Author Archives: Beth Marchant

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Digital Rapids Announces Upcoming Support for MPEG-DASH Specification

Digital Rapids – the trusted provider of innovative media transformation and workflow solutions for bringing content to wider audiences – today announced plans to support the MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) specification in upcoming new offerings in the company’s … more »

Chinese and Indian Companies to Buy Digital Domain for $30.2 Million in Joint Venture

The assets of the beleaguered Digital Domain VFX and animation company, dissolved in bankruptcy court following its Chapter 11 filing on September 11, will be jointly purchased by Beijing Galloping Horse Film Co., Ltd. and Reliance MediaWorks. The two companies … more »

Ultra

Blackmagic Design Bows UltraStudio 4K with Thunderbolt at IBC

Blackmagic Design made a lot of noise during IBC with the rollout of kit and variations on its now-shipping Cinema Camera. Among the company's many other introductions at the show was UltraStudio 4K, a Thunderbolt-driven single rack-mount capture and playback … more »

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Five Questions: Peter Vazquez, VFX Supervisor, Keep Me Posted

A lot of bandwidth—and breath—has been spent in the past several weeks debating the health of the visual effects industry. And while there is plenty of gloom and doom to go around, there are also a few bright spots, lens … more »

WestWing

Walk and Talk the Vote

The incomparable Allison Janney gives this walk-and-talk West Wing reunion spoof, actually a campaign ad, its gravitas and center. Michigan Supreme Court candidate Bridget Mary McCormack, sister of actress Mary McCormack (West Wing's Kate Harper), brought the entire cast together … more »

New Vimeo Pay Models Will Let Viewers Fill Your Jar

Vimeo, long a favorite haunt of the production and post community and the wider net of independent and emerging filmmakers, finally entered the pay-as-you-play market yesterday with the introduction of a new service called "Tip Jar." Working something like Kickstarter, … more »

LionCity

The Lion City

Is there room for yet another forced perspective short film that gives viewers a fresh take on a grand city? "The idea behind the extension of the tilt-shift technique is for focus and distance to be something the viewer can … more »

Hobbit

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Trailer #2

Today Peter Jackson posted, as promised, the second official theatrical trailer for his HFR rendering of Tolkien's original Middle-earth masterpiece. This is also Tolkien Week, so if this version of the trailer is not enough for you, head over to … more »

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Lincoln Trailer

Steven Spielberg. Janusz Kaminski. Daniel Day-Lewis. Abraham Lincoln. Need we say more? Actually, cast member Joseph Gordon-Levitt did during a Google+ live video chat last Thursday to promote the upcoming Spielberg-directed, Kaminiski-shot and Tony Kushner-retelling of Doris Kearns Goodwin's Pulitzer-winning Team … more »

Time

The Time Machine

This contemplative documentary by Mark Kendall profiles a watchmaker working in a quiet corner of New York City's Grand Central Terminal.