Post Production News
Cintel Scanner Assures Restoration of Brazil’s Film History at Afinal Filmes
Afinal Filmes was founded in 1998 by CEO Marcelo Pedrazzi, and has played an important role in the film restoration and post production industry in Brazil since then. A recent major project at Afinal Filmes is the HDR restoration of a black and white film…
January 16, 2021
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Baselight 5.3 Upgrades Colour Control and Processing for Artists
FilmLight’s new Baselight v5.3 updates artists’ control over the grading process including the T-CAM v2 colour model, Partial Conform, improved trackers and better export tools.
January 10, 2021
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MTI CORTEX v5.3.2 Upgrades IMF Mastering and Deliverables Workflows
MTI Film’s CORTEX v5.3.2, software that manages workflows from the set through post-production, includes numerous improvements to performance and the user-experience, and makes common workflow tasks shorter and faster. IMF creation with CORTEX now includes…
January 06, 2021
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ArsenalCreative Welcomes Thomas J Connors as VFX Supervisor
3D artist Thomas Connors has been named VFX Supervisor and CG Generalist at ArsenalCreative bringing 20 years of experience in CG imagery for visual effects.
January 04, 2021
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InSync PixFormer Engine Delivers Software-Based HDR/SDR Conversions
InSync Technology’s PixFormer is an API-integrated software-based conversion module containing Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) and High Dynamic Range (HDR) conversion applications. As the demand for HDR content increases, the challenge for producers is to…
January 04, 2021
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Arch Platform Scales Up VFX Studio Workflows in the AWS Cloud
Arch Platform Technologies has developed secure, cloud-based infrastructure on AWS that studios and vendors can use to scale teams from any connected location.
December 22, 2020
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Baselight X Recreates 1930s Hollywood in Black and White for ‘Mank’
‘Mank’ is a biographical film made for Netflix and directed by David Fincher. Its storyteller and subject is alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter Herman J Mankiewicz, who deals with his own flawed character as he works on the screenplay for Orson Welles’ ‘Citizen…
December 10, 2020
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ENVY Post and Signiant Integrate to Keep Productions Moving
ENVY Post Production in London, like media facilities around the world, moved its entire facility, from offline to finishing, to fully remote operations in a matter of weeks in early 2020. In terms of delivering on projects without disruption, their move has…
December 07, 2020
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DaVinci Resolve Finishes and Grades Environmental Docmentary for Netflix
Josh and Rebessa Tickell talk about finishing and grading their feature length documentary on soil ‘Kiss the Ground’, seven years in production, to meet Netflix UHD requirements.
November 30, 2020
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R&S CLIPSTER Masters ‘Parasite’ in Dexter Studios’ DI Workflows
Within Korea’s film and TV production industry, Dexter Studios in Seoul is recognised as a creative force with a reputation for technological innovation. The facility works in content development, production, post and financing, and has established an IP…
November 30, 2020
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Japanese Colourist and Australian DoP Build a Drama in Baselight
‘They Say Nothing Stays the Same’ is the second film that Japan’s Joe Odagiri, best known as an actor, has directed, 10 years after his first film ‘Looking for Cherry Blossoms’. This second project has already received recognition at several international…
November 23, 2020
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Pacific Post Rolls Out In-House Remote Editorial Collaboration to Studios
Pacific Post editorial rentals and services provider originally developed their PacPost.live remote collaboration platform as an internal system to immediately address the demands for remote work in March. Pacific Post has since added functionality to make…
November 16, 2020
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Aljoscha Hoffmann Charts New Territory in Colour on Baselight
Aljoscha Hoffmann is a colourist at CinePostproduction in Munich. His launch into the magic of cinema and film came very early in life because his father worked as a production designer, giving him a chance to spend time on film sets as a young boy. After he…
Blackmagic Upgrades DaVinci Resolve 17 for Colour, Editorial, Audio Post
Nov 13, 2020
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Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve 17 includes HDR grading tools and upgraded primary…
Sohonet ClearView Flex Supports 10-bit Colour and 5.1 Surround Sound
Oct 05, 2020
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Sohonet ClearView Flex users will now see better colour quality in streaming sessions…
Frame.io 3.7 Supports High-Speed File Sharing and Accurate Reviews
Aug 30, 2020
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Frame.io Final Cut Pro X Workflow Extension with new proxy media tools Frame.io has been…
OpenColorIO Version 2 Updates ACES Transforms and GPU Renderer
Aug 20, 2020
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The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF), dedicated to open source software development in…
Mosfilm and Codex Media Vault Keep Russia’s Film Industry Rolling
Aug 17, 2020
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A complete CODEX workflow system, including Media Vault shared storage, supports on-set…
Senior Colourist in Tokyo Embraces New Approaches to Colour with Baselight
Aug 12, 2020
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Naotaka Takahashi is a Senior Colourist at L’Espace Vision in Tokyo. Throughout his…
Cintel Scanner and Resolve Scan and Restore Classic Films in Mexico
Aug 09, 2020
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At Digital Sprockets in Mexico, founder Benjamin Fernández Rodriguez Maribona and his…
DaVinci Resolve Tells a Spectacular Colour Story for ‘Normal People’
Aug 03, 2020
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The BBC’s 12 part drama series ‘Normal People’ was post produced entirely at Outer Limits…
MPS Keeps R&S CLIPSTER Mastering on the Edge with SpycerNode Storage
Jul 27, 2020
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Motion Picture Solutions (MPS) international film services facility handles mastering,…
AWS Keeps Untold Studios’ Artists Creating in the Cloud
Jul 20, 2020
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At the time Untold Studios launched in late 2018, they sidestepped certain conventions of…
SGO Mistika Boutique Supports AJA T-TAP for Post Production Monitoring
Jul 09, 2020
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SGO and AJA have partnered to make the SGO finishing software Mistika Boutique compatible…
Colorfront Remote/Cloud Working Empowers Post Workflows
Jul 06, 2020
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Colorfront launched a high-performance, remote working/cloud service to help customers…
