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Digital Domain Media Group Hopes to Auction Remaining Assets in December
Digital Domain Media Group this week asked a bankruptcy court judge to approve a December 4 sale of the company's remaining assets. The assets yet to be sold include the 115,000-square-foot Tradition Studios in Port St. Lucie, Florida, and the …
Final Draft Offers Free iPad/iPhone Script Reader App
Directors, cinematographers, and anyone else who ever has to refer to a script on set might be interested in Final Draft Reader, an iOS app that allows screenplays in the proprietary FDX file format to be read and annotated on …
3net Forms 3net Studios, Dedicated to Stereo 3D and 4K Production
Stereo 3D has lost a bit of its luster as box-office revenue has hit a plateau and consumers have largely declined to embrace the format for home entertainment. Still, there's a need for quality 3D content that can also be …
A New Season for the SNL Film Unit with Adobe CS6
Ask Adam Epstein to name the toughest part of his editorial and motion graphics workflow for Saturday Night Live's Film Unit and he will tell you, unequivocally, that the intense 24-hour edit sessions preceding the live show are actually a …
GoPro Hero2 Footage Now Ready for 24p Pipelines
Despite the mounting popularity of the go-anywhere GoPro Hero2 cameras for gathering b-roll and action footage on a variety of top-level projects, the lack of 24p and 35 Mbps support was still a serious obstacle for those in television and …
Robert Arnold Sells Stake in ARRI to Richter Family
Robert Arnold — whose surname puts the "AR" in ARRI — is selling his 50 percent ownership stake in Munich-based ARRI, the company said this week. Arnold, the son of ARRI co-founder August Arnold, is selling his share of the …
Flovel’s FZ-B1 Shoots HD in Color, in the Dark
Flovel Company Japan in Tokyo introduced the FZ-B1 high-sensitivity HD camera at IBC last month, claiming that it records in color by moonlight at resolutions up to 1080/59.94i. The camera, aimed at surveillance, government, and wildlife video production markets, is …
Color-Grading Without the Color for Frankenweenie
Frankenweenie, which opens tomorrow in U.S. theaters, is in some ways old-fashioned. Shot in color but released in black and white, and animated using stop-motion figures, the film about a boy, Victor Frankenstein, and his (undead) dog actually has its …
Digital Projection Shines at One Festival Screening, Shuts Down Another
What's the state of the art in 3D projection? For Ang Lee's Life of Pi, which premiered last Friday in the New York Film Festival's (NYFF) cavernous Alice Tully Hall, it's two Christie CP4230 DLP Cinema projectors running in tandem …