Bergen, Norway, February 6, 2008. Vizrt Ltd. (Frankfurt Prime Standard, Oslo Main List: VIZ) announces today that the Company has signed a deal, worth USD 1.1 million for the delivery of a media asset management (MAM) solution to a large North American sports network. The order follows on a previous USD 400,000 contract, signed in […]
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FotoWare upgrades product range to version 6.0 FotoWare helps newspapers, public services and corporate customers to find, process and share their images and documents. With millions of licenses sold in ten different languages since 1994, FotoWare plays a pioneer role in the industry of Digital Asset Management (DAM). Today FotoWare announces the transition to full […]
Trends in Online Marketing – A Report from the Online Marketing Summit from Junta42 blog: Content Marketing by Joe Pulizzi Just returned back from San Diego, where I spoke at the 2008 Online Marketing Summit. Great event. Congrats to Aaron Kahlow and team for doing a tremendous job with a record crowd. I didn’t have […]
CUPERTINO, California-February 26, 2008-Apple® today updated its popular MacBook® and MacBook Pro notebook lines with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, larger hard drives and 2GB of memory standard in most models. In addition, MacBook Pro includes the latest NVIDIA graphics processors, now with up to 512MB of video memory, and Apple’s innovative Multi-Touch™ […]
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Visual Effect Academy Awards™ are not much different from any other category in at least one respect: great performances in films that underperform at the box office tend to be overlooked. I and many others thought that Transformers had this year’s visual effects Oscar™ all sewn up not only because the work was amazing – […]
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Although nearly a decade old and tested in production on some of world’s most recognized visual effects films, Nuke is the new kid on the block when compared with its older rivals, such as Shake (which will see no more upgrades from Apple) and After Effects, which just turned 15 last month. Version 5.0 is […]
Stu Maschwitz (he of The Orphanage, Magic Bullet, and The DV Rebel’s Guide fame), is one of my go-to resources when I want greater insight on digital film production workflow and its corresponding correct practices. He recently wrote an excellent article on his ProLost blog about Digital Cinema Dynamic Range, in the context of learning […]
Apple’s ProRes codec is great, boasting great images and manageable files sizes, but its wider adoption is hampered by its proprietary distribution model. When Apple got into the editing business at the turn of the century it was a very different company. Avid had threatened to abandon the Mac platform, and Apple wanted to continue […]
Movico Technologies Private Limited, an innovative technology startup in the video software products domain, focused on helping video content producers enter the digital age and extract the maximum value on their existing inventories/libraries and collections, today showcased India’s first Digital Asset Management/Production Management System for Television and Film Producers at BES Expo 2008, the 14th […]
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Last week Harris released the results of its survey of broadcasters making the switch to DTV. U.S. broadcasters said they expect to meet the FCC-mandated Feb. 17, 2009 deadline. That frees up a whole lot of spectrum — 60 MHz in the 700 MHz band — with companies like Apple and Google, gobs of cash […]
