LOS ANGELES — The Advanced Imaging Society’s Lumiere Awards were recently presented, awarding 23 statuettes for distinguished creative and technical achievement. The thirteenth annual awards ceremony ...
February 21, 2023
LOS ANGELES — The Advanced Imaging Society’s Lumiere Awards were presented today, recognizing distinguished creative and technical achievement in immersive storytelling using advanced visual technolog ...
March 4, 2022
I expect 2022 to be a breakthrough year for virtual reality, augmented reality and other forms of expanded realities. The technology is advancing rapidly and becoming less expensive and more accessibl ...
January 24, 2022
SAN FRANCISCO - Autodesk (autodesk.com) has completed the acquisition of production management solution Pix. The addition will make it easier to share data captured on-set with studio executives and p ...
March 18, 2024
BERKELEY, CA — Oscar-winning filmmaker Phil Tippett’s Tippett Studio (www.tippett.com) has entered into an agreement to sell a majority stake to Indian visual effects company PhantomFX (www.phantomfx. ...
March 12, 2024
LOS ANGELES – The 96th Oscars took place last night at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. Oppenheimer was the biggest winner, taking home awards in seven categories, including Best Motion Picture ...
March 11, 2024
LOS ANGELES — On March 2nd, the Cinema Audio Society (https://cinemaaudiosociety.org) revealed the winners of the 60th annual CAS Awards. The event took place at the Beverly Hilton, where sound mixing ...
March 4, 2024
HOLLYWOOD — On Sunday, March 3rd, the Motion Picture Sound Editors (mpse.org) announced the winners in the 71st Annual MPSE Golden Reel Awards. Dane A. Davis, MPSE received the MPSE Career Achievement ...
HOLLYWOOD — Red Digital Cinema (red.com) has announced that the camera company will be acquired by Nikon Corporation. The agreement with Nikon was reached with Red’s founder Jim Jannard and president ...
March 7, 2024
Hulu's murder mystery series Death And Other Details stars Mandy Patinkin as Rufus Cotesworth, the world's greatest detective. The 10-episode series centers on Imogene Scott (Violett Beane), who becom ...
March 13, 2024
The Last Repair Shop is nominated for an Oscar in the Best Documentary Short Film category for the 96th Annual Academy Awards. Directed by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers, the short looks at the Los Ang ...
TORONTO — Rodeo FX (https://www.rodeofx.com) has expanded its offerings into color grading with the recent opening a new Baselight (www.filmlight.ltd.uk) grading suite, which will be led by senior col ...
LOS ANGELES – The American Society of Cinematographers (www.theasc.com) will honor filmmaker Spike Lee with its Board of Governors Award at the 38th Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards Gala on M ...
February 6, 2024
Over the past year, content security has continued to be a critical concern for individuals, businesses and organizations across the globe. With the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats an ...
NEW YORK CITY — The Audio Engineering Society (AES) recently welcomed Leslie Gaston-Bird, CAS, MPSE, as president of the organization — effective January 1st. She is the first African-American preside ...
January 9, 2024
PARKER, CO — Bryce Button, AJA’s director of marketing, passed away suddenly on Friday, May 19th. The company issued the following statement:
May 23, 2023
CUPERTINO, CA — Apple (apple.com) has unveiled Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad, making the video editing and music production tools more affordable and available to content creators. Both release ...
May 9, 2023
FREMONT, CA — At the 2023 NAB Show, Blackmagic Design (www.blackmagicdesign.com) announced the Ursa Mini Pro 12K OLPF, a new digital film camera that adds a high performance optical low pass filter to ...
April 26, 2023
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — Atomos (www.atomos.com) has introduced the latest generation of its Shogun camera-mounted monitor/recorders. Shogun and Shogun Ultra both incorporate the new AtomOS 11 operating ...
September 14, 2023
AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS — Blackmagic Design (www.blackmagicdesign.com) has announced Blackmagic RAW 1.5, a new software update with support for Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid Media Composer, plus Blackmag ...
September 13, 2019
BURLINGTON, MA — Avid (www.avid.com) has announced that Media Composer will deliver native support for Apple’s ProRes RAW camera codec and support for ProRes playback and encoding on Windows. In addit ...
LONDON — Glen Taylor and Ross DelConte – the former CEO and global head of automotive at Taylor James – have joined forces to launch Hero Next Door, which is now a part of the Alongside (wearealongsid ...
PARIS — Technicolor (www.technicolor.com) has announced its commitment to the Science Based Targets initiative’s (SBTi) Net-Zero Standard and the Business Ambition for 1.5º, in order to reduce busines ...
March 10, 2022
Guitar legend, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and former Kiss member Ace Frehley recently released the video for “Cherry Medicine,” which is featured on his new album, "10,000 Volts." The Cher ...
March 6, 2024
British rock band Idles recently released a music video for their “Grace” track that puts an AI twist on Coldplay’s “Yellow” music video from 2000. The project called on production studio Joyrider (ww ...
February 29, 2024
Five designers, equipped with Z by HP workstations, collaborated on a new music video for the alt-pop German rock duo Milky Chance. The Synchronize project tapped Z by HP global ambassadors Orlando Ar ...
February 28, 2024
LOS ANGELES — Wild Capture (wildcapture.io) is using volumetric capture technology to create high-quality digital humans. The company’s Unify Solver turns volumetric footage into standard 3D animated ...
April 27, 2023
ROUND ROCK, TX — Dell (www.dell.com) offers the Precision 7960 in both tower and rack configurations. The company had both at their booth at NAB this year in Las Vegas. The 7960 tower can scale in per ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Magicbox (www.magicbox.ninja) brought its Magicbox Superstudio mobile virtual production trailer to this year’s NAB Show in Las Vegas, The semi truck transforms into a turn-key virtual ...
MUMBAI, INDIA - Digikore Studios Limited (https://digikorevfx.com) will soon launch a cloud-based Metaverse marketplace of virtual production sets. The visual effects studio, which has contributed to ...
CHICAGO — Lightricks has introduced a new generative AI-driven editing platform for video production and filmmaking called LTX Studio. The company already offers several photo and video editing apps, ...
NEW YORK CITY — Senior colorist Matt Osborne has moved from Company 3’s (www.company3.com) Los Angeles studio to become a part of their New York roster. He brings a wealth of experience and expertise ...
March 5, 2024
NEW YORK CITY — Modern Post (https://modernpost.com), the bicoastal creative post production studio, has added colorist Taylor Schafer to its roster of creative talent. She bringing almost a decade of ...
February 27, 2024
First-time filmmaker Celine Song’s feature Past Lives is Oscar nominated for Best Picture and Original Screenplay. Editor Keith Fraase says that once he read the script, he was extremely interested in ...
February 21, 2024
LOS ANGELES - Jamm (www.jammvisual.com), the LA-based VFX and color studio, has hired Alvin Cruz to serve as creative lead on projects across their client roster. Originally from Spain, where he studi ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Kaboom (https://www.kaboomproductions.com) recently welcomed director/editor Noah Kistler to its roster. He brings a love of storytelling that is personal, emotional and highly cinemat ...
October 7, 2021
NYACK, NY – Flavorlab (www.flavorlab.com) is an audio production company that composes, records, mixes and masters music and sound for brands across the world. The studio created the theme song for AB ...
September 21, 2021
SANTA MONICA – Universal Publishing Production Music has announced that two of its companies – Santa Monica-based Universal Production Music and Dallas-based FirstCom Music – are merging to create a n ...
August 3, 2021
LONDON — Getty Images has entered into a partnership with BBC Studios, the commercial subsidiary of the BBC, to launch of a new platform that will give its customers access to BBC archive videos via a ...
December 11, 2023
SAN JOSE, CA — On Wednesday at 9am(PST), Adobe will use FB Live to present the Adobe Stock Film Festival. The livestream, which will be hosted by Adobe’s Jason Levine, will introduce 13 short films th ...
July 14, 2020
LONDON — Blisstek (www.Blisstek.com) is calling for film archive custodians to take action to digitize all historically-, culturally- and commercially-significant content before it is too late. To sup ...
March 6, 2020
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — Blazing Griffin (www.blazinggriffin.com) is a versatile media & entertainment studio that specializes in film and television production, post production and game development. T ...
January 26, 2024
BOSTON - Cloud storage provider Wasabi Technologies (https://wasabi.com) has acquired Curio AI from GrayMeta, Inc., a technology that creates a second-by-second index of video stored in Wasabi. While ...
January 23, 2024
LOS ANGELES - Digital Kitchen (www.thisisdk.com) created the main title sequence for Apple TV+’s new series Manhunt. The sequence draws on the tumultuous backdrop of post-Civil War America and the nat ...