All Technology articles – Page 568
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NewsAutodesk in update
Autodesk has launched a new version of its 3D modelling, animation and rendering software, Maya 8. The software claims to offer 64-bit support, and is designed to enable artists to load large amounts of data and interact with them more efficiently.
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Avid buys Sibelius
Avid Technology has acquired music applications software manufacturers Sibelius for around£12m ($23m) in cash. As a business unit of Avid's audio division Digidesign, Sibelius will continue to develop and market its own line of software. Sibelius' core product line comprises software tools for editing and arranging music notation for creating ...
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Stream Blu-ray kit
Ascent Media DVD outfit Stream has invested in a new Sony Blu-Print authoring system for Blu-ray discs. The software-based authoring platform which supports MPEGE2, VC-1 and AVC advanced video codecs will be used to deliver Blu-ray authoring services and advanced functionality to clients.
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Directors Cut updates to HD
Editing boutique Directors Cut Films is splashing out£500,000 on a dedicated grading suite and upgrading its facilities to HD.
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Promo Shark dates
The second annual Promo Shark Awards, sister event to the Shark Awards Advertising Festival, take place this September in Ireland. The event is part of an annual festival celebrating the best work in TV promos and broadcast advertising from around the world and will this year feature the producer of ...
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Framestore titles Time Trumpet
Framestore CFC has created the title sequence and digital VFX for BBC entertainment's Time Trumpet. The 6 x 30-minute comedy, set in 2031, takes a look back at aspects of our culture as refracted through TV shows. Framestore's Adam Parry designed the titles on Inferno, ...
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Rushes soho shorts hails winners
A live-action version of The Simpsons title sequence was one of the winners at this year's Rushes Soho Shorts Film Festival. Come Home to the Simpsons, directed by Chris Palmer at Gorgeous, clinched the Adobe Title Sequences & Idents Award.
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NewsBBC in talks over DAB iPod device
The BBC is in talks with Apple to develop a device that would enable consumers to listen to digital radio on their iPods.
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Who fits the bill at The Mill?
The spotlight has again fallen on those brave enough to invest in the turbulent post-production sector following The Mill's announcement that it is looking for a new investor in its business after the end of a five-year investment by venture capitalist company 3i.
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News3 to stream ITV1 and ITV Play
ITV1 is to be streamed live on mobile phones as the result of an exclusive six-month deal with phone giant 3.
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NewsSky backs UN green broadband channel
Sky has made a series of programmes on climate change for the United Nations-backed broadband TV channel Green.tv.
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Pinewood sees£5m of kit go up in 007 fire
More than£5m worth of rigging kit is thought to have been lost in the fire which engulfed the James Bond set at Pinewood Studios on Sunday. Although three crew members were understood to be in the process of dismantling the set - which included an underwater tank - when the ...
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St Anne's makes Perfect Disaster
St Anne's Post has provided the post for Impossible Pictures' Perfect Disaster. The 6 x 60-minute docu-drama for Discovery US and Five looks at scenarios in a selection of cities, focusing on the different type of storm that hits each one. Editor Jon Ellis did ...
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Fracture gets Asbo Fever
Fracture has created the titles and bumpers for Folio Productions' Asbo Fever, a 3 x 60-minute series about people who receive Asbos. The brief was to make a light-hearted sequence featuring some of the people in the programmes. Fracture online editor Danny Davis created the ...
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Frontier posts Big Bangs in HD
Frontier Post has done the HD post for Granite Productions' Mark Williams' Big Bangs. The 4 x 60-minute factual entertainment series explores the history of explosions from Chinese firecrackers to the A-bomb. Shot on HDCam, the series includes shots of explosions captured to a disk ...
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Baraka opens offline editing facility Chop
Baraka Post Production has ploughed around£250,000 into a new dedicated offline editing division, Chop.
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BBC radio reporters file by mobile
BBC radio reporters will be able to send broadcast-quality content from a mobile phone-style device, following trials in Lincolnshire.
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Editworks buys kit
Post facility Editworks has invested£100,000 in an Avid Unity Isis storage system. The kit, which has an 8Tb storage capacity, will link up to Editworks' nine Adrenalines, two Symphonies, DS Nitris and Pyramix audio systems, forming the central storage for the facility.
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Cohen moves
Soho post house The Facility has taken on BBC Resources indie post producer Rich Cohen to head its new business department. During Cohen's five years at the BBC, he oversaw the migration of Red Bee Media post-production facilities to the Broadcast Centre. More recently as an indie post producer, Cohen ...
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DGP hires TMR trio
DVD and post facility DGP has recruited a trio of staff from TMR. Claire Leach, formerly a producer at TMR DVD, has joined the production department. Leach will manage the audio and subtitling for DGP's ongoing work for HBO DVD.