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| 01|15|2009 |
By Debra Kaufman
The Spirit, directed by Frank Miller and based on the Will Eisner comic book series, may have been disappointing at the box office, but it excelled at finding new ways to integrate digital production and post. That’s thanks to The Orphanage, a VFX/production company in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and its co-founder Stu Maschwitz, the movie’s second unit director and visual effects supervisor.... »
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| 11|20|2008 |
By Bryant Frazer
It is possible to work with .R3D files even without formal support in your editorial tools — just work out the conversion to DPX files.... »
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| 11|18|2008 |
By Bryant Frazer
When Solid State Logic (SSL) looked at reconfiguring its state-of-the-art demonstration area for its high-end audio equipment, it saw an opportunity to bring its facility’s wiring for HD video and multichannel audio into the 21st century. Using a combination of design ingenuity, technology savvy, and energy awareness, SSL ended up with a more efficient, more flexible facility. We asked Niall Feldman for more details on the new installation.... »
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| 11|18|2008 |
By Bryant Frazer
The X881 is spec’d to deliver up to 64 concurrent HD video streams.... »
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| 09|11|2008 |
By Bryant Frazer
Armed with Red camera number 610, The Olson Brothers — that's Obin and Amariah, of Wilmington, NC's DV3 Productions — have just wrapped post on what's almost certainly the first Red production to use the camera's brand-new Adobe Premiere workflow.... »
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| 08|28|2008 |
By Bryant Frazer
Co-producers Richard Shaw and Lee Cantalon have been working all their hip-hop connections to collect material for The Wordz from the Street, a collection of original music based on the core teachings of Christianity.... »
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| 07|10|2008 |
By Bryant Frazer
The last time F&V spoke with Fred Meyers, he was helping Star Wars - Episode III: Revenge of the Sith get up to speed with HDCAM SR 4:4:4 recording. More recently, he's been working behind the scenes on Journey to the Center of the Earth. We asked him to answer some general questions about the workings of a successful 3D shoot.... »
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| 06|26|2008 |
By Bryant Frazer
Right now, Stereoscope is a post and DI facility with 3D capabilities, but in the near future Cummins plans to have a full-bore production and post company running live-action 3D movies through the pipeline.... »
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| 06|12|2008 |
By Bryant Frazer
When M2G Media in Irvine, CA, was hired by a global marketing firm to create a video piece introducing the new design for the 2009 Nissan Maxima at the New York Auto Show, M2G producer Jeff Granbery saw Red.... »
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| 05|08|2008 |
By Bryant Frazer
It's been known for a while now (at least since the 2005 release of Chicken Little) that animated films do especially well in 3D versions. But the success of recent 3D projects like U23D, and especially Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour — which opened to a stunning $31 million weekend on a relative handful of digital 3D screens in the U.S. — has many in Hollywood taking another look at the feasibility of 3D for live action, especially on a tight budget.... »
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