Emmy award-winning Toon Boom Animation Inc.
today announced its partnership with Automatic Duck to bring the
editing process to the next level. Toon Boom Storyboard Pro exports
animatics in the AAF file format and Pro Import FCP takes them
straight into Final Cut Pro, with automated relink of video files and
unlimited audio tracks.
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Responding to Hollywood's growing demand for 3D production and post-production, Stereoscope has opened its doors to serve the creative community. Equipped with the new version of Quantel's Pablo 4K color grading system, which can handle real-time stereoscopic post-production, the studio has been designed from the ground up to provide a full range of stereo3D digital content services, from development through distribution.... »
Introduced as an optional module for SpeedGrade in
2007, IRIDAS will now offer its DualStream stereo technology standard with
the 2008 releases of SpeedGrade HD, SpeedGrade XR, and SpeedGrade DI.
SpeedGrade with DualStream provides full stereoscopic functionality allowing
colorists to apply inter-ocular adjustments, primary and secondaries
grading, reframing, mask animation, and more - all in a real-time stereo
viewing environment.
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BOXX Technologies Inc., an innovator in high-performance computing systems for visual effects (VFX) and design professionals, today released a Special Edition 3DBOXX workstation that delivers unmatched dual- processor workstation performance by maximizing the power of two Intel Core 2 Extreme processors. Benchmarks computed by BOXX Labs indicate 23.2 percent more performance on Cinebench 10 for the Special Edition compared to the world-record setting 3DBOXX 8400SE.* ... »
This technique is a simplified play on color isolation made popular by such films as Pleasantville and Sin City. It is, nonetheless, a powerful tool to command the attention of an unsuspecting audience.... »
Editor Keith Olwell and Executive Producer Elizabeth Kiehner have teamed up to helm Proton Studio, a full service editorial resource with expanded creative capabilities including sound design and finishing, as well as a road-worthy, full capacity studio for working remote situations. Located in the heart of Chelsea, Proton first project is a national campaign for TomTom out of Boathouse in Waltham, Massachusetts. Additional editor signings are forthcoming.... »
Wes Plate, founder of Automatic Duck, demonstrates the new version 4 of Pro Export FCP which allows Final Cut Pro sequences to be exported into the Avid. ... »
James Mathers, cinematographer and president of the Digital Cinema Society, talks with Paul Bamborough, co-founder of Codex Digital, about the new Codex Digital Portable recorder as well as the soon-to-be released version of the Transfer Station to handle all the deliverables of the RAW footage. ... »
At NAB a company called Maximum Throughput, known for its Sledgehammer network storage arrays, showed a server-based workgroup editing solution called MAXedit Server Edition that allows small broadcasters to cost-effectively set-up multi-seat HD/SD editing workgroups. While the software is no substitute for an Avid, Quantel or Thomson workgroup solution—as Giovanni Tagliamonti, the company’s chief executive officer will quickly tell you—it does allow someone to use standard laptops and desktop PCs to handle frame-accurate editing of compressed or uncompressed multi-resolution content.... »
James Mathers, cinematographer and president of the Digital Cinema Society, talks with Michael Coleman, product manager for Adobe After Effects, about Adobe's Cinima DNG initiative to create and open standard for RAW digital cinema files. ... »
In an effort
to optimize support for RED Digital Cinema workflows in post production,
AJA Video is adding RED-specific video outputs for some of the unique frame
sizes that the REDALERT and REDCINE software applications can produce.
This additional support for RED will be included in the version 6.0
software driver for the award-winning KONA 3 video card. The version 6.0
software update will be a free upgrade for KONA 3 users, and will be
available for download in late May of 2008.
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Avid Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: AVID) today unveiled a new family of professional digital video editing systems that offer greater speed, responsiveness, reliability and price-performance – delivering an exceptional HD editing experience to media professionals. The new lineup, which includes next-generation versions of Avid® Media Composer® (v3.0), NewsCutter® (v7.0), and Symphony™ (v3.0) software, as well as new hardware configurations, Mojo DX and Nitris® DX, maximizes real-time performance for customers by intelligently using all available computing bandwidth to evenly disperse the processing of video and effects across the entire system. The result is an extremely fast and responsive HD editing experience that provides greater creative freedom and flexibility to end-users.... »
dobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today
announced that it plans to lead an initiative to define an industry-wide open file format for digital cinema files to
streamline workflows and help ensure easy archiving and exchange. Adobe intends to leverage its successful Digital
Negative Specification (DNG) file format as a foundation, and Adobe plans to work with a broad coalition of leading
camera manufacturers, including Panavision, Silicon Imaging, Dalsa, Weisscam, and ARRI—along with software
vendors, including Iridas and The Foundry, and codec provider CineForm—to define the requirements for an open,
publicly documented file format that it plans to call CinemaDNG. ... »
Here at NAB, Panasonic introduces the BT-LH1760 17” LCD production monitor that utilizes a 120 Hz double speed drive and an advanced IPS panel to provide unsurpassed performance quality in a high definition, professional LCD display. Equipped with a new vectorscope function as well as built-in waveform monitor, the new LH1760 delivers value added features with exceptional color reproduction, motion handling, and latency characteristics formerly found only in CRT monitors. ... »
At the AlphaDogs Editors Lounge a panel of editors discuss what they are going to be looking for at NAB, what Avid's and Apple's absence means, their search for a CRT replacement, Apple Color vs Avid Symphony and the state of storage and how it is and is not meeting the needs of today. ... »
