LOS ANGELES — Nirvanix (www.nirvanix.com) recently helped the University of Southern California (USC), update its storage with a cloud-based system. The school deployed over 8 petabytes of unstructure ...

May 18, 2012

NEW YORK – Brevity (www.brevityv.com), which has designed a new media transcoding, transfer, storage management and collaboration platform, recently made a sale to international post house Creative Gr ...

May 17, 2012

HOLLYWOOD — MTI Film is extending the product giveaway that it introduced at the recent NAB show in Las Vegas, where it introduced its new, on-location review and color management tool, Cortex: Captur ...

May 16, 2012

SANTA MONICA — Visual effects facility Luma Pictures reunited with a familiar cast of characters on Marvel Studios’ highly anticipated “The Avengers,” using CGI to integrate a wide range of VFX.

May 15, 2012

BEVERLY HILLS — Ten students from nine US colleges and universities have been selected as winners in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 39th Annual Student Academy Awards competition. Wi ...

May 15, 2012

LOS ANGELES — Iartists (www.iartists.tv) has launched in LA, representing an international collective of directors, designers, animators, visual effects pros, storytellers and digital experts, working ...

May 11, 2012

LONDON — Independent private equity house Endless LLP has acquired visual effects house Cinesite (www.cinesite.com) from Kodak for an undisclosed amount. The deal involves Cinesite’s existing manageme ...

May 10, 2012

HOLLYWOOD — The Hollywood Post Alliance is now seeking entries for the 2012 HPA Awards (www.hpaawards.net), which honor excellence and innovation in post production. The awards, now in their seventh y ...

May 10, 2012

ATLANTA — In its bid to improve agility in delivering finished media, Crawford Media Services has become an early adopter of a new multiuser post production workflow in which editors and graphic artis ...

May 9, 2012

NEW YORK — The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has announced the nominees for the 39th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards. The awards will be presented on June 23 at the Beverly Hilton in L ...

May 9, 2012