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Canon Announces Two More Cinema EOS Prime Lenses
Canon went wide and long with the announcement this week of two more EF-mount prime lenses for its Cinema EOS System. The new CN-E14mm T3.1 L F and CN-E135mm T2.2 L F lenses will extend the line-up on both ends …
Lincoln Leads Oscar Field with 12 Nominations
This is not a hugely surprising year for Oscar nominations, with the plaudits falling into place more or less as pundits had predicted. The biggest snubs took place in the Best Director category, which left Zero Dark Thirty's Kathryn Bigelow …
ASC Names Feature Film Award Nominees
Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC, continued his remarkable run with the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), nabbing his 11th nomination for an ASC Award for Outstanding Achievement this morning for his work on the latest James Bond movie, Skyfall. Also nominated …
Q&A: Cache-A’s Mark Ostlund on LTO-6 Tape Archives
Cache-A today shipped new versions of its Pro-Cache, Power-Cache and Library24 and Library48 automation systems that support the new LTO-6 tape format, which substantially boosts capacity and data rates for archiving to data tape. The new Prime-Cache6 desktop appliance has …
Colorflow Opens 7500-Square-Foot Berkeley Facility
Color-grading facility Colorflow opened a new 7500-square-foot studio with three grading and finishing suites and a DCI-compliant 22-seat DI theater at the Saul Zaentz Media Center in Berkeley, CA. The main DI-grading theater was originally built as the Jacobs Theatre. …
Academy Announces Sci-Tech Award Winners
Visual effects technology, camera support and power systems, and cinema lenses have all been singled out for kudos by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The various tools and techniques will be honored at the annual Scientific and …
Sound Devices Adds ProRes 4444 to PIX 240 Recorders
A free v3.0 firmware update to the PIX 240 and PIX 240i production video recorders now enables 330 Mbps Apple ProRes 4444 recording from sources that send 4:4:4 RGB or YCbCr over 3G SDI. The new capability makes the recorders …
Digital Domain Media Group Sells 3D Patents to RealD for $5.45 Million
Tying up one loose thread from the bankruptcy of Digital Domain Media Group (DDMG) earlier this year, the company sold its portfolio of patents covering 2D-to-3D-conversion technology to 3D-exhibition specialist RealD for $5.45 million. The 3D conversion patents represent the …
Adobe Buys Portfolio-Sharing Social Media Site Behance
Adobe took another decisive step into the cloud yesterday with the announcement that it had bought Behance, a social-media platform for portfolio-sharing among creatives with more than 1 million members. The move will bolster Adobe's plans to bring a strong …
Q&A: Marco Solorio on the Blackmagic Cinema Camera
Marco Solorio is the owner of OneRiver Media in Walnut Creek, CA. As an early user of the Blackmagic Cinema Camera (BMCC), he's employed it on a number of projects, shooting ProRes most of the time but switching to raw …