We caught up with Boris Yamnitsky, founder and CEO of Boris FX, to find out more about the latest version of the company's flagship plug-in suite, Boris Continuum Complete, its most comprehensive and popular collection to date.... »
The creator and executive producer of the new Comcast On-Demand series VidBlogger Nation talks about how he and his team at Simplynew Studios manage the creative, editorial and deliverables on a show that gets its rough cuts from featured video bloggers.... »
Throughout his long and varied career, Tim McGovern has been a radio engineer, a pioneering sound engineer at Skywalker Sound during its digital transition, and a designer of network facilities for the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. He has also learned more than a few valuable lessons in flexibility working as chief engineer, alternately, for George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola. When we talked to McGovern he was just two weeks into his new job as director of professional services at Advanced Systems Group, an installer and integrator of production, post and shared storage software and hardware in the Bay Area and Southern California.... »
Man Made Music's The Ledge is a boutique, custom-mixed catalog of the best rock, hip hop and electronica tracks from its archive. Like everything else Man Made Music does, it's definitely not stock music or even your typical production music catalog either; this VIP source also includes music supervision.... »
Dynasty FX co-founders Mark Hundahl, Leo Chen and Bruce Silverman spent two years researching Chinese visual effects and animation companies and say they "cherry-picked the best of the best" to form the Dynasty collective. Now, says Silverman, "We believe we've put together a best of all possible worlds solution. Our clients here in Hollywood are still dealing with a local visual effects company. It just has an incredibly long corridor."... »
The Performance Rights Act is a bill before the U.S. Congress that aims to provide "parity in radio performance rights under title 17, United States Code, and for other purposes." In other words, it would amend the current federal copyright law to give performers on sound recordings played over commercial radio stations equal rights to compensation. Right now, only satellite, Internet and cable radio stations pay these royalties to performers. Counterpoint Systems' CEO Amos Biegun considers the outcome.... »
Last summer, Adobe announced that it was working with search engine giants such as Google and Yahoo! to improve search results of Flash-based Web sites.... »
You think you have heavy computing requirements? Try keeping up with DreamWorks Animation. "We’ll always want more than more," explains Ed Leonard, DreamWorks Animation’s chief technology officer. "There’s never enough computing to satisfy the artistic appetite of our filmmakers."... »
