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Director Paul WS Anderson Helms First Commercial

Paul WS Anderson, known for the Resident Evil franchise, has dived into commercials with an outing for Volkswagen. The new VW Golf GTI commercial-oddly enough aimed at “advanced” drivers over the age of 21–was produced through The Mob Film Company … more »

USC Unveils New School of Cinematic Arts Campus

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas were on hand to dedicate the new 137,000-square foot main campus for USC’s new cinematic arts program, along with Dean Elizabeth M. Daley. The opening marks the 80th anniversary since USC and the Academy of … more »

RED to (kinda) attend NAB after all, with all the next new changes, maybe

Anyone who has been to NAB for the last two years has undoubtedly seen the big red RED tent dwarfing the show floor, with a somewhat constant line of people waiting to get inside behind a couple of big, burly bouncers guarding … more »

A Look at Silicon Imaging's SI-2K

At BandPro in Burbank, the Digital Cinema Society held its meeting to take a closer look at Silicon Imaging’s SI-2K. BandPro CTO Michael Bravin said that although the company has been a Sony-only house for a long time, they wanted … more »

A Look at Silicon Imaging’s SI-2K

At BandPro in Burbank, the Digital Cinema Society held its meeting to take a closer look at Silicon Imaging’s SI-2K. BandPro CTO Michael Bravin said that although the company has been a Sony-only house for a long time, they wanted … more »

HD Expo Looks at the Making of Indie Films

At HD Expo (now rebranded as createasphere), considered the issues of financing, producing and distributing the indie film. The panel, moderated by journalist Carolyn Giardina, included Chris Taylor, director/producer/cinematographer of documentary Food Fight; writer/producer Dirk Blackman who made Outlander for … more »

Online Video: Codecs, Encoding and Compression

At a recent get-together of the Digital Cinema Society, at post facility IVC in Burbank, director/editor/inventor Philip Hodgetts presented a session on Internet video and what everyone needs to know to get the best quality video online. Many of the … more »

Podcasts, podcasts, podcasts

The term podcast has kind of become one of those terms that gets thrown around today to mean any kind of recorded audio or video program that is being distributed via the Internet. And often they might be programs (or … more »

Panasonic to Cut 15,000 Jobs

Another camera maker is making internal edits. The New York Times reported this afternoon that Panasonic, responding to a decline in demand, would be cutting 15,000 jobs in order to minimize costs. This news comes as the company’s plans to … more »

Seeing RED webinar worth a look if you are new to RED

As some readers may or may not know, Studio Daily has a store. It’s a great resource for training DVDs and downloadable tutorials on any number of topics from the usual non-linear editing software offerings to more advanced VFX software … more »