AMD to showcase AMD FirePro V7900 and V5900 with customer demonstrations at IBC 2011 (Hall 7, H35)
~ New high-end graphics card improves performance for GPU-reliant applications like Maya, 3ds Max, NX and SolidWorks ~
~ GPU supports simultaneous displays, ideal for multi-application workflows, collaborative design and stereo 3D in broadcast and post production ~
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 18, 2011 – AMD today unveiled its line-up of technology and customer demonstrations scheduled to take place at the company’s booth (hall 7, H35) at IBC 2011. The show will provide attendees with a first look at the AMD FirePro V7900 and V5900, the new flagship models of its workstation-class professional graphics cards which deliver strong application performance in broadcast workflows. The cards reduce the cost and complexity of immersive visualization applications such as stereo 3D
Brand new three-month rental license packages allow users to get a taste of the powerful capabilities of the industry’s leading rotoscoping and paint system
Los Angeles, CA – August 16, 2011 – SilhouetteFX, LLC is pleased to roll out new 90, 180 and 270 day floating license rental options of its acclaimed stereo roto, paint, keying and effects suite. New customers can now purchase a three-month 3 Floating License Rental Package, while existing Silhouette customers can add on as many additional three-month floating rental licenses as they like. 100% of the 90-day rental cost can be applied toward purchase of a permanent license. Conversion of rental to owned must take place during the rental period – with a one-week grace period. Floating licenses allow users the flexibility to run Silhouette on any supported machine connected to their LAN.
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International Colorist Academy (ICA) continues to expand with the addition of a new instructor. Dado Valentic joins the ICA team as an instructor for Digital Camera Workflows & Grading.
Dado is a highly experienced stereoscopic 3D colourist, based in the UK, and recently graded the BAFTA award winning “Flying with Monsters.” Dado’s ICA courses cover all aspects of stereoscopic post production and are beneficial to editors, digital image technologies, as well as colorists. more
Iroquois, ON, Canada – August 3, 2011 – FOX’s highly-rated summer series, So You Think You Can Dance, went live this season with a new graphics platform from Ross Video. The XPression 2D/3D CG and Motion Graphics System provides all of the on-screen graphics during the show, including dancer ID’s and full-screens.
“We’re very pleased that the production team from So You Think You Can Dance was open to trying a new graphics platform.” said Brian Olson, Marketing Product Manager for XPression. “When we dropped off the XPression a couple days before air, the engineers at CBS Television City, where the show is produced, were pleasantly surprised. They racked it up, connected the wires, booted the system, and animated graphics showed up on the production switcher already timed. They said it was almost too easy.”
Version 3.0 of Stereo3D Light Edition™ includes new output options and features to further optimize basic stereoscopic 3D footage; now compatible with the latest Final Cut Pro®, Motion® and After Effects® releases
Toronto, Canada – Dashwood Cinema Solutions, developer of cutting-edge Mac®-based stereoscopic 3D solutions, is pleased to announce the version 3.0 update to Stereo3D Toolbox LE™ — the light edition counterpart to Dashwood’s award-winning, professional Stereo3D Toolbox™ plug-in for stereoscopic 3D mastering. Developed by stereographer and company founder, Tim Dashwood, Stereo3D Toolbox LE™ provides an affordable gateway into 3D content creation with the most basic stereoscopic 3D post-production tools necessary to optimize stereoscopically acquired footage. Stereo3D Toolbox LE is powered by Noise Industries’ FxFactory platform and designed to work with Adobe® After Effects®, Apple® Final Cut Pro®, Apple® Motion® and Apple Final Cut® Express applications. The v3.0 update more
Grass Valley, California, 28 July 2011, – Ensemble Designs has closed a sale of ninety-seven BrightEye Mitto Scan Converters for more than US $500,000 to a government agency. Ensemble’s BrightEye Mitto Scan Converter is used for converting computer content into video for demanding, high-end applications such a military facilities and broadcast television stations.
“Our new technology and IP is what sets Mitto apart,” said Mondae Hott, Director of Sales at Ensemble Designs. “The high definition, fast progressive output is what this project required and that’s something we do really well.”
Waveguide Consulting of Georgia tested all applicable scan converters on the market and in the end specified Ensemble’s Mitto for the Lockheed Martin project in Texas. The scan converter’s ability to output 3 Gb/s high definition video was part of the requirement. Waveguide provided consulting and engineering design services on the project. Emerald Communications more
Cheshire, UK - July 27, 2011 - Blackmagic Design today announced that Deluxe 142 has installed a DaVinci Resolve Linux License and multiple DaVinci Resolve Software licenses in their London facility.
Deluxe 142 has expanded their Linux suite to a stereoscopic 3D capable 4 GPU system, which is the first of its kind in the UK, while also installing three Mac based assist stations with DaVinci Resolve Software.
As a world renowned facility that has played an integral role in the post production of Hollywood blockbusters like ‘Quantum of Solace’, ‘Chronicles of Narnia’ and ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’, Deluxe 142 has invested in the highest quality technology to stay at the cutting edge of post production.
Laurent Treherne, Technical Director of Digital Film at Deluxe 142, said, “We met with Jigsaw Systems, a DaVinci Reseller, to plan the more
Milpitas, CA - July 26, 2011 - Blackmagic Design today announced DaVinci Resolve Lite, a new reduced feature version of DaVinci Resolve that includes many powerful color correction features in a downloadable software package available free of charge, is now shipping.
To help promote the art of color correction, DaVinci Resolve Lite includes many powerful features found in the full version of DaVinci Resolve for an extremely powerful toolset that anyone will able to download. DaVinci Resolve Lite is based on DaVinci Resolve 8, and will run on the latest model iMac, 17inch MacBook Pro and Mac Pro computers.
DaVinci Resolve Lite includes all the same high quality processing of the full DaVinci Resolve, however limits projects to SD and HD resolutions, only two color correction nodes, a single processing GPU and a single RED Rocket card. Stereoscopic 3D features, noise reduction, more
Milpitas, CA - July 26, 2011 - Blackmagic Design today announced the release of a public beta of DaVinci Resolve 8.0.1 with support for Mac OS X Lion and with a new 3-way color corrector.
Included in DaVinci Resolve 8.0.1 is support for the new Mac OS X 10.7 Lion operating system, as well as a new 3-way color corrector. This new 3-way color corrector works in parallel with Resolve’s primary color corrector, and features a much simpler color wheel user interface! This 3-way color corrector accommodates all the creativity of YRGB grading, while looking very similar to the basic color correction tools found in non linear editing software.
“The 3-way color corrector makes it much easer to get started using Resolve as a new user, and will allow thousands of video editors to use Resolve for their color correction using the more
Milpitas, CA - July 26, 2011 - Blackmagic Design today released a new software update for its desktop video products that adds full support for the new Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. This Desktop Video 8.2 software update includes support for Apple’s new Core Video and Core Audio processing pipelines for professional grade video and audio functionality across a wide variety of applications.
Core Media is the new exciting way video hardware devices capture and playback to software applications and it’s the future of video API’s on the Mac OS X platform. Blackmagic Design is the first company to support this new standard, right from the very first day it’s available to customers. Now all developers can design modern 64 bit video software and get high performance capture and playback more
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