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ASC Names Feature Film Award Nominees
Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC, continued his remarkable run with the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), nabbing his 11th nomination for an ASC Award for Outstanding Achievement this morning for his work on the latest James Bond movie, Skyfall. Also nominated …
“Miami”: BCS National Championship Game Opener
West Hartford, CT's Bluefoot Entertainment created this collage portrait of the city of Miami, which aired on ESPN last night as the opening sequence to the BCS National Championship match-up between Notre Dame and Alabama. It's directed and edited by Bluefoot …
Q&A: Cache-A’s Mark Ostlund on LTO-6 Tape Archives
Cache-A today shipped new versions of its Pro-Cache, Power-Cache and Library24 and Library48 automation systems that support the new LTO-6 tape format, which substantially boosts capacity and data rates for archiving to data tape. The new Prime-Cache6 desktop appliance has …
Cache-A Unleashes the Power of LTO-6 Archiving
Cache-A Corporation (www.cache-a.com), manufacturer of award-winning archiving appliances, has launched the first in a new generation of LTO-6 archive appliances. Available immediately, these appliances meet the media and entertainment industry need to safeguard ever-increasing volumes of priceless assets at minimal …
Colorflow Opens 7500-Square-Foot Berkeley Facility
Color-grading facility Colorflow opened a new 7500-square-foot studio with three grading and finishing suites and a DCI-compliant 22-seat DI theater at the Saul Zaentz Media Center in Berkeley, CA. The main DI-grading theater was originally built as the Jacobs Theatre. …
Next-Gen Cameras: Red Says Dragon Does Close to 20 Stops; Panavision Readies 65mm Comeback
There are no announced prices or delivery dates, just lots of buzz around new cameras from Red Digital Cinema and Panavision. First up is new info on Red's still forthcoming Dragon CMOS image sensor for the Epic. According to a Reduser.net …
Close Encounter with a Polar Bear
"Hey, bear!" Scottish wildlife filmmaker Gordon Buchanan got up close and just a little bit personal with an enormous polar bear in this clip from BBC doc The Polar Bear Family & Me. Safely ensconced in a sturdy perspex enclosure, …
Academy Announces Sci-Tech Award Winners
Visual effects technology, camera support and power systems, and cinema lenses have all been singled out for kudos by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The various tools and techniques will be honored at the annual Scientific and …
San Francisco production company Gunshop created this simple video in an effort to visualize the arrival of another new year. The frog's name, by the way, is Shela.