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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 … more »

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Evolve Digital Cinema Baits the Hook for NatGeo’s Wicked Tuna, Season 2

Brothers Joel and Jesse Edwards run their boutique production company Evolve Digital Cinema in Chicago as one tight ship, often handling full production and remote or in suite editorial, graphics and color grading for a single client. National Geographic Channel, … more »

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Kenny Stoff on Shooting Dave Grohl’s Sundance Doc Sound City

Housed in a pair of nondescript warehouse structures in Van Nuys, California, Sound City Studios hardly had the outward appearance of a rock and roll Mecca. Yet for 40 years, it served as the launching pad for some of the … more »

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MPSE Career Achievement Honoree John Roesch on a Life in Sound

Next month, the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) will present John Roesch with its 2013 Career Achievement Award. It’s a crowning achievement for the veteran Foley artist, whose career spans more than three decades and over 400 films, including such … more »

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Gravity Hires VFX Supervisor Alex Lemke

Gravity named Alex Lemke its new senior VFX supervisor and compositing supervisor for films and commercials. Lemke was previously at Framestore, where he worked for Joel and Ethan Coen as VFX supervisor for Inside Llewyn Davis, and for director David Chase … more »

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PreSonus Announces PRM1 Reference Mic

PreSonus announced the PRM1 reference microphone as a match for the free Virtual StudioLive control software it provides for its StudioLive 24.4.2 and 16.4.2 digital mixers. Connected to a mixer's Talkback input, the mic will allow users to view the … more »

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Canon Announces Two More Cinema EOS Prime Lenses

Canon went wide and long with the announcement this week of two more EF-mount prime lenses for its Cinema EOS System. The new CN-E14mm T3.1 L F and CN-E135mm T2.2 L F lenses will extend the line-up on both ends … more »

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Nikon’s D800 Gets Down and Dirty for Dexter

Dexter, Showtime's award-winning series that sprang from the 2004 novel, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, entered its seventh season last fall with a renewed perspective on the tale of a forensics analyst who also happens to be a vigilante serial killer. Says … more »

Q&A: Cache-A’s Mark Ostlund on LTO-6 Tape Archives

Cache-A today shipped new versions of its Pro-Cache, Power-Cache and Library24 and Library48 automation systems that support the new LTO-6 tape format, which substantially boosts capacity and data rates for archiving to data tape. The new Prime-Cache6 desktop appliance has … more »

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Colorflow Opens 7500-Square-Foot Berkeley Facility

Color-grading facility Colorflow opened a new 7500-square-foot studio with three grading and finishing suites and a DCI-compliant 22-seat DI theater at the Saul Zaentz Media Center in Berkeley, CA. The main DI-grading theater was originally built as the Jacobs Theatre. … more »