Category Archives: Post/Finishing

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Pretend to Demo Stereoid Tools Off-Site at NAB

Pretend, the new company helmed by Nothing Real founders Allen Edwards and Arnaud Hervas, will demonstrate updates to its new Stereoid software for manipulation of stereo 3D footage at NAB. Stereoid, a sub-$1000 tool for Mac and Linux platforms that … more »

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Review: HP StoreEver LTO-6 Ultrium 6250 Tape Drive

A few years ago, I wrote a piece for StudioDaily about my experiences using LTO-4 tape to archive important footage and projects. At the time, it felt like using LTO tape put me in a minority. Apart from large organizations … more »

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DVS Will Have Upgraded Clipster, SSD SpycerBox, and Entry-Level Venice Element at NAB

Rohde & Schwarz DVS is showing new versions of multiple products at NAB, including an upgrade that makes its Clipster DI workstation HFR 3D capable. The latest version of Clipster allows digital-cinema mastering at up to 96 fps, supporting the … more »

MTI Film Releases Cortex::Convey Transcoding System

MTI Film has released Cortex::Convey, a $995 transcoding engine for converting camera file formats, editorial files, and intermediate files to review, editorial, and intermediate formats as well as DVDs and Blu-rays. Cortex::Convey was first previewed as part of MTI's new … more »

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NVIDIA Ships Four New Quadro Graphics Cards

NVIDIA today announced four new Quadro graphics cards based on its Kepler architecture, reducing the cost of entry for pro users. Joining the top-of-the-line K5000 ($2249) in the Kepler desktop line-up are the Quadro K4000 ($1269), a high-end single-slot card … more »

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At Sea with the Intense, Immersive Doc Leviathan

Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel’s Leviathan raises the bar for documentary filmmaking: it’s closer to 2001: A Space Odyssey than the typical non-fiction film. Shot with a variety of video cameras, including the extremely small GoPro, it depicts life onboard … more »

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Technicolor’s Tony Dustin on Grading Silver Linings Playbook

Silver Linings Playbook, directed by David O. Russell, stars Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver. All of them are up for an Oscar this year, including the film for Best Picture. The acclaimed ensemble film was … more »

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A New York State of Post

According to a 2012 report by the Motion Picture Association of America, the film and television industry grew by nearly 25% in New York between 2008 and 2011 as a direct result of the Empire State Film Production Tax Credit. … more »

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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 … more »

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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 … more »