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Germany / USA: BOXX Technologies, provider of computing hardware for visual effects professionals, and Iridas, specialist in uncompressed playback technologies, have introduced a year-end pricing promotion for the RTX series workstations for the FrameCycler 2007 line of post production [...]
Motion Pictures Association (MPA) and anti-piracy authorities across Asia Pacific have launched Operation Blackout, a year-long region-wide anti-piracy enforcement campaign. Operation Blackout will cover Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, [...]
Singapore: Singapore-based media house Infinite Frameworks (IFW) has received investment from venture capital firm Tembusu Partners to expand from post-production services into executive production and distribution of content into mobile and IPTV services.
Tembusu is a private [...]
Singapore: Datacraft, an independent IT solutions and services company, is providing support for Microsoft’s System Center family of IT management solutions with its new version of the Dynamic Desktop Deployment (DDD) solution.
The DDD solution offers automatic deployment, securing [...]
Singapore: Lucasfilm Animation Singapore is currently recruiting computer graphics artists for the ‘Jedi Masters Program’, a paid apprentice initiative with courses for entry-level and experienced artists.
The ‘Jedi Masters Program’ is a training program in Asia to be taught by [...]
USA: Boris FX, a developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, has released the Boris Box Set, a motion graphics software collection which includes its full range of compositing and effects capabilities.
The Boris Box Set for Windows includes RED 4.2 which provides [...]
Singapore- Taiwan-based ODD Incredible emerged as the winner of SuperPitch 2.0 with Splash Nash, a proposed 3-D animation series.
The pitching event was judged by regional commissioning editors, broadcasters and funding companies, and saw production houses from Hong Kong, Malaysia, [...]
New Zealand: Weta Digital, a visual effects facility based in New Zealand, has chosen Avid Unity MediaNetwork 5.0 storage, access, and shared media solution for its Wellington facility. In addition, it has adopted the Avid DNxHD 36 codec as the company's standard HD format for [...]
Japan: Inter BEE 2007, the trade show for audio, video and communications has opened on Nov 20 across Halls 2 - 8 at the Makuhari Messe in Tokyo to record participation.
Inter BEE 2007 registered a record 754 exhibitors and 2,013 exhibition booths, an increase of 21 participants [...]
USA: Digieffects, developer of software plug-ins for Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Autodesk Combustion have launched Universal binary versions of Delirium, Berserk, and Aurorix applications for Intel-based Macs.
Delirium, Berserk, and Aurorix are [...]