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Is there a future for Canadian TV? http://bit.ly/DPw6N 11 hours ago

Electronic Arts (EA) to cut 1,500 jobs. http://bit.ly/dE6mf 15 hours ago

Amazon expands potential audience for its Kindle ebook format with Beta release of its free Kindle for PC application. http://bit.ly/2T7uye 15 hours ago

Epson develops 4K LCD for front projectors. http://bit.ly/45kodP 15 hours ago

Use of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to promote businesses has exploded over the past six months. http://bit.ly/4c3Tsj 15 hours ago

Bell TV notifying customers that it will be increasing their rates for television programming beginning January 2010. http://bit.ly/36wSpB 15 hours ago

20% of American consumers using Twitter to check on friends, family and businesses/brands a 10% increase since 2008. http://bit.ly/49Qz53 1 day ago

Daily High Definition Television Viewing Approaches 50 Percent. http://bit.ly/4BGRd0 1 day ago

Super Talent announces industrys first USB 3.0 compliant flash drive. Supports transfer 10X faster than USB 2.0 drives. http://bit.ly/3BRUjS 1 day ago

HDTV Price War: Wal-Mart's rivals fear the chain's power to undercut them on HDTV's over the Christmas holiday period. http://bit.ly/2B5NoB 1 day ago

Los Angeles City College Goes High Definition By Converting Its Television Studio. http://bit.ly/2bKyAB 1 day ago

Blu-ray Disc Association: Final spec for 3D Blu-ray will be announced by the end of the year, likely in December. http://bit.ly/22hbD1 2 days ago

Cisco suggested on Monday that it might drop its offer for Tandberg rather than raise it. http://bit.ly/2j3i8u 2 days ago

Lynda Weinman of lynda.com is the first woman to receive the 2009 Eastman Kodak Gold Medal Award from the SMPTE. http://bit.ly/47mtuS 2 days ago

Advertising Age: Future media companies will employ technologists to build device-agnostic platforms for marketers. http://bit.ly/27n0UU 2 days ago

Brads Blog: Ultimate Guide To Free Over The Air Digital HDTV Antenna Installation For Canadians And Those In The GTA. http://bit.ly/JSl1A 3 days ago

CBS CEO: the company is committed to local media and notes that trends are improving. http://bit.ly/xn1Xw 4 days ago

Fisher CEO Colleen Brown: Digital TV still in its infancy and TV stations all need their full slice of bandwidth. http://bit.ly/21gTYN 4 days ago

NBC executive vice president Rick Cotton doesn't want to see damage done to the over-the-air TV station model. http://bit.ly/3WPRyU 4 days ago

NAB President outlines the importance of spectrum to serve Americans with HDTV, multicast programming and mobile DTV. http://bit.ly/TJTd0 4 days ago

Pro Video News

Digital Rebellion’s Footage Calculator adds more codecs

A while I back I posted a round-up of various footage calculators around the Internet. The one from Digital Rebellion had the most supported codecs but was lacking some new ones like ProRes Proxy and ProRes 4444. Well Digital Rebellion has updated the Footage Calculator with ... well, pretty much all of them.

World’s Only “Death Oompah” Band Gets Virtual Reality Music Video

An accordion-playing lead singer; a drummer who occasionally uses a doll instead of drumsticks; and a song based on the “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Just another day on set with one of the most macabre bands in existence: the Tiger Lillies.

New Celtx Release

* New! Revision Mode o Provides writers with the ability to lock scenes when editing a script that is in production. Revision mode supports the Hollywood standard A and B scene nesting, an innovative numeric mode, plus the ability to create your own unique nesting style template. A ‘Fix’ feature can be used to manually change any scene nesting. Revision mode […]

On Artbeats.com: Vignettes

Often associated with very old footage where the brightness falls off as you near the corners of the frame, vignettes can also be used creatively to draw a viewer’s focus to a particular area of the screen. In this article on Artbeats.com, we discuss several different approaches to creating vignettes in a program such as Adobe After Effects and Apple Motion, […]

Canon 5D Mark II + 2010 = 24, 25 fps

I like my Canon 5D Mark II - it shoots great stills, and it also shoots more than passable HD video. I’m personally a fan of working at frame rate of 30p, so I didn’t even mind this limitation all that much, but I have to admit I was irked when the 7D - and then the 1D Mark IV - were announced with a much wider range of frame rates (and frame sizes). So I wa […]

Painting with Light

This past week, I was back in Los Angeles briefly on business, and spent what little free time I had getting my art fix at LACMA. While there, I was enthralled to encounter Thomas Wilfred‘s last piece, Luccata - Opus 162. Unlike the normal still artwork you would expect to find in an art museum, Opus 162 is a “Lumia” - an animated light display created by a […]

Review: Apple Magic Mouse and Final Cut Studio

LaCie Network Space 2: Simplifying The Network Storage Experience

LaCie announced the LaCie Network Space 2, design by Neil Poulton – a leading-edge Network Attached Storage (NAS) and media server. The LaCie Network Space 2 combines the performance of a full-featured NAS solution, with a unique and customized way to manage the total experience.

I-MOVIX’s SprintCam Live V2.1 and SprintCam V3 HD, Ultra Slow Motion Solutions

Since their launching on the sports broadcasting market, the fully integrated ultra slow motion systems developed by I-MOVIX have been certified fully compatible with most of the HD broadcast lenses manufactured by FUJINON, the historical R&D partner of I-MOVIX.

Hollywood Black Magic Filter Big Part of Reynolds’ Bag of Tricks for Better Off Ted

When cinematographer Brian Reynolds began prep for the Fox/ABC half-hour comedy series Better Off Ted, his challenge was to trim the budget and keep the quality look as well as the 11-hour work day. “One of my first choices was to add Schneider’s Hollywood Black Magic filters to our lenses,” says Reynolds.

Boris FX Unveils New XML Transfer Plug-In for Adobe After Effects

Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today announced Boris XML Transfer, a new Adobe After Effects plug-in designed for seamless transfer of Apple Final Cut Pro program sequences to Adobe After Effects. Boris XML Transfer preserves all aspects of a Final Cut Pro project including effects, audio, media clips, tr […]

Dosch Design presents free Tutorials and Samples

The new Dosch Design segment “Dosch Samples & Tutorials” has been created in order to support users in the optimal use of Dosch Design products, and for identifying solutions for specific task requirements. Delivered and presented by well-known experts, these English & German Tutorials are immediately available for illuminating complex work processes […]

New Petrol™ Raincover for Red One

Now in Production, the LM-2470W FSI’s New 10 Bit, RGB LED Matrix, 24” Monitor is Here

GENARTS, INC. ACQUIRES WONDERTOUCH

GenArts Inc., the premier provider of specialized visual effects software for the film, television and video industries, announced today a definitive agreement to acquire particleIllusion™ and all related products and technologies from wondertouch LLC. The acquisition includes particleIllusion SE, all Emitters and Pro Emitters, particleIllusion for AE, and a […]

“Paranormal Activity” - The Little Indie That Did

Review: The Tangent Wave control surface

I had a small wave of sadness come over me the other day as I boxed up the Tangent Wave control surface in order to return it back home to Tangent Devices in the UK. As I saw Color’s dark gray interface and colorful video scopes shinning in the back of the room I thought to myself ... “I’ve had my problems with you Color, I’ve said some pretty mean things ab […]

Pond5 Turns Up the Volume with Audio Launch

ikan Announces the Release of the VX7

The ikan Corporation announces the release of our ground-breaking new line of monitors… the VX series. The brand-new VX7 7” LCD monitor boasts a panel resolution of 1024 x 600 and features LED backlighting, HD-SDI inputs, Blue PlusTM and multiple power options. The monitor now sports a sleek, newly designed housing that puts all major features just one butto […]

Specdown: Red One vs Epic-X announced features

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Technology Shows

Posted on March 15, 2008 by Brad Fortner

A few notes on some upcoming technology shows and conferences;

The ICE conference is the exchange of ideas in interactive media. http://www.ice08.com/
CATAAlliance Innovation and Leadership Awards nominations are underway. There are a number of them such as the Product Achievement Award that recognizes excellence in the content and application mobility industry in Canada. http://www.cata.ca/Media_and_Events/Awards/NominProcess.html
Banff World Television Festival announces launch of the Telefilm Canada Content Creators Fellowship Program. http://www.banff2008.com
The speakers for the Digital Cinema Summit at the 2008 NAB Show were announced this week. http://www.nabshow.com/2008/conferences/dcs.asp
There is a call for papers for the 3rd International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts. http://www.dimea2008.org
The website for the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo was launced this week. http://expo.scte.org

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Final Cut Pro News

Noise Industries Releases Free Pan and Zoom Animation Plug-In November 10, 2009

(2009-11-10) Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast markets, announced that it has released an update to its popular freebie generator plug-in, Pan and Zoom. The new Pan and Zoom 2 is free and supports the latest versions of Apple® Final Cut Pro®, Final Cut Express®, Motion and After Effects®.

India's Times Group Builds End-to-End Tapeless Workflow on Flexible, Scalable Omneon Platform November 10, 2009

(2009-11-10) Times Group of India is using the Omneon media storage and processing platform as the basis of a multimillion-dollar renovation and expansion of its Mumbai facility. This state-of-the-art facility supports the post-production and broadcast of the popular 24-hour glamour and lifestyle channel, ZoOm, and playout of the leading 24-hour English news […]

NewBlueFX Introduces Video Essentials III Effects Plugins November 10, 2009

(2009-11-10) NewBlue, Inc. launches Video Essentials III, the third and latest offering in its best-selling Video Essentials series of video effects and transitions plugins. The collection includes Rolling Shutter, Image Mapper, Edge Smoother, Split Screen, Gradient Tint, Spotlight and three additional video effects plugins.

Complinet's 5th Annual Compliance Award Winners November 9, 2009

(2009-11-09) LONDON, BUSINESS WIRE — Complinet, the leading provider of connected compliance solutions to the global financial services industry, today announced the winners of its 5 th annual compliance award

Digieffects Launches Falloff Lighting Plugin for After Effects November 4, 2009

(2009-11-04) Digieffects,® a developer of visual effects software plugins, today announced that Falloff Lighting is available for purchase. Falloff Lighting provides enhanced lighting for After Effects` built-in lights. Falloff Lighting is much more like that of the real world where light naturally decays or "falls off" as surfaces increase distanc […]

Red Productions Eliminates Downtime with Small Tree's Shared Storage and OS X Networking Capabilities November 4, 2009

(2009-11-04) Frustrated by having projects continuously freeze up in the middle of editing sessions and having to rummage through multiple external drives to locate footage, Red Productions, a full service, script to screen video production and independent film development and production company, recently commissioned respected independent video engineer Bob […]

Class on Demand Releases Jumpstart Instructional Guide For Snow Leopard November 3, 2009

(2009-11-03) Award-winning training company rolls out video-based training guide for new Mac OS X; Apple guru Tom Wolsky delivers information-packed lessons for quickly learning the ins and outs of Snow Leopard.

OWC Introduces World`s First FireWire 800/400, USB, & eSATA 12X Burn Speed Blu-ray External Drives For Macs & PCs November 3, 2009

(2009-11-03) Other World Computing (OWC(r)) http://www.macsales.com, a leading Mac and PC technology company, announced today its Mercury Pro(tm) Blu-ray External Drive is the first "Quad Interface" 12X Blu-ray disc burner on the market

Imagineer Systems Enhances Workflow Between mocha, mocha for After Effects v2 and Red Giant Warp in New Point Release November 3, 2009

(2009-11-03) Imagineer Systems (www.imagineersystems.com) today announced new software point releases of its popular planar tracking and rotoscoping software mocha and mocha for After Effects v2. Most notably with this new release, mocha v1.6 and mocha for After Effects v2 now support tracking data export directly to the Red Giant Warp After Effects plug-in. […]

Boris FX Unveils New XML Transfer Plug-In for Adobe After Effects November 3, 2009

(2009-11-03) Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today announced Boris XML Transfer, a new Adobe After Effects plug-in designed for seamless transfer of Apple Final Cut Pro program sequences to Adobe After Effects. Boris XML Transfer preserves all aspects of a Final Cut Pro project including effects, audio, me […]

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