Content delivery in the clouds

Posted By Tom Coughlin

At the 2014 IBC Harmonic announced its new Media Orchestration Solutions for manual and automated content delivery, particularly to support virtualized content delivery. The Polaris Advance playout automation system supports efficient play to air via ... Continue reading "Content delivery in the clouds" »

October 14, 2014 | Permalink | Comments(0)

Look Effects: Former president responds to 'anonymous' letter

Posted By Marc Loftus

NEW YORK - Last week, I received an "Anonymous" email with a letter attached to it that was said to have been prepared by a core group of former Look Effects employees. The visual effects studio, which had four locations - Brooklyn, Los Angeles, ... Continue reading "Look Effects: Former president responds to 'anonymous' letter" »

August 21, 2014 | Permalink

SIGGRAPH 2014: Fabric Engine's potential for VFX tool development

Posted By Scott Singer

Fabric Engine is a visual framework for rapid development of custom 3D VFX tools that are as fast as dedicated custom "written from scratch" applications, but without the usual costs in time and resources. It does this by providing a core, node-based ... Continue reading "SIGGRAPH 2014: Fabric Engine's potential for VFX tool development" »

August 14, 2014 | Permalink | Comments(0)

SIGGRAPH 2014: DreamWorks' Premo breaks new ground

Posted By Scott Singer

VANCOUVER - At SIGGRAPH this week, DreamWorks Animation unveiled a huge leap forward in character animation technology with their new animation program Premo. And five years of planning, designing, building and testing yielded impressive results. ... Continue reading "SIGGRAPH 2014: DreamWorks' Premo breaks new ground" »

August 13, 2014 | Permalink | Comments(0)

SIGGRAPH 2014: Capturing the Infinite Universe in 'Lucy'

Posted By Scott Singer

VANCOUVER - During the "Capturing the Infinite Universe in 'Lucy' - Fractal Rendering in Film Production' session at SIGGRAPH, Alex Kim and Daniel P. Ferreira from Industrial Light & Magic talked about their fractal rendering techniques used to ... Continue reading "SIGGRAPH 2014: Capturing the Infinite Universe in 'Lucy'" »

August 13, 2014 | Permalink | Comments(0)

4K workflow in the cloud?

Posted By Tom Coughlin

At the 2014 NAB show there was a lot of buzz around media workflows using the cloud. This article will look at developments at Aframe, Avere, Cloud Sigma, DDN, HDS, IBM (including Aspera), Quantum, SAN Solutions, Scality, Violin Memory and Zadara. In ... Continue reading "4K workflow in the cloud?" »

April 29, 2014 | Permalink

A gaggle of pro cameras at NAB 2014

Posted By Tom Coughlin

Content capture is where the rush of content storage begins. At the 2014 NAB show, new cameras and storage devices support greater frame-rates, higher bit depth and more cameras. This piece will talk about the new production cameras for 4K and ... Continue reading "A gaggle of pro cameras at NAB 2014" »

April 29, 2014 | Permalink | Comments(0)

Sundance Film Festival - Park City, UT

Posted By Ozan

Sundance - Park City, UT Day 5 Laggies Press Event KEIRA KNIGHTLEY (ANNA KARENINA, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE) CHLOË GRACE MORETZ (KICK-ASS, CARRIE) SAM ROCKWELL (THE WAY WAY BACK, IRON MAN 2) DIRECTOR LYNN SHELTON (YOUR SISTER'S SISTER, HUMPDAY) SYNOPSIS: ... Continue reading "Sundance Film Festival - Park City, UT" »

January 20, 2014 | Permalink | Comments(0)