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Extreme Music Debuts Cloud-Based Customix Tool
Responding to longstanding requests from music supervisors that it make original stems available to allow easy remixing of production music tracks, Extreme Music has launched Customix, a new tool that it says will let music supervisors and video editors take …

FirstCom Partners with Sound Editor Rob Nokes on FX Library
At NAB, FirstCom Music is officially launching a new site, FirstCom SoundFX, in conjunction with sound editor Rob Nokes (Bones, Snow White and the Huntsman, Battleship). The site will offer FirstCom's production clients access to a new library of more …

Vimeo Adds On Demand Paid-Viewing Option
Vimeo revealed the backbone of its Creator Services strategy at South by Southwest today, announcing Vimeo On Demand, an open e-commerce platform allowing content creators to sell access to videos hosted on Vimeo. Content creators retain 90 percent of revenues; …
Lucien Yang on Rebooting VH1′s Best Week Ever Openers
Lucien Yang, art director at Nice Shoes, began working with VH1 as a freelancer in 2007 and had done a few smaller projects with the MTV sister channel after landing at the New York-based creative design and post facility. His …

JVC Announces New $2000 Shoulder-Mount GY-HM70
Pushing for more cost-effective HD acquisition, JVC today announced the GY-HM70, a shoulder-mount HD camcorder that shoots at resolutions up to 1080/60p and records AVC HD footage to dual SDHC/SDXC memory cards at up to 28 Mbps. The camera lists …

Getting All the Angles on an Intimate Paul McCartney Gig
When audiences first saw Paul McCartney on television in 1963, he was singing in black and white. 50 years later, he still is. The former Beatle’s latest album of old standards, Kisses on the Bottom, which recently won a Grammy, …
MTI Film Releases Cortex::Convey Transcoding System
MTI Film has released Cortex::Convey, a $995 transcoding engine for converting camera file formats, editorial files, and intermediate files to review, editorial, and intermediate formats as well as DVDs and Blu-rays. Cortex::Convey was first previewed as part of MTI's new …

Hive-FX’s Jim Clark and Guy Cappiccie on Seamless Morphs for Grimm
NBC's Grimm, which resumes its second season on March 8, revolves around a Portland homicide detective descended from an elite line of criminal profilers dating back to the time of the Brothers Grimm. The detective must tread carefully between his real beat …

NVIDIA Ships Four New Quadro Graphics Cards
NVIDIA today announced four new Quadro graphics cards based on its Kepler architecture, reducing the cost of entry for pro users. Joining the top-of-the-line K5000 ($2249) in the Kepler desktop line-up are the Quadro K4000 ($1269), a high-end single-slot card …

Director Ang Lee and Editor Tim Squyres on Life of Pi
After finishing Life of Pi, his eleventh film made in collaboration with editor Tim Squyres, ACE, Oscar-winning director Ang Lee's ideas about the role of the film editor are changing. "The editor for a movie like this is not just [doing] …