JVC is feeling very happy after intensively workshopping their ProHD cameras in John L Simpson and Michael Joy’s Men’s Group. The cameras were able to overcome their 35mm envy, and apparently have only pleasant memories of the experience. At this rate, they’ll be wanting to work with female cinematographers next.
Indian lighting technicians are on strike, stopping production on 65 features. Their current wage is $A5.96 per day. They'd like to be paid $A13.26 per day. They are being offered $A9.28. Aren't you lucky your job can't be done on the internet?
Ofcom, the British regulator, is planning ahead to the far, far future with a discussion paper on broadcasting above 10GHz. Getting the signal through the walls is going to be interesting, but hell...
Toon Boom Animation Inc. has announced the launch of Toon Boom Studio 4.5 and its Toon Boom Studio Importer to Flash (TBSi). The latest version allows the creation of photo animation and live-action cartooning.
Telestream has announced encode and decode support for Flash 7, 8 and 9 video formats as a standard feature in its flagship FlipFactory transcoding workflow automation applications Episodebatch encoding applications. On2 VP6 Flash decoding and encoding is now a standard feature.
Happy Feet 2, the sequel George Miller’s animated box office hit about dancing penguins, is now officially in production through Dr D Studios, the Kennedy Miller Mitchell joint venture with Omnilab. They are actively hiring.
Autodesk has unveiled two renamed pieces of code, Stitcher Unlimited 2009 and Autodesk ImageModeler 2009 software products – basically what used to be REALVIZ software before Autodesk ate them.
Avid Technology has today announced the upgrade of their iNEWS newsroom production, communication and newscast control system to version 2.7, with new content sharing capability.
After shooting ancient Indian rituals in the Canadian arctic over summer, this crew has clearly forgotten their street smarts: they left the tapes in the car, next to the tasty gear...
The first extension for Autodesk 3ds Max 2009 and Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2009 software is out, but only for Autodesk Subscription customers. Creativity Extension includes new particle effects and allows the incorporation of audio and sound effects.
Not only are the evil technical ninjas at Foxtel busily pointing out that everying TiVo does they can do better, and with a bigger hard drive, it turns out they have been talkng to everybody else's evil technical ninjas as well.
