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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 …
Q&A: Creative Director Federico Ponce on Making Movie Trailers
You could say creative director Federico Ponce has one of the most important jobs on Iron Man 3, even though he didn't work on the film. He helped design something else that's very important to the film's fortunes — its …
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 …
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 …
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 …