Mass Animation's Ground-Breaking 'Live Music' Animated Short Film Released Today with TriStar Pictures' 'Planet 51' By BusinessWire SANTA CLARA, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- 'Live Music,' an innovative new animated short film from Mass Animation and sponsored by Intel Corporation, opens in select theaters nationwide today, marking a ...Read More »

Leading Training Organization`s In-House Video Production Team Turns to Small Tree`s GraniteSTOR Technology With three workstations running Final Cut simultaneously, and a fourth for graphic design using shared assets, project management had become a major issue for MTC`s video production unit as piles of external drives were daisy-chained across the facility. To eliminate copying files from one workstation to another, MTC installed Small Tree`s complete GraniteSTOR shared storage solution. ...Read More »

Government Video Expo to Host Intensive Educational Conference Program for Digital Content Creation Professionals, Dec. 1-3 in Washington By BusinessWire WASHINGTON, BUSINESS WIRE -- NewBay Media, a leading publisher of digital content creation media, today announced conference details for Government Video Expo ( ...Read More »

Get the Look of Sci-Fi Holograms with Holomatrix from Red Giant Software Red Giant Software has released Holomatrix, a new After Effects plug-in that lets you control your reality and offers a new dimension in effect generation. Many science fiction feature films and TV shows feature holographic communication and interfaces. Red Giant Holomatrix allows you to easily recreate that effect with just a few clicks. ...Read More »

EditShare Partners With Dixon For Major League Baseball Collaborative shared storage and advanced logging systems deliver winning combination for Cincinnati Reds' HD workflow at the Great American Ball Park. ...Read More »

SAE Institute Celebrates 20 Successful Years in Singapore with Modern New Campus & By BusinessWire SINGAPORE, BUSINESS WIRE -- ...Read More »

International Postproduction Facilities Company Optix Digital Pictures Acquires Crunch Recording Group Optix Digital Pictures, a group of full-service post-production facilities located in Toronto, Hamburg, Berlin and Dubai, has acquired Toronto-based Crunch Recording Group, according to George Levai, co-founder of Optix. ...Read More »

"Where the Wild Things Are" Taps AJA KONA 3 for Digital Workflow AJA Video Systems, a leading manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, announced that its KONA 3 digital video I/O cards were used by the "Where the Wild Things Are" editorial team to build efficiencies into their digital production and post workflow. ...Read More »

Noise Industries Releases Free Pan and Zoom Animation Plug-In Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast markets, announced that it has released an update to its popular freebie generator plug-in, Pan and Zoom. The new Pan and Zoom 2 is free and supports the latest versions of Apple® Final Cut Pro®, Final Cut Express®, Motion and After Effects®. ...Read More »

India's Times Group Builds End-to-End Tapeless Workflow on Flexible, Scalable Omneon Platform Times Group of India is using the Omneon media storage and processing platform as the basis of a multimillion-dollar renovation and expansion of its Mumbai facility. This state-of-the-art facility supports the post-production and broadcast of the popular 24-hour glamour and lifestyle channel, ZoOm, and playout of the leading 24-hour English news channel, Times Now and its sister channel, ET Now. ...Read More »

NewBlueFX Introduces Video Essentials III Effects Plugins NewBlue, Inc. launches Video Essentials III, the third and latest offering in its best-selling Video Essentials series of video effects and transitions plugins. The collection includes Rolling Shutter, Image Mapper, Edge Smoother, Split Screen, Gradient Tint, Spotlight and three additional video effects plugins. ...Read More »

Complinet's 5th Annual Compliance Award Winners By BusinessWire LONDON, BUSINESS WIRE -- Complinet, the leading provider of connected compliance solutions to the global financial services industry, today announced the winners of its 5^th annual compliance award ...Read More »

Digieffects Launches Falloff Lighting Plugin for After Effects Digieffects,® a developer of visual effects software plugins, today announced that Falloff Lighting is available for purchase. Falloff Lighting provides enhanced lighting for After Effects` built-in lights. Falloff Lighting is much more like that of the real world where light naturally decays or "falls off" as surfaces increase distance from the After Effects light. ...Read More »

Red Productions Eliminates Downtime with Small Tree's Shared Storage and OS X Networking Capabilities Frustrated by having projects continuously freeze up in the middle of editing sessions and having to rummage through multiple external drives to locate footage, Red Productions, a full service, script to screen video production and independent film development and production company, recently commissioned respected independent video engineer Bob Zelin to install a cost-effective Ethernet-based shared storage solution featuring Small Tree technology. ...Read More »

Class on Demand Releases Jumpstart Instructional Guide For Snow Leopard Award-winning training company rolls out video-based training guide for new Mac OS X; Apple guru Tom Wolsky delivers information-packed lessons for quickly learning the ins and outs of Snow Leopard. ...Read More »

OWC Introduces World`s First FireWire 800/400, USB, & eSATA 12X Burn Speed Blu-ray External Drives For Macs & PCs Other World Computing (OWC(r)) http://www.macsales.com, a leading Mac and PC technology company, announced today its Mercury Pro(tm) Blu-ray External Drive is the first "Quad Interface" 12X Blu-ray disc burner on the market ...Read More »

Imagineer Systems Enhances Workflow Between mocha, mocha for After Effects v2 and Red Giant Warp in New Point Release Imagineer Systems (www.imagineersystems.com) today announced new software point releases of its popular planar tracking and rotoscoping software mocha and mocha for After Effects v2. Most notably with this new release, mocha v1.6 and mocha for After Effects v2 now support tracking data export directly to the Red Giant Warp After Effects plug-in. ...Read More »

Boris FX Unveils New XML Transfer Plug-In for Adobe After Effects Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today announced Boris XML Transfer, a new Adobe After Effects plug-in designed for seamless transfer of Apple Final Cut Pro program sequences to Adobe After Effects. Boris XML Transfer preserves all aspects of a Final Cut Pro project including effects, audio, media clips, transitions, and geometric transformations. ...Read More »

Sorenson Media Launches Sorenson Squeeze 6 ' Higher Quality, Faster, and Now the First Total Workflow Solution for Video Encoding and PublishingSorenson Squeeze 6 is the first total workflow solution that enables encoding and publishing high-qual... By BusinessWire SAN DIEGO, BUSINESS WIRE -- Sorenson Media today announced the immediate availability of Sorenson Squeeze 6, a significant update to the gold-standard ...Read More »

Future Media Concepts To Produce Digital Media DC Conference Over 50 unique sessions on advanced editing and motion graphics techniques and new Apple end-user certification courses highlight the 3-day conference for TV, video, film, motion graphics and new media professionals. ...Read More »