HDTV pioneer David Niles selects Panasonic AJ-HPX3000 1080P P2 HD for video

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SECAUCUS, NJ (June 6, 2008) – The new Comcast Center, Philadelphia’s tallest and one of its most stunning buildings, features an enormous public lobby with a breakthrough video installation designed and produced by HDTV trailblazer David Niles. Niles chose Panasonic’s AJ-HPX3000 native 1080p one-piece P2 HD camcorder to shoot the video for the lobby’s 80′ […]

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Hundreds of thousands in cash and prizes up for grabs at NVISION 08

NVIDIA ups the ante at NVISION 08 by throwing down hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and hardware and giving you a chance to win part of the largest prize package in North America this year. All you need to do for your chance to win is participate in one of NVISION’s marquee consumer […]

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Toon Boom launches Pencil Check Pro

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Montreal (June 4, 2008) – Emmy award-winning Toon Boom Animation Inc. today announced the launch of Toon Boom Pencil Check Pro, the most flexible line testing software available in the industry. Pencil Check Pro completes the animation pipeline by offering a wide array of capture options, an efficient line testing process and an advanced feature […]

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Zacuto releases lightweight locking lens support for HD video cameras

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Zacuto, a leading provider of HD video cameras and accessories is announcing the release of their new Locking Lens Support for securing and stabilizing lenses attached to Zacuto support systems. The Zacuto Lightweight Locking Lens Support will handle those long and heavy prime or zoom lenses and prevent the lens from rotating.Components of the Lightweight […]

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Zacuto rolls out Z-Focus follow focus accessory for HD video cameras

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Zacuto, a leading provider of HD video cameras and accessories has released their own follow focus unit – the Z-Focus. Zacuto chose an important event – the 2008 NAB show – to introduce this important new addition to their full line of products. The Zacuto line is allowing cinematographers to use low cost, light weight […]

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Dock Options for Mac, Windows, and iPhone

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Looking to get organized? If your Desktop is as bad as mine, you need all the help you can get. Here are three Dock options for Mac and Windows users that truly help clean things up. OverflowI’ve recently switched to an alternative style dock for OSX (giving it a thorough tryout). Overflow from Stunt Software […]

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VICON announces MX T-Series camera

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VICON, developer of Academy Award®-winning motion capture systems, announced the VICON MX T-Series. The T-Series includes an all-new camera design and new Giganet device with cameras available in a variety of resolution options, including the T160 (16 Megapixel), T40 (4 Megapixel) and T20 (2 Megapixel). The T160 16-megapixel camera represents a four-times resolution increase over […]

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Telescope Launches New Streaming Video Format for Ads

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Telescope, the pioneer in participation media services, announced that the first US advertiser has gone live on May 31 using the patent-pending InSkin format, which enables real-time ads to be served to a dynamic frame that wraps around a web site’s media player and provides publishers with a completely new incremental advertising revenue stream. InSkin […]

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NVIDIA announces Gelato® Pro 2.2 rendering software

NVIDIA Corporation, the world leader in visual computing technologies,today announced NVIDIA® Gelato® Pro 2.2 rendering software, the Company’sadvanced GPU-accelerated rendering software for professionals, is availableas a no-cost download at www.nvidia.com/gelatozone. Well suited for renderingof 3D digital content and design, Gelato Pro software now replaces the basic version of Gelato software, which was previously available directly […]

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Maelstrom – Preproduction

About a week ago, Tim Blackmore and I learned that we were providing tech support for Rob Nilsson’s upcoming film, “Maelstrom”, a Direct Action workshop film with four actors. We knew it was going to be shot with an EX1 (which we have), handheld (EX1, handheld? hmmm), with the wide-angle adapter if at all possible. […]

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