February 5 MIAMI - More than 50 Sony high-definition cameras will be used by CBS to cover this weekend’s Super Bowl in Miami. NEP Broadcasting will provide several trailers for pre- and post-game coverage, as well as for the main game and the half-time show featuring rock band The Who. 

February 5 LONDON – Unit (www.unit.tv) is providing audio, online and delivery services for the new BBC Science series How Earth Made Us, which debuted in January. The studio is working with the BBC’s Media Village on the three-month project, which will ultimately consist of five episodes. 

February 5 NEW YORK - Director David Gaddie and visual effects
supervisor James Rogers have launched The Colony (www.the-colony.com), a new multidisciplinary directing collective that specializes in visual effects, design, post production and live-action filmmaking. Located in Manhattan, The Colony is represented by B Reel Films and will focus on providing inspired design- and story-driven ideas to agencies in a post-style environment. 

February 4 MYRTLE CREEK, OR – Stock footage provider Artbeats (www.artbeats.com) recently announced its “Daily Free Clip” program, a promotion that gives visitors to its Website a chance to download a free HD clip each day and build their own royalty-free footage library. Now, the company has teamed up with Post to offer readers five additional high definition clips, valued at $1,375. 

February 3 LAS VEGAS – The 2010 Storage Visions Conference took place last month at the Riviera Hotel Convention Center, and attendance was reported to be up 33 percent from 2009. 

Long-time industry consultant Marty Shindler applies The Abilene parable to the post industry, noting that the moral of the story applies in the business world, as much as in family life. 

Rob Legato is one of the most well-known and respected VFX artist in Hollywood today, with a resume that looks much like the preview of the Oscars. He’s the visual effects visionary behind some of the most talked about, award-winning films in Hollywood, and in the past decade alone has left his mark on such blockbusters as Avatar, Standard Operating Procedure, The Nanny Diaries, The Good Shephard and Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning drama, The Departed, to name just a few. 

Now in its 12th iteration, the aging 3DS Max 2010 has received a facelift.