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GoPro Announces New Hero7 Black with Built-in Image Stabilization

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If you live in southern California, mentioning “the 405” will bring up thoughts of the world’s worst freeway traffic,...

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DNeg breaks down its work on a scene from Marvel’s Black Panther that switches seamlessly between stars Chadwick Boseman and Michael B....

ShotPut Pro Celebrates 10 Years of Offloading

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Marvel Studios gave the Internet serious new GIF fodder this morning when it debuted the first official trailer for...

Ellen Kuras, ASC, on Lensing the Emmy-Winning Documentary Jane

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A deeply moving portrayal of Jane Goodall in her own words, Jane is also a love story we can...

PAPER | Today’s Reality for Moving Large Content Files

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Can something as simple as unfounded expectations exert an unfair influence on our success or failure? NPR director, illustrator...

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Media Shuttle provides a solution that offers features and benefits for all: IT staff, business decision-makers, and operational managers...

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Avid’s Latest Media Composer Includes New DNxUncompressed Format

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Avid editors got a pre-IBC treat as Media Composer 2018.9 was released last week, on the eve of the...

Avid Brings New Maestro Engine Hardware Platform for Graphics Rendering to IBC

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At IBC, Avid announced the new Maestro Engine, a real-time graphics and video hardware rendering platform for its Maestro...

Ellen Kuras, ASC, on Lensing the Emmy-Winning Documentary Jane

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A deeply moving portrayal of Jane Goodall in her own words, Jane is also a love story we can...

Essential Gear: Camera Support

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Download This: 2018 Camera Comparison Chart from Fletcher and Adcock

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How much does the Arri Alexa LF really cost? Which cinema camera has a base ISO of 1250? Is...

Outlander DP Stephen McNutt, ASC, CSC, on the Saucy Scottish Show

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Blending equal parts biceps, romance, historical fiction, and time-traveling, Outlander lives far from the futuristic conventions of most other...

Already Been Chewed’s Barton Damer on This :60 Spot That Helped Bring Casio’s Classic Watch Back in Fashion

Sep 11, 2018

When Casio asked Dallas motion-graphics and design studio Already Been Chewed [ABC] to make a 60-second spot promoting the...

Allegorithmic’s AI-Powered Project Alchemist Looks Like Magic

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Allegorithmic, maker of the Substance toolset for physically based rendering (PBR) materials authoring, kicked off SIGGRAPH with the first...

Unreal Studio Adds Support for X-Rite’s AxF Materials Exchange Standard

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X-Rite’s AxF standard for sharing properties of physical materials got a boost at SIGGRAPH from Epic Games, which has integrated...

How Hulu’s A Curious Mind Uses 360 VR to Explore the Universe

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As the host of Hulu’s A Curious Mind, Dominic Monaghan (Lord of the Rings, Lost) leads the way as...

Vimeo Launches Royalty-Free Stock Footage Marketplace

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Vimeo joined the stock-footage marketplace with the launch today of Vimeo Stock, billed as a “highly curated” collection of...

Atlanta‘s Emmy-Nominated Editors on “Alligator Man” and “Teddy Perkins”

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The second season of Donald Glover’s half-hour slice-of-Southern-city-life chronicle Atlanta earned 16 Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Directing...

Film Editor Barry Alexander Brown on Decades of Working with Spike Lee and BlacKkKlansman

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BlacKkKlansman, the newest Spike Lee joint, is one of those movies with a plotline that might seem implausible if...

Avid Completes Web-Based Cloud Implementation of MediaCentral

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Avid’s long-planned shift in product strategy reached a major milestone this week with the release of a new, streamlined...

Kin Sound Designer Joseph Fraioli on Otherworldly FX Work for an Indie-Style Story

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Review: TASCAM DR-44WL Digital Recorder

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I have been a big fan of TASCAM digital recorders for some time. I’ve reviewed a few over the...

With New Hires, Sim Post NY Turns Up the Volume on Audio Production

Jul 9, 2018

Sim Post said it’s building out its sound capabilities at its New York location, adding three new audio production...

Sound Lounge Promotes Liana Rosenberg to Head of Production

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New York’s Sound Lounge named Liana Rosenberg head of production, with responsibility for studio staff and production operations. Rosenberg...

EditShare Introduces QScan Automated Quality Control Software for File-Based Workflow

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EditShare will introduce QScan, a new line of automated quality control (AQC) software for file-based audio and video production workflow,...

New File Delivery Specs for Ad Content Set by TV Convergence Working Group

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The TV Convergence Working Group (TVCWG) has released a set of digital video file deliverable specifications meant to make it...

George Michael and David Fincher’s “Freedom! ’90” Music Video Gets a 4K Remaster

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An iconic music video has gotten a rare 4K remaster. As part of a documentary project for U.K. broadcaster Channel...

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If you’re coming to NAB Show New York later this week, you’ll be visiting the stomping grounds of New...

Elements Updates Media Storage Systems with up to 80 TB of NVMe Drives

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Review: Samsung 860 Pro SSD

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Sports broadcast is one of the most challenging tasks in the media industry, as evidenced by the monumental undertaking...

Avid’s Nexis E5 NL Nearline Storage Is Now Shipping

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Avid Brings New Maestro Engine Hardware Platform for Graphics Rendering to IBC

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At IBC, Avid announced the new Maestro Engine, a real-time graphics and video hardware rendering platform for its Maestro...

Elements Updates Media Storage Systems with up to 80 TB of NVMe Drives

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Broadcast Pix Set to Debut Portable BPswitch RX Switcher at IBC

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Avid Completes Web-Based Cloud Implementation of MediaCentral

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