Author Archives: Debra Kaufman

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Open House at The Post Group

The Post Group had an open house to show off its array of file-based post services, which include TV show finishing, restoration/remastering and feature film digital intermediates. The company is one of several under the umbrella of Post Start 2 … more »

Film critic camp for tweens

If your tween-aged child has a hankering to be the next Roger Ebert, there’s a camp for that. KIDS FIRST!, which evaluates, rates and endorses children’s films, DVDs, CDs, TV shows and games using volunteer, community-based juries of adults and … more »

Avid Execs At Editors Lounge: MC5 is a game changer

Avid execs Gary Greenfield, CEO, and Kirk Arnold, COO, attended Editors Lounge at AlphaDogs Editorial in Burbank to engage editors in discussion about Avid products and what the company needs to do to keep meeting their needs and expectations. The … more »

ABC Disney’s 4th Annual Fellowship Launches

ABC Fellowship director Frank Gonzalez If you live in Los Angeles or thereabouts, you’ll have a chance on May 23rd to see if you’ve got what it takes to make it in Hollywood. The ABC Disney Fellowship looks all over … more »

Nothin on You: Interactive Music Video from Kleiner & Therapy

Want to be in a music video? To be in the chart topping song “Nothin on You,” all it takes is a computer and a photo thanks to a cool interactive micro-site and mini-application that post boutique Therapy Studios created … more »

Voice Over There: On-Location ADR Recording

On the Universal Studios lot, the new NBC hit series Parenthood is shooting on Stage 44. In between takes, one-by-one, the actors walk 200 feet from the stage and into Voice Over There‘s compact trailer. There, when the door is … more »

FilmLight Debuts Lower Cost Baselight

At NAB 2010, FilmLight—which  manufactures film scanning, color grading and color management systems—came to Vegas with the glow of having just won four Sci-Tech Awards from AMPAS (the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences). Displaying its wares at the Renaissance … more »

NAB Panel Asks: Worldwide 3D Standards?

Las Vegas, NV–At NAB 2010, EBU deputy director David Wood gathered together a panel to discuss the prospects of a worldwide 3D standard. If you wish to read no farther, the bottom line conclusion, as wryly put by Motorola senior … more »

ARRI Unveils Alexa

Los Angeles, CA, April 6,2010–At the Director’s Guild of America, ARRI unveiled Alexa, which the company is calling “the first model in a new generation of digital cameras for feature, television, commercial, documentary, music video production and more.” A prototype … more »

Michael Taylor is New CEO at Rising Sun Pictures

Michael Taylor, who was former COO/VFX for Ascent Media and served in executive positions at Riot, Digital Domain and Rhythn and Hues, was just named Chief Executive Officer of RIsing Sun Pictures, a digital effects facility in Adelaide, Australia. Rising … more »