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How Berkeley’s Colorflow Graded a Sundance Award-Winning Doc
The waterway referred to in the title of A River Changes Course is the Tonle Sap in Cambodia whose pattern of altering its course twice each year has shaped the lives of local people for centuries. In producer-director Kalyanee Mam’s …
Fox Sports to Deploy Gyro-Cam, Super Zoom 4K for NASCAR
When Fox Sports kicks off its coverage of Speedweeks in Daytona this weekend, it'll bring some camera innovations to Daytona International Speedway. The "Gyro-Cam" is a gyro-stabilized camera that rotates to remain level with the horizon at all times, even …
Cinematographer Tristan Oliver on ParaNorman
Director of photography Tristan Oliver is one of a handful of cinematographers who have shot the tiny characters and small sets in stop-frame animated films. His recent work at Laika on ParaNorman contributed to that film’s Oscar nomination for Best …
Archiving Systems Leveraging LTO-6 Come Online
LTO-6 arrived late in 2012, when manufacturers started shipping cartridges and drives that could use the new, higher capacity tape format. in the following weeks and months, vendors began supporting the updated format with new, LTO-6-tuned iterations of archiving appliances …
Oscar-Nominated VFX Supe Richard Stammers Talks Prometheus
Richard Stammers, nominated for an Oscar for his VFX work on Prometheus, joined the Moving Picture Company (MPC) as a digital compositor for the 2001 film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone after working as a compositor and visual effects supervisor …
Review: Panasonic AG-HPX600 P2 Camcorder
The Panasonic AG-HPX600 is not so much a new camera as it is a new way of working. Taking advantage of a LAN or Wi-Fi connection, the new camera-server enables remote screening and collaboration on a level we haven’t experienced …
Rhythm & Hues to File for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Animation studio Rhythm & Hues, which is widely expected to win an Oscar this year for Life of Pi, is reportedly filing today for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The El Segundo, CA-based company is said to have warned workers that …
Editor Adam Pertofsky on Cutting First “Got Milk?” Super Bowl Ad
Super Bowl ads may be best known for peddling chips, beer and body parts, but that didn't stop America's Milk Processors, purveyors of the long-running "Got Milk?" campaign from giving it their best shot. Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights, Battleship) …
Nice Shoes Colorist Chris Ryan on “Asad”
For writer/director Bryan Buckley, it was time to do something different. A commercial director and co-founder of the production company Hungry Man, Buckley has put Martin Scorsese and Suri together in the back of cab for Apple, Ellen DeGeneres together …