GoPro today announced the release of its new HD HERO2 camera. Twice as powerful as GoPro's original HD HERO camera, the HD HERO2 enables consumers and professionals to capture and broadcast their lives most exciting moments in professional quality 1080p HD video and 11 megapixel photos.... »
Blackmagic Design has updated DaVinci Resolve, its software-based grading platform that works with off-the-shelf control panels, to version 8.1. The free upgrade includes FCPX XML roundtrip editing and support of the new IIF-ACES file format developed by the Academy.... »
Christie will debut new hardware at Showeast next week that will allow movie theaters to show The Hobbit and the two Avatar prequels at the revolutionary higher frame rates favored by directors Peter Jackson and James Cameron using a single projector.... »
After completing extensive "under-the-hood" enhancements to the core suite of its effects plug-ins, Digieffects has launched Delirium v2.5, Damage v2.5 and Buena Depth Cue v2.5. The free updates for existing v2.0 users bring with them native support of Apple Final Cut Pro X inside select Delirium plug-ins, and native support of Adobe CS5.5 across the full Digieffects product line, including in the After Effects-only Buena Depth Cue.... »
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.... »
Sony Vegas Pro 11, which Sony Creative Software announced at IBC in September, is now shipping. The full Windows-only Sony Vegas Pro 11 Collection fuses 3D, HD and 3D editing tools with Blu-ray authoring software and improved rendering through OpenCL support by bundling DVD Architect Pro 5.2 and the Dolby Digital Professional Encoder with upgraded features in the popular editor.... »
On Wednesday, Canon opened the doors of a brand new facility aimed at its users in film and television. The Canon Hollywood Professional Technology and Support Center is located inside the Sunset Gower Studios lot, originally founded by Harry Cohn, at 6060 Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. The facility plans to offer "comprehensive product repair" for the many Canon 5Ds and 7Ds now in wide use throughout production.... »
GenArts today released Sapphire 6, a newly integrated version of its flagship plug-in suite for After Effects, Autodesk and Avid. For the first time, the suite includes a lens flare editor, 1,100+ presets and a preset browser to let you preview looks as you work.... »
At its MAX 2011 technology conference, Adobe today announced Creative Cloud, a service offering access to the Creative Suite of software as well as six new Android and iOS applications.... »
Noise Industries announced today that it has updated nearly a dozen of its most popular FxFactory-based plug-ins to be compatible with Apple's Final Cut Pro X, including its cornerstone FxFactory Pro suite of some 175 effects and software from FxFactory partners PHYX, SUGARfx, idustrial revolution, Dashwood Cinema and DVShade.... »
Colorists have long used cineSpace tools to preview and alter their color choices during DI, animation and VFX post and prepare final outputs for a variety of film and television displays. Assimilate announced today that when users add THX's cineSpace suite to a SCRATCH Six and SCRATCH Lab workflow, they will now see faster, optimized 64-bit performance across the pipeline.... »
Greyscale Gorilla has just released City Kit 1.2, an instant generator that produces some nicely textured and rendered cityscapes with minimal effort. You can also add in your own buildings, settings, window lights and sizes to customize your urban sprawl.... »
Automatic Duck co-founder Wes Plate is jumping to Adobe, joining the product marketing team to help improve compatibility between Premiere Pro and other apps that use the AAF and OMF project interchange formats.... »
