With the RED phenomenon, the DR Group has been testing the workflow to come up with the best, most efficient solutions for RED. We spoke with Lowell Kay, founder of the DR Group, about his company's move to handle RED workflows and what their tests have found so far. ... »
Smoke & Mirrors New York proudly welcomes award-winning VFX Supervisor/Senior Flame Artist, Kirk Balden into the fold. Most recently, Kirk was a VFX supervisor/Flame/Smoke artist at LA-based A52 where he worked on notable projects for Microsoft, Nike, Lexus, Jeep and the main title sequence for HBO's Emmy nominated original program, Rome. Prior, Kirk permalanced as a Fire/Inferno artist at Sea Level, Venice working on Superbowl spot Visa Snowball, Gillette, and Toyota to name a few. In Addition, Kirk has held posts at Hydraulx (Santa Monica), Ring of Fire (Hollywood), and Sony Pictures Imageworks (Culver City). ... »
Rhinofx recently signed VFX Supervisor/Artist Jim Rider to reinforce their growing feature film division. With considerable experience across the entire realm of effects projects, Rider's talents include motion control, Flame, compositing, and animation. Jim is able to effectively synthesize his effects expertise, evidenced by a body of work that includes a long line of significant feature film projects including Across the Universe, Evan Almighty, Chicago, and Titanic. Rhinofx has also generated an impressive list of recent film credits, which include Perfect Stranger, The Nanny Diaries, and the current production of the Dreamworks/Paramount venture, Ghost Town. ... »
Recording and mixing audio on set for reality television is arguably the most challenging situations for a sound department. It takes the unpredictability of documentary shoots, multiplies that many times over with separate lines of action occurring simultaneously and then puts it all under a pressure cooker of time and budget constraints. ... »
In its ongoing commitment to provide career-advancing education, Panasonic has announced today additional dates and cities for its popular P2 Workflow Workshops training program. ... »
Working from her New York apartment, Nina Paley expanded the scope of a series of shorts she had been working on (they set stories from an ancient Hindu epic, the Ramayana, to the tunes of early jazz singer Annette Hanshaw) to feature-film length. Talk about a personal film.... »
When the visual effects crew for Speed Racer arrived in Berlin four months ahead of production, they put systems into play that would rock filmmaking. With visual effects occupying an increasing amount of screen time in films, tasks formerly thought of as post production have moved further upstream and visual effects artists have taken on a more integral role in production. Speed Racer drives that notion to the extreme. “On Speed Racer, I believe post-production began on the very first day,” says John Gaeta, co-visual effects supervisor.... »
Hitachi Kokusai Electric America, Ltd. will be on hand at InfoComm 2008 (Booth #C914) to show two high-performance HDTV cameras—from Hitachi’s broad portfolio of products—that serve a wide range of professional A/V applications. InfoComm is being held from June 14-18, 2008 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
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Noise Industries, developer of visual
effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast markets, today
announced that partner Idustrial Revolution
(www.idustrialrevolution.com) has released CoverFlux, a brand new –
FREE - FxFactory FxPack plug-in for Apple Final Cut Studio 2.0 and
Apple Final Cut Express 4.0 applications. Much like the image carousel
effect seen in Apple iTunes® and the new Apple OS X 10.5 Leopard®
finder, CoverFlux dynamically displays user selected images in 3D
proportionally fanned across the screen with reflections and
transparencies. The CoverFlux FxPack automatically calculates the
stack and fan while providing comprehensive controls for adjusting
about any element of the display including, perspective, animation,
and text.
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Redrock Micro unveils the highly anticipated microMatteBox and microShoulderMount accessories for digital filmmakers that deliver cinema-grade light management and camera support at revolutionary prices. These new products build on Redrock’s growing family of cinema accessories that enable digital filmmakers to create dramatic film-style footage using standard digital video cameras. ... »
Focus Enhancements came out with the fifth generation of its FS-5 digital recorder with a number of enhancements, like more storage capacity and additional file format support. But the big news is the addition of the wireless dongle allowing the recorder to interface with a Web page and wireless devices to track and input metadata while the camera records. Yes, you can now enter metadata for your clips with your iPhone.... »
Shot mostly handheld with two JVC GY-HD250U HD camcorders, the movie features an impressive cast and a crazy plot about doing what it takes to become U.S. president.... »
Schneider Optics has introduced HD Classic Soft filters, created in response to requests for better softening filters for small-format high-definition camcorders.... »
HPVIDEO, a maker of motion-picture production equipment, has incorporated Fast Forward Video’s board-level Recon DVR board-level digital video recorder (DVR) into its new Briefcase portable video playback system.... »
When trying to select the right camera for your next project, perhaps it’s time to throw out all of the specs about pixel counts and instead look at the difference between optical sampling from the camera’s imagers (where resolution is totally determined) and its digital sampling.... »
