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Boot Your Mac Pro in a Flash from SSDs
Hanging onto your Mac Pro for dear life — at least until Apple makes good on its promised 2013 unveiling of a new pro workstation line-up? Sonnet Technologies has one more way for you to turbo-charge that system. Sonnet …
Starting with the Super Bowl, NetApp Carries Some Pigskin for the NFL
NetApp entered a multi-year relationship with the NFL in December that will involve the management of massive amounts of game-related data for the football league. One of the first projects was Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans, where NetApp deployed …
Avid Names Louis Hernandez CEO, Replacing Gary Greenfield
Avid's board of directors today named Louis Hernandez the company's new president and CEO, effective immediately. Hernandez, who has been on Avid's board since 2008, replaces Gary Greenfield in both positions. In a statement released by Avid, Hernandez said Greenfield …
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 …
Roger Deakins Wins Top ASC Award for Skyfall
Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC, won the ASC award for best feature film cinematography for his work on Skyfall at the American Society of Cinematographers Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Hollywood last night. In the one-hour TV episodic category, ASC announced …
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 …
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 …