archive of the Workflow Category

Business was growing for Merit Andrew, a boutique film production company based in Orange County, California. The company’s four edit bays were humming with work ranging from national spots and music videos to high-end industrial films.

The firm has seven full time employees, but multiple crews of up to a hundred professionals are often in the field. Executive Producer Curt Fleming says the company was feeling some real pain moving around media, wasting more than two hours each day just to get media from room to room. An entire production day per week was spent managing media manually. To get back this wasted time, Merit Andrew needed to automate and streamline their workflow with a shared storage solution. more

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., November 8, 2007 – Nice Shoes is an elite player in the New York commercial post-production market, with four advanced boutique facilities included in its corporate family: Guava (VFX, design and 3D), Freestyle Collective (3D animation and broadcast design), Nice Spots (Web-based sharing, archiving and collaboration application), and Nice Shoes (color correction, online edit and VFX). When these multiple divisions expanded into new offices on either side of Manhattan’s Park Avenue South, they needed a cost-effective, reliable means of networking their data. Microwave was not an option in this RF-heavy urban environment, and local fiber loops were not cost-effective. Instead, the company chose the advanced Canobeam DT-130 Free Space Optics Transceiver, from Canon U.S.A. Inc., which provides secure, wireless 1.25 Gigabit per second (Gbps) data-transmission for Gigabit Ethernet networking. more

Burbank, CA, November 8, 2007—Globalstor Data Corporation, premier OEM Integrator of high performance RAID, SAN and storage/video servers, and ASSIMILATE™, Inc., developer of DI software solutions for filmmakers and post production, are showcasing the latest innovative solutions for content management at HD Expo 2007 (Booth #207). The newest ExtremeStor-DI model developed by Globalstor Data Corporation, which integrates ASSIMILATE’s SCRATCH® Digital Intermediate Process Solution, is being demonstrated during the show to illustrate SCRATCH’s efficiency in supporting stereo 3D and ExtremeStor-DI’s effectiveness in processing this data. This demonstration offers a firsthand perspective at both products and how they can work together to support stereo 3D in live applications. more

Bitcentral‘s Precis end-to-end digital newsroom solution goes live at nine news broadcast stations in nine weeks; sweeps across country from Hawaii to Florida

IRVINE, CALIF. – Oct. 24, 2007 – Bitcentral Inc., a leading provider of news production, archiving and distribution solutions to local television stations, has fully installed and gone live with its revolutionary Precis end-to-end digital news production solution at nine TV stations in the last nine weeks. The complete uprooting and conversion of the nine traditional news broadcast stations from tape to digital is unparalleled in frequency and thoroughness. more

Luxology® LLC, an independent technology company developing next-generation 3D content creation software, today announced “The Alley,” six new tutorials that explain how to harness modo™‘s modeling, painting and baking tools to produce efficient, high-quality 3D assets found in a gritty urban back alley. Featuring more than three hours of instruction by Luxology‘s Andy Brown, the training videos offer expert guidance on using modo‘s modern toolset to produce realistic, lightweight 3D objects and lush scenes that can be used in game, film and video production. The Alley videos can be purchased individually or in two separate albums that contain three videos each. They are available now on Luxology‘s website at http://www.luxology.com/store/training_series06.aspx. more

EDITSHARE GOES TO BROADCAST INDIA 2007
Demonstrating the new EditShare 5.0; Project Sharing for Avid and Final Cut Pro Systems

Queensland, Australia – October 22 – 2007 - EditShare™, the technology leader in cross platform collaborative editing and shared media storage systems, will be exhibiting their the new EditShare version 5.0 release at the Broadcast India exhibition, held in Mumbai from November 1-3, on the Cineom stand P8. Version 5.0 offers a slew of enhancements and new features including Project Sharing for Apple Final Cut Pro users (FCP), simplified media management and support for iSCSI. more

Spanish Production House to Automate Key Processes for Greater Efficiencies and More Proactive Resource Planning

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Oct. 17, 2007 – ScheduALL today announced that Madrid-based Imagen Line, a leading Spanish production and post-production company, is implementing ScheduALL‘s production and operations management software. ScheduALL will provide a complete solution for automating and re-engineering key business processes driving Imagen Line‘s project management and booking, the stock management library, and invoicing. more

St. Louis, MO (October 10, 2007) — When San Diego-based creative firm Karcher Design was tapped by corporate giant CSC to create presentation materials for its annual senior leaders conference in support of a new global initiative, it had just over four weeks lead time. To meet the challenge, Karcher Design leveraged the power and versatility of wondertouch™, (www.wondertouch.com) particleIllusion™ to create a state-of-the art package of presentation elements, culminating in a spectacular, seven-minute motion-graphics intensive film. more

Tewksbury, Mass. – October 8, 2007 – Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced that LA Digital Post, Inc. an exclusive post production solutions provider serving major television and motion picture clients, is enabling post teams to edit offline at HD image quality and assemble cuts more efficiently with the latest Media Composer® Adrenaline™ systems. In June, the company purchased 10 Windows XP-based systems and 10 Intel-based Mac systems to enable creative teams to work at higher image quality, save time, and enhance their creative control by using Avid DNxHD® 36 and Avid® ScriptSync. Since June, LA Digital has answered increased demand from customers requesting to use the new Adrenaline based systems on a number of high-profile television and film productions. more

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