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Q&A: The Diamond Brothers on the Blackmagic Cinema Camera

Based in New York City, Jason and Josh Diamond, aka The Diamond Brothers, have been among the first users of the Blackmagic Cinema Camera (BMCC). They've put the camera through its paces on music video and TV shoots. We got … more »

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Eyeon Ships Connection v1.5

Eyeon updated its Eyeon Connection plug-in for Avid's AVX2 architecture to v1.5, adding new features to its round-trip functionality between Eyeon Fusion and Avid Media Composer, Symphony, NewsCutter, and DS. By building a bridge between Avid's NLE environment and Fusion's … more »

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ASC Announces Television Nominees for Best Cinematography

Fox shows led the pack with three nominations from the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for television programming, including the "Guitar Face" episode of Ben and Kate (pictured, top). The cable trio of Cinemax, HBO, … more »

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Bully Doc Wins Stanley Kramer Award from PGA

The controversial documentary Bully has received official plaudits from the Producers Guild of America.  Writer-producer-director-cinematographer Lee Hirsch and writer-producer Cynthia Lowen will receive the 2013 Stanley Kramer Award award at the PGA Awards ceremony on January 26. Harvey and Bob Weinstein … more »

Assimilate Starts Scratch and Scratch Lab Direct Rentals

Assimilate announced this week that it would begin offering a rental option for its Scratch and Scratch Lab products via its website. Customers can use a credit card or PaylPal account to rent Scratch or Scratch Lab for anywhere from … more »

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Autodesk Ships Smoke 2013

Following more than six months of pre-release trials, in which the company sought input from working editors on sweeping changes to one of its flagship software programs, Autodesk said it started shipping Smoke 2013 this morning. The new version of … more »

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Matrox Ships DS1 Thunderbolt Docking Station

Aiming at Macbook Pro and MacBook Air users who want to easily hook up to large displays and Gigabit Ethernet when they're at their desks, Matrox today began shipping its new DS1 Thunderbolt Docking Station. It's available now in the … more »

Bluefish444 Create Cards Now Support Avid Open I/O

Bluefish444 said the latest version of its Mac OS X installer adds support for Avid Open I/O to its Create line of uncompressed HD-SDI cards. The new OS X 10.7 installer "provides cross-platform SDI I/O solutions to Avid users for … more »

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JVC Updates GY-HM600 Camera Firmware

JVC announced a new firmware update (version 0104) for its GY-HM600 ProHD camera today. The firmware improves the camera's autofocus and signal-to-noise ratio, JVC said, as well as flash-band compensation for dealing with banding effects on the CMOS sensor. Two … more »

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Academy Announces Documentary Shortlist

Following a controversy-fraught screening season in which members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' (AMPAS) documentary branch waded through well over 100 DVD copies of eligible films, AMPAS has pared its for-your-consideration shortlist to just 15 titles. … more »