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How Healthy Is Our VFX Industry?

This might be the toughest, most complicated blog I've ever written. I've been concerned for some time now that something serious is ailing the VFX industry. Too many vintage and new VFX houses are going under, and not just here … more »

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Film’s Not Dead Yet: See The Master in 70mm

 It's another discouraging week for fans of celluloid, as word from Japan is that Fujifilm will stop making movie film early next year due to a general lack of demand. (The Japan Times reported that the company plans to take … more »

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Three Developments in Post I’m Watching (From Afar) at IBC

IBC has been going full swing for the last couple of days and there's been some cool products announced. It would be great to be in Amsterdam in person to walk the show floor, like StudioDaily Editor Beth Marchant, who … more »

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David Byrne Shows Off His Home Studio, Writes the Book on Music and Creativity

I'm about halfway through the new book by David Byrne, How Music Works. It covers David Byrne's work as a solo artist and with his old band, Talking Heads, in the most detail, but it's one of the best books … more »

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Five for Friday: August 31, 2012

Every weekday, we select headlines from around the web that speak in some way to the art and science of content creation. You'll see them if you're a subscriber to our Daily Fix e-letter or you can find them near … more »

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Useful Tools for Editors: Baselight for Avid is Ready

It was in back in April, at NAB, that FilmLight was showing their Baselight for Avid plug-in, part of the ever-growing Baselight Editions family of products. Baselight for Avid is a color-grading tool for Avid Symphony and Avid Media Composer … more »

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Heaven’s Gate: Masterwork or Big Fat Turkey?

Heaven's Gate had intimations of greatness when it premiered in 1980 and greatness, at least on one level, it did achieve: the film was a colossal commercial flop that mystified audiences and critics alike and destroyed D.W. Griffith and Charlie … more »

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Five for Friday: The Week’s Top News

Every weekday, we select headlines from around the web that speak in some way to the art and science of content creation. You'll see them if you're a subscriber to our Daily Fix e-letter, or you can find them near … more »

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Blackmagic Starts an Internet Forum, Offers Cinema Camera RAW Shots Ready for Grading

Taking a page from Apple, Avid,  Adobe, RED and others, the folks over at Blackmagic Design have launched their own Internet forum. Point your browser to forum.blackmagicdesign.com, complete a registration and you, too, can join in the discussion of all … more »

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Remembering Tony Scott

Yesterday was the day Tony Scott died. Today was the day the Internet came out in full force to support his legacy. I wish Scott were still alive to read his obituaries, which have been especially thoughtful and laudatory. In … more »