L.A.'s Bunim/Murray Productions, who many credit with defining a new era of reality programming on television, has announced that all of its 2012 programming, including Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Project Runway, will be cut on Avid Media Composer 6 and Symphony 6. The new NLE pipeline will replace Final Cut Pro systems currently in use at the company.... »
In their combined efforts to help make continued training easily accessible to professionals working in the broadcast industry, Class on Demand, a provider of professional educational products for creative markets, is pleased to announce its new partnership with the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians – Communications Workers of America (NABET-CWA).... »
Leading entertainment motion graphics firm Devastudios has created the new animated 100th Anniversary logo for Paramount Pictures, it was announced today by Devastudios President and Creative Director John Berlin. Produced stereoscopically at a resolution of 4k, the new logo premieres in theaters worldwide with the release of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol.... »
The Digital Domain Media Group today announced a strategic partnership with financing, production, and distribution firm Beijing Galloping Horse Film Co. that will be Digital Domain's first expansion into the Chinese film market.... »
Composer Greg Allan, who launched his latest company, Sonixphere, this summer, and Doug Bossi, owner and lead composer at iSpy Music, are collaborating again for Discovery's reality series, Flying Wild Alaska, now in its second season.... »
P+S Technik is setting up shop in Hollywood, with a new North American support center taking over sales and service of P+S products in North America.... »
Blackmagic Design said this morning that it has purchased Teranex, a provider of high-quality video-processing products for broadcast and post-production.... »
Adobe announced yesterday that it is abandoning development of Flash on mobile devices, essentially ceding the standards war over content for mobile platforms to HTML5. At the same time, the company announced a restructuring that will eliminate 750 jobs, mostly in North America and Europe.... »
Assimilate has followed up the spring launch of it $4995 SCRATCH Lab with a new way to buy the on-set and VFX dailies suite. Customers can now download the software 24/7 from a specialized online store within Assimilate's main web site.... »
In a bid to up the quality of digital projection in its theaters, IMAX has agreed to license "certain exclusive rights" to laser-projection technology from Kodak that it says will improve images from both 2D and 3D projection on IMAX screens over 80 feet in size, or in the dome configuration. IMAX will pay royalties to Kodak, but further terms of the deal were not disclosed.... »
After 37 years of operation as an independent Hollywood post house, The Post Group is no more. A restructuring announced today will bring all operations of The Post Group and its sister company iO Film under the purview of Lightning Media and system rental company Runway.... »
ARRI Rental Germany acquired Panther Rental Prague on 1 August 2011. Panther transferred its entire Czech rental business including personnel, equipment and customer relations to ARRI Rental.... »
CAMERON | PACE Group, the global leader in 3D technology, and Grass Valley, the premiere video technology solutions company, have formed a strategic alliance to accelerate the broadcast industry's transformation to 3D stereoscopic production.... »
