Post-production A final stage in the production of a film or a television program, occurring after the action has been filmed or videotaped and typically involving editing and the addition of soundtracks.
UK: Visual effects software developer, The Foundry, has released the fifth version of its compositing application, Nuke.
Nuke 5 features a new user interface, expanded support for scripting, support for stereoscopic workflow, the ability to read, process and write over a thousand [...]
Hong Kong: Turner Entertainment Networks Asia, Inc. (TENA) announced new appointments to its original production and creative services teams. The former develops and delivers original programming while the latter functions as an in-house creative agency to provide advice and expertise [...]
GlobeCast has teamed with Beijing International Media Services (BMC), a joint-venture between Seven Network and Beijing Television (BTV), to establish Beijing Broadcast Base 2008. The setup offers production equipment and transmission facilities to non-rightsholders and rightsholders, [...]
Singapore: BroadcastAsia, the regional broadcast trade exhibition and conference event is set to return from June 17 – 20, 2008 in Singapore at the Singapore Expo. Organized by Singapore Exhibition Services (SES), the event attracted more than 12,750 visitors in 2007, with over 47% [...]
USA: Front Porch Digital, a specialist in content storage management (CSM) for the media industry, has signed a product license agreement with Avid Technology to integrate the DIVArchive CSM system with Avid’s workflow asset management systems, Interplay and the Workgroup 4 Media [...]
Australia: The Lab Sydney, a post production house for film, TV and commercial projects has recruited Marcus Timpson as senior colourist from Rushes in the UK.
Timpson’s appointment follows the installation of a new digital intermediate (DI) infrastructure which features a colour [...]
Philippines – Optima Digital, Manila-based post production house has enhanced its post production capabilities with a new da Vinci Resolve RT system, and the Bones feature upgrade to its Spirit Datacine as well as Autodesk 2008 upgrades to the Flame, Inferno and Smoke suites for [...]
USA: Captain Abu Raed, Jordan’s first feature film entry to the Sundance Film Festival was finished with Iridas SpeedGrade DI. Written and directed by Amin Matalqa, Captain Abu Raed premiered on Jan 23 at the Egyptian Theater during the festival held from 17 – 27 Jan in Park City, [...]
Singapore: Post-production house Blackmagic Design Singapore has purchased new Autodesk Flint systems as part of recent upgrades to its facility. The company is using Flint to handle compositing and visual effects tasks for TVCs as well as feature film digital intermediate and 2K [...]
USA: AJA Video, manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, has provided its Io HD and KONA line of video capture and playback cards with support for Apple's new 8-core Mac Pro which features the new Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5400 series processors.
AJA's [...]