Armed with Red camera number 610, The Olson Brothers — that's Obin and Amariah, of Wilmington, NC's DV3 Productions — have just wrapped post on what's almost certainly the first Red production to use the camera's brand-new Adobe Premiere workflow.... »
David Taylor, CEO of Cineform, explains how the Cineform codec is assisting 4K and RAW workflows from capture through grading. Taylor also talks about the seamless RAW workflow with the Silicon Imaging camera, Cineform and Iridas.... »
Hear about the new developments from MeSoft that allows media to be ingested once for conversion to multiple formats and then logged and tracked throughout the entire post process. MeSoft's CTO/co-founder Freddie Goeske talks about how the MeSoft StoryEditor has saved productions like Hell's Kitchen time and money.... »
With the RED phenomenon, the DR Group has been testing the workflow to come up with the best, most efficient solutions for RED. We spoke with Lowell Kay, founder of the DR Group, about his company's move to handle RED workflows and what their tests have found so far. ... »
When the visual effects crew for Speed Racer arrived in Berlin four months ahead of production, they put systems into play that would rock filmmaking. With visual effects occupying an increasing amount of screen time in films, tasks formerly thought of as post production have moved further upstream and visual effects artists have taken on a more integral role in production. Speed Racer drives that notion to the extreme. “On Speed Racer, I believe post-production began on the very first day,” says John Gaeta, co-visual effects supervisor.... »
James Mathers talks with Mitch Gross, director or rentals at Abel Cine Tech, about three flavors of Phantom cameras, the new production and post workflows, including near-instant transfer of the footage and editing Phantom footage on Final Cut Pro, as well as the special adaptation Abel Cine Tech has made to the Phantom cameras. ... »
The recent prolific growth of video games is drawing what some might regard as inevitable comparisons with the evolution of cinema, a putative convergence certainly reinforced by venture that just last year alone had action helmsman Jerry Bruckheimer joining forces with MTV’s games division and director John Woo collaborating with game-developer Midway to bring the Hard Boiled series from the screen to the console; a few years earlier techno-classic TRON became TRON 2.0, the game, and even Steven Spielberg has an office in Electronic Arts’ campus.... »
Is the current 3D renaissance poised to leverage a full-blown transformation of movie-making technology? That was the story coming out of this week's Hollywood Post Alliance Tech Retreat in Palm Springs, CA, where hundreds of the proverbial brightest minds in the business gathered to get a jump on the future of the industry.... »
“Fix It in Post” is an old adage used on production (usually one meant to be reassuring when used by producers, an inside joke when the crew says it). In most cases its better, and cheaper, to get it right on set than to try to do it in post. But on Road to Empire, there was no other option. ... »
Director Cisma of BlackList transforms Pittsburgh Steelers’ star safety Troy Polamalu into a dark, fearsome animated character, inflicting punishment on his opponents in the new spot"The Line", creating the hand-drawn charcoal look in CG and animating difficult task of animating the violence of football. ... »
For the past few years NVIDIA has been trying to make inroads into the rendering market with the development of its software renderer Gelato. TO prove this it created a short animated film, The Plush Life, which debuted at Siggraph. ... »
For Transcendent Man, Therapy Studios managed hundreds of hours of tapeless P2 footage, archiving it to DLT tape, and edited and finished the film with aan Avid Media Composer and Quantel iQ. ... »
Watch this video to see some of the new camera stabilization systems including steadicams from Artemis Sachtler, the hot new MK-V rig Evolution, a remote control car rig from Move-N-Shoot and the portable dolly tracks from Indie Dolly Systems. ... »
On July 19, Hollywood post production facility Post Logic Studios announced the launch of its Image Science Division. Headed up by Dr. Mitch J. Bogdanowicz and Denis Leconte, the new division will offer Post Logic clients “the assurance of consistent color management across every stage of a production, regardless of acquisition format or output medium.” ... »
