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How Douglas Trumbull Made a 4K Film in 120 fps Stereo 3D

JMR Electronics has released some information on an ambitious new project undertaken by filmmaker Douglas Trumbull, whose work on 2001: A Space Odyssey and Blade Runner is the stuff of VFX legend. It's a 10-minute high-frame-rate short titled UFOTOG — … more »

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Adobe Updates Creative Cloud Applications

Adobe today launched the highly anticipated — and controversial — first Creative Cloud-only update to 15 of its desktop applications, including Premiere Pro, After Effects, SpeedGrade, and Photoshop. The new versions of the apps are available only to Creative Cloud … more »

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Sohonet Launches Cloud Storage Service

Sohonet launched a new service offering private cloud storage for the media and entertianment industry. The Sohonet Media Storage platform offers users anywhere from a terabyte to multiple petabytes of easily scalable storage, accessed through the Sohonet Media Network at … more »

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Randy Coonfield on Grading the Red-Shot Revival of Arrested Development

For die-hard Arrested Development fans, the long-awaited new season of Netflix's "Semi-Original Series" wasn't so much a blast from the past but a delectable smorgasbord of known but newly mutating parts. The beloved cast has gotten older and wilder, show … more »

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Sony’s Sub-$10,000 PMW-300 Is the EX3′s Successor

Sony announced the PMW-300 camcorder, refreshing its XDCAM line-up with a semi-shoulder mount camera that uses the same EX-mount interchangeable lens system as the PMW-EX3, meaning both 1/2-inch and 2/3-inch lenses can be used. And it adds the broadcast-friendly 50 Mbps MPEG … more »

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ESPN Pulls the Plug on 3D Channel

3D TV in the U.S. suffered a body blow today as news broke that ESPN plans to shut down its three-year-old ESPN 3D network by year's end. ESPN blamed "limited viewer adoption of 3D services" for the move and said … more »

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JVC Ready to Ship 84-Inch 60p 4K Monitors

JVC said today that its new 84-inch 4K (3840×2160) 60p monitors will start shipping later this month. The displays are designed for installation in video production studios and trucks, medical imaging, and corporate environments.  "4K production is on the rise," … more »

Bright Announces New Astella BrightDrive Servers

Bright Technologies announced two new all-in-one BrightDrive servers, the Astella Dx and the Astella Nx. The two new products, aimed at post and broadcast operations, complement the original Astella fibre-channel "server in a box," which is being rebranded as the … more »

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Gamma & Density’s ExpressColor iOS Tool Now Available

Gamma & Density (G&D) launched ExpressColor, a new $2.99 iOS 6 app for the iPhone and iPad that allows users to import a still frame, set a look using color wheels and presets, and export the graded image along with … more »

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The Foundry’s Mari Is Coming to the Mac

The Foundry's 3D painting tool, MARI, will be coming to OS X in 2013, the company announced during Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) yesterday. If you'd like to be one of the first to use Mari on your Mac, The … more »