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| 05|04|2010 |
By Bryant Frazer
In January, when word got out that Warner Bros. had made a last-minute decision to convert its upcoming spring tentpole, Clash of the Titans, into 3D stereo — pushing the release back one measly week in the process — eyebrows were raised across the Hollywood post community. The studio was, essentially, turning on a dime, giving one of its biggest releases for the year a complete digital overhaul in less than 10 weeks. To complete the work on that kind of schedule, the studio turned to Prime Focus, which had already been building a 3D-conversion pipeline with an eye on feature-film conversion, though it hadn't yet ramped up to complete a full project.... »
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| 01|14|2010 |
By Bryant Frazer
Modern Videofilm installed a Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve system at the Fox lot in Century City, then networked it via optical fiber to the Modern offices in Glendale, 56 miles away.... »
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| 09|24|2009 |
By Debra Kaufman
Because the editing team was so used to Avid Unity as a way to collaborate and share editing duties, it was a rude shock to lose that easy capability.... »
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| 09|10|2009 |
By Bryant Frazer
Offhollywood made a play for the New York market in a big way last month, when it expanded its operations to include a full-fledged camera rental and service facility dedicated to the Red Digital Cinema Camera.... »
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| 08|19|2009 |
By Bryant Frazer
Production company Creative Media Group (CMG; Orem, UT) switched to shared-storage as a self-defensive measure as the task of managing multiple FireWire drives among editors and graphic designers became ever more onerous.... »
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| 08|19|2009 |
By Bryant Frazer
Philo Television, the post-production division of the marketing and direct-response production company Lieberman Productions, recently acquired an Archion Synergy HDu system to extend its existing Avid Unity MediaNetwork. StudioBytes asked him for a little more detail about the technology.... »
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| 07|01|2009 |
By Debra Kaufman
A turning point in the career of Public Enemies producer Bryan Carroll was when he worked as a film and visual effects editor for James Cameron on Titanic. “That’s what sparked my interest into shooting movies digitally from script to screen,” he said.... »
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| 06|25|2009 |
By Bryant Frazer
As Lionsgate switches shows including Mad Men and Crash to the new D3 System, the company is moving from distributing dailies on DVD to an all-streaming solution. The new workflow is definitely greener and probably more secure, and it's also reduced headaches for Williams.... »
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| 04|30|2009 |
By Bryant Frazer
New York’s Mega Playground is introducing DP Dailies, a new HD dailies workflow built around Digital Film Technology’s Bones Dailies system that it says can save feature-film producers more than $100,000 over a conventional, two-pass dailies-and-DI workflow on a production shooting more than 250,000 feet of 35mm footage.... »
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| 03|26|2009 |
By Debra Kaufman
The popular medical TV episodic ER is winding down after a 15-year run. But it’s going out with a bang: after the entire run was filmed on 4-perf 35mm, the last seven episodes were shot with the Red camera.... »
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