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Does Amazon’s Cloud Transcoding Service Make Sense for You?
Last week, Amazon released a cloud video transcoding service called Amazon Elastic Transcoder. The service is priced at a significant discount compared to other cloud transcoding services, such as Zencoder, that run on Amazon Web Services. Many in the twittersphere …
Assimilate Updates Scratch for Sony F5/F55, Canon C500, BMCC
Assimilate upgraded its Scratch and Scratch Lab DI software to support a raft of new camera formats, including Sony's F5 and F55, the Canon C500, and the Blackmagic Cinema Camera. Also new is an accelerated debayer method for Arriraw footage …
VFX Supervisor Bill Westenhofer on Life of Pi
Bill Westenhofer’s Oscar nomination for the visual effects in Life of Pi is his third Academy Award nomination and fourth BAFTA nomination. In 2008, he received a visual effects Oscar and a BAFTA award for his work on The Golden …
Grass Valley Updates Stratus Production System
Grass Valley announced a new release of its GV Stratus system, which it now describes as a "nonlinear production solution." It includes new automated rules-based file operations and Edius XS, a low-resolution proxy editor that shares most of the effects …
ITU Approves Low-Bandwidth HEVC/H.265 Video Coding Standard
The ITU has approved the new High Efficiency Video Coding standard (HEVC) for high-quality, low-bandwidth video. The new standard, also known as H.265, will require about half the bit rate of its predecessor, H.264/AVC, the ITU said. The H.265 standard …
Japan Slates First 4K Ultra HD Broadcast for 2014 World Cup
Japan is planning the world's first 4K Ultra HD television broadcast for July 2014, during the final rounds of the World Cup soccer tournament in Brazil. According to a report in The Asahi Shimbun, the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs …
Argentina’s Nunchaku Opens in L.A.
Buenos Aires-based production company Nunchaku is targeting the Hispanic market in the U.S. with the opening of a Los Angeles branch. The new West Coast office will be run by Executive Producer Leda Nasio. Before working for Nunchaku, Nasio, a …
3net Cuts Content Deal with Comcast Xfinity TV
Stereo-3D cable channel 3net expanded its reach today, signing a deal to provide three hours of programming each week to Comcast's Xfinity 3D TV channel. Some 3net programming will be carried on Xfinitiy On Demand "in the near future," 3net …
Noise Industries Releases Ripple Tools for FCP X
Noise Industries released the Ripple Tools package, a collection of 12 title-effect plug-ins including a 3D text generator, adjustment layers, guides and rulers, color wheels and effects filters, for Final Cut Pro X. FCP X users with FxFactory installed can …