ProMAX, the innovative provider of turnkey editorial, shared storage, and asset management solutions, will debut Platform Studio at NAB 2013. The new ProMAX product brings high-end collaboration and data management at a price point that enables small creative workgroups with advanced workflows previously only seen in larger facilities. With the launch of Platform Studio, this […]
Day: April 2, 2013
Dynamic Looks In All-New Animated Title Templates for Adobe After Effects®
Digital Juice® announced today that it is releasing Toxic Type™ Collection 11 for Adobe After Effects: High Impact. Toxic Type collections feature a variety of premium ready-to-use Adobe After Effects® templates that contain expertly-designed text-centric animations with title text and supporting graphics presented in a lively and attention-getting manner. After Effects artists can build projects […]
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Codex Appoints Matt Walters as CTO
Codex, the world leader in digital cinema recording and workflow technology, today announces that digital workflow specialist Matt Walters has joined as Chief Technology Officer. Walters will head the new Los Angeles technology development for Codex, focusing on pipeline design and the development of asset management tools for production and post-production. Walters previously served as […]
Why Hollywood Needs More Experience Designers
It’s 2013, and Second Screen is all around us, touted as the Next Big Thing. All of the major broadcast networks seem to have some sort of second screen sync app now, by which you can get “extra” content on your smartphone or tablet while you’re watching your favorite shows. CBS, Fox, ABC, NBC, SyFy, […]
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“Defiance”: A Big Transmedia Gamble
“Defiance” is a new science fiction television series/ massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that will be released on the SyFy cable network channel April 15th. Another television series and video game set in a dystopian future that has earth invaded by aliens and destroyed by an environmental disaster isn’t an original approach. You only […]
Co-Creating the New Human Mythology
We have come full circle. From the camp fire, to the engaging Commedia Dell'Arte, to Puck addressing the audience at the globe. We are back to creating a mythology together. But what would that mythology look like. Is it going to be an endless stream of “real house wives of the future” meets “Guy Fieri […]
Reality Television Series Increases Archive and Restore Speeds With LTO/LTFS Media Archive Solution
StorageDNA, Inc., a leader in intelligent storage and archiving workflow solutions for media professionals, today announced that Authentic Entertainment has achieved a significant performance increase along with substantial cost and time savings with its flagship archive and retrieval workflow solution, DNA Evolution™. Authentic Entertainment is a Los Angeles-based production company with a growing list of reality and […]
NAB Show to Examine How Breakthrough Technology Launches Audiences from “Oz” to “Oblivion”
NAB Show, taking place April 6-11 in Las Vegas, Nevada, will feature back-to-back panel discussions with a session on Sam Raimi’s 3D feature “Oz the Great and Powerful,” preceeded by a session on Academy Award winning cinematographer Claudio Miranda’s upcoming film “Oblivion,” starring Tom Cruise, on Tuesday, April 9. Each session will examine the impact […]
The Transmedia Tetrad
I believe that if Marshall McLuhan was alive today he would love Transmedia. A fully immersive experience where the medium is the message and vis-versa – what an amazing brave new world. One of the many gifts he left us was the Tetrad of media effects. “A means of explaining the social processes underlying the […]
Time Lapse Workflows and Final Cut Pro X
This week on MacBreak Studio, Steve Martin from Ripple Training explains his workflow for creating time lapse movies from a series of photographs using Final Cut Pro X and other applications. Timelapse photography has become very popular recently – and with the advent of sophisticated and inexpensive tools it's easier to get into than ever […]