Delivering on a promise made in September during IBC, Blackmagic Design has opened up the DaVinci Resolve ecosystem to a wider range of hardware with the release of the Resolve 8.2 for Windows public beta.... »
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.... »
Hum, a music production facility in London founded by composer and managing director Joe Glasman, has introduced a new catalog called Humtracks containing several thousand high-production-value tracks designed for commercial, promo and trailer work.... »
The other shoe dropped a lot more quickly than anyone thought — Blackmagic Design today announced that the price of the Teranax VC100 universal frame synchronizer and format converter had dropped by about $70,000, to $19,995.... »
Paul Babin, SOC, toplines the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Awards of the Society of Camera Operators, to be handed out on Sunday, February 12, at the ATAS Goldenson Theater in North Hollywood. Babin will receive the group's award for Lifetime Achievement as Camera Operator.... »
Hugo is a loving homage to the early craft of filmmaking, but it is the product of very contemporary techniques. It's among the first feature films to be shot with the Arri Alexa camera. It was the first stereo-3D production for Scorsese and cinematographer Robert Richardson. And it embraced a trend in workflow that is seeing significant amounts of post-production work actually being performed near the set.... »
Benita Raphan is a director and designer — and a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts — whose work has been featured on HBO, The Sundance Channel, PBS, and Channel Four Television, and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She leveraged a background as an art director in the fashion industry to inform her career as a filmmaker.... »
The early collaborations between cinematographer Tim Orr and director David Gordon Green were poetic, independent dramas with minimal budgets. More recently, they've made a successful string of studio comedies. "We try to have fun with it while breaking conventions," Orr says.... »
